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Recorded on: Jul. 12, 2011

KATE: We're going to begin today with what I think of as the single most important presentation and it is amazing how much this simple, this introductory, this vocabulary, of understanding copyright can be so mis-addressed. I have spent years finding for you the two speakers who you'll be hearing from shortly. And I think of them as masters. Masters in allowing you to learn copyright in a way that will be useful to you. Sophie Cohen is an attorney ...

Recorded on: Jul. 10, 2012

KATHERINE SPELMAN: Our first two speakers are Deirdre Merrill and Sophie Cohen. Deirdre is the director of contracts at Chronicle Books here in San Francisco. In her work at Chronicle Books over the last dozen years, Deirdre's primary focus has been all things copyright and exploiting of copyright. She is expert in getting copyright applications, in drafting, negotiating, maintaining copyright licenses, publishing agreements. Anything having to do ...

Recorded on: Sep. 28, 2012

P. TRIPODI: Well, we've reached that part of the day. I'm pleased to announce our final speaker for the day, Mark Flagel, from the Los Angeles office of Latham & Watkins. Mark is going to talk to you today about what gets to trial in a patent case. And as you can see, we will be layering the complexities of district court litigation on all the topics having to do with patent office procedures that you've heard about today. Mark has a BA from ...

Recorded on: May. 23, 2012

FRANCOISE: So we are moving along for the last panel of the day. And this is a treat to have three leading privacy lawyers, chief privacy officers, privacy directors. You guys have different titles, but basically they are in charge of privacy matters at their own companies. And so it's a treat to have all three of you join us in and talk about life as a CPO. And of course thank you to Rudy for having put this panel together. I know that-- RUDY GUYON: ...

Recorded on: May. 8, 2012

RICHARD GRIME: OK, everybody. We're in the home stretch. And I realize I'm competing with Mexican food, and I'm going to lose. So maybe we'll wait for a few stragglers to come in. This is the benchmarking session. We have about 30 questions that we want to get through. We recognize we're not going to have a dialogue on everything, because we've spent a long time over the last day and a half talking about many of these topics. So there's going to ...

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: 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: Jan. 24, 2013

IAN BALLON: So our next panel is Best Practices in a Changing Data Privacy Landscape. And just to have to make sure that these experts on best practices in a changing landscape are kept on their toes, we're trying to usher them in a few moments early, pulling them out of their calls or preparation or whatever else they were doing, just to see how nimble they are in dealing with unplanned events. Great. And we've got four experts in this area for ...

Recorded on: May. 17, 2012

AMY TAUB: Greetings. My name is Amy Taub and I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, Beyond Brinker-- Guidance on Meal and Rest Breaks and Employment Class Actions. Before you 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 ...

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: Feb. 15, 2012

MARC D. YOUNG: Alright. Well, welcome back for the final installment of this morning's program. I'm delighted to introduce Professor Christine Tour-Sarkissian. Professor Tour-Sarkissian is in private practice but also a Adjunct Professor of Law at Golden Gate University Law School, where she has been teaching for the last 16 years. She teaches courses on real estate finance, real estate transactions, and real estate litigation. She has numerous publications ...

Recorded on: Apr. 2, 2013

DANIEL L. REISNER: It's my pleasure to introduce the speakers for our last topic today. Grace Pan is a partner at Kay Scholer in our New York office. She is a graduate of Northwestern University School of Law, where she graduated Phi Delta Phi and Iota Sigma Phi. Grace speaks Chinese and Japanese, travels often to Asia, and represents numerous Asian clients with intellectual property and commercial issues. Grace is a member of numerous professional ...

Recorded on: Jun. 20, 2011

REBECCA WALKER: Attention But we do have a lot to cover today. We're going to go onto the next panel which is going to talk about Board oversight and program structure. And joining me on this panel is Kathryn Reimann, the Managing Director and Chief Compliance officer of Citibank and Citi Holdings. And before her position at Citibank-- and, I think, when I first met Kathryn-- she was the Chief Compliance Officer at American Express, so a nice, long ...

Recorded on: Jun. 4, 2012

REBECCA WALKER: So we're going to start now with the next session. This afternoon we're going to cover program structure and board oversight, auditing and assessment of the program, and then do a recent developments, hot topics, and a section on reporting procedures. So a lot to cover, but as I said, we have one hour, and then we're going to have a short break, and then we'll go to the last two panels of the day. Program structure, reporting procedures, ...

Recorded on: Mar. 20, 2012

KENNETH M. KAUFMAN: Thanks very much, Tamara. It's very nice to see all of you here with us this morning. And also we welcome those of you who are joining on the web. It's my pleasure to introduce our panel this morning on book publishing. It's a particularly exciting time in the book publishing industry, particularly with the transformation of business models. And a lot of interesting new legal issues from the electronic book revolution that our ...

Recorded on: Mar. 8, 2013

KENNETH M. KAUFMAN: Thanks very much, Tamara. I just wanted to get a sense of those of you in the audience, how many of you are lawyers this morning? OK. And how many of you devote a significant amount of your practice to entertainment law? And how about book publishing? OK, so there are a number of you. It's good to see so many of you here this morning. This morning, initially, we'll be talking about book publishing, which is an area of major current ...

Recorded on: Feb. 19, 2013

JOSHUA STEIN: Our next topic's going to be how a borrower negotiates loan documents. Our speaker is Andy Herz. Andy is a partner at Patterson, Belknap, Webb, and Tyler here in New York City, member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, and a lawyer listed in the Best Lawyers in America. Chambers described Andy as quote, "an incredible leasing lawyer, probably the best in the city in terms of leasing. He's not bad on loan documents, ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2012

MARK YOUNG: OK, folks. Why don't we get started? I'm pleased now to introduce to you Danna Kozerski, who is the co-managing partner of the Coblentz, Patch, Duffy, & Bass firm here in San Francisco. Danna engages in a broad range of real estate transactions, including financings, joint venture formations, and leasing and acquisitions and dispositions of real property. She represents both lenders and borrowers in all manner of financings, landlords ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2012

MARC D. YOUNG: All right. Well, we're going to move on to our next panel. And I'm pleased to introduce our next two speakers. Bill Bernfeld is a bankruptcy lawyer at K&L Gates, but his focus for the last 25 years has been on real estate where he advises clients in the areas of financings, workouts, leasing, acquisitions, dispositions, and creditors' rights. Bill is a prolific writer and lecturer on subjects related to real property. He has for ...

Recorded on: Mar. 5, 2012

SCOTT: With our next panel, Patent Quality and Cost Effectiveness, we used from in-house, and we're very fortunate to have three excellent speakers from in-house to talk to us about their thoughts on the topic. To my immediate right is Serena Farquharson-Torres, who is the global head currently, and patent support for consumer health care, for Sanofi. She's responsible for developing and coordinating implementation of Sanofi's patent strategy for ...

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: Oct. 16, 2012

SPEAKER 1: OK, we're back. If you're looking for the patent session, you're in the right place. We've been laboring for the past year under a new statute and here to give us some observations about it is Jennifer Sklenar, who's a partner at Arnold and Porter, where she's in the intellectual property group. Jennifer? JENNIFER SKLENAR: Thank you. Well, it's great to be here and especially to see some familiar faces that I have not seen for a while. ...

Recorded on: Mar. 19, 2013

DOUGLAS R. NEMEC: So we'll moving into developments in pharmaceutical and biotech patent litigation, a topic that's of interest, I think, to a narrower group of the audience than perhaps some that we've been covering. But to those of us who practice in that area, it's an area of great interest and one where there's really a lot going on in recent months and recent years. I'm happy to turn the program over to Asim Bhansali, who's a partner at Keker ...

Recorded on: Mar. 20, 2013

SCOTT ATLER: All right. We're gonna go right into the next session which is gonna be hot topics in technology transfer. We have a couple of great speakers to talk to us about this topic today. The first is Cheryl-- CHERYL FRAGIADAKIS: Thank you. SCOTT ATLER: --Fragiadakis who is head of technology transfer and intellectual property management at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. That lab is the oldest US national laboratory operated for ...

Recorded on: Feb. 22, 2013

CLIFFORD KIRSCH: Great. All righty, welcome back. And Anna gave the lead-in for this session. Our next panel is going to look at advertising developments. And as I said at the outset, we wanted to spend an hour working through the material here, because there really are very, very significant changes both on the broker-dealer side and the adviser side. And I have a great panel to walk us through, Stephanie Nicolas and Jesse Kanach. Stephanie is a ...