C-IP2 External Conflicts Calendar

­­­­­­2025

February 2025
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March 2025

April 2025

May 2025

June 2025

July 2025

August 2025

    • 6-12 – 2025 ABA Annual MeetingToronto, ON
    • 7-8 – IPSC 2025 – DePaul University, Chicago, IL (welcome reception is on 8/6)

September 2025

October 2025

November 2025

December 2025

    • TBA – C-IP2 High Tech Roundtable – Scalia Law
    • TBA – Copyright Alliance December Board Meeting
    • TBA – Annual Berkeley-Stanford Advanced Patent Law Institute (was 12/7-8 in 2023 & 12/5-6 in 2024)
    • 1-5 – WIPO – Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (47th Session)Geneva, Switzerland
    • 5 OR 12 – Akron Annual IP Scholars Forum (Friday of 1st full week in Dec.)
    • 12 – Annual Technology Transfer Professionals Day
    • 14-22 – Hanukkah
    • 22-Jan 2 – GMU Winter Holiday
    • 25 – Christmas Day
    • 26-Jan 1 – Kwanzaa

­­­2026

January 2026

    • TBA – Loyola Spring 2026 IP Seminar
    • TBA – AIPLA Mid-Winter Institute
    • TBA – AALS Annual Meeting
    • TBACES® 2026 (was 1/7-10 in 2025 & 1/9-12 in 2024)
    • TBAPLI Artificial Intelligence Law 2026 (was 1/23-24 in 2025, 1/25-26 in 2024)
    • TBA – IPIRA Conference (venue & dates still TBA as of Sept. 2024; was held Mar. 2023 & Jan. 2024 – maybe April?)
    • Dec 22-Jan 2 – GMU Winter Holiday
    • 1 – New Year’s Day
    • 7-10 – AALS Annual Meeting – New Orleans, LA
    • 19 – MLK, Jr. Day

February 2026

    • TBA – AIPLA Mid-Winter Institute (2/1-4 in 2023; wasn’t held in 2024; not sure if held in 2025)
    • TBA – IPIRA conference
    • TBAWIPIP 2026 (typically first Friday and Saturday in Feb)
    • TBAMobile World Congress 2026 (MWC26) (Feb. 26-29 in Barcelona in 2024)
    • TBA – 8th Annual HBCU IP & Technology Law Summit (was 2/27 in 2025)
    • 8-11 – AUTM Annual Meeting – Seattle, WA
    • 16 – Presidents’ Day
    • 18 – Ash Wednesday
    • 18-March 20 – Ramadan

March 2026

    • TBA – Annual Advanced Patent Law Institute
    • TBAMobile World Congress 2026 (MWC26) (all in Barcelona, typically last week of Feb/into March)
    • TBA – AIPLA 2026 Trade Secret Summit (was 3/14-15 in 2024)
    • February 18-March 20 – Ramadan
    • 1-5 – AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education – Portland, OR
    • 3-4 – Purim
    • 8 – Daylight Savings Time begins
    • 17 – St. Patrick’s Day
    • 25 – Akron Annual Symposium on Intellectual Property Law and Policy (last Monday in March)

April 2026

    • TBA – CIPU Annual IP Awareness Summit (IPAS)
    • TBALeadershIP 2026 (was 4/9 in 2024)
    • TBA – ABA-IPL Annual Meeting
    • TBA – Fordham Annual IP Conference
    • TBA – AIPLA Spring Meeting
    • TBA – LESI 2026
    • TBA – 10th Annual Berkeley Law Sports & Entertainment Conference (4/4 in 2025)
    • TBA – BCLT Advanced Life Sciences Institute (4/16-17 in 2025)
    • 1-9 – Passover
    • 3 – Good Friday
    • 5 – Easter Sunday
    • 26 – World IP Day

May 2026

    • TBA – AAP Annual Spring/General Meeting (was 5/9 in 2024)
    • TBA – MusicBiz
    • TBA – AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education (maybe in April?)
    • 25 – Memorial Day

June 2026

    • TBA – C-IP2 hosting WIPO-U.S. Summer School on Intellectual Property
    • TBA – CIPIPL Annual Ethics in the Practice of IP Law Seminar
    • TBA – CSUSA Annual Meeting
    • TBA – 2026 Bench & Bar® Conference
    • TBA – BIO International Convention (was 6/16-19 in 2025 & 6/3-6 in 2024)
    • TBA – National Academy of Inventors Annual Conference (was 6/23-26 in 2025 & 6/16-18 in 2024)
    • TBAPatent Litigation Masters™ 2025 (was 6/2-4 in 2025 & 6/24-26 in 2024)
    • 19 – Juneteenth
    • 21-23 – Shavuot

July 2026

    • 4 – Independence Day

August 2026

September 2026

    • TBA – Judicial Conference – Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
    • TBA – IPO 2026 Annual Meeting
    • TBA – Law Rocks DC
    • 7 – Labor Day
    • 11-13 – Rosh Hashanah
    • 20-21 – Yom Kippur
    • 25-27 – Sukkot (First Days)
    • 30-Oct. 3 – GRUR Annual MeetingHamburg, Germany

October 2026

    • TBA – AIPLA Annual Meeting
    • TBA – Life Sciences IP Summit
    • TBA – Technology Patent Network North America 2025 – San Francisco, CA (was Oct. 16-17 in 2024)
    • 2-4 – Simchat Torah
    • 7-11 – Frankfurt Book Fair 2026
    • 12 – Columbus Day / Indigenous Peoples Day
    • 15-16 (tentative, preferred) – CIP2 Annual Fall Conference
    • 18-21 – LES 2026 Annual Meeting
    • 22-23 (tentative, back-up) – CIP2 Annual Fall Conference
    • 29-31 – AIPLA Annual Meeting – Westin City Center, Washington, D.C.
    • 31 – All Hallows’ Eve

November 2026

    • TBABIO | IP Counsels Committee Conference (was Nov. 13-15 in 2023 & Nov. 18-20 in 2024) Washington, D.C.
    • TBA – Annual Advanced Patent Law Institute (probably early Nov; was Nov. 2-3 in 2023 & Nov 6-7 in 2024)Austin, TX
    • TBABIO | IP Counsels Committee Conference (was Nov. 13-15 in 2023 & Nov. 18-20 in 2024) Washington, D.C.
    • TBA – Annual Advanced Patent Law Institute (probably early Nov; was Nov. 2-3 in 2023 & Nov 6-7 in 2024)Austin, TX
    • TBA – Antonin Scalia Law School Annual Voices for Liberty Symposium (11/15 in 2024)
    • 1 – Daylight Savings Time ends
    • 11 – Veterans’ Day
    • 26 – Thanksgiving Day

December 2026

    • TBA – AIPLA 2023 Trade Secret Summit
    • 11 – Akron Annual IP Scholars Forum (Friday of 1st full week in Dec.)
    • 4-12 – Hanukkah
    • 12 – Annual Technology Transfer Professionals Day
    • 25 – Christmas Day
    • 26-Jan 1 – Kwanzaa