Intellectual Property Law

Each year at the IP Institute, the Section honors outstanding legal professionals in the judiciary, private practice, in-house practice, academia, and public policy advocacy for their contributions to the advancement of intellectual property law. Read more

Intellectual property lawyers, mark your calendars for the 47th Annual IP Institute in San Diego from November 2-4, 2023.  Read more

Larry Maxham – a long-time attendee at IP Section events and programs and an active practitioner of patent and intellectual property law for almost 60 years – passed away on July 15th Read more

You're invited to the 47th Annual IP Institute of the Intellectual Property Law Section in San Diego! Read more

The 2023 Intellectual Property in Entertainment and Media Conference, sponsored by CLA’s IP Law Section last month, was hugely successful. We want to thank all our attendees for joining us! After a forced hiatus from a conference with such a long history, it was so exciting to see attorneys passionate about the entertainment industry and entertainment law come together again in sunny Los Angeles. We also want to thank our amazing speakers, true visionaries of the industry, and experts on the cutting edge of thought when it comes to entertainment law issues. Read more

Earn 5.0 Hours MCLE Read more

The IP Law Section is excited to present The Trademark Office Comes to California as a full-day symposium on June 13, 2023 in Los Angeles and June 15, 2023 near San Francisco. Our stellar line-up of USPTO and practitioner speaker will delve into the critical topics facing us today. Read more

Earn 5.0 Hours MCLE at our San Francisco program, "Trademark Office Comes to California"! Read more

Earn 5.0 Hours MCLE at our Los Angeles program, "Trademark Office Comes to California"! Read more

The Intellectual Property Law Section of the California Lawyers Association is presenting the full day in person IP in Entertainment and Media Conference on May 11, 2023, at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center. Read more