15-Hour Program

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Overview

Why You Should Attend

Intellectual property licensing continues to grow increasingly complex with the legal, regulatory and technical landscape constantly evolving.  Building and maintaining a successful and effective practice requires that practitioners stay sharp and current in a wide variety of key areas. Whether you are using licensing to expand or create market opportunities, develop technology, or generate returns from existing assets, managing licensing transactions requires a broad and varied toolkit.  Additionally, whether licensing patents, copyrights, trade secrets or trademarks, the ability to structure, draft and negotiate complex license agreements is critical to a successful transaction. This comprehensive program will feature updates on current legal developments, present case studies highlighting best practices, discuss tactics for negotiating frequently contested issues, and provide guidance on identifying and avoiding common pitfalls. 

What You Will Learn

  • Discuss best practices for patent and technology licensing
  • Pointers for strategic alliances and other joint development agreements
  • Advanced considerations in copyright, content, and trademark licensing
  • Impact of digital distribution and media on licensing issues
  • Software licensing: representations, warranties and indemnification
  • Analyze ethical considerations in licensing
  • How to draft to account for litigation risks
  • Recent developments in legal enforceability of open source licenses
  • Special contract issues raised by cloud computing
  • Issues surrounding the licensing of Big Data
  • Addressing international licensing issues
  • Mastering effective negotiation strategies

Special Features

  • In-depth panel discussion of a complex technology or content license
  • Breakout sessions to meet your practice needs
  • Earn one hour of Ethics credit

Who Should Attend

This advanced program is focused on those who already have experience in the substantive area of intellectual property law, and who devote a substantial amount of their practice to licensing.

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