Supporting Organizations and Publications

Brody Berman Associates is the leading strategic communications firm for IP holders, executives and portfolios. Brody Berman helps financial and other businesses achieve better IP results through a mix of market experience, strategy and contacts. The firm is best known for helping patent holders leverage their most valuable asset, their IP reputation. Since 1988, Brody Berman has improved the performance and enhanced the value of more than 200 businesses and their patents, including Global 500 companies, SMEs, NPEs, IP service providers and law firms. www.brodyberman.com

The Center for Intellectual Property Understanding is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to increasing awareness of intellectual property rights and their impact on people's lives. CIPU conducts research, provides information and facilitates education that seek to improve the reputation of IP rights and deter infringement. The Center also tracks attitudes toward IP rights, including patents, copyrights and trademarks, and through outreach provides a framework for how the facilitate ideas, promote competition and create jobs. CIPU is granted tax-exempt status by the IRS as a 501(c)(3). For more information visit www.understandingip.org.

IP CloseUp is a leading source of insight for people who need to keep up with the business side of intellectual property. Readers turn to IP CloseUp for the latest news and perspectives on patents and other IP rights, trends and the people and events that drive them.

IP CloseUp's readership includes executives, entrepreneurs, journalists, investors, lawyers, engineers, researchers and inventors. Its regular features highlight transactions, people, events, research, books and videos. It has also provides the IP CloseUp® 30, a real-time snapshot of IP licensing company stock performance and recent news that can be placed on the reader's home screen or desktop.