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The Important Role of Intellectual Property Laws

The Important Role of Intellectual Property Laws

By Michelson Institute for Intellectual Property (Originally published on michelsonip.com) A Day without IP Laws? We asked ChatGPT to help us out with this question and here’s what they came up with: If the United States didn’t have intellectual property laws, it...

Highlights from the UNCF Summit for Black Higher Education

Highlights from the UNCF Summit for Black Higher Education

  By Chinwe Ohanele,  Michelson Institute for Intellectual Property (Originally published on michelsonip.com) The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) Unite was an incredible conference running from July 17 through July 20 in Atlanta Georgia that brought together...

The Battle for the Taco Tuesday Trademark Ends

The Battle for the Taco Tuesday Trademark Ends

  By Rachelle Mulumba, Michelson Institute for Intellectual Property (Originally published on michelsonip.com) It seems the fight to “free” the Taco Tuesday trademark has officially come to an end with Taco John’s, the fast food chain and original rights holders,...

How Michelson IP Elevates Student Success in Community Colleges

How Michelson IP Elevates Student Success in Community Colleges

  By Rachelle Mulumba, Michelson Institute for Intellectual Property (Originally published on michelsonip.com) Quotes in the article have been lightly edited and paraphrased for clarity. “I remember during my first semester teaching, a student came up to me and...

The Value of Teaching IP at Community Colleges

The Value of Teaching IP at Community Colleges

2022 Michelson IP Educator awardees highlight the value of teaching IP at community colleges.   By Justin Chapman The Michelson Institute for Intellectual Property is expanding its support of infusing IP education into a broad range of educational curricula. At...

Putting the ‘Fast’ Back in Fast Food

Putting the ‘Fast’ Back in Fast Food

South Carolina State University student De’Marco Poole used what he learned from the HBCU IP Futures Collaborative, a program by the Los Angeles-based Michelson Institute for Intellectual Property, to apply for a patent for his automated food preparation invention....

Dr. Michelson: To Be a Successful Inventor, Deconstruct the Status Quo

Dr. Michelson: To Be a Successful Inventor, Deconstruct the Status Quo

The DaVinci Hour's Episode 32 podcast with Dr. Maxwell Cooper features Dr. Gary Michelson discussing his physician-inventor career, funding early-career scientific investigators, and a new center for immunology research in California. In this DaVinci Innovators+...