About: IP Surprise Lecture Series

Music, movies, book publishing, computer software, pharmaceuticals. Everyone knows what the “intellectual property industries” are—or do they? Intellectual property today plays a leading role in some unexpected areas. Today’s hoteliers and sommeliers need to know their trademarks and copyrights; game designers and golfers are playing with patents. Meanwhile, haute couture and haute cuisine have built innovation-intensive industries just outside the limits of formal intellectual property protection. Intellectual property is now showing up in some surprising places, and intellectual property issues are increasingly part of the daily work of counsel to a wide variety of industries. The Institute for Information Law & Policy at New York Law School presents IP Surprise!—a lecture series about the new intellectual property industries.