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Second Annual HUSL IP CLE

October 29, 2004

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Photos from 2004 CLE

 

9:00 a.m. Introduction and Welcome

Professor Spencer H. Boyer
IIPSJ Senior Scholar
Howard University School of Law

9:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Morning Sessions

Track A: Copyrights and Trademarks

9:15 - 10:30 a.m. Introduction to Copyrights and Trademarks

Phil Hampton
Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP

Professor Steven Jamar
Howard University School of Law

10:30 - 11:15 a.m. Update on Copyrights: Recent Cases and Developments

Kate Spelman
Piper Rudnick LLP

11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Update on Trademarks: Recent Cases and Developments

Mack Webner
Sughrue Mion PLLC

 

Track B: Patent

9:15 - 10:15 a.m.  Enforcement of IPR at the Border: The Ins and Outs of ITC Litigation

Christine E. Lehman
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

10:15 - 10:30 a.m.  Break

10:30 - 11:30 a.m. Morality in Biotechnology: Patenting On Cloning and Stem Cells

Professor Margo Bagley
Emory University School of Law

11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Update on Patents: Recent Cases and Developments

Thomas L. Peterson
Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

Jennifer M. Hayes
Sughrue Mion PLLC

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.  Luncheon

Keynote Luncheon Speech: "The Intrinsic Record: Is it Ready for Prime Time?"

The Honorable Richard Linn
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Hosted by Sughrue Mion PLLC

2:00 - 5:30 p.m. Afternoon Sessions

Track A: Copyrights and Trademarks

2:00 - 2:45 p.m. Trademarks and the Internet: Initial Interest Confusion,the Anti-Cybersquatting Act and the UDRP

Dan Glazer
Shearman & Sterling LLP

Roberta Jacobs-Meadway
Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP

2:45 - 3:30 p.m. First Betamax, Now Groskster: Still Crazy After All These Years?

Sherrese Smith
The Washington Post

Tonya Evans
TME Law, LLC

Christopher Wolfe
Proskauer Rose LLP

3:30 - 3:45p.m. Break

3:45 - 4:30 p.m. Alternative Dispute Resolution Strategies in IP Cases

Gregory Nixon
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.

Michelle Larson
Larson & Associates, P.C.

Moderator: Marvin Johnson
Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Service, Inc. (JAMS)

4:30 - 5:30 p.m. Negotiating IP Licenses: Strategic Objectives and Ethical Considerations (1 Hour Ethics Credit)

Shashana Crichton
Crichton & Associates

Jean Edwards
Dickinson Wright PLLC

Moderator: Samuel McClendon

 

Track B: Patent

2:00 - 2:45 p.m. Antitrust, Patent Practice, and Industry Standards

Robert Kramer
Rambus Inc.

2:45 - 3:30 p.m. The Evisceration of Pharmaceutical Intellectual Property Protection

Dr. Raymond S. Parker III
U.S. Patents, Respiratory and RA Group Head
Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc.

3:30 - 3:45p.m. Break

3:45 - 4:30 p.m. Nanotechnology and the Future

David Spenard
McDermott Will & Emery

4:30 - 5:30 p.m. Willful Infringement and the En Banc Case in Knorr-Bremse(1 Hour Ethics Credit)

Errol Taylor
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP

Last update: May 30, 2005