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Objectors: Strategies for Dealing with Professional Objectors

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Recorded on: Jul. 11, 2013

JAYNE GOLDSTEIN: We're now going to proceed with our Panel One objectors. And I'd like to introduce our panel. We have Linda Goldstein, a partner at Dechert. She's an experienced trial attorney who focuses her practice on securities, fraud claims, and other complex civil and commercial litigation matters. Next to her, we have Kellie Lerner. Kellie is a partner at Robins, Kaplan, Miller, and Ciresi. And she has over a decade of experience litigating ...

The Future of Class Actions: Supreme Court Round-Up

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Recorded on: Jul. 11, 2013

JAYNE A. GOLDSTEIN: Our next panel is going to be a very interesting panel, because we're going to discuss three very important Supreme Court decisions that just came out that dramatically affect the landscape of class action litigation. And we're so pleased to have this distinguished panel, because all of them were involved in the case that they're going to discuss. And with a full disclosure, I was personally involved in the Comcast matter and the ...

International Searching and Filing Strategies

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Recorded on: Jul. 11, 2013

ANNE HIARING HOCKING: I can't thank Christopher George enough for taking time out of his extremely busy day to come up here all the way from Santa Clara, into the fog and through the traffic to give his, really, an estimable perspective on what global filing strategies look like. Christopher is the managing counsel for trademarks and brands at Intel. He graduated from Emory School of Law, and he came to Intel with a very successful career in private ...

Litigation Strategies

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Recorded on: Jul. 11, 2013

HOWARD S. SUSKIN: OK. Welcome back, everybody, for our final panel. And this, historically, has always been one of our more interesting panels. It's where we try our best, with the help of three very experienced class action lawyers, to predict what's next based on everything we've heard, the landscape of what's occurred over the past year, and how things have changed. What's our best predictions for what the future holds for class action practice? And ...

Key Principles of Trademark Law and Unfair Competition

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Recorded on: Jul. 11, 2013

ANNE HIARING HOCKING: Thank you so much, and thank you for attending-- those of you in person and those of you listening to our program by webinar. It's absolutely personally my favorite thing to do. I don't think there's anything more exciting in the world than trademark law. I know you think I'm nuts, but it enlivens my experience in the commercial marketplace. I can't go anywhere without seeing a product that I haven't either had something to ...

Litigation Alternatives and Hot Topics in the U.S. and Abroad

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Recorded on: Jul. 11, 2013

ANNE HOCKING: Welcome back to The Fundamentals of Trademark Law in the Global Marketplace. It's 3:30. We're finishing up the day with not inconsiderable task of approaching not only alternatives to litigation but presenting the real hot topics that are going on in the trademark world right now. We are incredibly fortunate to have not one but two excellent speakers. Vineeta Gajwani is senior counsel for intellectual property at Electronic Arts. She ...

Addressing Disputes Over Stockholder Meetings

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Recorded on: Jul. 11, 2013

A. THOMPSON BAYLISS: So name that judge who said the following, "I'm just going to confess out loud that I have reached the point in my career of what I will call 'disclosure fatigue.' That is the struggle that the court goes through to try to figure out what information, about a target's financial advisor's analysis, needs to be disclosed to stockholders." Well everybody's voting. I'll just ask the panel, who here suffers from disclosure ...

Trademark Infringement Primer

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Recorded on: Jul. 11, 2013

ANNE HIARING HOCKING: Good afternoon. Welcome back to Fundamentals of Trademark Law in the Global Marketplace. We're going to continue on now with our afternoon sessions, the last two segments of the program. You're going to hear from Vijay Toke, a real privilege to have him with us. Completely [INAUDIBLE] to the fact that he is a partner in my firm, he is outstanding litigator in his field. He serves on the amicus brief committee of the United States ...

Basic Principles of Copyright Law & Copyright Office Practice

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Recorded on: Jul. 10, 2013

KATHERINE C. SPELMAN: We begin with what I think is the two best presenters on the topic of basic principles of copyright law. They have worked very hard to present for you a way by which you can be meaningfully introduced to the substantive topic, so that when you finish this time with them together, you will have a much greater depth of understanding. Even if you are a copyright expert, they will run you over the cavalettis, making you think again ...

How is Copyright Law Coping with Disruptive Technologies?

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Recorded on: Jul. 10, 2013

KATHERINE C. SPELMAN: Thank you. If you see Lenny, could you tell him that we're eager for his participation? Welcome. Everything today has been a warm up act for this, the last panel, the important panel where we take all the bits and pieces that we put together, and now all we actually take it on the road and we see what happens when we make all the moving parts move. So this is the part where we talk about the hottest issue we can find, and we ...

Enforcing Copyrights

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Recorded on: Jul. 10, 2013

KATE: Welcome back to the second of our calisthenic exercises as we learn the language of copyright. I'm sure you all feel like you have your seat belts fastened and you now have a good understanding of copyrights in the most fundamental way. Of course, we all know that the right of copyright is the right to exclude, and the right to exclude includes litigation. And we have today to run us through the issues of enforcing copyrights, enforcing that ...

New Cases in Copyright Law - Internet and Beyond

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Recorded on: Jul. 10, 2013

KATHERINE C. SPELMAN: Welcome back to the second part of our remarkable day of Copyright in the Data Era. I hope you're enjoying a satisfying day. We are getting bigger and better in our vocabulary about copyright and conjugating in the copyright verbs. This that you are going to see now is an exciting hand gallop through the many, many places of copyright litigation this year. Our two speakers are specifically selected for their enormous appetite ...

Fair Use & Permissions

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Recorded on: Jul. 10, 2013

KATHERINE C. SPELMAN: Our next presentation is one that is also a hard slot to fill for the reason that some would say the fair use doctrine is a circumstance when the minnow has swallowed the whale. Fair use began a long time ago, and Dale will tell you more. I will stay away from it, even though I'm itching to do that because it's such an interesting topic. But when you have someone who is as generous with their time as Dale is being today, I do ...

Investment Advisers Act and CFTC Registration

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Recorded on: Jul. 9, 2013

YUKAKO KAWATA: --for our next panel. And I should note one thing. After this panel is over at noon, then we will go immediately into the ethics panel. So there will not be a break. But anyway, here we are. We are now going to be talking about the Advisers Act and CFTC. And for this, we've got another group of experts. To my right is Heather Cruz. She is a partner at Skadden Arps, and she is a member of the firm's investment management group working ...

Monitoring Compliance at Private Equity Firms: Issues for CCOs

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Recorded on: Jul. 9, 2013

YUKAKO KAWATA: Let's get started with our next panel. And for this panel, we have Ken Berman, who is sitting to my right. He is a partner with Debevoise & Plimpton, a resident in the firm's Washington DC office, and a member of the investment management practice group. Before that, and how many of us knew Ken, was that Ken was at the SEC, where he was the Associate Director of the SEC's Division of Investment Management, where he oversaw the division ...

General Overview of Private Equity Funds

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Recorded on: Jul. 9, 2013

YUKAKO KAWATA: So that's a quick overview of what to expect over the next day and a half. And I'm going to turn it over to our first panel now. We have always been very lucky in this conference in being able to really get the best of the best to join us. And so we will start off with our first panel. And to my right is Stephanie Breslow. She is a partner in the New York office of Schulte, Roth, and Zabel. She's the co-head of the investment management ...

Conflicts of Interest and Other Ethics Issues

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Recorded on: Jul. 9, 2013

YUKAKO KAWATA: OK. So we're switching over now to our ethics panel. So everybody stay in your seats. [BACKGROUND CHATTER] YUKAKO KAWATA: So, moving on to our last panel for this morning. This is the panel where you get ethics credit. And this panel will be talking about conflicts of interest and other ethics issues. And for that, to my right is Laura Friedrich. Laura is a partner in the investment funds group at Shearman & Sterling. And she ...

Fundamentals of Private Equity Investing

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Recorded on: Jul. 9, 2013

YUKAKO KAWATA: OK, thank you, everybody. So now we're back for the afternoon M&A sessions. And let me just quickly introduce the panel. The person who is standing who is now sitting is my partner John Amorosi. He is a member of our corporate department and he concentrates on M&A. He acts regularly for a number of strategic and private equity clients with extensive experience in the full range of M&A transactions. Next to John is David ...

Raising a Private Equity Fund: Current Terms

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Recorded on: Jul. 9, 2013

YUKAKO KAWATA: So now, here we are in our final panel. And I do want to emphasize completing the evaluations. It's really helpful for us in planning next year's program. So we really look forward to getting the feedback. So we are going to close our conference with a feisty session, GP a versus LP. And for that, to my right, is Bruce Lieb. He is the managing partner of Proskauer Rose and a member of Proskauer's private equity group. He's been involved ...

Take-Private Transactions

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Recorded on: Jul. 9, 2013

SPEAKER 1: OK. John? DAVID S. ALLINSON: Hello, everybody. SPEAKER 1: David. DAVID S. ALLINSON: Welcome back. In the second half, we will focus on take-private transactions and the legal and practical issues we face as lawyers, whether it's on the buy-side or sell-side. JOHN D. AMOROSI: In this regard, just to note, we're lonely up here. Welcome to the last presentation. We also have to go for an hour and a half. So we welcome questions for lots ...

Doing the Deal: M&A, Licensing and Other Patent Transactions

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Recorded on: Jul. 2, 2013

MARTA GROSS: OK, welcome back everyone. It's 3:15. And before we get started and I introduce our next panel, I just would like to remind everyone and ask that you fill out the evaluations. We really do look at them. I look at them. Sima looks at them. The panelists look at them. We're interested in hearing what you want to hear more about, the details and all that. Again, this is a lot of subject matter we're trying to cover in one day. And we recognize ...

Analysis of the Patent Landscape: Asserting Your Rights and the New Face of Patent Litigation; District Courts, ITC, IPR, and PGR

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Recorded on: Jul. 2, 2013

MARTA GROSS: All right, welcome back, everyone. And so now we're going to move into the next module of the three modules that we're doing today. As I mentioned to you this morning when I was giving the overview, this is the module where what we're planning on doing is I'm going to give probably a 15 or 20 minute background on what I call patent landscape. Which is going to go into some scenarios where you might have your patent attorney do some analysis ...

Patent Overview, Part 1

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Recorded on: Jul. 2, 2013

MARTA: And that's it. I took a smidge longer than I wanted. But I'm going to turn it over to our two panelists. Jane Gunnison is a partner from Ropes and Gray in New York. She's been practicing patent law in the areas I already mentioned in the biotech life sciences space for about 20 years now. And she's had a lot of experience in all different areas of technology and will be bringing that viewpoint. Sitting next to her is Chris Tobin, who's a partner ...

The Customer Relationship

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Recorded on: Jun. 28, 2013

CLIFFORD E. KIRSCH: All right, everyone. Welcome back. Hope you had a nice lunch. We're going to turn now from a broker-dealer's interaction and dealings with regulators and getting past the registration membership process to the broker-dealer's relationship and obligation under the framework applying to its customers. So that's what we're going to focus on in the next hour. And I'm very pleased to welcome and welcome back to this program my colleague, ...

Expert Reports and Depositions

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Recorded on: Jun. 28, 2013

KENNETH I. SCHACTER: OK. So we're going to move on to the second panel. As always, there's a lot to say. So we always find ourselves a little pressed for time because this is such a robust subject. And it's stuff we've all lived through, good and not so good experiences, in some cases. Let me introduce our second panel. Jessie Beeber, who is directly to my right, is a partner at Frankfurt, Kurnit, Klein & Selz, an extremely experienced and terrific ...

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