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CIPU’s 5th IP Awareness Summit Attracts 130+ Worldwide

More than 130 people attended the hybrid 5th IP Awareness Summit on April 5th in person at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business and online throughout the world. Watch the videos here.

There was a lot of energy about IP understanding, especially relating to world events in China, the Ukraine, Covid and crypto. It was 25 months to the day that IPAS 2020 was held at the Faculty Club, with just as many in-person attendees this year. View Here

IPBasics.org: A Minimalist Approach for Better Understanding

“A fresh approach to learning why IP rights exist and who they benefit was introduced today by the Center for Intellectual Property Understanding, a non-profit. The CIPU-curated portal makes it easy for everybody to attain basic IP knowledge.

Viewers of all ages and backgrounds can begin to grasp the major IP concepts of sharing and protection through IPBasics.org. Site content features examples and explanations of the four types of intellectual property rights, including NIKE, LEGOS, iPhone and the Beyonce catalogue and products.”  View Here

“We Need to Make Learners Aware of IP at a Very Early Age”

“Students at prestigious universities in the United States are not required to take even a single intellectual property (IP) course to fulfill the requirements for a graduate #business degree.

This is totally wild to me, and also completely unsurprising. In all the business classes I took at Santa Clara University, none mentioned #IP. Great job compiling this report Bruce Berman and The Center for Intellectual Property Understanding. In my opinion, we need to make learners aware of IP at a very early age, and not just IP itself, but how to commercialize it”

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CIPU Report: Leading Business Schools Lack IP Education

The Center for Intellectual Property Understanding (CIPU) prepared a report on Intellectual Property Education in US Business Schools (accompanied with this review by IP education expert Professor Ruth Soetendorp). The report looks at courses, content and instructors in twenty-one business schools that include IP-related courses in their curricula. Read more

Covid Vaccine Shakedown at the WTO

CIPU advisory board member, Jame Pooley’s WSJ op-ed focuses on partisan pressure to release the rights associated with the COVID vaccine and why ‘it’s fraught with danger.’  Read More

Pariser Named to the CIPU Board of Directors

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, USA, January 25, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ — It was announced today that Jennifer Pariser, VP of Copyright and Legal Affairs of the Motion Picture Association, was named to the CIPU board. She previously lead copyright initiatives at the Recording Industry Association of America and Sony Entertainment, and was active in education outreach.

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