Creepy IP: An IP Networking Halloween Bash

Sign up to be part of the fun on Wednesday, October 28, 5-7 p.m. ET, at the D.C. Bar and present your search results for the creepiest patent. IPRally will display your patent publication, and you will have 2 minutes to persuade the audience to vote for your patent publication as the creepiest!

IP practitioners can enter one creepy patent; students can enter up to 2 creepy patents. Please use a separate form for each entry.

We'll cap the number of entries at 15. If you don't sign up in advance using this form, you may be able to enter the contest at the event, provided that we have not reached our entry cap. IPRally will be available for your use at the event, but all searching must be completed by contest time at 5:30 p.m.

All patent documents entered into the contest must be publicly accessible!

The deadline to enter in advance (via this survey) is midnight on Tuesday, October 27, 2026 or until we reach 15 registrations, whichever comes first!

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1. What is your name?

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3. Enter the patent publication number you will be using.

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4. Are you an IP practitioner, a student, an inventor, or ...?

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5. How did you find your creepy patent publication? (Google Patents, Patent Public Search, IPRally, another search tool?....or was it in your geeky stash of favorite patents?)

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6. What part of the patent publication is the creepiest? (e.g., What FIGURE(s) would you like IPRally to display for your presentation?)

Presented by the D.C. Bar IP Law Community in collaboration with AIPLA AM26. Special thanks to our program sponsor, IPRally!

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