The IP Institute of Mitchell Hamline School of Law presented a successful CLE session on law and practice under the Patent Cooperation Treaty on April 18. Speakers at the session were Professor Emeritus Jay Erstling, and Mitchell Hamline graduate Megan Miller ’21, now an attorney with Winthrop and Weinstine. Both Erstling and Miller are experts on PCT law and practice; Erstling is a former director of the Office of the PCT at the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, while Miller has had extensive experience in PCT law and practice before, during, and after law school. Together, they are co-authors of The Practitioner’s Guide to the PCT, published by the American Bar Association.
The CLE drew over 100 attendees. “I’m very happy that the IP Institute has been able to make CLEs like this available to the IP community,” said Professor Carl Moy, the director of the IP Institute. “The presentation by Jay and Megan is a perfect example of our expertise in both the practice and underlying law and policy of IP law. We plan on expanding both the range and depth of these type of offerings to the practicing IP community.”