Letter from the Chair

• Jurisdiction: California,United States
• Citation: Vol. 43 No. 2
• Publication year: 2018
• Author: Matthew J. Spark
• topic: Business of Law,Intellectual Property

Letter from the Chair

Matthew J. Spark

Zuber, Lawler & Del Duca, LLP

Dear Section Member:

It's been a few exciting months since the IP Law Section became part of the California Lawyers Association (CLA). One of our Section's first challenges (indeed, one of the CLA's first challenges) was annual membership renewal now that our Section is no longer part of The State Bar of California. It was with great anticipation that we awaited seeing how many individuals would renew their section membership (and by extension, their membership in the CLA) via the State Bar of California's 2018 Fee Statement. As of early March, the CLA as a whole had 42,346 members renew and, as of this writing, the IP Law Section has 6,231 members.

For the past few days, I have been getting ready to travel to Washington DC as part of the IP Law Section's annual DC Delegation. The Chair of our DC Delegation is Heather Antoine (the current Secretary of the IP Law Section's Executive Committee). Other members of the DC Delegation include David Branfman (Vice Chair of the Trademark Interest Group), Alex Chan (Executive Committee Member), Teri Karobonik (Chair of the Copyright Interest Group, and Executive Committee...