{"id":907,"date":"2014-03-16T21:12:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T21:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/?p=907"},"modified":"2014-03-16T21:12:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T21:12:32","slug":"spring-break-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/2014\/03\/16\/spring-break-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Break 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>One of the highlights of the week was a visit to our state Senator&#8217;s office, where we actually got to meet Senator Joe Donnelly. He told us about his own experience with the patent system &#8212; he received a letter from a patentee alleging infringement, and he had to pay them some money so they wouldn&#8217;t sue him.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t follow our Twitter or Facebook, it&#8217;s worth a glance to see what fun we had this week &#8212; the students took over the feed and thoroughly enjoyed keeping everyone up to date on their shenanigans.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_908\" style=\"width: 458px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/files\/2014\/03\/MSPL-with-Senator-Donnelly-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-908\" class=\"size-full wp-image-908\" alt=\"Back: Elaine, Sen. Donnelly, Joseph, David Front: Karen, Rose, Josh\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/files\/2014\/03\/MSPL-with-Senator-Donnelly-web.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/files\/2014\/03\/MSPL-with-Senator-Donnelly-web.jpg 448w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/files\/2014\/03\/MSPL-with-Senator-Donnelly-web-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Back: Elaine, Sen. Donnelly, Joseph, David<br \/>Front: Karen, Rose, Josh<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/2014\/03\/16\/spring-break-2014\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29566,29603,29568,29577],"tags":[49348],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-from-the-director","category-mspl-news-and-notes","category-patent-agent","category-patent-agent-jobs","tag-patent-agent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":909,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}