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Intellectual Property

Licensing

Recorded on: Apr. 24, 2013

PETER JASZI: OK. The contractualization of copyright. In my view, one of the most interesting and important topics. Listen up. GLORIA C. PHARES: All right. So I have the daunting task of being the last thing that stands between you and lunch. And before getting to my presentation, though, I want to explain the copyright licensing materials in your handbook. The outline and the cut off for the outline is January 18. And the table of contents, which ...

Recorded on: Mar. 4, 2013

DR. LOTHAR DETERMANN: I think we're back on. There's very confusing light signs here, but I'll get started. Welcome, everybody. Hope you had a good lunch. For our next panel, I'll introduce Dave Randall, who is now with Sheppard Mullin's Los Angeles office. And Dave has been 20 years litigating, prosecuting, patents, and also advising clients on trademark matters. And one particular victory here, I see a landmark Japanese high court IP case resulting ...

Recorded on: Mar. 4, 2013

KAREN N. BALLACK: OK, welcome back, everybody, from the break. Our next presentation this morning before our lunch break is on the treatment of IP licenses in bankruptcy. And we have with us today two speakers from O'Melveny & Myers. We're very pleased that they were able to join us this morning. To my right is Stanton Lovenworth. Stanton is counsel in O'Melveny's New York office, and a member of the Health Care and Life Sciences Practice. Stan ...

Recorded on: Mar. 4, 2013

KAREN N. BALLACK: OK. So welcome back, everybody. Thank you again for joining us today. I'm pleased this morning to introduce to you Mary Fuller, who will be our next presenter. Mary is chief patent counsel at Maxim Integrated Products, where she is responsible for developing and implementing Maxim's strategy to protect, enhance, and capture the value of its intellectual property. As Maxim's chief patent counsel, her responsibilities extend to all ...

Recorded on: Dec. 12, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: Good morning. Welcome back. Good morning. At this point, it's my pleasure to introduce Bob Stankey, sitting to my right, who will be speaking to us about international licensing. Bob is a partner at Davis Wright firm in Washington, DC, so he's come out to join us from the Eat Coast where his practice areas include technology licensing, data protection, and electronic communications regulatory law. Bob is a graduate of the University ...

Recorded on: Dec. 12, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: So now we're going to switch gears a little bit. Are you going first? Are you doing the panel? CLIFFORD ALLEN: Adam's going to go first, then I'll go second. JOSEPH YANG: OK. Certainly welcome to sit up here as well. CLIFFORD ALLEN: OK. JOSEPH YANG: We're now going to talk about open source licensing, and we have two panelists joining us. To my far right is Clifford Allen. Cliff is a senior attorney at Microsoft, where he's the lead ...

Recorded on: Dec. 12, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: Thanks, Bob. Lots of great practical tips about the licensing in Europe. So one of last topics that Bob mentioned was competition law. That's the European term for antitrust law. So that's actually a perfect segue into our next segment. And Jose Esteves, to my right, is going to be speaking to us on antitrust law. Jose is a partner at Skadden, Arps, Meagher & Flom-- and my old colleague-- in its New York office, where he focuses ...

Recorded on: Dec. 12, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: Hi, everybody. Welcome back. At this point we're going to have a presentation on Rights of Publicity Licensing, and I'm pleased to introduce Kristina Dinerman Cooper and Brian Thompson as our panelists. Kristina's Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Yahoo, where she heads Legal Services for Media and Commerce, overseeing the legal work for Yahoo's consumer facing properties such as news, finance, sports, entertainment, shopping, ...

Recorded on: Dec. 12, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: Thanks, Ira. So we're getting into the home stretch now. Just two more presentations. At this point, I'd like to introduce two gentlemen who will be speaking to us on government contracting. The first is-- Jim, are you going first? JAMES McEWEN: Yeah, I'll be first. DAVID BLOCH: Jim is going first. JOSEPH YANG: OK. First is Jim McEwen. He's a senior attorney at Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation. Before that, he was a partner at Stein ...

Recorded on: Dec. 12, 2012

JOSEPH LANG: Hello, welcome back. Hope everybody had a good lunch, and with that I'd like to start the afternoon session. And I will be talking about patent and technology licensing. For anybody that wants to follow along, my materials are on page 573 of the course handbook, and you're welcome to look at that. It's a word outline that, basically, follows the slides that are on the screen. Up until now we've had some great presentations by the copyright ...

Recorded on: Dec. 12, 2012

JOSEPH LANG: At this point I'd like to introduce Cydney Tune. Cydney is the first of our two sort of content and entertainment related speakers. And Cydney is counsel at Pillsbury's San Francisco office and leads the firm's copyright, media and entertainment practice in the industry team. The Daily Journal's name Cydney one of 2008's top 10 copyright lawyers in California and listed her among California's top 25 portfolio managers, prosecutors, and ...

Recorded on: Dec. 12, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: For this segment, it's the agreement that the panel's going to using for the mock negotiation. It is outside on the table. Everybody have the handout? Good. JOHN ELOVSON: Not to be relied on in real practice. [LAUGHTER] JOSEPH YANG: So welcome back. This is the last session of our two days, and we've saved the most interactive part toward last. This is a mock negotiation of a license agreement, and I'm delighted to introduce our panel ...

Recorded on: Dec. 12, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: Hi everybody. We're ready to continue with our last talk of the morning before lunch. At this point it's my pleasure to introduce Lillian Stenfeldt. She's a partner in the Creditor's Rights and Bankruptcy practice group. And in fact, she chairs that practice group at the Cedric firm here in San Francisco. Her practice areas and her expertise include bankruptcy and insolvency, creditor's rights, receivership matters, and complex commercial ...

Recorded on: Dec. 12, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: Hi, everybody. Welcome back. We're down to the last hour of our first day, and it's my pleasure at this point to introduce John Steele. I think many of you know John from over the years. John is currently a solo practitioner, but he's an expert in the ethics area. He represents clients in matters of legal ethics, professional liability, risk management, and the law of lawyering. For over 15 years, John has served as the top internal ...

Recorded on: Dec. 12, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: Hello, and welcome back to the afternoon session of the second day. Joining us for the session on Drafting Tips for Litigation is Ira Levy, who's a partner at Goodwin Proctor, out of their New York office. Ira specializes in IP Litigation involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, false advertising, and unfair competition. He's tried multiple cases to verdict, including having argued a number of cases to the Court of Appeals for the ...

Recorded on: Dec. 12, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: Thanks very much. I think with that, I would like to introduce our first speaker. It's my pleasure to introduce Sally Abel to my immediate right. Sally is a partner and chair of the 20 plus member of the trademark group at Fenwick & West, in Mountain View. Sally is really preeminent in the trademark field, and in fact was recently named the top trademark lawyer in the United States, and among the top seven in the world by Who's Who ...

Recorded on: Dec. 6, 2012

LAWRENCE ROSEN: What an excellent introduction to our next talk. Clearly now that we understand what the licenses are available, and what the issues are with those licenses, we need to understand what companies need to do to minimize their risks, and to analyze what they're doing. And so we've brought along two people, let me briefly introduce them. They're welcomed to say what they want about themselves, as well. Daniel Berlin is from Google, and ...

Recorded on: Oct. 23, 2012

MARK S. HOLMES: Thank you, John, and welcome back. To me this is the most enjoyable parts of the whole program. And I want to thank our panelists we're going to introduce now for appearing. On my far left is Winston Henderson. He's a vice president and general counsel at NanoTerra, a Boston-based nanotechnology company with life science and non-life science divisions. Before that, he was at Surface Logix, which is a biopharmaceutical and drug development ...

Recorded on: Oct. 23, 2012

JOE YANG: So we're down to the ninth inning here. At this point, we have Anthony Greene joining us from New York. I hope you all-- when will they get to see him on the screen? SPEAKER 2: Should be coming up. JOE YANG: OK, so Anthony Greene will be joining us for the last segment of our program today. Anthony is a senior vice president at Herbert L. Jamison Company LLC, which has offices in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Washington. He's ...

Recorded on: Oct. 23, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: Welcome back from the break. At this point, it's my pleasure to introduce my two co-panelists for the mock negotiation of a patent license agreement. Chris Pickett and Nader Mousavi. Nader, to my immediate right, is a partner in the Silicon Valley office of Solomon & Cromwell, where he co-heads the firm's intellectual property practice. Nader has a wide practice area encompassing a range of corporate and transactional fields, including ...

Recorded on: Oct. 23, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: Thanks, Mark. Can everybody hear me in the back? Great. OK. Sometimes I would sit in the back, and I couldn't hear the speaker, and it was just one of the most frustrating things. So I want to spend the next hour sharing with you some thoughts about structuring patent transactions. And I put it that way-- "patent transactions"-- because I want to talk not only about licensing, but other forms of transactions. And even within ...

Recorded on: Oct. 23, 2012

MARK S. HOLMES: Thank you, John. Welcome. Welcome to all the folks on the web. What I'd like to do in the short time that we have is to give you some practice pointers. I used to sit through lectures and talks and hear all about the law, but never knew what to do when I left the room. So what I'd like to do is discuss, very briefly, some case law. But more importantly, tell you what you can do about it. I always wonder why we are in the position ...

Recorded on: Oct. 16, 2012

DAVID: We're in countdown. All right. Our first presentation is on Section 512 of the DMCA which continues to see a lot of activity. And our speaker is Gerry Davis. Gerry is one of the best known IP litigators for some years now in Silicon Valley, and has represented all sorts of companies, litigating leading edge issues. And he likes to call himself the world's oldest computer lawyer. Gerry? GERRY DAVIS: Thank you very much, David. I think we're, ...

Recorded on: Sep. 20, 2012

C. TUNA: So our first session is on distributing digital content through smartphone apps, managing risk and rewards. I'm not going to read the bios, the full bios, because you have them in your materials. FRANKLIN FINK: What's that? MARY NEWCOMER WILLIAMS: [INAUDIBLE] Think. But there's one called Think New. I think it should be the new. FRANKLIN FINK: Oh, I think we got the wrong one up. It's Think New because we added a slide. C. TUNA: Who's ...

Recorded on: Sep. 20, 2012

CYDNEY A TUNE: Alright, welcome back to those in the room, and to those on the live webcast also, welcome back to you. Before we get started, for those who came late, several people have asked me if I work for PLI because they missed my introduction, so I'm going to take one minute to say I'm Cydney Tune. I'm with the San Francisco office of Pillsbury where I chair the copyright practice and the media and entertainment industry teams. My full bio ...