Intellectual Property

New Technology

Recorded on: Oct. 17, 2012

Taken from the Web Program Intellectual Property Law Institute 2012 Recorded October, 2012 in San Francisco Trade Secret Update [01:01:30] What do recent convictions, new legislative proposals, and the Second Circuit’s decision in United States v. Aleynikov mean for the Economic Espionage Act? What are best practices for protecting trade secrets in a digital age? How do laws protecting computer systems relate to laws protecting ...

Recorded on: Oct. 16, 2012

SPEAKER 1: Good morning. Welcome to day two and welcome back. Our first presentation this morning is a discussion between two gentlemen, both of whom have been actively involved representing their respective sides of the content delivery industry. One of them representing content providers, the other representing the people who would like to bring you content in various forms and packages. I will make the observation before they start, that since ...

Recorded on: Oct. 16, 2012

ROBERT TAYLOR: With that, I'm going to introduce our first speaker. Professor Nimmer is Dean and Leonard Childs Professor at the University of Houston Law Center. And he is a co-director of the Houston Intellectual Property Information Law Institute. He has a very, very impressive resume. He's been a consultant to the National Science Foundation, the office of legal adviser of the State Department, and is a Fulbright distinguished chair of international ...

Recorded on: Oct. 16, 2012

ROBERT P TAYLOR: Let's come back to order here. I'd like to keep the train running on time as best we can. Our next speaker is Victoria Cundiff, who is the Global Trade Secrets Practice Chair at the Paul Hastings Firm in New York. Victoria has written widely on intellectual property law. She is a guest lecturer at Yale Law School on this subject. She is world renowned, worldwide expert on trade secret law, and she's going to be talking to us about ...

Recorded on: Oct. 16, 2012

ROBERT TAYLOR: Our next speaker is my co-chair, David Bender, who's already been introduced. And David will be talking to us about intellectual property issues that come up in connection with cloud computing. DAVID BENDER: Thanks, Bob. System. Y2K. Next generation. Paradigm shift. Information superhighway, and the latest buzz words or buzz term, cloud computing. What's it all about? Well, let's try and find out. This is where I'd like to go over ...

Course Handbook from the program Outsourcing 2012: Cloud, Innovation and Other Hot Topics, held October, 2012. 

Recorded on: Sep. 20, 2012

C. TUNA: So our first session is on distributing digital content through smartphone apps, managing risk and rewards. I'm not going to read the bios, the full bios, because you have them in your materials. FRANKLIN FINK: What's that? MARY NEWCOMER WILLIAMS: [INAUDIBLE] Think. But there's one called Think New. I think it should be the new. FRANKLIN FINK: Oh, I think we got the wrong one up. It's Think New because we added a slide. C. TUNA: Who's ...

Recorded on: Sep. 20, 2012

CYDNEY A TUNE: Alright, welcome back to those in the room, and to those on the live webcast also, welcome back to you. Before we get started, for those who came late, several people have asked me if I work for PLI because they missed my introduction, so I'm going to take one minute to say I'm Cydney Tune. I'm with the San Francisco office of Pillsbury where I chair the copyright practice and the media and entertainment industry teams. My full bio ...

Recorded on: Sep. 20, 2012

CYDNEY A. TUNE: All right, welcome back. To those in the room and those on the live webcast, thanks for hanging in there with us. And we're down to the final hour. But fasten your seat belts because we're about to hear a lot of really fascinating information. There's a lot to it, and it's very cutting edge. Here to present to us for the litigation update is Ian Ballon. Ian represents internet, technology, entertainment companies, social networks, ...

Recorded on: Sep. 20, 2012

CYDNEY TUNE: All right. So no break right now. But this is a perfect segue into our next topic. Unions and guilds have staked their claim in the new world. And I've had-- people are wondering like, hey, wait a minute. I'm not a Hollywood producer. I'm not a studio. I'm a network. Why should I care about this topic? And what I'm seeing a lot of my clients is that first of all, mobile content creation is sort of the Wild West, right? So you've got ...

Recorded on: Sep. 20, 2012

CYDNEY A. TUNE: I'm going to move right along. I do have a comment during this transition period. I am sure you have probably experienced this same thing, it's on this topic. Whether your client's a publisher, a developer, a company with content, and you're trying to make good terms for the apps, or whatever, and the client always says, yeah, but nobody reads them. What difference does it make what's in there? Nobody reads them. I can't tell you how ...

Released on: Jul. 24, 2012

Taken from the briefing Big Data Business Models recorded June, 2012. The amount of digital information in the world has increased exponentially in recent years, growing at a 60% CAGR, according to IDC.  Big Data refers to this data overload and the challenges (and opportunities) presented in trying to effectively deal with this new reality. Accordingly, the potential Big Data market is vast, estimated at $100 billion in a recent Bank ...

From the program: Cloud Computing 2012: Cut Through the Fluff & Tackle the Critical Stuff

Released on: Jun. 25, 2012

Corporations, government organizations and millions of consumers are shifting massive quantities of data and their software applications to cloud computing facilities.  Cloud computing uses the Internet to give every size organization access to large, dynamically scalable resources (data storage, software applications and computing power).  “The Cloud” allows users, at all levels, to avoid large capital outlays for hardware and ...

Released on: Jun. 26, 2012

Taken from the briefing Smart Grid Privacy and Data Access - An Overview of Recent Federal, State and Private Sector Initiatives recorded June 2012. The rapidly increasing deployment of smart meters is creating a vibrant market for data analytics.  Currently, there are more than 20 states that have smart meter penetration rates in excess of 50 percent.  By 2016, analysts estimate that the advanced meter infrastructure (AMI) ...

From the program: Lawyers' Guide to Using Social Media for Professional and Client Development 2012 (NO CLE)

Released on: Jun. 13, 2012

DVD's from the program Lawyers' Guide to Using Social Media for Professional and Client Development 2012, held May, 2012.

Recorded on: Jun. 12, 2012

JANINE BOWEN: We'll have our next two presenters come up as I'm introducing them. That's a great discussion on contract issues. Now we'll get into just a little more detail on the mock negotiation front. Our first presenter-- and actually I'll just introduce them bot because they'll be tag teaming, I'm sure-- is Christine Lyon. Christine is a partner in the Palo Alto office of Morrison Foerster. Christine's practice focuses on privacy and employment ...

Recorded on: Jun. 12, 2012

TANYA L. FORSHEIT: Hi, everybody. I'm Tanya Forsheit. I'm the co-chair here today. And I'm very pleased to be part of what I think is a fantastic program. And that was a fantastic start with Janine and Rachel. So I want to thank them for getting us off to a fantastic beginning with some overview. What we're going to jump right into-- and we will have a 15 minute break or so after this next presentation, so if everyone can bear with us, we will jump ...

From the program: Advanced Trademark Law Annual Review 2012

Released on: Jun. 12, 2012

DVD's from the program Advanced Trademark Law Annual Review 2012 , held May, 2012.

Recorded on: Jun. 12, 2012

TANYA L. FORSHEIT: Hi everybody. We're going to get started again. We are going to stick right to the schedule. Our next panel-- and this one's going to be a little different in structure, so I'll give you a heads up about that-- but our next panel is going to be on contract issues. We're going to get down into the nitty-gritty of how these various issues play out in the negotiation process. And this will kind of be a two-part situation, because we're ...

Recorded on: Jun. 12, 2012

JANINE BOWEN: Before I begin I will start by introducing my co-presenter, Rachel Evans. Rachel joined Accenture in 2003, and is currently director of legal services, IT offerings, and alliances legal counsel. Her areas of focus include complex IT transactions, cloud computing, open source software, and Software as a Service. Rachel has been an in-house technology lawyer for 18 years, working at IBM and with Siebel Systems prior to joining Accenture. ...

From the program: Advanced Copyright Law Annual Review 2012

Released on: Jun. 11, 2012

DVD's from the program Advanced Copyright Law Annual Review 2012, held April, 2012.

Recorded on: May. 23, 2012

Taken from the Web Program Thirteenth Annual Institute on Privacy and Data Security Law Recorded May, 2012 in San Francisco Clouds without Borders - How to Ensure Privacy and Security in the Cloud [00:59:14] Jurisdictional uncertainties Regulatory compliance concerns in borderless clouds Best practices in selecting services providers Poking holes in your vendor’s privacy and security policies Negotiating effective ...

Recorded on: May. 23, 2012

SPEAKER 1: OK. So we are starting the last afternoon of this seminar with a very exciting presentation on behavioral targeting in online advertising. And it's even more exciting than you thought it was, because we only have one speaker and the second one is delayed. Her flight-- she had a flight issue, so she's on her way. And Liisa is going to do her presentation first, even though it was not planned to be that way, until the second speaker arrives. ...

Recorded on: May. 23, 2012

FRANCOISE GILBERT: OK. So we're back for our cloud computing panel. And I'm delighted to you have with us a really companies who are in entrenched in the cloud business. So I'm going to play the client and they're going to play the cloud providers. So on the very end we have Felix Sterling from Trend Micro. In the middle Lindsey Finch from Salesforce.com. And closest to me is Geff Brown from a Microsoft. So as I was saying you know these companies, ...

From the program: Information Technology Law Institute 2012: Innovations in Apps, E-books, Cybersecurity, Mobile Technology, Privacy and Social Media

Released on: May. 16, 2012

DVD's from the program Information Technology Law Institute 2012: Innovations in Apps, E-books, Cybersecurity, Mobile Technology, Privacy and Social Media, held April 2012.