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Bruce M. Berman is founder and chairman of the Center for Intellectual Property Understanding, an independent non-profit that raises awareness about the impact of IP rights on people and business. CIPU provides outreach within an educational framework to improve IP literacy, promote freedom of ideas and deter theft. CIPU holds events, such as the annual IP Awareness Summit, publishes research reports and engages in strategic partnerships with organizations, educators and IP owners.

Berman is Managing Director of Brody Berman Associates, a management consulting and communications firm that works with innovative businesses, service providers and investors. Since 1988, Brody Berman has provided more than 120 companies and creators, with messaging, litigation and transaction support, as well as more than 80 law firms and their clients.

Berman is responsible for five books about the business of IP, including 'From Ideas to Assets'. His Intangible Investor column, a regular feature on IP Watchdog, appeared in every issue of IAM magazine from 2003 to 2019. IP CloseUp, a weekly update on trends that he publishes, has generated more than 295,000 visits and is read in more than 50 countries. Berman, who has mentored entrepreneurs in Kenya, Colorado Springs and Uganda, holds a masters’ degree in cinema studies from Columbia University, where he taught for four years in the graduate program and completed curriculum and comprehensive requirements for the Ph.D.