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Intellectual Property

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Recorded on: Jul. 23, 2012

Taken from the briefing Compliance with Disability Accessibility Requirements When Buying or Selling Instructional Technology: A Legal, Policy and Technical Primer for Lawyers recorded July, 2012. Persons with disabilities are demanding and obtaining legal rights to access and use instructional technology products. This is particularly true in the educational arena. However, the road to product accessibility is paved with a confusing ...

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. 14, 2013

P. ANTHONY SAMMI: We're going to move into our next panel, which is Controlling Costs and Litigation-- Experts and Damages panel. We've got a wonderful panel lined up for you. I'll let them get situated. And I'll introduce them one by one. First, the closest to me is Dan Jackson. Next to Dan Jackson is Chris Gerardi and then Dan Cooper is at the end. I'll start with Dan Jackson. Dan Jackson is at Alex Partners. He has more than 30 years of experience ...

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 ...

From the program: IP Enforcement and Litigation 2013: Criminal and Civil Update

Released on: Feb. 15, 2013

This program is designed to bring you up to date on both civil and criminal enforcement efforts of intellectual property.  From the physical world to the internet, brands are not only building their intellectual property, but are heavily protecting it.  In today’s billion dollar industry of infringement and piracy, it is critical to protect IP rights.  This program will place you in a better position to think outside of the box ...

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: May. 3, 2012

RICHARD DANNAY: Are we back on? Here's Gloria now with her presentation on copyright restoration. For those of you, which seem to be most people in the room when I asked, who do not know that much about this area, listen carefully because this is not really an esoteric area that doesn't come up. At least in my experience, it comes up a lot. And you really need to know about what copyright restoration means, both in terms of licensing and just more ...

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: May. 3, 2012

RICHARD DANNAY: And now Nancy, copyright preemption. Do you want to go up here? You could sit there if you want, yeah, either way. NANCY J. MERTZEL: All right, I'll sit there. RICHARD DANNAY: Thank you very much. NANCY J. MERTZEL: Make sure you stay awake for this one. It will keep me focused. RICHARD DANNAY: OK. NANCY J. MERTZEL: Good afternoon. My name is Nancy Mertzel. My topic is preemption. And for some of us, at least for me, my first exposure ...

Recorded on: May. 3, 2012

RICHARD DANNAY: We're now to our final speaker, last but not least, Bob Bernstein, who's going to talk about copyright remedies, something everyone wants to know, whether you litigate or not. Bob has specialized in copyright and trademark litigation and counseling for over 30 years. His practice includes mediation, both as a mediator and as an advocate, entertainment law, contracts, licensing, internet law, the rights of publicity and privacy, trade ...

From the program: Corporate Compliance and Ethics Institute 2012

Recorded on: Jun. 4, 2012

Please note that "ethics" in the program title refers to the “Compliance and Ethics Program” used in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations. It does not specifically refer to legal ethics. Please check the credit calculator to the right for credit information for your jurisdiction. Taken from the Web Program Corporate Compliance and Ethics Institute 2012 recorded May, 2012 in New York. Lecture Topics  ...

Recorded on: Oct. 16, 2012

BOB: Aren't regulations wonderful? This is our corporate panel, and historically David and I started doing this about seven or eight years ago, and it turned out to be one of the really more popular part of the program each year. We try to bring in corporate speakers who represent something of a smattering of the companies that one finds in Northern California. Which is pretty much a reflection of companies you find all over the country. And talk ...

From the program: Counseling Clients in the Entertainment Industry 2013 - Sound Recordings; Music Publishing

Released on: Mar. 19, 2013

This session is geared toward a basic understanding of an artist-record company agreement with a mock negotiation as the format, and will address current issues and trends in the record industry, including digital distribution of sound recordings. The session will also provide a basic understanding of music publishing terms and concepts and will include a mock negotiation of an exclusive songwriter agreement. Lecture Topics [Total time ...

Recorded on: Jun. 7, 2012

GARY M. HNATH: OK, our last final and very important speaker is Brandon Baum. Brandon has tried nearly 100 cases over three decades of trial practice, which in our field is very, very impressive. Brandon has handled disputes involving diverse technologies such as telecommunications, thin films, computer methods and software, microprocessors, smart cards, business methods, medical devices, chromatography, and GPS devices. Brandon currently works for ...

Recorded on: Mar. 8, 2013

SPEAKER 1: In the next hour and a half we have two very exciting presentations. The first is on current developments in entertainment and sports litigation. And the second is on current developments-- first focusing on the sports side, and the second will focus on the entertainment and internet side. And for our presentation on sports law, which will focus on the use of athletes' images and the right of publicity, we have two very distinguished speakers. ...

Recorded on: Apr. 10, 2013

Taken from the briefing Cybercrime: A Multi-Faceted Legal Challenge recorded April, 2013.Every day, more and more of our lives and our business is conducted online. It should come as no surprise, therefore, that savvy criminals are increasingly looking to the digital world as well. Each day brings new headlines about the growing threats posed by cybercriminals, ranging from thefts of personal information and intellectual property, to disruptive ...

Recorded on: Sep. 28, 2012

EDWARD G. POPLAWSKI: Our next topic is dealing with experts, including Rule 26-- employee experts. And here we will be navigating uncharted waters, at least semi-uncharted waters. And our speaker on this topic is a substitute speaker for David Gindler who could not make it. And that speaker is my partner Paul Tripodi. And I think that you were introduced to Paul yesterday. So without further ado, I'm going to turn over the program to Paul. Thank you. PAUL ...

Recorded on: Jan. 24, 2013

IAN BALLON: Welcome back. The next two segments are going to be combined into one. They're both presentations dealing with defense perspectives. The first part is case law and trends from a defense perspective, and the second part is the in-house counsel panel. But we thought it actually would be interesting to combine the two. So we're going to talk about the cases and the trends and intersperse the presentation with panel discussions. And for the ...

Recorded on: Mar. 4, 2013

LOTHAR DETERMANN: With this introduction, I will hand over to our first panel. Carla did already a great job introducing the two. Karen and Mark have worked together on matters. And if you look through Karen's bio in the handout materials, you'll see that Karen impersonates this intersection of intellectual property and business transaction in her practice, advising companies both on the IP heavy side of things, and then also how these things are ...

Recorded on: May. 3, 2012

Taken from the Web Program Lawyers' Guide to Using Social Media for Professional and Client Development 2012 Recorded May, 2012 in San Francisco Developing a Social Media Plan for Your Law Firm [01:01:53] Generating internal support for blogging and social media in your law firm Social media policies: Do you need one? What would be included? Creating a social media education program: where to get started and what components to ...

Recorded on: May. 3, 2012

ROBERT BERNSTEIN: And now my second speaker, Stanley Pierre-Louis is here. Let me introduce him. He is the Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Intellectual Property and Content Protection at Viacom. He's responsible for developing strategies to protect digital content, managing major intellectual property litigation, and leading other IP-related legal initiatives for Viacom and its various brands, which include-- as I'm sure you all know-- ...

Recorded on: Apr. 3, 2013

SCOTT: Welcome back, everybody. We're going to get started so we can get everybody to lunch on time. So the next module is focusing on discovery, which is a new component of these PTAB mechanisms. There was, as we all learned recently thanks to the federal circuit case last week, there's certainly no discovery in inter partes reexamination. And that was pointed out by Congress, that patent owners, in particular, wanted to challenge some of these declarations ...

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 ...

From the program: Technology and Entertainment Convergence 2012: Hot Business and Legal Issues in "Technotainment"

Released on: Oct. 3, 2012

This year’s program is completely revised to include today’s major legal and business issues in the convergence of entertainment and technology.  The program brings together a faculty of experienced in-house lawyers, law firm attorneys and senior business executives on the cutting edge of this burgeoning practice.  The expert faculty explores distribution of digital content to Apps; advertising and privacy issues in social media; ...