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As Time Goes By – Patent Office is Saved and an Association Born
The logo on the first page of each NYIPLA Bulletin attests to the NYIPLA’s birth in 1922. Perhaps you may wonder why it happened then, and not at some earlier or later time.
By way of contrast, Chicago’s sister organization, the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago, was founded almost four decades sooner in 1884. Its founding was so early, in fact, that, at its inception, it was simply named the “Patent Law Association” – the first of its kind in the nation
As it turns out, the idea of creating our Association went hand-in-hand with a need to urgently organize and mobilize patent attorneys in the New York region to respond to a patent crisis. The crisis concerned lack of adequate United States Patent Office funding that hampered the Office’s operations and ability to provide adequate pay to its employees.