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ABOUT/WELCOME
Welcome to IPBasics.org!
Businesses come in all shapes and sizes – creators, too.
IP rights are designed both to help established firms grow and encourage new businesses and creators to compete.
The four basic rights -- copyrights, patents, trademarks and trade secrets -- make sharing easier and enable others to benefit.
Essential Information
The knowledge economy can be a confusing place. IPBasics.org, an initiative under the Center for Intellectual Property Understanding (CIP), is designed to make it easy to get the essential information about IP people need know today.
IPBasics.org can be used effectively by everyone from creators, entrepreneurs, educators and students to IP professionals and investors. No prior background is necessary.
CIPU Board of Directors
Keith Bergelt***
CEO, Open Invention Network; former IP strategy executive, Motorola and SRI International; Managing Partner, Paradox Capital; former career diplomat, U.S. State Department
Brian Hinman***
Chief Innovation Officer, AON IP Solutions; ex-Chief Intellectual Property Officer, Philips; Vice President IP, Verizon; Vice President IP and Licensing, IBM; executive-advisor, Columbia University Technology Ventures
Adam Mossoff***
Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and Visiting Fellow the Heritage Foundation. Leading expert on IP law.
Jennifer Pariser
Vice President and Director of Academic Outreach, the Motion Picture Association; former Vice President the Recording Industry Association of America; former Senior Vice President SONY Music Entertainment.
Manny Schecter
Chief Patent Counsel, IBM; Past-President, IPO Association Education Foundation
Mickie Voges-Piatt*
Co-Director IP Management & Markets Program, Illinois Institute of Technology; Deputy Director, Program in IP Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law
Bruce Berman (Chairman)
Author and editor responsible for five IP business books; IP communications expert; IAM 300 Leading Strategist (10 years); member, IP Hall of Fame Academy; CEO, Brody Berman Associates (31 years)
Terry Hart
GC the Association of American Publishers; former AGC the United States Copyright Office; publisher, Copyhype.
Tiffany Norwood
Inventor, serial entrepreneur, innovation literacy advocate; CEO Tribetan; Cornell University Entrepreneur of the Year, 2022.