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The
US Patent and Trademark Office: Update on the New Admin’s
Initiatives
Charles Pearson
Strategic Negotiation: Overcoming Impasse in Negotiations
Nina Meierding
The Year in
Patent Law: Bilski, the CAFC, USPTO Rule Changes and More
Michael Florey & J. Michael
Jakes
The Year
in Trademark Law: Fraud, Distinctiveness, the Stevens Act and Other Hot
Trademark Developments
Stephen Baird & Paul Mussell
Strategic
Approaches for Dealing with the Pitfalls of Joint Inventorship,
Ownership of Intellectual Property Rights and Other Hot Trends
Irene Eckert, Jeffrey
Hohenshell, Gregory Koeller & Barb Wrigley (moderator)
Trade Secrets – A
Judicial View of What Counts if the Trade Secret Matters You’re Handling
End Up In Court
Donovan Frank, Robert Lynn,
Janet Poston, Keith Moheban (moderator)
When, Why and How
to Strategically Leverage Accelerated Examination
Christopher R. Hilberg
The
Intersection of IP Rights and the First Amendment in Video Games: An
Examination of Trademark, Right of Publicity, and Copyright Claims in
Video Games
Joel Leviton & Peter Welch
IP Issues in
Contracts: Getting Beyond the Boilerplate
Stacy Schultz
Behind the Scenes of
the Bilski Case and What it Means for Patentability of Business
Methods
J. Michael Jakes
The Tension Between Trademark Attorneys and
Marketers over Trademark Use
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Beth Chapman, Gregory Kaihoi, William Lozito
Diane Prange & Dean Karau (moderator)
Social Networking
Policies—Insights from an Industry Leader
Daniel Goldman
Effective Patent
Application Drafting and Prosecution in Light of Recent Developments
Thomas Woods
Trademarks
and Social Media: Practical Responses to Emerging Issues
Paul Mussell & Aparna Dave
False Patent Marking Claims
after Bon Tool: Patent Marking “Trolls” or Guardians of the Patent
System?
Thomas Cotter, Eran Kahana &
Michael Lafeber
Big
Verdicts Under Scrutiny: Taking a Hard Look at the Damages Case
Jake Holdreith & Michael
Wagner
The Year in
Copyright Law—Illegal Downloading, Fair Use, and the DMCA
Donna Gies & Calvin Litsey
Strategic
Negotiation: Identifying and Responding to Negotiation Tactics
Nina Meierding
The Strategic
Use of Reissue in Patent Prosecution
Devan Padmanaban
The
Mouse, the Artist, the Superheroes and Their Lawyers: A Litigation Story
Felicia Boyd & Rita O’Keeffe
IP Due
Diligence in Mergers & Acquisitions—Including What to Do about a Target
Company’s Use of Open Source Software
Steve Tapia & James Young
Elimination of
Bias: The Impact of Culture on Negotiation
Nina Meierding
Copyright 2015: Is
Social Media the End of Traditional Copyright?
Steve Tapia |