April, 2012

Intellectual Property

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

Recorded on: Apr. 4, 2012

MARC S. ROTH: OK, I want to thank everybody for coming back into the room after the brief break. And now into the final session of the day, which I think most people are very anxious to hear about. I know I am. With respect to ethics in the electronic world, you always question whether or not, when you get an email in error, whether that little footer at the bottom that says, do not open this, do not read it under penalty of law, what the real implications ...

Recorded on: Apr. 4, 2012

PETER BROWN: Well, welcome back. It's terrific to see you all back here. For those of you not in San Francisco, the weather report this morning is sunny, bright, and typically cool. All of my friends when they say, oh, you're going to California to San Francisco, they think I should wear my t-shirts and shorts. Instead I wore my sweater and jacket, but it's still quite lovely and bright here in San Francisco this morning. And for those of you who ...

Recorded on: Apr. 4, 2012

MARC ROTH: OK. Is that good? All right. I want to thank everyone for returning to the room for the second session of our program. I'm very excited about the next program. It's actually one of the topics that gave rise to the agenda for this year's program, 2012 Information Technology, having to do with contracting issues for technology in the modern era. There's a lot of information that needs to be considered when contacting for these types of technologies. ...

Recorded on: Apr. 4, 2012

PETER BROWN: Ready? OK, we had a quick change. And we're ready to go. You never have to know anything about patent law, until it hits your client. And then you've all of a sudden got to be an expert on patent law. And the typical way that these issues arise is you're happily working at your corporate office. And the general counsel or the CEO of the company gets a nasty letter from an entity that they've never heard of who says if they own a patent ...

Recorded on: Apr. 4, 2012

SPEAKER 1: --a lot more knowledge. Let me now introduce our first two speakers, who will be talking about the transformational force of ebooks on the publishing industry. The first of the two speakers is Suzanne Bell, who is a partner at the Wilson Sonsini firm here in the Valley, who is involved with technology transactional matters. She does a wide variety of technology and IP transactions involving complex strategic alliances, outsourcing for ...

Recorded on: Apr. 4, 2012

PETER BROWN: All right. Welcome back. We are now going to go into sort of my favorite topic, my scariest topic, the one where I know all the questions and none of the answers. And where frankly, even our expert panel will tell you that there are some answers, but not a perfect answer. In the world of computer hacking. This is a topic of enormous concern to everyone from the smallest company and corporation to government entities, and particularly ...

Recorded on: Apr. 4, 2012

PETER BROWN: All right, students, let's get back together again. I hope you all had a good lunch. And for those at home I hope by now you're out of your pajamas, got a shower, and have also enjoyed a good lunch. We had a very lively set of programs this morning, a lot of very useful information. We hope to continue that this afternoon. As lawyers we can't avoid litigation. We're trying not to talk too much about it today. But litigation is part of ...

Recorded on: Apr. 4, 2012

MARC ROTH: OK. I'd like to thank everyone for coming back into the room and those of you who are on the Web, thank you for coming back and joining us for now the last session of the program, which I think has been very, very informative and exciting the past day and a half, and will now culminate in a terrific program on e-discovery. I actually think this program also kind of like wraps up, this one session wraps up a lot of the issues we've been ...

Recorded on: Apr. 4, 2012

MARC S. ROTH: We'd like to thank everyone for coming back in the room. If anyone is out in the lobby and hallway please make your way back inside to the session. We'd like to get started and attempt to try to stay on track for timing here. I was introduced earlier. I'm Marc Roth I'm with Manatt Phelps and Phillips. I also want to introduce two of my colleagues and co-panelists for our Social Media Issues in Technology. Sitting to my immediate right ...

Course Handbook from the program Developments in Pharmaceutical and Biotech Patent Law 2012, held April, 2012.

Recorded on: Apr. 9, 2012

DANIEL L. REISNER: Our second session is going to cover major decisions in the past year, including pending Supreme Court and Federal Circuit en banc petitions. Our speaker is Mr. Ben Hsing, a partner of mine at Kaye Scholer. He's been practicing in the area of patent litigation for the past 20 years. His practice includes patent litigation before US District Courts, the US international Trade Commission, and the Federal Circuit. His clients include ...

Recorded on: Apr. 9, 2012

DAVID K. BARR: Good afternoon, everyone. We're going to beginning the afternoon session right now. Hello, once again I'm David Barr. I'm the co-chair with Dan Reisner for today's program and just want to give you a brief overview of what we're going to be doing this afternoon before I get into my talk. I'm going to be talking about some recent developments that I'm sure you're all aware of in Section 101, patentable subject matter, including decisions ...

Recorded on: Apr. 9, 2012

DANIEL L. REISNER: So I'd like to thank Ian and Dean for their excellent presentation on the AIA and their in-house counsel and patent prosecution perspective. We're going to start the next hour session on the AIA. First, I'm going to answer a couple of questions that we got from the web at the end of the last hour. Then we're going to try some new technology here, and going to poll all of you on your views on the AIA, and then we'll go into my presentation. DAVID ...

Recorded on: Apr. 9, 2012

DANIEL L. REISNER: Our next two speakers on the AIA are from Pfizer. Dean Olson has over 25 years experience as a patent lawyer. He joined Pfizer in 1989 and is currently assistant general counsel with responsibility for numerous therapeutic areas. Mr. Olson has also been a product patent attorney with Pfizer covering many products, including Caduet, Norvasc, and Viagra. Prior to joining Pfizer, Mr. Olson was employed at United Technologies Corporation ...

Recorded on: Apr. 9, 2012

DAVID BARR: I have the pleasure to introduce two distinguished attorneys to discuss the Therasense case in the first segment of our program. The first speaker will be Janet Linn. [? Janet Linn ?] is a member of Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, concentrating on intellectual property litigation, counseling, and opinion work. Janet's practice covers the full range of intellectual property law, including patent, trade secrets, trademark, and unfair competition. In ...

Course Handbook from the program IP Monetization 2012: Maximize the Value of Your IP Assets, held April, 2012.

Recorded on: Apr. 13, 2012

ROY MAHARAJ: So for this panel, we're going to be focused on implementing a patent monetization program. And we have three panelists. We have Abha Divine. Abha is the founder and managing director of Techquity Capital Management, an intellectual property investment firm devoted to unlocking value from innovation. Prior to Techquity, Miss Divine launched AT&T Knowledge Ventures, overseeing the worldwide IP portfolio for the AT&T family of ...

Recorded on: Apr. 13, 2012

JOSE ESTEVES: Do we start? It's 3:59. OK folks, we're going to get started with our last segment of the day. And the focus of this panel is Hot Topics, a closer look at a number of the key IP monetization developments. And we have a great panel lined up for you. First, to my immediate right, is Kimberly Chotkowski. Kimberly is a licensing executive with ATLC, Inc., a firm that specializes in assisting clients in maximizing the financial return on ...

Recorded on: Apr. 13, 2012

JOSE A. ESTEVES: All right, folks. We're going to get started with the afternoon program. So for the next hour, we're going to be talking about current developments in the IP monetization marketplace. And the goal of this hour is to bring together a lot of what we've learned through the day so far and tie it into the current state of the marketplace for the different types of monetization techniques. And the way that we've structured it is that Clarke ...

Recorded on: Apr. 13, 2012

JOSE A. ESTEVES: OK, we're going to go ahead and get started. During this hour we've got two presentations. We've got one by Sally Abel on trademark monetization. And Eddie Stone will be speaking on litigation financing. Sally is a partner at Fenwick & West LLP, a law firm specializing in technology and life science matters, as I'm sure you all know. And she is chair of the firm's trademark group. She focuses on international trademark and trade ...

Recorded on: Apr. 13, 2012

ANNOUNCER: Give me a moment. I need my notes. So as I mentioned earlier, this segment we've got two presenters. And they are presenting on patent law developments. We have Victoria Maroulis. Victoria is a partner in the Silicon Valley office of Quinn Emanuel. And is co-chair of the firm's national life sciences practice. Her practice primarily focuses on IP litigation. And she has litigated and provided counseling for companies on a broad range of ...

Recorded on: Apr. 13, 2012

JOSE A. ESTEVES: Again we think it'll be a great program. And again, we appreciate your being here and taking time out of your day to participate. So with that, I will introduce Mark. Mark is a partner in DLA Piper's Silicon Valley office. He focuses his practice on strategic intellectual property advice, private financings, corporate partnering, software licensing and internet licensing, and copyright and trademark issues. Many leading international, ...

Course Handbook from the program Fundamentals of Patent Litigation 2012, held April, 2012.

Published: April 2012
Last Updated: April 2013