Event Information
Dear AIPLA Members and Friends,
Welcome to the 2025 AIPLA Spring Meeting, taking place May 13-15, 2025, in the dynamic city of Minneapolis, Minnesota!
Minneapolis, known for its innovation and leadership in healthcare and technology, sets the stage for this year’s gathering of IP professionals. This Spring Meeting is designed to explore the intersection of intellectual property, emerging technologies, and legal innovation, offering something for everyone in the IP community.
We’re proud to offer an expanded lineup of Skills Workshops, providing practical, hands-on training for practitioners at all levels. This year’s workshops include:
- Patent Drafting Basics Bootcamp: Tailored for early-career practitioners, offering step-by-step guidance on drafting high-quality patents.
- IPR Expert Depositions – Tips and Practice: Learn strategies for taking and defending expert depositions in inter partes reviews with live feedback from seasoned IP litigators.
- Amplifying Examiner Interviews: Master techniques to conduct effective patent examiner interviews that drive results, including tips on timing, persuasion, and responding to challenges.
These workshops deliver actionable tools and strategies, ensuring you leave with enhanced skills ready to apply to your practice.
Our program spans a wide array of IP topics, from foundational principles to cutting-edge developments:
- Patenting AI and AI-Assisted Inventions: Tackle the challenges of patenting AI-related innovations, including issues of enablement and human contribution in AI-generated work.
- Monetary Remedies in IP Disputes: Explore strategic approaches to securing and defending monetary remedies across trademarks, copyrights, and unfair competition cases.
- Trademark Practice at the TTAB: Gain practical guidance on navigating trademark disputes, from ex parte appeals to inter partes proceedings.
- Copyright Fair Use and AI Applications: Examine the limits of fair use in the context of AI training data, building on key cases and recent industry trends.
- Litigation Skills and Strategy: Sessions like Managing the Cost of IP Litigation and Effective Use of Experts provide insights into controlling expenses and leveraging expert testimony for better outcomes.
- Fundamentals and Beyond: From IP basics to advanced patent topics like obviousness-type double patenting, we’ve tailored sessions for practitioners across all areas of expertise.
In addition to the rich programming, don’t miss our signature events—the Diversity Reception, New Member/First-Time Attendee Reception, and the Opening Night Reception—which offer unparalleled opportunities for networking and camaraderie.
We’re excited to welcome you to the 2025 AIPLA Spring Meeting, where innovation, technology, and intellectual property come together to shape the future. Minneapolis is ready for your ideas, energy, and passion for IP!
Kimberly Van Voorhis, President
Matthew Wagner, Officer-in-Charge, 2025 Spring Meeting, AIPLA First Vice President