Topic: Top Trends in IP Litigation Date:  Thursday, September 18, 2025 Time:  12:00pm – 1:00pm Location:  Rutan & Tucker, LLP 18575 Jamboree Rd 9th Floor, Irvine, CA 92612 Registration:Member: $35.00Non-Member: $60.00Student Member: $20.00   SPEAKER Meredith Williams (Sivakumar) Meredith Williams is a Partner at Rutan & Tucker, LLP, where she focuses on representing and advising clients in protecting their intellectual property rights. Meredith’s practice emphasizes trademark and copyright litigation, trade secret misappropriation, false advertising, and unfair competition, and she advises clients on how best to promote and defend their brands and other IP assets given novel legal issues raised by social media and advances in technology. Her experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants in federal and state court, in ex parte and inter partes proceedings before the USPTO and TTAB, and in domain name dispute and other takedown procedures gives Meredith a variety of tools to assist clients in both enforcing and defending their rights.

Topic:  Trade Secrets Litigation: Avoiding Trouble, and Fighting When It's Unavoidable Date:  Tuesday, October 21, 2025 Time:  12:00pm – 1:00pm Location:  Knobbe Martens 2040 Main Street, Irvine, CA 92614 Registration:Member: $35.00Non-Member: $60.00Student Member: $20.00 Parking Included   SPEAKER Matt is a trial and appellate lawyer representing clients in complex business and intellectual property disputes. Prior to founding the firm, Matt practiced law for seven years in international law firms. Matt has written a number of articles on business litigation and co-authors California’s leading treatises on state and federal trial practice. In law school, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Minnesota Law Review. He is currently a co-author of the Rutter Guides on California Civil Trials and Evidence and California Federal Civil Trials and Evidence (both of which are published by Thomson Reuters).  

Topic: The Cutting Edge of AI Use in IP Legal Practice Date:  Thursday, November 13, 2025 Time:  12:00pm – 1:00pm Location: Fish & Richardson 4695 MacArthur Ct #1100 Newport Beach, CA 92660 Registration:Member: $55.00Non-Member: $80.00Student Member: $20.00 Parking included   PANELISTS Arjun Sivakumar, Partner at Brown Rudnick Kyre Stucklin, eDiscovery Manager at Rutan & Tucker MODERATOR Tyler Train, Principal at Fish & Richardson Arjun Sivakumar, Partner at Brown Rudnick Arjun Sivakumar is a first-chair trial attorney who focuses on complex commercial litigation in state and federal courts and arbitration tribunals. He has successfully represented individuals and companies in disputes involving technology, real estate, and business process outsourcing (BPO) companies. He has significant experience litigating fraud, breach of contract, and other business and financial disputes. His expertise extends to the intersection of law and technology, as he is the Co-chair of the OCBA’s AI and Technology Committee and the Annual AI Symposium. He has spoken numerous times on the topic of AI in legal practice locally, statewide, and internationally, and in 2025, he was the winner of the Excellence in Litigation & Artificial Intelligence Award at the Bespoke Global Litigation Summit. Tyler Train, Principal at Fish & Richardson Tyler Train’s practice […]

You're Invited! We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the OCIPLA 2025 Holiday Celebration on Thursday, December 18, 2025. Join us in the courtyard at The Boardwalk for an evening of holiday cheer. The event will take place from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., with a brief program at 7 p.m. (thanking our sponsors, welcoming our new Board members, and handing off the epic President’s sombrero). Drinks and Soho Tacos dinner (tacos, beans, rice, & chips) will be served.The event will be held outdoors, so please dress accordingly; in case of rain, we will share indoor arrangements. Member tickets are $15. Non-member and guest tickets are $25. We look forward to seeing everyone there. OCIPLA Board of Directors Event Details DATE: Thursday, December 18, 2025 TIME: 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. LOCATION: The Boardwalk - Courtyard: 18575 Jamboree Rd., Irvine, CA 92612 REGISTRATION: Member: $15.00 Non-Member: $25.00 Guest: $25.00