AIPLA spring meeting is canceled

(Updated to include cancellation of the ABA-IPL annual meeting.)

Well it’s official.  The American Intellectual Property Law Association has announced the cancellation of its spring stated meeting which was scheduled for May 6-8 in San Antonio, Texas.

This comes after the cancellation of USPTO Design Day which was scheduled for April 23 in Alexandria, Virginia.  And it comes after the cancellation of the annual meeting of the International Trademark Association which had been set for Singapore in April and then had been shifted to happen in the US in May or June, and has now been rescheduled for November at some unspecified date and city.  

I don’t know whether AIPLA’s decision to pull the plug on its spring meeting was influenced by my report of the results of a survey of meeting attendees about their plans.

The American Bar Association has likewise canceled the American Bar Association Intellectual Property Law section annual meeting, scheduled for April 1-3 in Washington, DC.