Topic:  Patent Year in Review Speaker:  Mark Lemley is the William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and the director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology. He is also a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and affiliated faculty in the Symbolic Systems program. In addition to teaching, he also litigates and counsels clients in all areas of intellectual property, antitrust, and internet law in his role as of counsel at Lex Lumina. Date:  Thursday, February 20, 2025 Time:  12:00pm – 1:00pm Location:  Andrei's Conscious Cuisine, 2607 Main St, Irvine, CA 92614 Paper to accompany talk (added February 20, 2025) Registration:Member: $55.00Non-Member: $80.00Student Member: $20.00  

Topic: Patent Law Developments at USPTO and in Congress Speaker: Andrei Iancu Andrei Iancu is a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell and one of the leading voices in intellectual property law and innovation policy. He is a former Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), a position to which he was confirmed unanimously by the Senate. Andrei has decades of experience representing plaintiffs and defendants in IP matters across the technical and scientific spectra, including medical devices, genetic testing, therapeutics, the Internet, telephony, TV broadcasting, video game systems and computer peripherals. He represents clients in litigation and trials before the district courts, the U.S. International Trade Commission and the USPTO, the Federal Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court, and also counsels clients on obtaining, licensing, enforcing and defending against IP rights globally.  Date:  Thursday, March 20, 2025 Time:  12:00pm – 1:00pm Location:  Andrei's Conscious Cuisine, 2607 Main St, Irvine, CA 92614 Registration:Member: $55.00Non-Member: $80.00Student Member: $20.00  

Topic: Building and Protecting a Strong Brand Identity Date:  Wednesday, April 16, 2025 Time:  12:00pm – 1:00pm Location:  Sheppard Mullin, 650 Town Center Drive, Tenth Floor, Costa Mesa, CA 92626 Registration:Member: $55.00Non-Member: $80.00Student Member: $20.00   SPEAKERS Sui Q. Duong, Pure Storage Sui Q. Duong is Director of Legal Marketing, Trademark, & Copyright at Pure Storage Inc., where he leads the company’s legal marketing, trademark, copyright, and domain name functions. Valued at over $20 billion USD and founded in 2009, Pure Storage is a pioneer in developing all-flash data storage hardware and software solutions.Prior to his role at Pure Storage, Sui was Principal Trademark Counsel with Patterson + Sheridan LLP where he assisted a range of clients across the technology and consumer products industries to identify, protect and enforce their trademark rights and develop their brand strategy. Sui has also held positions at Western Digital Corporation, where he served as Director for that company’s trademark function covering the WD, SanDisk, and HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) brands, and at the USPTO, where he began his career as a trademark examining attorney.   Eunice Yu Moller, Topgolf, Callaway Brands Corp Eunice Yu Moller is a senior paralegal in the intellectual property department at Topgolf Callaway […]

Join us for a networking reception hosted by OCIPLA during the 2025 Annual Meeting at the San Diego Convention Center for the International Trademark Association (INTA). Date:  Saturday, May 17, 2025 Time:  6:00pm – 9:00pm Location: Sally's, 1 Market Place, San Diego, CA 92101 Registration:This is a free event with limited spots available. Please note that registration for both INTA and this event is required, and advanced registration strongly recommended.  

Topic: Top Trends in IP Litigation Date:  Thursday, September 18, 2025 Time:  12:00pm – 1:00pm Location:  Rutan & Tucker, LLP 18575 Jamboree Rd 9th Floor, Irvine, CA 92612 Registration:Member: $35.00Non-Member: $60.00Student Member: $20.00   SPEAKER Meredith Williams (Sivakumar) Meredith Williams is a Partner at Rutan & Tucker, LLP, where she focuses on representing and advising clients in protecting their intellectual property rights. Meredith’s practice emphasizes trademark and copyright litigation, trade secret misappropriation, false advertising, and unfair competition, and she advises clients on how best to promote and defend their brands and other IP assets given novel legal issues raised by social media and advances in technology. Her experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants in federal and state court, in ex parte and inter partes proceedings before the USPTO and TTAB, and in domain name dispute and other takedown procedures gives Meredith a variety of tools to assist clients in both enforcing and defending their rights.

Topic:  Trade Secrets Litigation: Avoiding Trouble, and Fighting When It's Unavoidable Date:  Tuesday, October 21, 2025 Time:  12:00pm – 1:00pm Location:  Knobbe Martens 2040 Main Street, Irvine, CA 92614 Registration:Member: $35.00Non-Member: $60.00Student Member: $20.00 Parking Included   SPEAKER Matt is a trial and appellate lawyer representing clients in complex business and intellectual property disputes. Prior to founding the firm, Matt practiced law for seven years in international law firms. Matt has written a number of articles on business litigation and co-authors California’s leading treatises on state and federal trial practice. In law school, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Minnesota Law Review. He is currently a co-author of the Rutter Guides on California Civil Trials and Evidence and California Federal Civil Trials and Evidence (both of which are published by Thomson Reuters).