Dear Members:

As we embark on this coming 2026-27 CIPLA year, the Officers have reviewed information shared by our membership, including interests in new benefits and varied meeting locations. We are pleased to provide new membership benefits this coming 2026-27 CIPLA year, including new membership dues options. Regarding the latter, we are pleased to offer firm membership discounted pricing to streamline firm payments for most of our 2026-27 events.

New Membership Benefits:

• Hybrid self-reporting Connecticut CLE meetings
• Access to a self-reporting Connecticut CLE database with recordings of meetings
• Increased self-reporting CT CLE opportunities, including ethics
• Routine virtual lunch programs for self-reporting Connecticut CLE’s
• Varied meeting location (e.g., event(s) in Hartford area and Fairfield county)

New Membership Dues Structures

A la carte structure:

• Annual membership, including CLE database access: $150 per person
• Annual membership with virtual attendance pass: $250 per person
• General estimated attendance cost for regular meetings/events (paid at registration): $75 per person

Individual membership structure: $500 per person

• Includes a la carte benefits – CLE database, virtual attendance pass
• Includes in-person attendance for five self-reporting CLE events, a fall social event (e.g., IP Trivia) and a spring social event

Firm membership structure:

• Includes a la carte benefits – CLE database, virtual attendance pass
• Includes in-person attendance for five self-reporting CLE events, a fall social event (e.g., IP Trivia) and a spring social event
• Permits flexible attendance from anyone of a firm or firm designee as opposed to a single person membership

Membership Tiers:

• Any two firm members: $900
• Any three firm members: $1300
• Any four firm members: $1700
• Any five firm members: $2000 
• *The above structures do not include tickets for the IP Practitioners Recognition Dinner and the CIPLA Annual Meeting and Lobster Bake. Tickets will be sold separately for those events.

Please reach-out with any questions. Our 2026-27 planned calendar will be provided in the coming weeks, kicking off on September 16th, 2026, 6-8pm, at the Elm City Club in New Haven, with a speaker from the USPTO.

To pay your dues or join a membership, please see the Membership Renewal page.

Best regards,
CIPLA Officers

The UConn School of Law Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Law Clinic will host a roundtable on Friday, February 17, 2017, sponsored by INTA (International Trademark Association) on “Non-Traditional Marks and the Traditional Practice.”

The roundtable will be held from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. on the law school campus at:
Janet M. Blumberg Hall
Hosmer Hall, 2nd Floor
65 Elizabeth Street
Hartford, Connecticut

Directions and a map of campus can be found at: https://www.law.uconn.edu/about/maps-directions

The panelists will be:

• Professor Willajeanne Mclean, Distinguished Professor of Law, UConn School of Law
• Andy I. Corea, Managing Partner, St.Onge Steward Johnston & Reens
• Maria A. Scongio, Partner, Locke Lord LLP

These local experts will guide us through some of the more interesting aspects of trademark law, including sound marks, color marks and 3-D marks.

PLEASE NOTE THAT 1 HOUR OF CONNECTICUT CLE CREDIT WILL BE OFFERED FOR ATTENDANCE AT THIS PROGRAM. You must register on the INTA website at http://www.inta.org/ROUNDTABLES/PAGES/2017USRTMARFEB_REGISTER.ASPX to attend the event. The cost is $50 for members and $75 for non-members. A buffet lunch is included.

We hope to see you there!

If you require reasonable accommodations for a disability, please contact UConn School of Law at (860) 570-5130 or law.access@uconn.edu at least two weeks in advance.

Save the Date! The CIPLA is a co-sponsor of the 33^rd Annual JPPCLE on April 27, 2017 at the Crowne Plaza Times Square in New York City. Featured Speakers include Drew Hirshfeld, USPTO Commissioner for Patents; Markus Meier, Assistant Director, U.S. Federal Trade Commission; and Keynote  Speaker, Hon. Richard Linn, Senior Circuit Judge of the Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.  Earn 8.0 MCLE credits. More information at:  http://jppcle.org/

The time has come to renew your membership in CIPLA.  Please also update your email address and status as appropriate.  You may renew and pay online at https://cipla.net/membership-renewal.  Alternatively, you may download the renewal form and forward it with your dues check to:

Michael Cartona
Secretary
Grogan, Tuccillo & Vanderleeden LLP
1350 Main Street
Suite 508
Springfield, MA 01103
t: (413) 736-5401 x1413
cartona@gtv-ip.com

We encourage all IP law professionals in the area to join CIPLA, as the dues help fund our events throughout the year.  

We hope to see you at a CIPLA event soon.