The Penn Intellectual Property Group (PIPG) is the student hub for intellectual property on campus. Our members’ interests span the full range of IP, with a focus on patents, copyrights, and trademarks. We also invite those holding an interest in contemporary legal issues such as data privacy, internet, and space law. The group hosts numerous events and panels throughout the year, bringing in speakers from a variety of backgrounds, including attorneys from top law firms, in-house counsel from large technology and life sciences companies, and government officials. In past years, these speakers have included a sitting judge federal judge from the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Senior Vice President of Global Public Policy at the Walt Disney Company, the Founder of Intellectual Ventures, and many other distinguished professors and practicing attorneys from various leading law firms and Fortune 500 companies. PIPG also produces and publishes original content on our blog, Useful Arts and Sciences, where our members analyze breaking IP news and summarize the latest IP precedent. PIPG’s year culminates with an annual symposium on exciting new topics in IP law, bringing together lawyers and entrepreneurs from around the country to discuss the legal issues surrounding emerging technology and other industries. Topics have included fashion, open source technology, the gene-editing technology CRISPR, design patents, and media streaming.
Students looking to get involved in the group can contact us at pennlawip@gmail.com to be added to our list serve. Additionally, we take applications for 1L representatives in the Fall and for other board positions in the Spring semester.
2024-2025 Officers
Yungjee Kim and Rebecca Conway
Co-Presidents
Sophie Roling
Communications Director
Dallas Nguyen
Membership and Alumni Director
Andrew Borgdorff
Events Director
Yike Lu and Jessie Hess
Symposium Directors
Kristina Lazdauskas, Dylan Champagne, Amy Chen, Sahara Chen, Kara Curtis, Alyssa Dioguardi, Aidan Garcia, Edward Goul, Conrad Hellwege, Addie Ho, Hailey Parikh, Alix Park, Keanna Vaiohi, Leonard de Guzman, Eric Sangella, Aditya Srikanth, Maria Luiza Valadares Matos, Jacqueline Wang, Max Wolff, Alan (Qiuyu) Xie, Christy Xie
1L/LLM Representatives
2023-2024 Officers
Amber Gibson, Erin Higgins
Bari Britvan
Natine Macauley
Sophie Roling
Rebecca Conway
Yungjee Kim
Kevin Seltzer
Christopher Bearne, Andrew Borgdorff, Rachel Buckland, Anh Thu Dang, Jessie Hess, William Kender, Diane Lee, Lulu Lipman, Yike Lu, Dallas Nguyen, Alexandra Rodriguez
Co-Presidents
Alumni & Membership Director
Events Director
Communications Director
Managing Blog Editor
Symposium Directors
Treasurer
1L/LLM Representatives
2022-2023 Officers
Justin Linetski, Manish Namireddy
Erin Higgins
Brandon Merrill
Alisha Agrawal
Kevin Seltzer
Amber Gibson, Rachel Hujsa, Josie Little
Meghana Bhimarao, Rebecca Conway, Helen Fan, Yungjee Kim, Jack McCammon, Karina Oliveira de Miranda, Sophie Roling, Fiona Sands, Constance Xu, Catherine Zhang
Co-Presidents
Alumni & Membership Director
Events Director
Communications Director
Managing Blog Editor
Symposium Directors
1L/LLM Representatives
2021-2022 Officers
President
Membership Director
Alumni Director
Communications Director
Events Director
Symposium Director
Managing Blog Editors
1L Representatives
Gerald Adams
Nicole Hovatter
Matt (Chih Yang) Lin
Karen (Hye Rin) Joo
Manish Namireddy
Justin Linetski
Nile Delso, Tyler Gruttadauria, Lucia Minnucci
Christopher Cho, Zhixin Han, Erin Higgins, Jessie Levin, Brandon Merrill, Ronni Mok, Kevin Seltzer, Kartikay Singh, Shashank Sirivolu