11-Hour Program

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Overview

Why you should attend

PLI’s Intellectual Property Law Institute is a “must-attend” program for IP lawyers. This program provides a complete analysis of key events in all areas of IP, providing updates on cases, legislation and government agency developments that IP lawyers need to know.

A highlight of the program will be a panel of in-house IP counsel from prominent companies discussing the many facets of current interest for dealing with IP and suggesting some best practices and strategies. Plenary sessions will treat the antitrust-IP interface; whether copyright has become untethered from its constitutional moorings; the interplay among trade dress, design patents, and copyright (and what happened in Apple v. Samsung); trade secrets developments; recent developments in privacy law; a trademark law update; and ethics (one full hour credit).

This year’s program will feature four breakout sessions, each with three current topics that will focus respectively on copyrights, licensing, patents, and trademarks. Among the breakout topics will be discussions of IP licensing in the US, India, and Europe (including developments in the European unitary patent); effects of the AIA on both prosecution and litigation; a copyright update and discussion of grey market law; aesthetic functionality; and trademark licenses in bankruptcy.

What you will learn

  • The latest changes in the law of patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets
  • The interplay among trade dress, design patents, and copyright (against the background of Apple v. Samsung)
  • Developments at the IP-antitrust interface
  • Perceptible effects of the AIA
  • Whether copyright is drifting away from its constitutional basis
  • Updates in privacy law, and why they affect your clients
  • Significant trade secret developments
  • Trademark updates
Special Features
  • In-house panel providing guidance on managing IP
  • Four separate breakouts
  • Complete overview of IP law
  • Earn one hour of Ethics credit

Who should attend

General practitioners, intellectual property attorneys, in-house counsel and others who need a comprehensive update on the major areas of intellectual property law. Join Institute co-chairs, David Bender and Robert P. Taylor and a faculty of distinguished intellectual property practitioners from major corporations and law firms at this year’s Institute. Don’t miss this once a year opportunity to learn from the best and to network with in-house and outside intellectual property lawyers from around the world. In just two days, you will become up to date on many of the important intellectual property developments, learn best practices in a variety of practice settings, hear best practices to maximize the value of intellectual property assets, and earn ethics credit too!

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