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Intellectual Property

From the program: IP Enforcement and Litigation 2013: Criminal and Civil Update

Released on: Feb. 15, 2013

This program is designed to bring you up to date on both civil and criminal enforcement efforts of intellectual property.  From the physical world to the internet, brands are not only building their intellectual property, but are heavily protecting it.  In today’s billion dollar industry of infringement and piracy, it is critical to protect IP rights.  This program will place you in a better position to think outside of the box ...

Released on: Feb. 1, 2013

Taken from the briefing America Invents Act Pro Bono Program for Inventors and Small Businesses recorded January, 2013. The America Invents Act (AIA) requires that the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) work with local intellectual property (IP) organizations across the country in establishing pro bono patent application services for inventors and small businesses. Since the passage of this bill, four pro bono programs ...

From the program: Patent Law Institute (7th Annual)

Released on: Apr. 2, 2013

The Institute is designed to be of ultimate practice value to all three subgroups in the patent law community: patent prosecutors, patent litigators, and strategic/transactional lawyers.Do not miss this unique opportunity to sharpen your practice skills and network with federal judges, USPTO officials, in-house counsel and outside patent lawyers.Lecture Topics  [Total time 12:46:15] Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only with the purchase ...

From the program: Broadband and Cable Industry Law 2013

Recorded on: Feb. 5, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Broadband and Cable Industry Law 2013 recorded January, 2013 in New York. Lecture Topics  [01:09:12] Privacy  [01:09:12] What privacy issues are raised by behavioral and targeted advertising (video and Internet)? What type of customer consent should be required for participation? Do advanced set-top boxes raise any new privacy issues? Does the migration of set-top box functions to the ...

From the program: Defending Privacy and Behavioral Advertising Class Action Suits 2013: What Every Litigator and In-House Lawyer Needs to Know

Released on: Feb. 5, 2013

Over the past two years there has been an explosion of new lawsuits filed focused on the alleged disclosure of identifying information in connection with the use of  social networks, social gaming, mobile phones, apps, and other mobile and web-based technologies and in connection with behavioral advertising and the use of pixels, beacons, cookies and other persistent identifiers.  Like patent troll suits and stock drop cases, being sued ...

From the program: Social Media 2013: Addressing Corporate Risks

Released on: Feb. 20, 2013

Did you know that Facebook now has one billion active users? (By contrast, the entire population of the United States is 310 million people.) Or that Facebook accounts for over ten percent of all U.S. web traffic? And that over 250 million photographs are posted to Facebook each day? Or that Twitter users are expected to send over 91 billion tweets during 2012? And that over four billion videos are viewed per day on YouTube? Facebook, Twitter, ...

Released on: Feb. 6, 2013

Taken from the briefing Art of the Deal 2.0 - Web 2.0 Issues in Technology Acquisitions recorded January, 2013. Web 2.0 has introduced a new breed of assets to the 21st century.  M&A lawyers who once sold plant and equipment, then trademarks, copyrights, and patents, now need to be expert in the acquisition of these elusive assets.  Yet practice in this area has yet to adapt to Friends, Channels, and App Ratings.  This briefing ...

Recorded on: Feb. 6, 2013

AMY TAUB: Hello. My name is Amy Taub and I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, "Art of the Deal, Web 2.0 Issues in Technology Acquisitions." Before I begin, I have some administrative announcements. This briefing will be one hour in length. Please feel free to send questions at any time during the briefing. Please remember that you have access to materials for this briefing via the course handbook ...

Recorded on: Feb. 8, 2013

JOHN DELANEY: OK, we're back. A couple of housekeeping matters. As I mentioned at the beginning, we look forward to your feedback. Let us know what you like. Let us know about other topics that we can cover next year. We hope to have you back next year. So if you have thoughts about other issues you're seeing in your own practice that we haven't been able to touch upon in a day long conference, we'd love to hear about it. So please fill out the evaluation ...

Recorded on: Feb. 8, 2013

JOHN DELANEY: So next up, we have Andrew Serwin, who is the executive director and CEO of the Lares Institute and the founding chair of Foley & Lardner privacy practice. He is an internationally-recognized thought leader regarding information and its role in the global economy. And he's handled some of the leading matters before the federal trade commission, in information security, COPPA-- which we just heard a little bit about-- social media, ...

Recorded on: Feb. 8, 2013

JOHN DELANEY: OK, I'm very pleased to introduce Lisa Oratz, who's an attorney at Perkins Cole, where she focuses on technology, intellectual property, entertainment, and social media law. She counsels companies on internet and new media issues, including content liability, privacy, intellectual property rights, online agreements, which we just talked about, social media policies, which we'll hear more about later today, licensing, distribution, marketing, ...

Recorded on: Feb. 8, 2013

JOHN DELANEY: We're back. I hope everyone had a nice lunch break. As I mentioned before the break, we're going to be talking about mobile apps and related legal issues. And we're fortunate to have two speakers on this topic. They're going to speak not as a group but separately. But I'll introduce them both now. Speaking first will be to my farthest right Cynthia Tune, who is senior counsel at Pillsbury's San Francisco office, where she leads the ...

Recorded on: Feb. 8, 2013

JOHN F. DELANEY: Every year, I kind of provide an overview of some of the topics that we're not going to cover in depth later in the conference, and also touch on some of the hot issues and new cases that have come out since we last got together. And also I want to start by just highlighting the explosive growth of social media. So on slide two is a quick roadmap of what I'll be covering over the next hour. As mentioned, I want to step back from ...

Recorded on: Feb. 8, 2013

JOHN DELANEY: I think we're back. Next topic up is drafting and updating social media policies and guidelines. And one thing I will say. So much has happened in this area of the law since we last met a year ago that I can say with quite some confidence that, if your company hasn't updated its social media policy or guidelines in the past year, they're probably out of date, just because so much has happened in this area. And we're very fortunate to ...

Recorded on: Feb. 11, 2013

Taken from the briefing Making Sense of the New HIPAA/HITECH Era recorded February, 2013. After waiting for almost four years, the Department of Health and Human Services has now released its “Omnibus” final regulation implementing the HITECH requirements of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules.  These regulations will impact in significant ways every health care company, their business partners, and the downstream partners ...

From the program: Trade Secrets 2013: What Every IP Attorney Should Know

Released on: Feb. 26, 2013

The "Big Three" categories of intellectual property are patents, copyrights and trademarks, but just as valuable is the fourth category of trade secrets.  If you work at a technology company or other company that creates or works with industry trade secrets - or if you counsel such a company - this course will teach you what you need to know to protect your valuable assets. Lecture Topics  [Total time 06:12:55] Segments ...

Recorded on: Feb. 12, 2013

KATHLEEN E. MCCARTHY: Our next presentation is an update on trademark enforcement, and we will provide an update on three different topics-- dilution, the new gTLD program, and anti-counterfeiting. And we're lucky to have on our panel three very qualified speakers to address these topics. I'm going to introduce everybody now at the beginning so we can go smoothly from presentation to presentation. The first presentation is by Siegrun Kane, who is ...

Recorded on: Feb. 12, 2013

KATHLEEN E. MCCARTHY: Welcome back, everyone. We're starting off the afternoon with copyright enforcement update where we're going to get two experts here talking about fair use, gray goods, and computer software protection issues in the copyright area. The first speaker is Dale Cendali who's a partner at Kirkland and who has argued before the supreme court not once, but twice, won the Harry Potter Lexicon case in a trial that was hotly followed and ...

Recorded on: Feb. 12, 2013

BRIAN W. BROKATE: It's my pleasure to introduce this next panel on Blatant Infringement. When you see them, what do you do with them? By now, everybody knows Katie McCarthy, one of the two prominent McCarthys in the trademark field. I understand there's another one who's Professor Tom. Is that right, Siegrun? But certainly Katie McCarthy has really made a tremendous name for herself in this area and in terms of IP enforcement as well. To Katie's ...

Recorded on: Feb. 14, 2013

SPEAKER 1: Welcome back everyone from the break. This is our final session of the day. Last but certainly not least, we've saved some of the best for the last. I'll be very brief, and we'll just get rolling. But I'm going to introduce Sharon Sandeen, professor Sandeen again. She was with us very early this morning and gave us the trade secret crash course. And she's going to talk with a wonderful panel about best practices at home and abroad regarding ...

Recorded on: Feb. 14, 2013

P. ANTHONY SAMMI: We're going to move into our next panel, which is Controlling Costs and Litigation-- Experts and Damages panel. We've got a wonderful panel lined up for you. I'll let them get situated. And I'll introduce them one by one. First, the closest to me is Dan Jackson. Next to Dan Jackson is Chris Gerardi and then Dan Cooper is at the end. I'll start with Dan Jackson. Dan Jackson is at Alex Partners. He has more than 30 years of experience ...

Recorded on: Feb. 14, 2013

ANTHONY SAMMI: Professor Sandeen is a professor of law at Hamline University School of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where she teaches a variety of intellectual property law courses. She did practice, in private practice, for 15 years in Sacramento, California before becoming a professor. She is published several articles, several books, and a lot of material on trade secrets, and intellectual property, in general. We're very pleased to have Professor ...

Recorded on: Feb. 14, 2013

P. ANTHONY SAMMI: Welcome back from the break everyone. We're going to get started on our next session. Welcome back from the break we're going to get started on our next section. So far today we've talked a lot about the definition of trade secrets, what clients and entities can do to protect their trade secrets. And throughout the morning we've been touching on litigation, and it's come up here and there in various comments. My session today is ...

Recorded on: Feb. 14, 2013

P. ANTHONY SAMMI: So let me just jump right into the next panel. This is entitled, Protecting Your Clients' Trade Secrets. And we've got two wonderful gentlemen with us here today. One is David Garrett. And one is David Klausner. There are two Davids. David is obviously closer to me, David Garrett. And David Klausner is on the other side. Let me introduce them briefly. David Garrett is managing director and head of Stroz Friedberg's San Francisco ...

Recorded on: Feb. 26, 2013

AMY TAUB: Hello, my name is Amy Taub and I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, "Making Sense of the New HIPAA/HITECH Era." Before we begin, I have some administrative announcements. This briefing will be one hour in length. Please feel free to send questions at any time during the briefing. Please remember that you have access to materials for this briefing via the course handbook tab in the program ...