Intellectual Property: Year in Review
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Thursday | January 19, 2006 | 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Reception to Follow
Join us for the biggest BBA Intellectual Property event of the year.
Learn what you need to know about the most important intellectual property cases and legislation of 2005. This popular program offers insight that is straight and to-the-point.
The program will be followed by a reception, with an opportunity to network with your peers and enjoy some beer, wine and hors d’oeuvres .
Copyright
David M. McIntosh, Esq.
Associate
Ropes & Gray LLP
James S. DeGraw, Esq.
Partner
Ropes & Gray LLP
- MGM v. Grokster and its after-effects
- The latest on copyrightability -- stock quotes, parts numbers, legal forms, nurses manuals, video games, more!
- Fair Use Update – What is, what isn’t
- Testing the limits of the Section 117 safe harbors for copying computer programs
Patent
Sarah Chapin Columbia
Partner
Choate Hall & Stewart LLP
Daniel Winston, Esq.
Partner
Choate Hall & Stewart LLP
- Merck v. Integra -- The Supreme Court’s say on the scope of the 271(e)(1) exemption
- Phillips v. AWH and the use of dictionaries in claim construction
- In re Fisher and the patentability of “ESTs” under S.101
Trademark
John L. Welch, Esq.
Counsel
Foley Hoag LLP
Michael P. Boudett, Esq.
Partner
Foley Hoag LLP
- TTAB Year in Review
- KP Permanent Make-Up: One year later
- Gripe Site Decisions
- Dilution Developments
- Famous Foreign Marks
Licensing
Frances Toneguzzo
Director of the Office of Corporate Sponsored Research and Licensing
Massachusetts General Hospital
- Licensee’s rights to challenge Patent and TM validity
- Shrink-wrap licenses -- enforceability and other matters
- Enforceability of no-reverse engineering clauses
- U.S. Philips v. ITC – package licenses pass antitrust scrutiny
IP Issues on the Internet
Bruce E. Falby, Esq.
Partner
DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary
- Patent - eBay's Supreme Court fight to avoid permanent injunction of its "buy-it-now" auction feature
- Copyright - Google's Library Project: a massive copyright violation?
- MGM v. Grokster: the death knell for free music on line?
- Trademark - search engine key-word advertising and meta tag infringement cases
- Developments under the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy, and Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Program Prices
$135 - BBA Members
$165 - Non-Members
$115 - New Lawyers
$70 - Government Lawyers/Legal Services
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