Patent Law

The Practising Law Institute (PLI) is hosting the above titled seminar in Chicago (October 20-21, 2008), New York City (October 20-21, 2008), and San Francisco (December 15-16, 2008 with live webcast).

Licensing is one of the hottest areas in intellectual property today. The licensing of intellectual property has exploded into a multibillion-dollar industry. Many companies are analyzing and identifying their intellectual property assets to determine which they can license and how they can license them. Virtually every business today will confront licensing issues on an increasingly frequent basis. A solid base of knowledge about licensing of intellectual property has never been more important for companies and their counsel. This introductory course will give you an overview of how to negotiate and draft effective license agreements, whether you are the licensor or licensee. Experts in licensing will discuss different kinds of licensing agreements, and the business and legal issues related to them.

What You Will Learn

• Drafting techniques and suggestions for specific clauses
• Key provisions and practical considerations in trademark and copyright licenses
• Open source licenses and the impact of GPLv3
• Special issues for User-Generated content and the Internet
• Strategies for exploiting technological property rights
• Coordinating patent licenses with software and database licenses
• Enforcement and protection of rights in the international arena
• Avoiding antitrust problems
• Rights and remedies in the event of bankruptcy
• What happens when the agreement has to be enforced 
• The ?real world? relevance of license provisions
• Ethical issues in licensing

More information and registration details are available here.

Faculty

Chairperson

Marcelo Halpern, Latham & Watkins LLP

Speakers

Gregory J. Battersby, Grimes & Battersby, LLP
Beverly A. Berneman, Querrey & Harrow, Ltd.
Champ W. Davis, Davis McGrath LLC
Margaret M. Duncan, McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Beth A. Fulkerson, Senior Counsel, IP and Interactive, Tribune Company
Anne S. Jordan, President, Black Letter Discovery, Inc.
Hanno F. Kaiser, Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP
Steven P. Mandell, Mandell Menkes LLC
Leonard T. Nuara, Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP
E. Leonard Rubin, Reed Smith LLP
Liisa M. Thomas, Winston & Strawn LLP

Program Attorney

Tamara C. Kiwi, Program Attorney, Practising Law Institute