Brian S. Rosenbloom Appointed to Software and Business Methods Committee of the Intellectual Property Owners Association

Brian Rosenbloom has been appointed by IPO President Marc Adler to serve as a member of the Software and Business Methods Committee of the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO). The IPO is a trade association for owners of patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets, and is the only association in the U.S. that serves all intellectual property owners in all industries and all fields of technology. The Software and Business Methods Committee advises the President, the Executive Director and the Board of Directors of IPO regarding issues relating to the USPTO practices and substantive law for software, business method and other computer-implemented inventions; communicates with members of the USPTO to discuss the present practice and procedures of the USPTO with regard to Software and Business Method Patents and explore possible enhancements to these practices and procedures; and reviews the state of the law in the United States, Europe and other countries and proposed legislative initiatives and, if appropriate, submits recommendations regarding such initiatives.