FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 14 July 2014. Washington, DC. Carter Eltzroth, the Legal Director of the DVB Project and the Managing Director of Helikon.net, has joined the Board of Advisors of the International Intellectual Property Institute’s (IIPI). Eltzroth’s expertise...
You can read the Kirby v. Marvel Amicus Brief here.
IIPI’s chairman, Bruce Lehman, and senior Board member, Ralph Oman, weighed in last week at the United States Supreme Court in support of the heirs of author and cartoonist, Jack Kirby, who created some of the most famous comic book characters and storylines of the...
To spearhead these efforts, IIPI has tapped two globally recognized experts, both seasoned intellectual property attorneys. Andrew Hirsch, who worked closely with Lehman at the Department of Commerce, has been named the Executive Director (Director General) of IIPI,...
IIPI’s Chairman and Founder, Bruce Lehman, gave the Keynote speech entitled “Global Asymmetry in the use of Patents as an Economic Tool: Implications for Saudi Arabia” at the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum on April 20 at Umm Al-Qura University in Saudi...
In March, the Supreme Court heard arguments about whether software could be patented in the case Alice Corp v. CLS Bank. When the Supreme Court first considered patenting software, it held that “one may not patent an idea” and thus cannot patent something...