12-Hour Program

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Overview

Why you should attend

Intellectual property licensing continues to grow increasingly complex. The legal, regulatory and technical landscape is constantly evolving. Building and maintaining a successful and effective practice requires that practitioners stay sharp and current in a wide variety of key areas. Whether utilized to develop technology, expand or create market opportunities, or generate returns from existing assets, managing complex licensing transactions requires a broad and varied toolkit. Additionally, whether licensing patents, copyrights, trade secrets or trademarks, the ability to structure, draft and negotiate complex license agreements is critical to a successful transaction. This program is designed to address the more complex and practical issues that arise in drafting and negotiating IP licenses, as well as tips for specific industries. This program will feature updates on current legal developments, present case studies highlighting best practices, provide tactical guidance for negotiating frequently contested issues, and provide a framework for identifying and avoiding common pitfalls, keeping the relationship on track, litigation planning and avoidance, and addressing ethics concerns. The speakers will illustrate both outside counsel and in-house perspectives.

What you will learn

  • Best practices for patent and technology licensing
  • Guidance for strategic alliances and other joint development agreements
  • Pointers on copyright, content, and trademark licensing
  • Open source issues and software licensing
  • Guidelines for trade secret licensing
  • Navigating issues in life sciences licensing
  • Practice tips for rights of publicity licensing
  • Addressing international licensing issues
  • Accounting for litigation risks
  • Managing indemnification issues
  • Case law update
  • Mastering effective negotiation strategies
  • Special considerations raised by cloud computing
Special Features
  • New: Addressing patent exhaustion in negotiations and drafting
  • In-depth panel discussion of a complex technology license
  • Mock negotiation of a complex content license
  • Breakouts to meet your practice needs
  • Earn one hour of Ethics credit

Who should attend

This advanced program is focused on those who already have experience in the substantive area of intellectual property law, and who devote a substantial amount of their practice to licensing.

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