Annual Conference on Intellectual Property Law 2026

The 2026 conference takes place at The Center for American and International Law in Plano, Texas.

The audience includes intellectual property lawyers, ILT-affiliated members, government and nonprofit employees, law professors, and law students.

It is most useful for practicing IP lawyers who want a two-day review of the year's developments and emerging issues, since the program is the ILT flagship and speakers come from firms such as Baker Botts and McKool Smith as well as in-house counsel at the Dallas Cowboys and Duke Motorsports. Lawyers outside IP, or those needing a national exhibit-style event, would get less, as the audience is IP counsel and the roster leans toward Texas firms.

Lawyers at IP law conferences usually wear business attire or conservative business casual, with suits or blazers common. Law students and academics attending typically dress similarly, in business casual.