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Recorded on: Feb. 24, 2011

JOHN M. WHITE: Welcome to the second day of The Patent Law Institute. This is a special section devoted to all things chemical. That's what we'll be working on for the next two hours. Its chemical and pharma. And I know that we have a lot of people out there in northern New Jersey especially but also others that are quite interested in what happens in the chemical and pharma world at the PTO, because it's a little different now isn't it. You know ...

Recorded on: Feb. 24, 2011

JOHN WHITE: Welcome back to the second hour of our morning. We're going to continue with chemical practice. And after another hour of more chemical doings at the patent office, we're going to transition to PTO-related related topics from a PLI author. And I'll go ahead and reintroduce our chemical speaker, Gerry Murphy. He's with the firm Birch, Stewart, Kolasch, & Birch, down there in Virginia, with offices also in San Diego. And they've been ...

Recorded on: Apr. 10, 2013

GRACE E. O'HANLON: It's my pleasure to introduce you to the co-chairs of today's program. Arthur Kohn And Howard Pianko. Arthur is a partner in Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen, and Hamilton's New York office. His practice focuses on compensation and benefit matters, including executive compensation, pension compliance, and investment employment law, and related matters. Howard is a partner in Seyfarth Shaw's New York office. He advises plan investors on ...

From the program: Pension Plan Investments 2013: Current Perspectives

Released on: Apr. 16, 2013

Experienced practitioners in the area of pension investment law, together with senior representatives of the Department of Labor, will give their perspectives and illuminate issues on current topics and recent developments. Continued statutory, regulatory, and market changes ensure a full agenda of new developments to be debated and analyzed by the panelists. The Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation brought a new regulatory structure for pension ...

Recorded on: Oct. 16, 2012

JAMES J. AGAR: Welcome back everyone. Just a quick housekeeping note-- the lecture that we're about to start is going to go an hour and 3/4. Breaking for lunch at 12:15, and then we will reconvene at 1:30. I hope that you all enjoyed the first panel with Brad and Mark as much as I did. No matter how long I've been in this business, when I get to attend a great presentation such as theirs, I always learn something new. I'm confident that the learning ...

From the program: Pocket MBA Fall 2012

Released on: Oct. 26, 2012

An understanding of key accounting, financial and economic concepts, principles and terminology will contribute to your ability to interact with and advise your clients with their critical issues. The ability to identify and appropriately use financial and accounting information is relevant to a wide range of legal and regulatory matters for both external and in-house attorneys. Litigators and transactional attorneys alike will benefit from this practical ...

Recorded on: Mar. 12, 2012

LAWRENCE S. MAKOW: Good afternoon. It always seems like we run out of time at the end for questions. So I decided I would see if there any questions for this panel first. All right, that was pretty lame. I wanted to basically just say a few short words. This panel is a look at the current state of financial institution M&A and restructuring. We'll have to use a microscope to see it. But no, I think there's a lot of interesting things going on, ...

Recorded on: Jun. 22, 2010

LORI BOSTROM: We're going to go right into the next panel. And so I'm going to invite Cliff back up and introduce our speakers. So now you're all experts in mutual fund regulation and operation, and so to help you put together all your knowledge going forward, we've invited two of the best investment management legal intellect to pull out crystal balls and talk about what's going to happen in the future with the investment management industry, as ...

Recorded on: Apr. 17, 2013

JOSE A. ESTEVES: OK. We're going to go ahead and get started with the afternoon portion of the program. [SIDE CONVERSATION] JOSE A. ESTEVES: Yes. [SIDE CONVERSATION] JOSE A. ESTEVES: All right. So we've got the first of three panels of the afternoon program. And in this panel we're going to have presentations exploring new and emerging models related to patent monetization. And we have four speakers lined up for you. Our first is Cheryl Malone. ...

From the program: IP Monetization 2013: Maximize the Value of Your IP Assets

Released on: Apr. 30, 2013

The rapidly evolving field of Intellectual property ("IP") monetization has become a core strategic consideration for many companies.  On an increasingly regular basis, companies are considering, among other strategies, (i) the carve-out of IP assets in M&A and other strategic transactions, for sale in separate transactions, (ii) IP litigation financing, (iii) financing partners and vehicles for technology and IP development, (iv) international ...

Recorded on: Feb. 5, 2010

SPEAKER: Welcome back folks. We're about to start our hedge fund panel. I think for institutional investors, hedge funds might be the most challenging asset class for number of reasons. First of all, for many institutional investors, it is not an asset class that they are at all used to investing in. Or investment vehicle that they're all used to investing in. If you think about private equity, many institutional investors have been investing in ...

Recorded on: Jan. 24, 2013

Taken from the briefing America Invents Act Pro Bono Program for Inventors and Small Businesses recorded January, 2013. The America Invents Act (AIA) requires that the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) work with local intellectual property (IP) organizations across the country in establishing pro bono patent  services for inventors and small businesses. Since the passage of this bill, four pro ...

Recorded on: Feb. 6, 2013

Taken from the briefing American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012: Permanency at Last? recorded February, 2013. On January 1, 2013, Congress passed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, and President Obama signed the Act into law on January 2, 2013. Sanford (“Sandy”) J. Schlesinger, the founding partner of Schlesinger Gannon & Lazetera LLP, will discuss the transfer tax aspects of the Act. Lecture Topics  [Total ...

Released on: Aug. 14, 2012

Please note:  CLE Credit is Not Available for this Briefing. Taken from the briefing A Millennial Makeover: How Millennials May Change the Way We Do Business recorded July, 2012. Law firms, like many business services organizations, work under an “apprenticeship” model.  Junior staff spend years learning their craft in the shadows of senior partners.  Historically, this structure has often resulted in a focus ...

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: Feb. 27, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: [UNINTELLIGIBLE] for those of you in this room, we are going to be doing the walk through of a technology license agreement. And the materials are in your book starting on page, Marc? MARC P. SCHUYLER: 617. JOSEPH YANG: 617. We're honored to have two speakers on our panel today. To my far right is Mark Holmes. Mark is the CEO of PatentBridge LLC, which is a privately held technology development and licensing firm in Silicon Valley. ...

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: Jun. 7, 2012

GARY HNATH: OK. Welcome back. Thank you for coming back. Thank you for joining the afternoon session. My name is Gary Hnath. And I'll be speaking later on this afternoon about litigation of patent cases at the ITC. But right now, I'd like to introduce the next speaker, who needs no introduction because he's already been introduced. But you're going to be treated to having what I consider to be the best speaker on patent law on this planet and also ...

Recorded on: Jun. 13, 2011

IAN N. FEINBERG: So it's 4 o'clock. We're on the home stretch. We're going to talk about the anatomy and timeline for a district court patent infringement case. We'll move fairly quickly. But before doing that, I just want to touch on damages because I know we haven't really focused on them as much as we should. So under the patent statute, a patentee is entitled to all damages caused by the infringement, but not less than a reasonable royalty. Under ...

From the program: Fundamentals of Patent Litigation 2012

Released on: Jun. 20, 2012

Are you a litigator and have always wondered how patent litigation differs from your practice?  Or maybe you have considered pursuing patent litigation but first wanted to find out how it differs from other types of commercial litigation?  This exciting program will explore what makes patent litigation different from other types of litigation, from the Rule 11 pre-filing investigation through the appeal to the Federal Circuit.  You ...

Recorded on: Nov. 17, 2011

RICHARD CLARY: And I'm going to move over to this, because I wanted to prove that even with complex litigation you can go low tech. So we have the standard flip chart which is about as low tech as you can get, but I think will be useful, or at least [INAUDIBLE]. First I want to just describe what the pieces are, because it will help you understand, I hope, where everybody's trying to get in complex litigation. So for Enron, the starting point was ...

Recorded on: Apr. 5, 2010

OK, and with that we'll start our first panel, which is anatomy of a venture capital deal. I think that Sarah and Ellen-- now this is the third time you guys have done this? ELLEN: We're still training for the more advanced topics one on the West Coast. So maybe next year we'll get chosen for that one. DROR FUTTER: Once they finally get it right we will move them up. But they're definitely a great way to start the morning. Ellen is a corporate ...

Recorded on: May. 21, 2012

JORGE A. AMADOR: It's 11:02. We're going to get started with the presentation on the balance sheet. I'd like to introduce-- we have two great speakers for you that will speak to you about the balance sheet. First is Colleen Vallen. She's an expert in the field of forensic and investigative accounting. For the past nine years, Colleen has focused her attention on forensic and fraud investigations and the preparation of financial damage analysis. She ...

Recorded on: May. 23, 2012

Taken from the Web Program Basics of Accounting for Lawyers 2012: What Every Practicing Lawyer Needs to Know Recorded May, 2012 in New York Anatomy of the Balance Sheet [01:44:24] The elements of a balance sheet - assets, liabilities and stockholders’ equity and their significance What to look for when reading a balance sheet Current assets, such as cash, receivables, inventories, investments in debt and equity securities, ...

From the program: White Collar Crime 2012: Prosecutors & Regulators Speak

Released on: Oct. 16, 2012

For more than a decade, white collar enforcement has been a top priority for the Justice Department, the SEC, and other prosecutors and regulators.  The government has targeted a wide range of business organizations and, in recent years, has focused heavily on prosecutions of individuals.  The focus on individuals has led inexorably to more trials, and the past year has seen some notable successes and failures for the government.  In ...