Message from the Chairs

Some of our key activities and projects include: Model jury instructions for trademark and copyright cases (in process); monthly “brown bag” roundtable lunches, hosted throughout the country, in which our members discuss hot topics in intellectual property litigation; and our widely-acclaimed quarterly newsletter. In addition, our Committee is extremely active in presenting CLE programs at Section and ABA annual meetings, as well as teleconferences on breaking issues in intellectual property law, featuring lawyers at the heart of those issues. For instance, we presented a CLE program at the ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco in August, entitled “The Intersection of Antitrust and Intellectual Property,” along with a program on the trial of a fair use case at our Committee breakfast meeting. Our recent teleconferences have included a program on the Federal Circuit’s groundbreaking Seagate decision.  At our breakfast meeting at the Section of Litigation’s Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. in April we will be presenting a program on Behind-the-Scenes Trademark Use on the Internet: Keywords, Adware, Spyware and More.

Rich de Bodo
Mike Garvin
Co-Chairs, Intellectual Property Litigation Committee