Committee of the Year Award
IPO has awarded a committee of the year for standing IP committees since 2004. For more committee info, visit the committee overview page.
- 2025 – to be announced at the 2025 IPO Annual Meeting
- 2024 – US Patent Office Practice
- 2023 – Artificial Intelligence and New Emerging Technologies
- 2022 – European Practice
- 2021 – Diversity & Inclusion
- 2020 – Asian Practice
- 2019 – Industrial Designs and Litigation
- 2018 – International Patent Law & Trade and U.S. Post-Grant Patent Office Practice
- 2017 – Asian Practice and U.S. Patent Office Practice
- 2016 – Copyright Law & Anti-Piracy and Women in IP
- 2015 – U.S. Post-Grant Patent Office Practice
- 2014 – European Practice and U.S. Patent Law
- 2013 – Litigation and US Patent Office Practice
- 2012 – Industrial Designs and International Patent Law & Trade
- 2011 – Standards Setting and Trade Secrets
- 2010 – U.S. Trademark Law
- 2009 – Corporate IP Management and Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology Issues
- 2008 – IP Licensing and Genetic Resources & Traditional Knowledge
- 2007 – Damages
- 2006 – Asian Practice and Industrial Designs
- 2005 – Trademark Office Practice and Amicus Brief
- 2004 – U.S. Patent Office Inter Partes Proceedings