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We Need Your Involvement – Please Join A Committee! As you may know, the Section is the largest and most influential organization of intellectual property lawyers in the world. We are seeking volunteers who are interested in actively participating in the Section's committee work for the next year. We have dramatically revised our Committee and Division structure and now ask for you to review the listing to make your selection. Even if you have been on the same committee for several years, please be sure to check and see that your committee will still be active. Committee work in the Section is the foundation of our productive efforts. Our committees actively write, critique and comment on current and proposed policies, laws, rules and cases relating to intellectual property, plan CLE programs, and much more. Committee work usually is the basis on which the Section Council and membership take action in Congress, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Copyright Office, other agencies and the courts. The work of our committees makes a difference in advancing our profession. Active participation in committee work is professionally rewarding and educational, and provides an opportunity for members to interact with colleagues and leaders in the intellectual property bar.Please help shape the future of intellectual property law. Review the complete listing of Divisions at www.abanet.org/intelprop/committees.html. Then click through to the individual committee you want to join and sign up online. Committee work will begin in September, so be sure to sign up now. We look forward to working with you to keep our Section as a leader of IP issues. Subcommittee D on International Technology Transfer will undertake two projects this year. The first was an intellectual property law training program on China at the Summer IPL Conference in San Francisco. The second project, or “Finance Project,” centers around finance and tax issues and intellectual property transactions abroad, and will take the form of an article to be published in an appropriate forum to educate Section members and other practitioners. Co-chair Emile Loza and other subcommittee team members are drafting up the article with a goal of achieving publication by this fall. The Finance Project article will encompass four key topics: 1) Foreign tax liability for royalties under international licensing agreements, to be authored by Emile Loza, Managing Attorney of Technology Law Group, LLC, in Boise, Idaho; 2) Ensuring royalty payments from foreign licensees, to be authored by Kimberly Chotkowski of InterDigital Communications Corporation, a wireless technologies company headquartered near Philadelphia; 3) Economic factors and tax minimization strategies in international licensing negotiations, to be authored by London-based Gregory J. Urbanchuk, Senior Manager of Forensic Services of Baker Tilly, a chartered accountancy and business consulting firm; and 4) Minimization of negative financial impacts from foreign government approval requirements in international licensing agreements, to be authored by Scott J. Stevens of Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, McNett & Henry LLP, in Indianapolis.Comments are welcomed at eloza@technologylawgroup.com .
committees. Ultimately, if enough Section members join in, the subcommittees hope to provide the framework for Committee members to organize their own local networking events. To join a subcommittee, please forward an e-mail including your ABA membership number to Beverly Banks at banksb@staff.abanet.org and the committee co-chairs (YLKundupoglu@HHLaw.com and WhitakerM@howrey.com) listing the subcommittee(s) you would like to join. Please come and join us, we look forward to meeting you!
Be an important member of the Section by joining the Membership Committee (Committee 505)! The membership committee has launched a number of strategic initiatives that you can be a part of next association year. We will be contacting other ABA sections whose members would likely benefit from Section membership. We are also in the midst of developing strategies for contacting outside organizations whose members might likewise benefit from Section membership. Be a part of these important initiatives by designating the Membership Committee as the committee with which you would like to work next year. To sign up for this committee, go to www.abanet.org/intelprop/
The ITC Committee (Committee 603) will kick off the 2005-06 term with a meeting in Washington, DC, on August 12, 2005. Committee Chair Jeannine Sano and the members of Committee 603 acknowledge and thank Steve Gardner of Kilpatrick Stockton for all of his time, hard work, and dedication in serving as chair and co-chair of this Committee in previous terms. The Committee welcomes Former ITC ALJ, Delbert Terrill, as a new member and Vice Chair of the Committee. He will be talking about perspectives from the bench on 337 proceeding at the August 12 meeting.
Committee 701 (Computer Programs) is looking for a volunteer to head up a subcommittee that will prepare a proposed resolution on the enforceability of open source licenses. If any other committees are working on this issue, or if you would like to volunteer, please contact Toni Tease, Chair of Committee 701, at (406) 245-5254 or toni@teaselaw.com.
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