AIPLA President’s blog: Keeping secrets, well, secret

As I have mentioned in prior postings, one of my tasks this year as AIPLA President is to represent U.S. intellectual property interests around the world. (By the way, I learned that people in some South American countries pronounce our country’s U.S.A. initials as a word, such as asking “Are you from Ooh-SAh?”) There are a number of issues that keep coming up in discussion, but the one I’d like to focus on today is “patent attorneys” and privilege.