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Intellectual Property

New Technology

Recorded on: Jun. 30, 2010

LEONARD T. NUARA: OK, folks. Welcome back. For those of you that are coming back. For those that are at home, put the phone down, put the paper down. Time to pay attention again. We're going to talk about contracting for cloud computing services. I'm going to moderate a discussion with Todd Machtmes and Mark Radcliffe. We have some slides. There were some slides that were posted last night so you should be able to find the slides. Those here in the ...

Recorded on: Apr. 24, 2013

RICHARD DANNAY: OK. Welcome back. I hope everyone had a good lunch. We have a great panel for this afternoon. Unfortunately, the moderator's voice is barely in play, but I'm going to introduce all three of our speakers as I did in the morning. And then Simon will begin. To my right and our first speaker in the afternoon is Simon Frankel, who is a litigation partner in the San Francisco office of Covington & Burling and chair of his firm's intellectual ...

Recorded on: Feb. 6, 2013

AMY TAUB: Hello. My name is Amy Taub and I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, "Art of the Deal, Web 2.0 Issues in Technology Acquisitions." Before I begin, I have some administrative announcements. This briefing will be one hour in length. Please feel free to send questions at any time during the briefing. Please remember that you have access to materials for this briefing via the course handbook ...

Recorded on: Feb. 8, 2013

JOHN DELANEY: OK, we're back. A couple of housekeeping matters. As I mentioned at the beginning, we look forward to your feedback. Let us know what you like. Let us know about other topics that we can cover next year. We hope to have you back next year. So if you have thoughts about other issues you're seeing in your own practice that we haven't been able to touch upon in a day long conference, we'd love to hear about it. So please fill out the evaluation ...

Recorded on: Nov. 4, 2011

SPEAKER 1: Multi-country Sourcing. I turn it over to Mike and Ross. ROSS E. McKEAN: Well, thank you everyone. I'll make a start for this session. And in terms of what we're trying to cover at the part two, we're going to do a deeper dive into what non-US laws that can derail sourcing, process and deadlines. And there are lots of laws that can derail sourcing, process, and deadlines. So I'm going to pick two which tend to be the more problematic, ...

Recorded on: Nov. 4, 2011

JOHN F. DELANEY: OK. Welcome to day two of the PLI Outsourcing Conference. And we're going to kick it off this morning with a presentation on avoiding missteps in multi-country outsourcing. And we're very fortunate to have two of the leading experts in this area to speak to us on this subject. It's going to be a co-presentation. Sitting immediately to Bill's right is Michael Mensik. Michael is one of the co-chairs of this program. He's also a partner ...

Recorded on: Nov. 8, 2010

JOHN DELANEY: We're having a few minor technical difficulties with the PowerPoints, but I'm going to do the introductions. And I think we'll have everything fixed shortly. So the next topic. Welcome back. I hope everyone had a nice lunch session. We're back. We're going to talk about bankruptcy issues in connection with outsourcing. Even if you're not reading the papers, we're in the middle of a huge global recession. And hopefully, we're paying ...

Recorded on: Feb. 14, 2013

SPEAKER 1: Welcome back everyone from the break. This is our final session of the day. Last but certainly not least, we've saved some of the best for the last. I'll be very brief, and we'll just get rolling. But I'm going to introduce Sharon Sandeen, professor Sandeen again. She was with us very early this morning and gave us the trade secret crash course. And she's going to talk with a wonderful panel about best practices at home and abroad regarding ...

Recorded on: Nov. 12, 2012

PETER BROWN: Hello, everyone. I hope you had a brisk walk outside. It's still pretty cold out there. It's early winter weather in New York. This afternoon, we're going to hit some of the meat of the topics. And also fortunately, none of these programs have been modified because our speakers had difficulty attending. So we're going to be covering big data, cloud computing, and computer hacking, three very important topics. And really, I think, some ...

Recorded on: Oct. 13, 2011

BRIAN WINTERFELDT: Great. Thank you so much. Thank you both for having us here today. I think social media is becoming more and more relevant to all of our organizations. And what we're going to be talking about today is how to use social media to build your brand and think about important issues like social media policies and enforcement in the social media space. But before we get started, I'd like to introduce our great panel that we put together ...

Recorded on: Apr. 24, 2013

PETER JASZI: In fact, I actually am going to give a presentation today that will at least initially be a little more upbeat than the title suggests, the title being, Can Fair Use Be Fixed, implying, I think, that it needs to be fixed. And I actually would like to throw into doubt or open up for argument the question about whether any fix is required or, indeed, whether any fix is likely to do more good than harm. So let me start by going in at the ...

Recorded on: Apr. 24, 2013

LATEEF MTIMA: OK. This is like that Bette Davis line, "Fasten your seat belts, this is going to be a bumpy ride," not only because this is DMCA, but, literally, talk about up-to-the-minute developments. Some of the latest key decisions on the DMCA have been happening over the last couple of weeks. And in fact, we had a decision just yesterday. So last night I'm tinkering getting this stuff in. OK. So I'm going to talk about the DMCA. And ...

Recorded on: Jan. 9, 2012

RICHARD RAYSMAN: --she has a problem, as well. So we have three segments of the program today. And the first segment is going to be the causes of license disputes. So Chris is speaking. We actually have another speaker on her way, and I'll introduce her when she gets here. But the first segment is going to be from Chris Palestro, and I will let him take the podium. CHRISTOPHER PALESTRO: So good morning, and thank you for joining the discussion today. ...

Recorded on: Nov. 14, 2012

REED FREEMAN: We are ready to move on to class action risk. This is a one hour presentation that will be followed by the most productive part of the day, which will be lunch. I'm delighted again this year to be joined by my partner and friend, Dave McDowell of Morrison Foerster. Dave is a member and a former co-chair of Morrison Foerster's Consumer Litigation and Class Action practice group. He's defended about a million putative class action claims ...

Recorded on: Nov. 12, 2012

LORI LESSER: That's a good reason to shop online. No one knows what aisle you're in. One or the other they're going to get the information from you it seems. So our next two speakers we have Rachel Beth Evans. Rachel joined Accenture in 2003 and is currently Accenture's Director of Legal Services, IT Offerings, and Alliances Legal Counsel. She's been an in-house technology lawyer for 18 years. Rachel grew up in Chicago and now lives in San Francisco ...

Recorded on: Jun. 28, 2011

LEONARD T. NUARA: OK, we're starting, folks. Thanks for the cue. All right, welcome back everyone. Our next topic is "Cloud e-Discovery: It Just Isn't So Clear." Which, I love our titles. We take great pride in creating these titles. And for this topic we have, again, Steve Young, who is a senior attorney and Microsoft. I'm going to introduce Steve again, because these segments are sliced and diced for sale on the web. So Steve is a senior ...

Recorded on: May. 23, 2012

FRANCOISE GILBERT: OK. So we're back for our cloud computing panel. And I'm delighted to you have with us a really companies who are in entrenched in the cloud business. So I'm going to play the client and they're going to play the cloud providers. So on the very end we have Felix Sterling from Trend Micro. In the middle Lindsey Finch from Salesforce.com. And closest to me is Geff Brown from a Microsoft. So as I was saying you know these companies, ...

Recorded on: Jun. 12, 2012

JANINE BOWEN: Before I begin I will start by introducing my co-presenter, Rachel Evans. Rachel joined Accenture in 2003, and is currently director of legal services, IT offerings, and alliances legal counsel. Her areas of focus include complex IT transactions, cloud computing, open source software, and Software as a Service. Rachel has been an in-house technology lawyer for 18 years, working at IBM and with Siebel Systems prior to joining Accenture. ...

Recorded on: Jun. 28, 2011

PETER BROWN: Your practice. So without-- this is an introduction. Let me begin our first section, which will be cloud technology and a business overview. We are delighted to have as a returning speaker, Janine Bowen. Janine practices in Atlanta, in her own firm that has a unique name. And Janine's practice focuses on commercial transactions, including technology and intellectual property. She's involved in licensing and acquisition of technology, ...

Recorded on: Jun. 28, 2011

LEONARD T. NUARA: OK folks, we are back. Welcome back. Hopefully you had a nice snack, were able to make a couple of phone calls. We're going to be talking about cloud vendor agreements, the key considerations. And the three of us will be attacking this subject. Peter Brown, you already know. Me, you already know. But Todd Machtmes, he's the assisting general counsel at salesforce.com. His company, Salesforce and force.com their other cloud offering, ...

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

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: Jun. 12, 2012

TANYA L. FORSHEIT: Hi everybody. We're going to get started again. We are going to stick right to the schedule. Our next panel-- and this one's going to be a little different in structure, so I'll give you a heads up about that-- but our next panel is going to be on contract issues. We're going to get down into the nitty-gritty of how these various issues play out in the negotiation process. And this will kind of be a two-part situation, because we're ...

Recorded on: Apr. 18, 2013

SPEAKER 1: Welcome back, everybody to our afternoon session of this advanced trademarks program. We are going to hear this afternoon from Jonathan Hudis, Vanessa Soman, and Joseph Drayton. Jonathan will address the topic of dual ownership of a trademark. And then Vanessa and Joe will address the topic of contributory infringement. I'll introduce all three of them now. Jonathan Hudis is a partner in the trademark and copyright practice group of Oblon, ...

Recorded on: Feb. 12, 2013

KATHLEEN E. MCCARTHY: Welcome back, everyone. We're starting off the afternoon with copyright enforcement update where we're going to get two experts here talking about fair use, gray goods, and computer software protection issues in the copyright area. The first speaker is Dale Cendali who's a partner at Kirkland and who has argued before the supreme court not once, but twice, won the Harry Potter Lexicon case in a trial that was hotly followed and ...