Previous Events & CLE Programs
April 23, 2008
Committee Meeting
Foreign Patent Strategy
Donald Tobin, Gillette, provides in-house counsel's perspective on foreign patent strategy.
March 26, 2008
Committee Meeting
Privacy Issues Implicated by European Data Laws
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Join Mark Schreiber, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP, to discuss privacy issues that are implicated by European data laws, including issues that arise from data breaches in Europe and Sarbanes-Oxley hotlines in Europe.
January 23, 2008
Committee Meeting
Offshoring your IP - Mechanisms and Pitfalls
Gaytri Kachroo, Burns & Levinson LLP, will review legal process outsourcing trends and the development of Intellectual Property abroad:
- How it works
- Who can do it and
- The benefits and problems you can expect to encounter.
October 24, 2007
Committee Meeting
Protecting Your Brand in Cyberspace
Mark Schonfeld of Burns & Levinson LLP will discuss international trademark and copyright protection on the internet. Subjects will include:
- Jurisdiction over infringers on the internet
- Where Do You Sue? Whom Do You Sue?
- What Kinds of New Lawsuits Does the Internet Create?
- Practical Tips for Doing Business on the Internet
April 5, 2007
Committee Meeting
US Courts and Foreign IP Law
Join us for a roundtable discussion of US Courts’ declaration and enforcement of rights under foreign IP Law. Specifically, we will discuss:
- Voda v. Cordis, 81 USPQ2d 1769 (Fed. Cir. 2007) (patent case)
- US enforcement of copyright, trademark, trade secret rights and patent rights under foreign law
- stretching rights under US law to overlap rights under foreign law
January 24, 2007
Committee Meeting
Cross-Border IP Infringement Issues
Jerry Cohen, a partner at Burns & Levinson LLP, will discuss patent infringement under 35 USC secs. 271 (f) and (g) and sec. 337 of the Trade Act and the pending AT&T v. Microsoft case at the Supreme Court. Specific topics include:
- coordination of multiple suits in several countries under corresponding patents against the same or diverse infringers and the value of ADR in such situations
- issues of patent, trademark and copyright infringement liability based on acts of authorization, advertising (via Internet or otherwise), inducement, contributory infringement and aiding/abetting
- gray market issues
October 25, 2006
Committee Meeting
Intellectual Property in the Russian Federation
Co-Chair Maria Eliseeva of Houston Eliseeva LLP will lead a roundtable discussion of intellectual property in Russian Federation/CIS and other nations of the former Soviet Union.
April 26, 2006
Committee Meeting
Intellectual Property in China
Michael J. Meagher, a partner at Burns & Levinson LLP and head of their Shanghai office, will discuss intellectual property in China.
Chinese intellectual property changed substantively just before, and after, China’s accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. Over 147 laws concerning all facets of intellectual property have been amended, and out of the 343 paragraphs of the Working Party Report on China’s accession, 55 cover trade-related IP rights.
February 22, 2006
Committee Meeting
Maria Eliseeva, a partner at Houston Eliseeva LLP, will discuss IP rights acquisition and enforcement for US parties in Russian Federation and other Eurasian Patent Convention states and the reverse.
October 26, 2005
Committee Meeting
Developments in IP Law & Practice Abroad
Join us for a discussion on developments in IP law and practice abroad - particularly Europe . Topics to be discussed include:
- EU policy on software;
- EPO developments and growth;
- Trademark and copyright issues;
- Enforcement and utilization, including possible effects of pending patent reform legislation if enacted;
- Teaching international IP in law schools, in corporate training programs and other settings.
Please join us for future meetings at which we will
discuss IP perfection of rights, enforcement and utilization in India and China. Co-Chair, Jerry Cohen, will also report on his participation in an education program for Russian judges conducted by Massachusetts judges and lawyers in Russia.
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