Boston Intellectual Property Law Association

09/02/2026

We are proud to announce our 2026 Keynote Speaker for the Annual Celebration of the Judiciary: Dr. John Edward Hasse

One of America’s foremost music historian-educators, Dr. John Edward Hasse helps audiences understand the power of music to move and inspire us to greater heights. Hasse is a museum curator, author, speaker, and leader in his field. During his 33-year tenure at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, Curator Emeritus John Edward Hasse developed exhibitions on Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Ray Charles. He founded the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, now celebrating its 31st anniversary, and international Jazz Appreciation Month, which is celebrated in all 50 states and 40 other countries.

Tickets and Sponsorships are available until Monday, September 7, 2026 at https://bipla.org/event/2026JudgesDinner

08/31/2026

Tickets and Sponsorships for the 2026 Annual Celebration of the Judiciary CLOSE NEXT WEEK 9/27/26!

Join us as we honor Judge Timothy B. Dyk with the 2026 Distinguished Service Award on September 23rd at the historic Moakley Courthouse!

For more information, please visit: https://bipla.org/event/2026JudgesDinner

08/26/2026

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08/25/2026

Tickets and Sponsorships are available for the 2026 Annual Celebration of the Judiciary as we honor Judge Timothy B. Dyk with the 2026 Distinguished Service Award on September 23rd at the historic Moakley Courthouse! Tickets are on sale until 9/7/26!

For more information, please visit: https://bipla.org/event/2026JudgesDinner

08/19/2026

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08/13/2026

The In-House Committee is hosting an in-person after-work event in Cambridge on September 9, 2026. Please come, meet/catch-up, and share some laughs with your fellow in-house attorneys. This event is sponsored by LOT Network.

After-work event details

Date: September 9, 2026
Time: 5:30pm onwards
Place: Area4 500 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139

To Register: https://bipla.org/event/InHouseAfterHours9926

08/12/2026

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07/22/2026

The 2026 Spring/Summer Newsletter is now Live.

BIPLA is once again holding its annual Writing Competition. Law school students are invited to submit papers relating to topics involving intellectual property law. Judges will consider the merits of each paper based on: (i) contribution to knowledge respecting intellectual property law; and (ii) th...

07/20/2026

Join the In-House Committee for a Virtual Brown Bag Event entitled: AI Prompts - What's Working, and What's Not?

Date: THIS Wednesday, July 22
Time: 12:30-1:30pm Location
Topic: AI Prompts - What's working, and what's not?

Let's talk about prompting.

What this is:
* The specific prompts you use that actually help
* What prompts you used to use until you figured out you could do 10 times better by tweeking the prompt
* Prompts for helping with patent drafting, patent prosecution, portfolio management, and anything else that has save you time.
What this is not:
* A demonstration of Harvey or Co-counsel (which management isn't buying anyway)
* A presentation of that 'unicorn' workflow that may have worked exactly once
* Another discussion of when not to use AI or why we need to be careful. Let's limit this with the assumption that everyone is only using a secure, vetted enterprise instance of Claude, CoPilot, or Gemini) and already understands the baseline privacy guardrails.
Come ready to share your screen or copy-paste text. We are all trying to figure this out in parallel—let’s stop reinventing the wheel separately.

Register Here for the event:

07/15/2026

Upcoming Events 7/15/26 https://ow.ly/OeHL50WQu95

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