The MSPL hit Washington, DC, this year for our Spring Break trip. Rose, Elaine, Josh, Joseph and David came along, and we had a very busy week. We spent a whole day at the USPTO (and saw an Inter Partes Review), visited quite a few law firms to hear about their patent prosecution practices, went to BIO to learn about careers in science advocacy for IP specialists, and finished it off at the NIH / NIAID, where we talked about tech transfer.

One of the highlights of the week was a visit to our state Senator’s office, where we actually got to meet Senator Joe Donnelly. He told us about his own experience with the patent system — he received a letter from a patentee alleging infringement, and he had to pay them some money so they wouldn’t sue him.

If you don’t follow our Twitter or Facebook, it’s worth a glance to see what fun we had this week — the students took over the feed and thoroughly enjoyed keeping everyone up to date on their shenanigans.

Back: Elaine, Sen. Donnelly, Joseph, David
Front: Karen, Rose, Josh