9th Annual IIPSJ CLE — March 8-9, 2012
The 9th Annual IIPSJ CLE will be held on March 8-9, 2012 ). The chair of the program is Esther Lim (Finnegan Law Firm partner) (Patent Day), with co-chairs Leigh Ann Lindquist (Partner at Sughrue Mion PLLC) (Copyrights and Trademark Day) and Lateef Mtima (IIPSJ Director). As in the past, Thursday will have panels on copyrights and trademarks and Friday will be on patents.
A special thanks to our CLE sponsors.
A pdf version of the program schedule is available to be downloaded.
Thursday March 8, 2012 (Day 1)
Copyrights and Trademarks
8:45 – 9:00 Introduction and Welcome
Lateef Mtima, Professor of Law and Director of IIPSJ Howard University School of Law
Leigh Ann Lindquist, Partner Sughrue Mion PLLC
MORNING SESSION: 9:00 – 12:35
9:00 – 10:00 Contemporary Developments in IP Protection (Part I): From Deceptive Mis-Description to the Rise of Color Marks
Phil Hampton, Partner
Dickstein Shapiro LLP
Toni Hickey, Senior Counsel
Foley & Lardner, LLP
10:00 – 11:00 Contemporary Developments in IP Protection (Part II): From Supreme Court Jurisprudence to IP Transactional Issues
Shubha Ghosh, Professor of Law
University of Wisconsin School of Law
Jonathan Goins, Partner
Gonzalez, Saggio & Harlan, LLP
Morning Break
11:10 – 12:10 Contemporary Developments in IP Protection (Part III): From the Current State of Trademark Dilution to Motion and Gesticulation Marks
Julia Anne Matheson, Partner
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
Douglas (Chip) Rettew, Partner
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
LUNCHEON PROGRAM: 12:10 – 1:55
Google Intellectual Property and Social Justice Luncheon:
Preserving Minority Culture in the Digital Information Age
Spencer Boyer, Professor of Law (Moderator)
Howard University School of Law
James Grooms, Senior Counsel
JAZZ At Lincoln Center
Lita Rosario, President & CEO
WYZ GIRL Entertainment Consulting, LLC
AFTERNOON SESSION: 2:00 – 5:10
2:00 – 3:00 Athletes’ IP Rights in Their Personas
Ronald Katz, Partner (Moderator)
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
Robert Carey, Partner
Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP
Michael Hausfeld, Chairman
Hausfeld LLP
3:00 – 4:00 Copyright and Other Protection for Fashion Design and Products
Karyn Temple Clagget, Senior Counsel
Policy and International Affairs, U.S. Copyright Office
Kenya Wiley, Founder and Editor-in-Chief
Fashion Cloture
Afternoon Break
4:10 – 5:10 Effective (and Ethical!) IP Representation
William Thomashower, Partner
Schwartz & Thomashower, LLP
Friday March 9, 2012 (Day 2)
Copyrights and Trademarks
Chair:
Esther Lim, Partner
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
8:45 – 9:00 Introduction and Welcome
Esther Lim, Partner
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
Lateef Mtima, Professor of Law and Director of IIPSJ
Howard University School of Law
Morning Session: 9:00 – 12:15
9:00 – 10:00 Interpreting and Implementing the America Invents Act and Considering Related Ethical Issues (1 Hour Ethics Credit)
Jennifer Hayes, Partner (Moderator)
Sughrue Mion PLLC
Raymond Chen, Solicitor
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Thomas Irving, Partner
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
Sung Kim, Senior Attorney
Microsoft Corporation
10:00 – 11:00 Patent Litigation and Licensing Trends: Perspectives on Non-Practicing Entities
Christian Na, Deputy General Counsel (Moderator)
Circor International, Inc.
Lee Cheng, General Counsel
Newegg, Inc.
- Delano Jordan, Shareholder
Jordan IP Law, PC
Morning Break
11:15 – 12:15 Judges’ Views on Trying Patent Cases
Donald Dunner, Partner, Partner (Moderator)
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
Honorable Susan Braden
United States Court of Federal Claims
Honorable Theodore Essex
United States International Trade Commission
Honorable Liam O’Grady
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
Honorable James Smith, Chief Administrative Patent Judge
Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, United States
Patent and Trademark Office
LUNCHEON PROGRAM: 12:15 – 1:30
SUGHRUE MION PLLC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND
SOCIAL JUSTICE SYMPOSIUM LUNCHEON
Keynote Presentation: The Inclusiveness Imperative–How Inclusiveness Facilitates Competitiveness
Joseph West, President & CEO
Minority Corporate Counsel Association
Afternoon Session: 1:30 – 4:45
1:30 – 2:00 Special Afternoon Presentation: Greatest Challenges Facing Patent Prosecutors, Patent Litigators, and Patent Licensors
Honorable Randall Rader, Chief Judge
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
2:00 – 3:00 Key Issues Facing the Federal Circuit
Barbara McCurdy, Partner (Moderator)
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
Honorable Richard Linn
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Honorable Sharon Prost
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Afternoon Break
3:15 – 3:45 Update from the World Intellectual Property Organization
Matthew Bryan, Director
Patent Cooperation Treaty Legal Division Innovation and
Technology Sector, WIPO
3:45 – 4:45 The Changing State of Patent Law: Recent Developments and Strategic Implications
George Chen, Partner (Moderator)
Bryan Cave LLP
Clint Gerdine, Attorney Advisor
United States International Trade Commission
Sarah Jabbari, Senior Counsel
Bridgestone Americas, Inc.
Ankur Shah, Associate General Counsel for Intellectual Property
Freddie Mac