by Dennis Crouch

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) is run primarily by a group of 50 top intellectual property counsel (usually patent-focused) from many of the largest global innovative companies - all deeply involved in the patent system as patent holders and many as accused-infringers as well.  Patent attorneys from various law firms serve in a support role for the organization.  The IPO created a special 101 legislative task force headed by IBM's Marian Underweiser with Vice-Support from Bob Sachs (Fenwick & the BilskiBlog) whose proposal has now been released and fully adopted by the IPO Board.