Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property (WIPIP) Colloquium Events

Prior to the February 2012 colloquium, WIPIP coalesced around the entrepreneurship and guidance of Mike Meurer and Glynn Lunney. Their efforts, along with the volunteers at the host schools in those early years, set the pattern for WIPIP.

Beginning with the 2012 colloquium, an Organizing Board was formed consisting of a representative from the host school for the upcoming colloquium, and four other persons (one per year) who served among the representative(s) for host school(s) from a prior year.

Thus, in the table below, the current Organizing Board for WIPIP is indicated along with the history of the colloquium: a chair elect, a chair, and three members. Past board members (or host school representative(s) for those years before there was a board) are also listed for the year the school(s) hosted WIPIP.

Date	Host(s)	Host School Representative(s)	Current Board Capacity
Feb 2025	William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas	Marketa Trimble	Chair Elect
Feb 2024	Santa Clara Law	Brian Love	Chair
Feb 2023	Suffolk University Law School	Rebecca Curtin	Member
Feb 2022	St. Louis University School of Law & University of Missouri School of Law	Yvette Liebesman & Dennis Crouch	member, Yvette Liebesman
Feb 2021	American University Washington College of Law, Texas A&M University School of Law, & University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law (virtual event)	Irene Calboli, Christine Farley, Jorge Contreras & Glynn Lunney	N/A (due to pandemic virtual event)
Feb 2020	Santa Clara Law	Eric Goldman	Member
Feb 2019	University of Houston Law Center	Sapna Kumar
Feb 2018	Case Western Reserve University School of Law	Aaron Perzanowski
Feb 2017	Boston University School of Law	Paul Gugliuzza
Feb 2016	University of Washington School of Law	Zahr Said
Feb 2015	George Washington University Law School and United States Patent and Trademark Office	Bob Brauneis
Feb 2014	Santa Clara Law	Eric Goldman / Brian Love
Feb 2013	Seton Hall University School of Law	Gaia Bernstein
Feb 2012	University of Houston Law Center	Greg Vetter
Feb 2011	Boston University School of Law	Mike Meurer
Fall 2009	Seton Hall University School of Law	Gaia Bernstein
Fall 2008	Tulane University Law School	Glynn Lunney
Fall 2007	American University Washington College of Law	Mike Carroll
Fall 2006	University of Pittsburgh School of Law	Mike Madison
Fall 2005	St. Louis University School of Law and Washington University School of Law	Mark McKenna Chuck McManis
Fall 2004	Boston University School of Law	Mike Meurer
Fall 2003	Tulane University Law School	Glynn Lunney

 

The most recent or upcoming WIPIP Colloquium can be found here: www.wipip.org

For schools interested in hosting the WIPIP Colloquium, please refer to this document for how to submit an application to the Organizing Board.

Also of potential use as an example is the WIPIP 2019 registration form, preserved at this link.

For a host school interested in understanding the likely participant registration pattern, please see this graph from WIPIP 2019.