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Fordham IP conference: News roundup

Managing IP Correspondent
April 30 2010

The 18th annual Fordham IP Conference took place on April 8 and 9 at Fordham University School of Law in New York and featured speakers including US Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel, WIPO deputy director-general for patents, James Pooley, US Register of Copyrights Marybeth Peters, Jamie Love of Knowledge Ecology and USPTO director David Kappos. Managing IP’s James Nurton moderated a session on developments in EU trade mark and design law.

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