Intellectual Property

New Technology

Course Handbook for 15th Annual Institute on Intellectual Property Law, an October 2009 program and webcast.

Course Handbook from the program Understanding the Intellectual Property License 2009, held October, 2009.

Course Handbook from Open Source and Free Software 2009: Benefits, Risks and Challenges in Today’s Economic Environment, a November and December 2009 program and webcast.

Course Handbook for Coping with U.S. Export Controls 2009, a December 2009 program.

Recorded on: Jun. 30, 2010

PETER: Okay our next presenters have just told me that but we're going to do the questions at the end. Which is sort of like our first take home quiz, all right? So while I know you'll want to go to lunch at the time, you're going to have to answer the questions before you go to lunch. But that being forewarned, almost every speaker up here has talked about privacy and data security as being one of the critical issues in cloud computing. And we have ...

Recorded on: Jun. 30, 2010

SPEAKER 1: For the first part of the program, Janine Anthony Bowen and Nick Tsilas. Janine is a partner in the Atlanta firm of McKenna, Long, and Aldridge. She has a unique background as a lawyer because she first began her career as an IBM project manager, and then as a senior consultant at Accenture. Now, having returned her career towards practicing law, she focuses her practice on strategic commercial transactions involving technology and intellectual ...

Recorded on: Jun. 30, 2010

PETER BROWN: All right. Welcome back. For all of the people on the web, welcome back as well. We're going to do our turning point questions at the beginning; just want to queue up the issues on jurisdiction. And you'll then hear from Tanya Forsheit and from Mark Wittow. First let me introduce my co-speakers. We're all going to be speaking on litigation issues affected by cloud computing. Tanya is a founding partner of the InfoLawGroup, which is based ...

Recorded on: Jun. 30, 2010

LEONARD NUARA: OK folks. It's 4:00 PM. We're down to our last session. This time we're going to be talking about ethics. For those of you at home just one last reminder, please if you can evaluate us in any manner and form, please send it in to PLI. For those here, please do remember to do the evaluations. And at the end of the day, we have one more session of turning point questions at the end of today's session. And then we please ask you to return ...

Recorded on: Jun. 30, 2010

LEONARD T. NUARA: OK, folks. Welcome back. For those of you that are coming back. For those that are at home, put the phone down, put the paper down. Time to pay attention again. We're going to talk about contracting for cloud computing services. I'm going to moderate a discussion with Todd Machtmes and Mark Radcliffe. We have some slides. There were some slides that were posted last night so you should be able to find the slides. Those here in the ...

Recorded on: Nov. 8, 2010

BILL TANENBAUM: Hello everyone. I'd like to welcome you back to the afternoon session. My name is Bill Tanenbaum. I'm going to be delivering the next presentation. As you can see from the slide, it's entitled Green IT, Water and Sustainability in Outsourcing. I'm going to be addressing those topics. Those of you who have heard me speak before know that I give a disclaimer that what I'm going to say doesn't represent any of the opinions of my firm, ...

Recorded on: Nov. 8, 2010

JOHN: Why don't I introduce you? So we're at end. When Phil and I first got involved working with PLI, we learned very quickly PLI has a secret. I'll let you in on it. You always put the ethics presentation last. Why? Because people have to stay to the end, because everyone wants and needs ethics credit. But we've always, in addition to-- one thing we've wanted to do with the ethics credit is, in addition to generating ethics credit for you, to make ...

Recorded on: Nov. 8, 2010

WILLIAM A. TANENBAUM: Good morning, everyone. My name is Bill Tanenbaum, and John Delaney, our co-chair in New York, and myself would like to welcome you to the second day. Our first presentation this morning is in two parts. The overall topic is Trends, Traps and Emerging Opportunities in Global Sourcing. And as your agenda indicates, we're going to do this in two parts. There'll be a presentation for an hour. Then we'll take a break and then we'll ...

Recorded on: Nov. 8, 2010

SPEAKER 1: Thank you very much, Michael, it was a great presentation. To keep on time, we're going to slide into the next topic, which is privacy. And we are very pleased to have one of the leaders in the data privacy and data protection field, Rebecca Eisner, here to deliver the next speech. Rebecca is a partner in the Chicago office of Mayer Brown. And she works by providing leadership in the business and technology sourcing group. She focuses her ...

Recorded on: Nov. 8, 2010

JOHN DELANEY: We're having a few minor technical difficulties with the PowerPoints, but I'm going to do the introductions. And I think we'll have everything fixed shortly. So the next topic. Welcome back. I hope everyone had a nice lunch session. We're back. We're going to talk about bankruptcy issues in connection with outsourcing. Even if you're not reading the papers, we're in the middle of a huge global recession. And hopefully, we're paying ...

Recorded on: Nov. 8, 2010

SPEAKER 1: Our next session is on pricing and financial structures and outsourcing transactions. And I'm very pleased introduce our two speakers for this topic. The first is Stephen Nordahl. He was a partner in Gibson Dunn in the New York office, and he's a member of the firm's outsourcing transactions practice. In his practice he focuses on information technology, business process, and asset management, and outsourcing transactions, as well as other ...

Recorded on: Nov. 8, 2010

JOHN F. DELANEY: OK. Thank you, Bill, for that presentation. Next up, I'm very happy to introduce George Kimball, who has been a speaker-- I think this is probably the sixth or seventh year we've done this outsourcing conference in New York. And George has been involved with it from the very beginning. And we're very fortunate to have George here. He's speaking on risk allocation, liability limitations, and dispute resolution provisions, and outsourcing ...

Recorded on: Nov. 8, 2010

JOHN DELANEY: We're going to get started. We're in the home stretch. As I mentioned, I wanted to remind everyone to fill out your evaluation. I should say we're told by PLI this is the longest running outsourcing conference devoted to legal issues and outsourcing. I think it's now the eighth or ninth year. We've lost count. BILL: I thought you were talking about today. JOHN DELANEY: Today feels like that. One thing that's made this conference terrific, ...

Recorded on: Nov. 8, 2010

JOHN DELANEY: Should we wait a minute? OK. Good. Tamara Kiwi has already introduced me. I'm John Delaney of Morrison and Foerster's New York office. And I'm co-head of the firm's technology transactions group in New York. We're just going to jump in to the intellectual property discussion. SPEAKER 1: That's intellectual property. JOHN DELANEY: There we go. Good. And a couple of things, housekeeping points before we get started. My slides are in ...

Recorded on: Nov. 8, 2010

BRAD: Talking about our hypothetical this morning. For the next two days, with any luck-- yes. It came up as if by magic. For the next two days, we'll be talking about a company called FunCo. FunCo is a leader in all things frivolous. [LAUGHTER] The core business of FunCo is things-- amusement parks, casinos, movies, entertainment of all types. Now, FunCo is not just a leader in frivolity, of course; because frivolity needs a base around it. And so, ...

Recorded on: Nov. 8, 2010

JOHN F. DELANEY: OK, it's four o'clock, and we're back on. For those of you who have done outsourcing deals, you probably know firsthand how important governance is to a successful outsourcing deal. We're very fortunate to have for this panel discussion four leading experts on governance issues in connection with outsourcing transactions. For those of us in private practice, often we're there to negotiate the deal, and then we leave, we're not there ...

Recorded on: May. 6, 2011

JOSE A. ESTEVES: Welcome back everyone. We're going to get started again. So with the backdrop this morning, we now understand the different monetization techniques. Our next presenter is Ron Laurie who's going to speak to us about the current market in terms of patent and technology monetization. We're lucky to have Ron today. Ron has worked in Silicon Valley since before it had that name, first as a computer programmer and systems engineer, and ...

Recorded on: May. 23, 2011

SPEAKER 1: Well I know what you're going to cover. Our long-term program host, whom I'm proud and honored to replace here today, Ed, who can't be here, is also not being able to give this actual presentation slot. But he sent one of his trusted partners and Greg Caldwell, here, is a partner with Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman up in Oregon. GREGORY CALDWELL: In Portland, yes. SPEAKER 1: And will cover, with us, IP transaction, specifically ...

Recorded on: Jun. 28, 2011

PETER BROWN: Your practice. So without-- this is an introduction. Let me begin our first section, which will be cloud technology and a business overview. We are delighted to have as a returning speaker, Janine Bowen. Janine practices in Atlanta, in her own firm that has a unique name. And Janine's practice focuses on commercial transactions, including technology and intellectual property. She's involved in licensing and acquisition of technology, ...

Recorded on: Jun. 28, 2011

LEONARD T. NUARA: OK folks, we are back. Welcome back. Hopefully you had a nice snack, were able to make a couple of phone calls. We're going to be talking about cloud vendor agreements, the key considerations. And the three of us will be attacking this subject. Peter Brown, you already know. Me, you already know. But Todd Machtmes, he's the assisting general counsel at salesforce.com. His company, Salesforce and force.com their other cloud offering, ...

Recorded on: Jun. 28, 2011

LEONARD NUARA: OK, folks. For those at home, stop making phone calls and pay attention. For those here, we're going to continue. Our next topic is privacy and data security, domestic and international issues. And I have speaking with us today Heidi Salow and Steve Young. Heidi actually is one of my former partners. I used to be at Greenberg Traurig. I have since left, as we announced earlier that I'm at Spring Trading. But Heidi has been handling ...