IP Event Calendar

2026

• January 13 & 20: AIPLA Corporate Practice Institute, Virtual
• January 25-28: ACPC Winter Meeting, Orlando, FL
• January 24-26: Copyright Society Midwinter, Palm Springs, CA
• January 25-28: ACPC Winter Meeting, Orlando, FL

• February 4-9: ABA Mid-Year Meeting, San Antonio, TX
• February 5-6: AIPPI Mid-Term Meeting, Marrakech, Morocco
• February 8-11: AUTM Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA
• February 8-13: AIPLA MENA Subcommittee Delegation Trip, Dubai, UAE
• February 12: IP Transactions Bootcamp, Seattle, WA
• February 12-13: WIPO - Extraordinary Session of the Coordination Committee to nominate candidate for appointment to the post of Director General, Geneva, Switzerland
• February 15-17: Leahy Institute/Naples Roundtable, Naples, FL
• February 26: IPPI 2026 Winter Institute, Lake Buena Vista, FL

• March 4-6: AIPLA Patent Prosecution Boot Camp, Arlington, VA
• March 14-13: WIPO - Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (52nd session), Geneva, Switzerland
• March 16-20: AIPLA IP Practice in the Asia Pacific Delegation Trip, Taiwan & India
• March 18-20: PTAB Bar Association Annual, Washington, DC
• March 18-19: CITMA Spring Conference, London, UK
• March 23-27: AIPLA IP Practice in Europe Delegation Trip, London, Paris, and Hague 
• March 26-27: AIPLA Trade Secret Summit, California 
• March 27: NYIPLA 104th Annual Dinner in Honor of the Federal Judiciary, New York, NY

• April 13-17: AIPLA IP Practice in Japan Delegation Trip, Tokyo, Japan
• April 15-17: AIPLA Giles Rich Moot Court Finals, Washington, DC
• April 16: AIPLA's Women in IP Law Committee's Global Networking Event
• April 15-16: ABA-IPL Annual Meeting, Washington, DC
• April 19-25: FICPI Executive Committee, Istanbul, Turkey
• April 26: World IP Day
• April 26-29: LESI Annual Meeting, Dublin, Ireland
• April 28-30: IACC Annual Conference, Orlando, FL
• April TBD: AIPLA Women in IP Global Networking Event
• April TBD: AIPLA IP Support Specialists Conference

MAY

• May 2-6: INTA Annual Meeting, London, England
• May 7: NIHF Induction Ceremony, Washington, DC
• May 11-12: AIPLA Advanced Chemical Practice Institute, San Francisco, CA
• May 13-15: AIPLA Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA
• May 18-22: WIPO - Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (48th session), Geneva, Switzerland

JUNE

• June 10-12: IP5 Meeting, Tokyo, Japan
• June 14-16: Copyright Society USA Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY
• June 17-20: ECTA Annual Meeting, Dublin, Ireland
• June 21-24: ACPC Summer Meeting, Denver, CO

JULY

• July 7-15: WIPO - Assemblies of the Member States of WIPO (67th Series), Geneva, Switzerland and Hybrid
• July 22-24: NAPP Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA
• July 29-August 4: ABA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL

AUGUST

• August 16-18: ABPI 46th World Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

SEPTEMBER

• September 16-18: FICPI 23rd Open Forum, Budapest, Hungary
• September 27-29: IPO Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada
• September 30- October 3: GRUR Annual Meeting, Hamburg, Germany

OCTOBER

• October 7-10: AIPPI Congress, Hamburg, Germany
• October 18-21: LES US/Canada Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA
• October 19-21: Copyright Society International Conference, Dublin, Ireland
• October 20-21: Trilateral Office Heads Meeting with Industry, Vienna, Austria
• October 29 - 31: AIPLA Annual Meeting 2026, Westin Washington, DC, Downtown

NOVEMBER

• November 2-6: WIPO - Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (38th session), Geneva, Switzerland
• November 17-20: INTA Leadership Meeting, Phoenix, AZ
• November 30- December 4: WIPO - Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (49th session), Geneva, Switzerland