<br />
Ipls Proceedings<br />
State Bar of Michigan<br />
Volume 36 • Issue 1 • 2025<br />
In This Issue<br />
View from the Chair ......................... 1<br />
Save the Date ................................. 1<br />
Recap of our Successful<br />
2025 IP Spring Seminar ............. 2<br />
Changing Landscape<br />
of Data Privacy .......................... 4<br />
Redefining Design<br />
Patent Obviousness:<br />
Early Consequences of LKQ.... 10<br />
2025 USPTO Trademark<br />
Fee Changes .......................... 12<br />
Social Media ................................. 14<br />
View from the Chair<br />
It’s hard to believe that we are already well into Q2 of 2025. We hope that<br />
this latest issue of the IPLS Proceedings finds our readers ready for the winter to<br />
(finally!) be over, and to welcome the spring and summer seasons with open arms.<br />
We in the IP<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol. 36, No. 1 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/730cf1e8?page=1"> Ipls Proceedings State Bar of Mi</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol. 36, No. 1 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/730cf1e8?page=2"> Intellectual Property Law Section 2024-2025 Of</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol. 36, No. 1 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/730cf1e8?page=3"> The pre-lunch hour was devoted to audience </a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol. 36, No. 1 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/730cf1e8?page=4"> IP Council members in attendance at the 2025 IP S</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol. 36, No. 1 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/730cf1e8?page=5"> On the face of it, these laws may appear si</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol. 36, No. 1 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/730cf1e8?page=6"> Act (HIPAA); Family Educational Rights and Privac</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol. 36, No. 1 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/730cf1e8?page=7"> But given the potential risks of data breac</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol. 36, No. 1 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/730cf1e8?page=8"> About the Authors </a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol. 36, No. 1 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/730cf1e8?page=9"> Endnotes 1 California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol. 36, No. 1 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/730cf1e8?page=10"> Redefining Design Patent Obviousness: Early Conse</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol. 36, No. 1 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/730cf1e8?page=11"> that the mere similarity between the prior art re</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol. 36, No. 1 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/730cf1e8?page=12"> 23 35 U.S.C. §§ 311, 314(a). 24 Next Step, 2024 W</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol. 36, No. 1 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/730cf1e8?page=13"> *Note: The below fees are illustrative; for a com</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol. 36, No. 1 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/730cf1e8?page=14"> Robyn Lederman is a trademark attorney who</a>