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The USPTO and AIPLA partnered to provide mentorship to AIPLA members and participants of the USPTO's Empowering Women's Entrepreneurship - a community-focused, collaborative, and creative initiative to encourage and empower more women founders across America. The program included three webinars and one concluding networking event, on March 13, March 20, April 11, and May 8, focusing on Intellectual Property law topics, advice from AIPLA's women entrepreneurs, and the opportunity to participate in a mentoring group of women with varying skills and experiences.

Miss a session? View the recordings here:

Webinar 1 Recording: Patents and Trade Secrets
Webinar 1 Resources: IP_Checklist_for_Startups

Webinar 2 Recording: Copyright/Trademark
Webinar 2 Resources: Presentation Slides

Webinar 3 Recording: Women Tell All

Mentoring ClustersAIPLA organized mentoring clusters to offer mentorship to mentees identified through the USPTO’s Women Entrepreneur Initiative (a cluster is a group of 3-4 people, including both mentors and mentees). Apply here if you’d like to participate as a mentor.

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Kelu Sullivan is a skilled trademark and copyright lawyer who focuses on providing practical and realistic advice to help clients make strategic decisions in sync with their business goals. She has spent her entire career helping clients select, register, and enforce their trademarks and copyrights representing her clients in all aspects of trademark and copyright law, including portfolio management, licensing and litigation. Kelu is particularly experienced in the management of large international trademark portfolios, and working with clients’ legal and business departments to achieve desired outcomes. Kelu represents clients in federal district and appellate courts, managing every aspect of litigation, from complaints, to discovery, to presentation of the case in front juries. She has also presented difficult trademark cases on appeal, and successfully overturned three lower tribunal decisions.

Prior to joining Kelly IP, Kelu was a partner at BakerHostetler in Washington, DC.

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