November 28/Web: IP Licensing: What's Lurking in Common Provisions?

Aspects of drafting license agreements, which are crucial in increasing IP licensing revenue and decreasing risk of loss and liability.
Title:
IP Licensing: What's Lurking in Common Provisions?
November 28, 2012
9 - 10:30 AM
Credit:
The host has not indicated whether it has applied for CLE credit in any state but it appears from the content that it may meet requirements in multiple jurisdictions.
By:
Managing Intellectual Property
Speaker:
The sponsor indicates that it will be someone from Woltera Kluwer Law & Business
More:
http://www.managingip.com/Web-Seminars.html

Nov 10/Web - Best Practices: Prior Art Search

Our CLE provides strategies that improves your Prior Art Search making sure you get the relevant results the first time Call us at 800-538-0558 for more information about this CLE, and to learn about how we can present it Live at your firm!   Topics Covered · Highlight key components of an effective search strategy · Understand database strengths and weaknesses · Processes to save you and your clients' time and money · Best practices in dealing with vendors and clients · Cover various searches and benefits · Review basic building blocks
Webinar Details
Best Practices in  Prior Art Search	November 10th, 2011  12:00 PM EDTDuration: 1 Hour
Presenter and Faculty Bio:
Faculty of this presentation - Mirza Baig & Tapan Brahma  Coming from varied technical and management backgrounds, they also bring a wealth of knowledge from more than 40 years of combined experience working with IP professionals from top IP and AmLaw firms to individual inventors.    Legal Advantage has conducted over 3,000 combined searches, with a cross section of experience of searching for patent and non-patent literature in databases mirrored with extensive on-site search experience at the USPTO.    Patent attorneys, patent agents and paralegals will find these webinars very useful. This course has helped the attendees manage their patent prosecution matters and searches more effectively and efficiently.
State Credit - 1 Hour   AR, CA, CO, DE, FL, IA, ID, IN, ME, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NJ, NM, OH, OK, SC, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV & WY Waiting for approval from the following states: GA, IL, KY, LA, NE, NV, NY & OR
More: http://legaladvantage.net/CLE/PriorArtSearch.aspx

Nov 15/Web - Intellectual Property As A Business Model

Distinguished Lecture in Law, Technology, and the Arts presented by the Center for Law, Technology, and the Arts

Moot Courtroom (A59) 1 of CLE credit available.

Ms. Quatela will discuss Intellectual Property as a Business Model, including the role of patent protection litigation as part of corporate business strategy. It offers a way to recover research, development, and production costs, as well as a way to generate revenue. Using her experience at Kodak as an example, she will describe the value to the company of putting a large number of licensing agreements in place and of pursuing litigation against other companies to protect Kodak’s patents and intellectual property. For example, settlements Kodak has achieved with Samsung and LG Electronics. She will also describe the litigation Kodak has pursued with Apple and Research In Motion, the maker of BlackBerry.

Laura Green Quatela General Counsel, Senior VP Eastman Kodak Co. Laura G. Quatela was named General Counsel and elected a senior vice president of Eastman Kodak in January 2011. In her role as Chief Intellectual Property Officer, she is responsible for IP strategy and policy, the Senior IP Strategy Council, and external IP affairs. Previously, Ms. Quatela was Managing Director, IP Transactions. In August 2006, the Board of Directors elected Ms. Quatela a vice president of the company. She joined Kodak in 1999 and held various positions on the Marketing, Antitrust, Trademark & Litigation staff in the company’s Legal Department. She was promoted to Director of Corporate Commercial Affairs, Vice President Legal and Assistant General Counsel in 2004. Earlier, Ms. Quatela was Director, Finance Transformation and Vice President, Finance & Administration (2002-03). Prior to joining Kodak, Ms. Quatela worked for Clover Capital Management, Inc.; SASIB Railway GRS; and Bausch & Lomb Inc. In private law practice, she was a defense litigator specializing in mass tort cases. She earned her B.A. (International Politics) from Denison University (1979) and her J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law (1982). She is proficient in Mandarin.

Free and open to the public. Reception follows. 1 hr. continuing legal education credit available, pending approval. _____________________ At one-hour CLE activities, Ohio Supreme Court regulations require attorneys to be present for the entire hour to obtain credit. Therefore, registration for one-hour lectures will close at the time the event is scheduled to start. Everyone is welcome to attend the lecture, but we cannot submit CLE credit for late arrivals. At events longer than one hour, we will submit credit based on an attorney’s arrival time and duration of attendance, but no less than the minimum of one full hour of attendance. We encourage attendees to arrive at registration 20 minutes prior to the start of a lecture to sign in, obtain materials, and be seated. _____________________ DIRECTIONS TO CAMPUS PARKING There is no law school parking, however, public parking, for a fee, is available in the Cleveland Botanical Garden parking underground garage. Also, meter parking might be available. Recording in any form is prohibited. Supplemental Readings: Bibliography IP Monetization Google to Buy Motorola Mobility Strategic Patents Return On Investment

Intellectual Property Risk Management - On-demand #ethics CLE

Intellectual property attorneys and professionals will benefit from the discussion on issues relating to acceptable and ethical conduct in patent and trademark prosecution before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), conflicts of interest and potential resultant malpractice charges.
Attendees will learn about the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Model Rules of Professional Responsibility, how they differ from USPTO rules and authority, and the Office of Enrollment and Discipline (OED) governance.  The program will examine conflicts of interest that may arise with existing and potential clients and malpractice issues as defined by the ABA Model Rules.
Topics discussed:

•     Representation of others before the USPTO
•     OED compliance and disciplinary actions
•     Consistent types of conduct giving rise to malpractice complaints

Agenda:

•     Patent Office Rules of Conduct (15 minutes)
•     ABA Rules of Professional Conduct (20 minutes)
•     Conduct to Leading to Malpractice Complaints (25 minutes) 

Title:
Intellectual Property Risk Management
Recorded:
Jul. 8, 2009
Credits: 

• NY: 1 credit Ethics; Credit Expires 7/7/2012; WA (Activity ID 234615 - expires 2014)
• Other Jurisdictions: Check with your credit-granting authority

SPEAKER
Donald W. Rupert, Esq., Partner, Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP
Donald W. Rupert provides intellectual property counseling and litigation with an emphasis on complex technology matters, including all phases of intellectual property litigation, and the negotiation and preparation of technology transfer agreements. Mr. Rupert has handled nearly 100 intellectual property lawsuits in his career and has been lead counsel in jury and bench trials involving patent, copyright, trademark and related matters in federal and state courts throughout the country and overseas and has argued cases before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Seventh Circuit.
His practice also includes negotiating domestic and international licensing and litigation settlements and corporate due diligence reviews and transactions in the intellectual property area. Mr. Rupert has been the lead intellectual property attorney in licensing and corporate transactions having a cumulative value of more than $15 billion. His experiences also include patent prosecution in the mechanical, electrical, computer, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries. He is a member of the American Arbitration Association Commercial Panel of Arbitrators, arbitrating intellectual property disputes.
Offered By
Practicing Law Institute
More:
http://www.pli.edu/Custom/MGB.aspx?id=54131&t=RWH9_8AEM2
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Special Thanks for the head's up about this program from The Irreverant Lawyer!

Oct 31/ CA - The Story Behind Maxwell v. J. Baker (#ethics and #IP )

Gender disparity in intellectual property law is pronounced. According to a study American Intellectual Property Law Association just 18 percent of IP attorneys are women. The disparity is also apparent in the number of patents awarded. Just 10 percent of patents are awarded to women.
A free CLE at the end of this month, sponsored by Law Week Colorado and Merchant & Gould, will explore these disparities. It will include presentations by inventor Susan Maxwell; Daniel McDonald and Kirstin Stoll-Debell, patent and trademark litigators with Merchant & Gould; and Lisa DeCaro, a jury consultant with Courtroom Performance.
Maxwell, who invented a system for connecting mated pairs of shoes to prevent separation and possible mismatching when offered for sale in self-service stores, will speak to her experience as a female inventor and plaintiff in a number of patent infringement cases, most notably Maxwell v. Baker.
The CLE will include a panel discussion, and two ethics or general credits are available. For more information, contact Brandon Pohlman at Brandon@CircuitMedia.com.
More:
http://www.circuitmedia.com/?p=265

Statutory Damages and the Tenenbaum Litigation

Joel Tenenbaum looks a lot like every other defendant who has been accused by the music industry of illegally sharing copyrighted work online, but with one key difference: his defense attorney is Harvard Law School Professor Charlie Nesson, and Nesson is out to turn his case into a public referendum not only on the music industry's efforts to enforce copyright through these direct-infringer suits, but also on the copyright rules that make the industry litigation possible.
This program engages Nesson's key arguments, focusing especially on Nesson's claim that copyright law's statutory damages regime runs afoul of constitutional protections against excessive and/or arbitrary civil damages awards.
Title: 
Statutory Damages and the Tenenbaum Litigation
Speakers:

• Professor Nesson
• Steven Marks, General Counsel for the Recording Industry Association of America
• Professor Catherine Sharkey, New York University
• Professor Dan Markel, Florida State
• Professor Thomas Colby, George Washington University
• Moderating: Professor Doug Lichtman moderates, UCLE.

CLE credit:
California, New York, Tennessee, Texas, Illinois, Washington, and likely more via reciprocity. 
Listen Now:
http://www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/5.html

A Conversation with Chief Judge Paul Michel - an On-Demand CLE

The Honorable Paul Michel currently serves as Chief Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit and, in that role, has overseen a period of enormous growth and change in the patent system.
In this audio presentation, Chief Judge Michel joins moderator Doug Lichtman to talk patent reform, thinking not only about what has been accomplished in recent Supreme Court and Federal Circuit decisions, but also about what work is left ahead for Congress, the Supreme Court, the Patent Office, and the Federal Circuit itself.
Title:

A Conversation with Chief Judge Paul Michel

Sponsor:

Intellectual Property Colloquium
Listen Now:

http://www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/4.html

Privacy in Networked World: On-Demand MCLE

Social networking sites, search engines, and the like all gather an enormous amount of information about individual users. The information has value to these businesses in terms of tailoring advertisements and calibrating product offerings and pricing.
But what constraints does the law place upon the acquisition, storage and use of this data?
In this program, we will look at privacy law from a distinctly modern perspective, using recent controversies to highlight not only relevant rules but also strategic tradeoffs inherent in collecting personal information from a user community.
Title:
Privacy in Networked World
Speakers:
Doug Lichtman
By:
Intellectual Property Colloquium
Credit:
1 Credit in CA, NY, PA, WA
BUT NOTE: this was recorded in 2008 and so may not be eligible for credit.
More:

http://www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/3.html

You Tube, My Take: An On-Demand CLE

Should Google be held responsible for the copyright infringement that its YouTube website facilitates?
This audio recording engages the issues by drawing on excerpts from the voluminous materials filed over the past three years in the Viacom/Google litigation. Specifically, it considers how both Viacom and Google frame the basic case, and critically explores each side's position with respect to the storage, knowledge and control issues raised by section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Title:
You Tube, My Take
Speaker:
UCLA law professor Doug Lichtman.
By:
Intellectual Property Colloquium
Credit:
CA, NH, NY, PA, WA. For other jurisdictions, you might be able to apply for credit with the appropriate agency.
More:

http://www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/14.html

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Anytime/Web - A Conversation with Fred von Lohman

Fred von Lohman is literally one of those special voices who needs no introduction. Agree with him, think his views extreme, or fall anywhere in between, one can still not help but respect and be thoughtfully engaged by his comprehensive and careful views on the proper scope and struture of federal copyright law.
In this audio presentation, join us as Fred and moderator Doug Lichtman engage a group of UCLA law students in a wide-ranging conversation about the Cablevision case, third-party liability, and copyright law's struggle to simultaneously encourage authorship while leaving adequate flexibility for distruptive technologies.
Listen Now:
http://www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/1.html
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The Intellectual Property Colloquium is an online audio program devoted to intellectual property topics. We aspire to be something like an NPR talk show, but focused on copyrights and patents, and aimed primarily at a legal audience.
Our programs are neither lectures nor debates. They are instead conversations,with guests drawn from academia, the entertainment community, the judiciary, and various technology industries. Each program lasts one hour and can either be played on the site or downloaded to any PC or MP3 player. Morever, lawyers who listen to the show can earn free CLE credit in California, New York, Tennessee, Texas, Illinois, Washington, and soon over a dozen other states.
The Colloquium is hosted by Doug Lichtman. Its student director is Chris Moen. Our current show, an archive of previous programs, a schedule of up-coming audios, and various subscription methods are all available at the site."
More:
http://www.ipcolloquium.com

Anytime/Web - The Federal Trade Commission & Patent System Reform

The Federal Trade Commission just released its much-anticipated second report on patent system reform. And, on this edition of the IP Colloquium, two of the principal drafters of that report – Suzanne Michel of the Office of Policy Planning, and Deputy General Counsel William Cohen – join UCLA Law Professor Doug Lichtman to talk about its specific reform recommendations: http://www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/18.html

The Intellectual Property Colloquium is an online audio program devoted to intellectual property topics. We aspire to be something like an NPR talk show, but focused on copyrights and patents, and aimed primarily at a legal audience.

Our programs are neither lectures nor debates. They are instead conversations,with guests drawn from academia, the entertainment community, the judiciary, and various technology industries.

Each program lasts one hour and can either be played on the site or downloaded to any PC or MP3 player. Morever, lawyers who listen to the show can earn free CLE credit in California, New York, Tennessee, Texas, Illinois, Washington, and soon over a dozen other states.

The Colloquium is hosted by Doug Lichtman. Its student director is Chris Moen. Our current show, an archive of previous programs, a schedule of up-coming audios, and various subscription methods are all available at the site."

Link:

http://www.ipcolloquium.com
http://www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/18.html

Web/Anytime - Tim Wu and The Master Switch by Intellectual Property Colloquium

Columbia Law Professor Tim Wu has been one of the leading voices in the debate over network neutrality. He is a scholar of both copyright and telecommunications law; and, over the years, he has developed some pretty influential views about how legal rules impact innovation. Tim just wrote a summary of his views in the form of pop-press book entitled, The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires.

On this edition of the IP Colloquium, he joins UCLA Law Professor Doug Lichtman to talk about that book, and the ideas it articulates about innovation and competition.
Link: www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/17.html

The show lasts one hour; it can be streamed or downloaded from the page linked below; approved for CLE Credit in several jurisdictions.

More:
http://www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/17.html

More Than A Game: On-Demand CLE

The complicated relationship between game manufacturers and the big three console producers, and the licensing arrangements under which video game companies make games based on intellectual property like the Harry Potter characters or the names and likenesses of NFL players, are the subjects of this edition of the Intellectual Property Colloquium
Speakers include chief legal officers from three major video game studios:

• Steve Bene of Electronic Arts,
• Seth Kraus of Take-Two, and
• Chris Walther of Activision Blizzard
• Host: Closet video game fan and UCLA Law Professor Doug Lichtman.

Title:

More Than A Game

When/Where:

On Demand Recording

Credit:
California, New York, Tennessee, Texas, Illinois, Washington, and  other states.
More Information

Web - A Conversation with Chief Judge Randall Rader

In this edition of the IP Colloquium, the Honorable Randall R. Rader, Chief Judge of the Federal Circuit, joins us to discuss a wide range of legal and policy issues related to the nation's patent system.

The conversation is a frank and open discussion, with exchanges about (among other things) the need for Federal Circuit judges to experience district court proceedings in order to meaningfully evaluate them, and the possibility that independent creation is in fact evidence of patent obviousness. UCLA Law Professor Doug Lichtman hosts.

The show lasts one hour; it can be streamed or downloaded from the page linked below; and, if you are a lawyer, you might be able to earn free CLE credit just for listening. Visit the Intellectual Property Colloquium for more details.

Program: A Conversation with Chief Judge Randall Rader


Link: www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/15.html

Copyright Termination - an On-Demand CLE on Intellectual Property

Copyright law has long recognized in authors an unwaivable right to terminate certain contracts and licensing agreements. A handful of high-profile cases have already called substantial attention to this terminal provision, with disrupts touching such iconic characters as Superman, Captain America, the Fantastic Four, Lassie, and Winne the Pooh.
This edition of the IP Colloquium is a conversation about the termination right, its controversies, and the implications for modern copyright practice.
Title:
Copyright Termination
Sponsor:
Intellectual Property Colloquium
Speakers:

• Peter Menell, Professor of Law, UC Berkeley
• David Nimmer, Author of Nimmer on Copyright
• Doug Lichtman, Professor, UCLA School of Law

More:www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/13.html

First Sale Doctrine - On-Demand MCLE

Copyright law's first sale doctrine might seem straightforward. On its face, it tells us that, after the first sale of a particular object that embodies a copyrighted work, the copyright holder's rights are exhausted, and the relevant embodiment is therefore free to flow in the stream of commerce.
But what happens if the original buyer agrees by contract not to resell? And what if the original sale is not a sale at all, but instead is characterized by the parties as a license? And what if that embodiment is not physical but instead digital?
This edition of the IP Colloquium IP Colloquium sets out to understand the first sale doctrine, tracing its public policy justifications and comparing copyright's approach to that of antitrust.
Title:
First Sale Doctrine
When/Where:
On-Demand Recording 
Speakers:

• UC Irvine's Tony Reese
• Boston University's Michael Salinger
• George Mason Law Professor Josh Wright
• UCLA's Doug Lichtman hosts. 

Credit: 
CA, FL, NH, NY, PA, WA.
More Information, including more about the faculty, recommended reading and credit info:
http://www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/12.html

Web/AV - In Re Bilski

Intellectual Property Colloqium has another innovative online course, this time concerning In Re Bilski.

In its recent decision in In Re Bilski, the Federal Circuit articulates a new test for whether a given innovative process falls within the subject matter of federal patent law. In this audio presentation, Professors Rob Merges and John Duffy join moderator Doug Lichtman to think through what the new test actually means; where it came from; and whether it will actually change the knds of patents that issue.

Access Audio and other links here

For CLE credit, you may have to check with your own jurisdiction, but the "Request CLE Credit" button on that page lists California, Illinois, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Washington State.

Shepard Fairey v. Associated Press: On-Demand MCLE

Every year, at least one major copyright case brings to the fore the complexity, importance, and unpredictability of fair use analysis. That case in 2009 was Shepard Fairey v. The Associated Press.
Title:

Shepard Fairey v. The Associated Press
Speakers:

• Mark Lemley, who represented the artist
• Dale Cendali, who represented the AP
• Ken Richieri, Senior Vice President and General Counsel at the New York Times
• Host: Doug Lichtman, UCLA law professor.

By:
Intellectual Property Colloquium
Credit:
The sponsor does not appear to be reporting credit; you will have to do that yourself (which is only fair because, you know: free!). 

• Washington State - 1 AV General, MCLE ID 235621
• California, New York, Pennsylvania: 1 AV Credit 
• Other States - please consult your credit-granting authority.

More:
http://www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/8.html