Breakfast with the USPTO and Copyright Office

Join us for a breakfast with Robin Evans, Deputy Commissioner for Patents, USPTO and Miriam Lord, Associate Register of Copyrights and Director of Public Information and Education, US Copyright Office to hear about the latest initiatives from both organizations and to have a chance to ask your own questions. You can ask your questions in person or submit them in advance to president@bipla.org. Please invite your colleagues and guests in town for the IPO conference by forwarding this invitation or reposting our LinkedIn announcement here.

Tuesday, September 12, 2023
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Registration and healthy start breakfast: 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Fireside chat, audience Q&A, and networking: 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM

Location: Wilmer Hale, 60 State Street, Boston, MA (preregistration required for security)

Registration for this event has closed.

Robin Evans
Deputy Commissioner for Patents

Deputy Commissioner Robin Evans provides executive leadership to quality related offices in charge of training, statistics, process improvement, and stakeholder outreach. She also provides executive oversight over patent-examining functions in technology centers that examine in the technologies of biotechnology, organic chemistry, transportation, construction, agriculture, electronic commerce, and national security. Ms. Evans has held numerous leadership roles at the USPTO, including being the first regional manager of the first USPTO regional office in Detroit, Michigan, the Director of Technology Center 2800, the interim director of the Rocky Mountain Regional Office in Denver, Colorado, and the Acting Associate Commissioner for Patent Quality.

Miriam Lord
Associate Register of Copyrights and Director of Public Information and Education

Associate Register Miriam Lord oversees the Office of Public Information and Education (PIE), which provides authoritative information about copyright law to the public, implements the Office’s communications plan, publishes comprehensive written and audiovisual materials, develops education and outreach programs, and respond to public inquiries about policies and practices. She is an expert copyright attorney and one of four legal advisors to the Register of Copyrights. Before joining the Copyright Office, Ms. Lord was the director of the Global Intellectual Property Academy at the USPTO.

Pricing: Members: $45

Nonmembers: $75

Student members: $20