PLI’s
Intellectual Property Law Institute is a “must” 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 is 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 features 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.
Lecture Topics [Total time 011:46:55]
Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only with the purchase of the entire program.
- Program Overview* [00:05:22]
Robert P. Taylor
- Protecting Designs: How do Design Patent, Copyright, and Trade Dress Intersect? [01:04:14]
Raymond T. Nimmer
- Developments in Privacy and Data Protection [01:02:54]
David Bender
- Has Copyright Become Untethered from its Constitutional Moorings? [01:04:35]
Andrew P. Bridges
- Breakouts: Copyright/Licensing [01:30:50]
William Sloan Coats, Lateef Mtima, Charan J. Sandhu, Daryl W. Fairbairn, Amy L. Toro, David Bender
- Breakouts: Patent/Trademark [01:29:15]
Helen Hill Minsker, Robert Greene Sterne, I. Neel Chatterjee, Jennifer Sklenar, Anne Hiaring Hocking, Philip S. Warden, Jon E. Wright
- Continuing Turmoil at the Interface of Intellectual Property and Antitrust Law [00:59:45]
Robert P. Taylor
- Trade Secrets Update [01:00:20]
Victoria A. Cundiff
- Trademark Hot Topics [00:59:45]
Karen Frank
- Corporate Counsel Panel: Hot Topics and Best Practices [01:29:20]
Marta Y. Beckwith, Dana W. Hayter, Steve Bené, Jean I. Liu, M.S., J.D., Niklas Ostman
- IP Lawyer Ethical Issues [01:00:35]
Merri A. Baldwin
The purchase price of this Web Program includes the following articles from the Course Handbook available online:
- The Law Relating to Product Design: How Design Patents, Trade Dress and Copyright Interact
Raymond T. Nimmer
- Privacy Law Developments—2013 (June 5, 2013)
David Bender
- The Constitutional Provision Respecting Copyright
Andrew P. Bridges
- Copyright and “Limited Times”
Andrew P. Bridges
- “To Promote the Progress of Science and Useful Arts”
Andrew P. Bridges
- Commerce Clause-Based Technology Regulation Through “Paracopyright” Legislation
Andrew P. Bridges
- Treaty Powers and Trade Agreements
Andrew P. Bridges
- Current Issues in Indian IP Licensing
Charan J. Sandhu
- Intellectual Property and Due Diligence Issues in Cloud Computing, Big Data and Social Business
William A. Tanenbaum
- Using Business Goals to Determine IP Ownership in Outsourcing Agreements
William A. Tanenbaum
- Drafting Outsourcing IP License Grants: Offensive and Defensive Considerations With Sample Provisions
William A. Tanenbaum
- Recent Interesting Copyright Cases
William Sloan Coats
- Copyright Grey Markets: The Impact of Kirtsaeng v. Wiley
Lateef Mtima
- Database Protection: Issues and Solutions
G. Gervaise Davis, III, J. (Jay) T. Westermeier
- Database Protection: Issues and Solutions (September 9, 2013) (PowerPoint Slides)
G. Gervaise Davis, III, J. (Jay) T. Westermeier
- Developments in the Jurisprudence of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Joseph P. Lavelle
- Big New Cases in Intellectual Property (October 7, 2013)
I. Neel Chatterjee
- Intellectual Property Update (PowerPoint Slides)
I. Neel Chatterjee
- Patent Office Litigation, Introduction to Patent Office Litigation, Chapter 1 (October 2012)
Robert Greene Sterne
- Case Management Under the Post-AIA Joinder Rules
Theresa M. Gillis
- Aesthetic Functionality: How Important Is It? (September 9, 2013)
Kathleen E. McCarthy
- Aesthetic Functionality: The Case of Betty Boop
Anne Hiaring Hocking
- Aesthetic Functionality: Boop Boop a Doop! (PowerPoint Slides)
Anne Hiaring Hocking
- Recent Developments in TTAB Practice and Procedure: Trade Dress, Dilution & Noteworthy Practice & Procedure Cases
Helen Hill Minsker
- Bankruptcy Issues in Trademarks (June 10, 2013)
Philip S. Warden, Richard L. Epling
- Intellectual Property Rights Encounter Antitrust Law: An Uneasy Coexistence
Robert P. Taylor
- Recent Developments in Trade Secrets Law 2013 (June 24, 2013)
Victoria A. Cundiff
- Trademark Update 2013
Karen Frank, Siegrun D. Kane
- Managing NPE Litigation (June 14, 2013)
Carolyn H. Blankenship
- Real Life and the America Invents Act: Practical Considerations
Andrea L. Colby
- An Intellectual Property Lawyer’s Reading of UCC 2–3 12
Joel Wolfson
- Buying and Selling Patent Rights (PowerPoint Slides)
Gail H. Zarick
- Ethical Issues in Intellectual Property Practice: Emerging Issues in Conflicts and Disqualification; Technology Problems
Steven C. Bennett
- New Ethics Rules for the USPTO: Important Considerations for Practitioners
Merri A. Baldwin
Presentation Material
- Protecting Designs: How do Design Patent, Copyright, and Trade Dress Intersect?
Raymond T. Nimmer
- Developments in Privacy and Data Protection
David Bender
- Has Copyright Become Untethered from Its Constitutional Moorings?
Andrew P. Bridges
- Database Protection
David Bender
- Copyright Update
William Sloan Coats
- Licensing in the EU
Daryl W. Fairbairn
- Licensing in India
Charan J. Sandhu
- Licensing in the U.S.
Amy L. Toro
- Patent Update
I. Neel Chatterjee
- Aesthetic Functionality: Boop Boop a Doop!
Anne Hiaring Hocking
- Aesthetic Functionality: How Important Is It?
Anne Hiaring Hocking
- Recent Developments in TTAB Practice and Procedure
Helen Hill Minsker
- Effect of the AIA on District Court Litigation
Jennifer Sklenar
- The New AIA Contested Proceedings and Legacy Reexaminations at the USPTO
Robert Greene Sterne
- ANTITRUST ISSUES IN LICENSING IP RIGHTS
Robert P. Taylor
- Trade Secrets Update
Victoria A. Cundiff
- Trademark Hot Topics
Karen Frank
- Ethical Issues for IP Lawyers
Merri A. Baldwin
Co-Chair(s)
David Bender ~ Adjunct Professor, University of Houston Law Center, The Law Office of David Bender
Speaker(s)
Lateef Mtima ~ Professor of Law and Director, Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice, Howard University School of Law
Raymond T. Nimmer ~ Leonard H. Childs Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center
Niklas Ostman ~ Senior Director of Licensing, IPG Licensing and Law, Microsoft Corporation
PLI makes every effort to accredit its On-Demand Web Programs and Segments. Please check the CLE Calculator above for CLE information specific to your state.
On-Demand Web Programs and Segments are approved in:
Alabama1, Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho*, Illinois , Iowa2*, Kansas, Kentucky*, Louisiana, Maine*, Mississippi, Missouri3, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire4, New Jersey, New Mexico5, New York6, North Carolina7, North Dakota, Ohio8, Oklahoma9, Oregon*, Pennsylvania10, Rhode Island11, South Carolina, Tennessee12, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia13, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin14 and Wyoming*.
Iowa, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin DO NOT approve Audio Only On-Demand Web Programs.
Minnesota approves live webcasts ONLY
Please Note: The State Bar of Arizona does not approve or accredit CLE activities for the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education requirement. PLI programs may qualify for credit based on the requirements outlined in the MCLE Regulations and Ariz. R. Sup. Ct. Rule 45.
*PLI will apply for credit upon request. Louisiana and New Hampshire: PLI will apply for credit upon request for audio-only on-demand web programs.
1Alabama: Approval of all web based programs is limited to a maximum of 6.0 credits.
2Iowa: The approval is for one year from recorded date. Does not approve of Audio-only On-Demand Webcasts.
3Missouri: On-demand web programs are restricted to six hours of self-study credit per year. Self-study may not be used to satisfy the ethics requirements. Self-study can not be used for carryover credit.
4New Hamphsire: The approval is for three years from recorded date.
5New Mexico: On-Demand web programs are restricted to 4.0 self-study credits per year.
6New York: Newly admitted attorneys may not take non-traditional course formats such as on-demand Web Programs or live Webcasts for CLE credit. Newly admitted attorneys not practicing law in the United States, however, may earn 12 transitional credits in non-traditional formats.
7North Carolina: A maximum of 4 credits per reporting period may be earned by participating in on-demand web programs.
8Ohio: To confirm that the web program has been approved, please refer to the list of Ohio’s Approved Self Study Activities at http://www.sconet.state.oh.us. Online programs are considered self-study. Ohio attorneys have a 6 credit self-study limit per compliance period. The Ohio CLE Board states that attorneys must have a 100% success rate in clicking on timestamps to receive ANY CLE credit for an online program.
9Oklahoma: Up to 6 credits may be earned each year through computer-based or technology-based legal education programs.
10Pennsylvania: PA attorneys may only receive a maximum of four (4) hours of distance learning credit per compliance period. All distance learning programs must be a minimum of 1 full hour.
11Rhode Island: Audio Only On-Demand Web Programs are not approved for credit. On-Demand Web Programs must have an audio and video component.
12Tennessee: The approval is for the calendar year in which the live program was presented.
13Virginia: All distance learning courses are to be done in an educational setting, free from distractions.
14Wisconsin: Ethics credit is not allowed. The ethics portion of the program will be approved for general credit. There is a 10 credit limit for on-demand web programs during every 2-year reporting period. Does not approve of Audio-only On-Demand Webcasts.
Running time and CLE credit hours are not necessarily the same. Please be aware that many states do not permit credit for luncheon and keynote speakers.
If you have already received credit for attending some or the entire program, please be aware that state administrators do not permit you to accrue additional credit for repeat viewing even if an additional credit certificate is subsequently issued.
Note that some states limit the number of credit hours attorneys may claim for online CLE activities, and state rules vary with regard to whether online CLE activities qualify for participatory or self-study credits. For more information, call Customer Service (800) 260-4PLI (4754) or e-mail info@pli.edu.