You currently do not have JavaScript enabled in your web browser.
The ABA website relies on JavaScript for display purposes.
To fully experience the ABA site, please enable javascript.
The 8th Annual Summer IPL Conference

AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION SECTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW
8th Annual Summer IPL Summer Conference

Download PDF version of the printed brochure

CLE HIGHLIGHTS

(All CLE programs will include a 15 minute break-morning breaks will be 10:00-10:15 a.m.; afternoon breaks will be 3:30-3:45 p.m. These times are approximate, and will be determined by the individual program moderators.)

WEDNESDAY

June 27, 2001

FOCUS ON BUSINESS

2:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

Practical Analysis of Real-Life Licensing Problems - Panel Discussion

Moderator:

Barry L. Grossman
Foley & Lardner
Milwaukee, WI

Panelists:

George A. Frank, Ph.D.
E.I. duPont de Nemours & Company
Wilmington, DE

Gary M. Hoffman
Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky
Washington, DC

Opinions of Counsel: Do's and Don'ts

David L. DeBruin
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Milwaukee, WI

Managing Litigation Costs

Yar Chaikovsky
Director of Intellectual Property
Yaplet, Inc.
Redwood Shores, CA

Role of IP Counsel In Emerging Businesses: .Coms, et al - Panel Discussion

Moderator

Seema Khan
General Counsel
Tradescape.com, Inc.
New York, NY

Panelists:

Mariam Naini
Vice President and General Counsel
Image X.com
Kirkland, WA

Sean Fitzgerald
Assistant Counsel for Intellectual Property
Loudcloud, Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA

Gerald Haynes
Intel Corporation
Hillsboro, OR

Robert L. Gullette
Assistant General Counsel
The Boeing Company
Seattle, WA

THURSDAY

June 27, 2001

SECTION BUSINESS SESSION

8:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon

The annual business session of the Section features debate on the resolutions presented by the Section's Committees, and discussion of important topics of interest to the IP law field.

 

INTERNET UPDATE

2:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

Moderator:

Katherine C. Spelman
Steinhart & Falconer
San Francisco, CA

Internet Privacy

Nichole Wong
Perkins Coie, LLP
Menlo Park, CA
Outside Patent Counsel for Yahoo

Advertising, Copyright and Promotion Issues on the Internet

Katherine C. Spelman

Copyright Crisis on the Internet

David Nimmer
Irell & Manella LLP
Los Angeles,CA

The Digital Millennium Act: Where We Are and Where We're Going

Claude Stern
Fenwick & West LLP
Palo Alto, CA

 

CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS -PATENTS

2:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

Moderator:

Frederic M. Meeker
Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
Washington, DC

Software / Business Method Patent Onslaught

Samuel H. Dworetsky
AT & T
Basking Ridge, NJ

Kenneth M. Massaroni
Deputy General Counsel - Intellectual Property
Scientific Atlanta, Inc.
Lawrenceville, GA

Q. Todd Dickinson
Former Undersecretary of Commerce and
Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks
Washington, DC

Section 112 - Point/CounterPoint

Gordon T. Arnold
Arnold & Associates
Houston, TX

Jennifer S. Sickler
Gardere Wynne Sewell, LLP
Houston, TX

Festo - Point/CounterPoint

Professor Carl R. Moy
William Mitchell College of Law
St. Paul, MN

Sharon R. Barner
Foley & Lardner
Chicago, IL

 

FRIDAY

June 29, 2001

IP LITIGATION - Session I

8:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

Computer Patent/Copyright Mock Jury Trial

Opening; Direct/Cross Examinations;

Closing Arguments

Russell E. Levine
Kirkland & Ellis
Chicago, IL

Linda S. Resh
Kirkland & Ellis
Chicago, IL

Joseph R. Bankoff
King & Spalding
Atlanta, GA

L. Norwood Jameson
King & Spalding
Atlanta, GA

Out Brief

Jennifer Gould
Research Associate
Decision Quest
San Francisco, CA

 

CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN TRADEMARKS AND COPYRIGHTS

8:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

Moderator:

Marylee Jenkins
Robin, Blecker & Daley
New York, NY

Trademarks and the Internet - A U.S. Perspective

Marylee Jenkins

Trademarks and the Internet - An International Perspective

Charlene Brownlee
Fulbright & Jaworski
Austin, TX

Trademarks and the Internet - A Corporate Perspective

Mavis Fowler
Director of Business Affairs
CBS News
New York, NY

Current State of Product Configuration/Trade Dress Doctrine

Theodore H. Davis, Jr.
Kilpatrick Stockton LLP
Atlanta, GA

Current Developments in Copyright Law

David Goldberg
Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, PC
New York, NY

 

IP LITIGATION - Session II - Mostly Patents

2:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

Moderator:

Joseph M. Potenza
Banner and Witcoff, Ltd.
Washington, DC

Pitfalls and Strategies for Developing and Presenting a Trade Secret Case

James Pooley

Gray Cary
Palo Alto, CA

Techniques for Resolving Patent Cases with ADR

Jeffrey G. Kichaven, Mediator
A Professional Corporation
Los Angeles, CA

Patent Damage Mock Trial: Direct/Cross of Damage Expert

On Direct:

Mark T. Banner
Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
Chicago, IL

On Cross :

James J. Elacqua
Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, LLP
Palo Alto, CA

Expert:

Raymond S. Sims
Managing Director
InteCap, Inc.
Chicago, IL

 

CURRENT ETHICS ISSUES

2:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

Moderator:

Brent E. Routman
Merchant & Gould
Minneapolis, MN

Law Firms Taking an Equity Interest in the Client

Robert J. (Jeff) Veal
Burr & Forman, LLP
Birmingham, A L

Candor Toward the Tribunal and the USPTO

Robert J. (Jeff) Veal

Multidisciplinary Practice, Pro or Con

Moderator:

Jerry Cohen
Perkins, Smith & Cohen, LLP
Boston, MA

Pro Position:

Lisa Smith
Hildebrandt International
Washington, DC

Con Position:

James McCauley
Ethics Counsel, Virginia State Bar
Richmond, VA

Litigating A Patent That You Prosecuted

Professor Nathan M. Crystal
University of South Carolina Law School
Columbia, SC

 

SATURDAY

June 30, 2001

HOT TOPICS IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW: A POTPOURRI

8:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

Moderator:

Charles P. Baker
Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper and Scinto
New York, NY

Growing Tension Between Antitrust and IP Law

William P. Atkins
Pillsbury Winthrop, LLP
Washington, DC

Safeguarding of Trade Secret Rights: Dealing with Employee Mobility

Tamara Mason-Williams
Steinhart & Falconer
San Francisco, CA

Sovereign Immunity

Michael R. Klipper
Meyer & Klipper, PLLC
Washington, DC

Update on Copyright Issues

Hon. Marybeth Peters
Register of Copyrights
U.S. Copyright Office
Washington, DC

Grappling with Markman

Moderator:

Jerry A. Riedinger
Perkins Coie, LLP
Seattle, WA

Judicial Panel:

panelists to be announced

 

 

Register online now!

Summer IPL Conference Main Page

Seattle Information

Conference Information

Program at a Glance

Social Events

Optional Ticketed Events

IPL Section Meetings Calendar

IPL Section Main Page