Washington College of Law JD student Michael J. McLaughlin has won the Corporate Intellectual Property Strategy Conference 2018 Legal Writing Competition!  On November 13, 2018 Competition sponsors, Unified Patents and the Santa Clara High Tech Law Journal awarded Mike $1,500 at the Fifth Annual Corporate IP Strategy Conference in Santa Clara, California.  The Santa Clara High Tech Journal will publish Mike’s essay submission entitled “Computer-Generated Inventions” on artificial intelligence and machine drafting of patent applications.  Mike is a J.D. Candidate for 2019, Senior Managing Editor of the American University Intellectual Property Brief, and a student attorney in the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic who will be joining Foley & Lardner LLP next year.  Congratulations Mike on this well-deserved honor!

(Center right) Michael J. McLaughlin ’19 and (Center left) WCL Alum Jonathan Stroud ’13, Chief IP Counsel at Unified Patents, and WCL Adjunct Professor on November 13^th at the 5^th Annual Corporate IP Strategy Conference in Santa Clara, California.