Library: 2018 Spring Meeting
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2018 Spring Meeting Papers & Audio
Emerging Technologies Versus Traditional Patent Rights: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Patenting Future Innovations
May 15th, 2018
2018 Spring Meeting
(1) AI: It’s More Than Vowels - An Introduction to AI and Its Implications for IP and the Law; and (2) Ethical Issues Surrounding AI-Related Patents.
Blockchain 101: A Brief History of Its Development, Application and Potential Impact
May 15th, 2018
2018 Spring Meeting
(1) Blockchain 101: Its History, Application, and Potential Impact; (2) Strategies for Enforcing Trademarks, Copyrights, and Other Digital Rights Using Blockchain; and (3) Industry Insiders Speak: Art and Culture Licensing - Applying Blockchain Technology and Smart Contracts to Overcome Market Failure.
What’s It Really Worth? IP Portfolio Due Diligence and Valuation
May 15th, 2018
2018 Spring Meeting
(1) How Business Context Informs IP Valuation—Setting and Managing Expectations; (2) Best Practices and Useful Tools for Assessing the Value of Your Company’s IP; and (3) You’ve Accumulated Many Patents, but Don’t Forget About Those Trademarks and Copyrights!
The Internet of Things: A Recipe for An Interconnected Life of Software-Enabled Consumer Products, or a Trillion Gated Communities and Walled Gardens?
May 15th, 2018
2018 Spring Meeting
(1) Industry Insiders Speak: The Impact of IoT on Business; (2) Safeguarding Trademarks and Stopping Misuse Across the Boundaryless IoT; (3) Hot Issues in Privacy and Security-Related IoT Litigation; and (4) Interoperability Drives the IoT: Strategies for Protecting or Quashing Developer Use of Others’ Copyrighted Works.
Keep Your Eye on The Remedy Ball: Part I - Damaging Damages
May 15th, 2018
2018 Spring Meeting
(1) Leveraging Licenses to Drive Damage Awards at Trial (and On Appeal); (2) Jury Instructions on Damages Matter, So Be Vigilant to Protect Your Client; and (3) When Do Reasonable Royalties Prove Unreasonable? You’ll Know on Appeal!
Getting to Allowance: Strategies for Overcoming Examiner Rejections Off the Merits
May 15th, 2018
2018 Spring Meeting
(1) Patenting Artificial Intelligence Technology; and (2) Using Big Data to Predict the Future at the USPTO.
Emerging Technologies: Virtual Reality
May 15th, 2018
2018 Spring Meeting
(1) Primer on Virtual and Augmented Reality Technologies; (2) Protection of Virtual and Projected Designs Under Design Patent Law in Various Countries; and (3) Summary of Recent Changes to Israeli Industrial Design Law.
Know When to Hold’ em, Know When to Fold’ em, and Know When to License!
May 15th, 2018
2018 Spring Meeting
(1) Strategies for Analyzing Business Risk in Licensing Decisions; (2) Tactical Timing of Licensing Decisions from Opening Discussions to Done Deal; and (3) In-House Counsel Open Mike: How to Select Technologies to License.
Surveying Trademark Enforcement Actions in Foreign Jurisdictions
May 15th, 2018
2018 Spring Meeting
(1) The Trademark Enforcement Landscape: A Comparison of Actions in Other Lands; (2) You Won! Techniques for Enforcing Trademark Infringement Remedies in Hot Jurisdictions; and (3) Working with Foreign Law Enforcement to Mitigate Trademark Counterfeiting.
Keep Your Eye on The Remedy Ball: Part II - Injunctive Relief and Non- Monetary Remedies
May 15th, 2018
2018 Spring Meeting
(1) Thinking Outside the Box: Creative Non- Monetary Remedies May Offer Great Value; (2) Remedies at the ITC: Understanding Exclusion Orders, Cease and Desist Orders, and How They Differ from Injunctive Relief; and (3) Now What??: Enforcing ITC Remedial Orders and the Role of Customs.
Preparing for and Taking Depositions
May 15th, 2018
2018 Spring Meeting
(1) Views from a Trial Consultant; (2) An Associate’s Perspective; (3) A Partner’s Perspective; and (4) Views from In-House Counsel.
Growing, Growing, Gone? The Increasing Challenges of Securing Worldwide Patent Protection on Living Organisms
May 15th, 2018
2018 Spring Meeting
The Biotech Committee, International and Foreign Law Committee, IP Practice in China Committee, and the IP Practice in Latin America Committee are partnering to present a CLE program to address the latest IP and ethical hurdles for obtaining worldwide patent coverage on living organisms. Experts from the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America will report on the latest IP developments and provide their insights on patenting technologies such as genetically engineered organisms, and human cells.
Read All About It! Copyright and Technology Issues in the UK and Elsewhere
May 16th, 2018
2018 Spring Meeting
(1) A Semester Abroad: Understanding Current Data Protection and Privacy Law in The Eu - The Eu General Data Protection Regulation Coming into Force!; (2) What Happened After Aereo: Explore the Legal Contours Within Which Alternative Web-Streaming Platforms May (or May Not) Operate; and (3) Brexit and Its Impact (or Not) on Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Protections.
The Equivalence or Not of Doctrines of Equivalents Around the World
May 16th, 2018
2018 Spring Meeting
(1) An International Survey of the Growing Importance of DOE; (2) Leveraging DOE Determinations from US Patent Trials to Impact International Enforcement; and (3) The UK Perspective: DOE Rises as a Viable Theory of Infringement.
Arbitration, It’s No Mediation
May 16th, 2018
2018 Spring Meeting
(1) Best Practices and Strategic Considerations for a Successful Arbitration; (2) Thinking Globally: Understanding Arbitration Services and Selecting Forums; and (3) Successful Arbitration from Arbitrators’ Points of View.
Trade Secrets Can Make and Break Companies, So Be Vigilant in Protecting Them Here and Abroad
May 16th, 2018
2018 Spring Meeting
(1) Extraterritorial Application of US Trade Secret Laws—Does It Work?; (2) District Court Jurisdiction Under the DTSA: May Federal Courts Take Jurisdiction Over Both Injunctive and Compensatory Relief for Trade Secret Theft?; and (3) “The Best Defense Is a Good Offense!” Best Practices for Protecting Against and Preparing for Trade Secret Theft and Managing Trade Secret Seizures.
Up Close and Personal with the US Trademark Office
May 16th, 2018
2018 Spring Meeting
(1) Hear All About It! Key TTAB Decisions and Applications of New TTAB Rules; (2) Abandoned Marks- Zombie Marks? Who’s Watching Out For Them?; and (3) Practical Trademark Prosecution Tips Given Recent Developments.
Go Litigators! The Impact of Recent Hot Patent Decisions
May 16th, 2018
2018 Spring Meeting
(1) Helsinn: Shhh, What Sale?; (2) Oil States: Is That Patent Yours or the Public’s?; and (3) TC Heartland: While Trial Size Doesn’t Matter, Location Does!
Coffee: Branding, IP, And FDA Compliance
May 16th, 2018
2018 Spring Meeting
(1) IP at the World’s Largest Coffee Brand; (2) Global Brand Enforcement for Coffee Products; (3) Labeling and Advertising for Coffee Products; and (4) Trademark / Trade Dress of Coffee.
Standard-Essential Patents: The Global Perspective
May 16th, 2018
2018 Spring Meeting
(1) Leveraging Antitrust Laws Around the World to Bypass Patent Law; (2) The Impact of FRAND-Encumbered SEPs in the IoT and Future Licensing Battles; and (3) SEP Insights from the Acronyms: FTC, KFTC, CCI, and CNDRC.
A Litigator’s Guide to Protecting Trade Secrets During Litigation
May 16th, 2018
2018 Spring Meeting
(1) Litigating Trade Secrets Can Compromise Those Very Secrets: How to Litigate Your Case Without Killing the Golden Goose; (2) Making Your Case: Practical Tips for Potential Trade Secret Plaintiffs and Defendants; and (3) Litigating Trade Secret Disputes in China and its Asian Neighbors.
Gray Market Goods at the Border-Can Rights Owners Stem the Tide of Importation of Infringing Articles?
May 16th, 2018
2018 Spring Meeting
(1) Strategies for Using Trademarks to Mitigate Importation and Distribution of Gray Market Pharmaceuticals, Consumer Goods, and Other Products; (2) Leveraging Government Agencies Like CBP and ICE to Fight Infringing Importations; and (3) Using Risk of Harm to Consumers as a Sword: A Focus on Imported Goods That Violate FDA Regulations or the FD&C Act.
Welcome to The Machine: The Impact of The Application of Computational Techniques and Artificial Intelligence to The Chemical Arts
May 16th, 2018
2018 Spring Meeting
(1) The Current State of the Technical Art of Computational Chemistry, Virtual Reactors and Simulated Biological Systems; (2) Invention and Inventorship Using AI: What is the “Invention” When Does it Occur, and Who Owns It?; (3) AI and Patentability - Understanding the Relationship Between Patent Eligibility, Predictability vs. Obviousness, Enablement and Written Description in the Chemical Arts; and (4) The Challenges of AI Inventions: A Moderated Discussion.
Intersection Between Patent Law and Copyright Law
May 16th, 2018
2018 Spring Meeting
(1) Waxing & Waning of Copyright & Patent Protections for Software; (2) Patent/Copyright Overlap in the Computer World: Where are the Boundaries and Where is the Overlap?; and (3) Ready Counsel One: The Intersection of Patents and Copyrights in Recognition Works.
Ethics: IP Attorneys in Hot Water
May 17th, 2018
2018 Spring Meeting
Disqualification, Not-So-Expert Witnesses and Opinions, and Returning Fees.
Mid-Year in Review
May 17th, 2018
2018 Spring Meeting
Mid-Year Review (Trademark, Patent, Trade Secret, and Copyright).
Keynote Speech
May 17th, 2018
2018 Spring Meeting
Q&A with Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
US IP Attaché Program: International Year in Review from USPTO IP Attachés
May 17th, 2018
2018 Spring Meeting
US IP Attachés Speak. Attachés for China, South America, Europe, South Asia, and Geneva (WTO/WIPO) invited.