IIT Chicago Kent College of Law associate professor Mickie Voges-Piatt was named to the board of directors for The Center for Intellectual Property Understanding.Founded in 2016, the center is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness of intellectual property rights and how they impact lives.Piatt is co-director of both the intellectual property law program at Chicago-Kent and of IIT’s IP management and markets programs.• The Illinois Trial Lawyers Association announced this year …