Welcome to the one annual conference that IP lawyers cannot afford to miss. Now in its 21st year, the Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference of the ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law provides a gathering of the foremost authorities on the state of intellectual property law.

Recognized for its national and international scope and preeminent programming, the conference attracts over 600 attendees annually.

The past year has been marked by important changes and developments in many aspects of IP law and practice. IP practitioners face new issues, new areas of practice, and increased diversity that includes a growing international component. More demands than ever are placed on their knowledge and skills.

To meet the needs of IP practitioners, this year’s conference contains two and one-half days of programming featuring prominent speakers that include in-house counsel, private practitioners, academics, the federal judiciary and government agency officials.

The conference will address recent developments in IP law and will cover these current IP topics:

· Best Practices for an IP Trial as Viewed from the Bench and Bar

· Anti-Counterfeiting Strategies, Legal Remedies and Government Initiatives

· Patent Politics: Issues and Implications of Patent Law Reform

· Grants, Restrictions, and Circumventions: Strategies for the Distribution and Use of Digital Content

· Hot Topics and Recent Developments in Licensing and Franchising

· Patent Infringement at The Borders

· Interference Issues In A First-Inventor-To-File World

· Ethics: IP Lawyers under Attack– Why so many disqualification motions, malpractice suits and discipline investigations are aimed at us

· Hot Topics In Antitrust and Intellectual Property Law

· Internet Law and Litigation Strategy

· Developments in Copyright Law– The view from the Copyright Office; The Google Print for Libraries Project– fair or foul?; Grokster assessed: new rules for copyright liability in the digital age?

· Markman Marks Ten Years - Are We Better Off?: The Bench, The Litigator, And The Client Weigh In; and, The Doctrine of Equivalents: what’s left, how best to preserve, and how best to defeat · A Morning with Corporate Counsel

As in past years, the ABA Section of Science & Technology Law joins with the Section of Intellectual Property Law as a co-sponsor of the conference. A special session on Internet law will be presented, coordinated by both sections

The ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law is the rigorous and innovative voice of intellectual property law. We are the premier source for understanding current and emerging issues of intellectual property law.

Amy J. Benjamin, Darby & Darby, PC, New York, NY

Monique Morneault, Wallenstein Wagner & Rockey, Ltd., Chicago, IL

 

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