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Recorded on: Jul. 15, 2011

AMY TAUB: Thank you. Greetings. My name is Amy Taub, and I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing. Microsoft v. i4i: Supreme Court Upholds Clear and Convincing Standard. Is it really business as usual? Before we 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 ...

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: Apr. 4, 2012

PETER BROWN: Ready? OK, we had a quick change. And we're ready to go. You never have to know anything about patent law, until it hits your client. And then you've all of a sudden got to be an expert on patent law. And the typical way that these issues arise is you're happily working at your corporate office. And the general counsel or the CEO of the company gets a nasty letter from an entity that they've never heard of who says if they own a patent ...

Recorded on: Jul. 24, 2012

JOHN M. WHITE: OK. Good afternoon. It's 1:30. It's time for us to resume our program this afternoon. We begin with a discussion of 102(f) and (g). And then we segue without interruption. We do another seamless transition up here not directly into 103 and the CAFC with specific focus on cases that are collected at the CAFC from district court cases. Earlier in the day we talked about 103 and its gestation at the patent office through guidelines and ...

From the program: Open Source and Free Software 2012: Benefits, Risks and Challenges

Released on: Dec. 19, 2012

Continuous changes in the legal and technical landscape make it critical for IP, technology and business lawyers to keep abreast of the legal and technical issues presented by the open source paradigm. “Open source” software, which is freely available in the form of operating systems, applications, utility code and programming tools, presents an attractive option. However, use of such software can also expose a company to unexpected and ...

Recorded on: Sep. 28, 2012

ED: So, our next topic is Opinion Letters, Willful Infringement and Exception Case. And back for an encore performance is Charles Barquist who spoke on this topic last year. Charles is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Morrison and Foerster. Prior to joining Morrison and Foerster, he clerked for the honorable Milton Pollack of the United States district court for the Southern District of New York. He's a graduate of Harvard Law School, and has ...

Recorded on: Apr. 17, 2013

JOSE A. ESTEVES: So to keep things moving, while our panelists take their place, I'm going to start with the introductions for our last panel. And our last panel is going to try to take things up a little bit higher, and talk about themes and issues affecting patent monetization. Our speakers, in alphabetical order, are Robert Aronoff. Robert is a Managing Partner at Pluritas, LLC. He is also the founder of Pluritas, which is a leading Intellectual ...

Recorded on: Sep. 28, 2012

SPEAKER 1: And I'm sure that we're ready to write the future when it comes to these new procedures, and part of that future is going to include our next speaker as well. We have a program on parallel patent reexaminations coming up with none other than Rob Sterne. I've known Rob for more years than I care to admit, and they say that-- oh, gosh. What's his name is the hardest working man in show business? AUDIENCE: James Brown? SPEAKER 1: Yeah, James ...

Recorded on: Feb. 27, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: So with that as a brief introduction, let me dive right into the first talk on patent and technology licensing. For those of you that are interested in following along, my slides are in the handbook on page 485, page 485. It's interesting that patent and technology licensing are almost always grouped together in CLE conferences because they are close cousins. After all, patents were designed to protect technology, but they're also very ...

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 ...

From the program: Understanding the Intellectual Property License 2012

Released on: Dec. 24, 2012

Licensing offers valuable economic and strategic opportunities. Companies are increasingly turning to licensing to gain access to intellectual property at a lower cost than developing or purchasing intellectual property assets, and as a way of generating new sources of revenue out of existing intellectual property assets. Virtually every business today must confront licensing issues. A solid base of knowledge about licensing of intellectual property ...

Released on: Jan. 5, 2012

Please note that CLE credit is not available for this program. The Patent Bar Exam is an Exam with a historically low pass rate (though our students do very well!). We recommend 150-200 hours of preparation for the Exam, over about 2 months, ideally. So it's probably best to start thinking about it soon if you want to get it over before Patent Reform makes is potentially MUCH more difficult next fall. Our course has been updated to cover all of ...

Recorded on: Sep. 28, 2012

SPEAKER 1: Good morning. Welcome back to those of you here in the live program, and welcome back to those of you who are participating on the live webcast. I'm very excited to begin the second day Patent Litigation 2012. And I'm pleased to introduce the longtime chair of the San Francisco location of Patent Litigation, Ed G Poplawski. Ed couldn't be with us yesterday, so we're very happy to have him back with us today. And Ed's a partner in the Los ...

Recorded on: Apr. 17, 2013

JOSE A. ESTEVES: OK. We're gonna go ahead and get started. So our presenter for the next hour is Joe Yang. And he will be talking about developments in patent law that impact patent monetization. Joe is a partner at PatentEsque Law Group, LLP, where he specializes in the use of patents as business assets. He handles all types of IP transactions and has served as an arbitrator. He previously served as VP and general counsel of Cryptographic Research, ...

Recorded on: May. 6, 2011

SPEAKER 1: Welcome back, everyone, for the afternoon session of PLI IP Monetization 2011. In the next hour, we're going to focus on patent law developments and we've got the presentations on patent case law developments and patent law reform with a focus on IP monetization. Our first presenter will be Victoria Maroulis. Victoria is a partner at Quinn m where she is co-chair of the firm's national life sciences practice. Her practice focuses primarily ...

From the program: Patent Law Institute (6th Annual)

Released on: Mar. 16, 2012

Audio CD's from the program Patent Law Institute (6th Annual), held March, 2012.

Recorded on: Jul. 10, 2012

MARTA E. GROSS: Changed our panel again. And before we get started with the final panel of the day, I'd like to remind everyone to complete the evaluations, if you would, that are on your iPads in front of you. And also, remind you that there's information, the detailed information, on the PowerPoints, and the bios, and other information about this program. So our final panel of the afternoon, we've got two gentlemen here on my right who are going ...

Recorded on: Jul. 20, 2011

MARTA GROSS: OK. Welcome back after the break. We're on the last portion of the program. As you've now all learned all about what a patent is, patent prosecution, how to obtain patents, and a little bit about understanding-- I think what we've been trying to go through in a lot of this is the value of patents, first of all, how much the investment is into the patent in general and obtaining it. And as a company, looking at your own patents and obtaining ...

From the program: Understanding Patent Law 2012

Released on: Jul. 13, 2012

As patents and other intellectual property become more and more valuable to companies, it is essential that general practitioners and business counselors have a firm grasp of the basic principles of patent law so they can better advise their clients.  This program is designed with the non-patent practitioner in mind, and it will cover all types of patent issues that might arise in the context of every day practice and business management.  ...

Recorded on: Mar. 20, 2013

SPEAKER 1: OK, we're going to go ahead and get restarted. Welcome back, everyone. We are here at the Patent Markets panel. A lot has been happening, as most of you know, with relation to patents, and buying and selling and brokering of them, as of late. We're fortunate to have several people here today, very knowledgeable this area, to talk to us about some of these issues. To my immediate right, your left, is Kevin Barhydt, who is Vice President ...

Recorded on: Apr. 17, 2013

JOSE ESTEVES: OK. We're going to get started here. We've got our second to last panel. And for this panel, we're going to be discussing patent monetization and the current environment. And we're lucky to have three panelists here with us. First, we have, in alphabetical order, we've got Abha Divine. Abha is Managing Director and Founder of Techquity Capital Management. Abha's career demonstrates proven results in the successful planning and launch ...

Recorded on: Jul. 20, 2011

CHRISTOPHER M. TOBIN: We have is a number of different sections here, and we'd like to cover about half of them in the first session and the other half in the second section. And Jane and I will alternate between the basic sections. But we'll jump in periodically, because as Marta had mentioned there are certain situations where the life sciences practice will vary greatly from the tax side or other areas just because of the realities of the situation: ...

Recorded on: Jul. 20, 2011

MARTA GROSS: Thank you. So we had a question during the break from one of the people on the webcast. And the question had to do with the named inventor. And if you'll notice the last bullet point that Jane had just talked about right before the break was based on the claim. So the question is, is it possible that an originally named inventor may have to be removed from the application during the prosecution if some claims are withdrawn? JANE GUNNISON: ...

Recorded on: Jun. 13, 2011

IAN: We're actually a couple minutes ahead of schedule. Sasha is a partner at Ropes & Gray in Palo Alto. She is one of the folks who came over to Ropes & Gray when it merged with Fish & Neave. Fish & Neave, for those of you who've been in the patent prosecution and litigation arena is one of the most hallowed names in patent law. New York firm, it was one of the early great IP boutiques. Sasha represents diverse companies with complex ...

Recorded on: Jun. 7, 2012

IAN N. FEINBERG: Our next speaker is Sanjeet Dutta. He's a partner at King & Spalding in what I would call the greater Silicon Valley. He's in the Redwood Shores office of King & Spalding. He's an intellectual property litigator and a patent prosecutor. So he knows from where he speaks, and he will be talking to us on patent prosecution for litigators. Sanjeet? SANJEET K. DUTTA: Great. Thank you very much, Ian. Morning, everybody. It's good ...