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December CLE Program Sponsored by Drinker, Biddle & Reath LLP "Competition and Innovation in Silicon Valley: A New Era for Antitrust and IP?" (Palo Alto)

Dec 16, 2009
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Four Seasons Hotel Silicon Valley at East Palo Alto
2050 University Avenue
Paol Alto, CA 94303


Overview

You are cordially invited to join the ACC in welcoming a distinguished group of panelists, including Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Economics Chief Joseph Farrell, IP & Antitrust scholars Mark Lemley and Peter Menell, and Electronic Arts in-house counsel Aaron Thacker for an overview of these important issues, along with a prospective look at how the law is changing in response to market dynamics.

Speakers

Mark A. Lemley
Widely recognized as a preeminent scholar of intellectual property law, Mark A. Lemley (BA '88) is an accomplished litigator—having litigated cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, the California Supreme Court, and federal circuit courts—as well as a prolific writer with more than 100 published articles and six books. He has testified numerous times before Congress, the California legislature, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Antitrust Modernization Commission on patent, trade secret, antitrust, and constitutional law matters. He is also a partner and founder in the firm Durie Tangri LLP. His contributions to legal scholarship focus on how the economics and technology of the Internet affect patent law, copyright law, and trademark law; and at Stanford he currently acts as the director of the Program in Law, Science & Technology, and the director of the LLM Program in Law, Science & Technology. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 2004, he was a professor of law at the UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) and at the University of Texas School of Law. He also served as counsel at Fish & Richardson and Brown & Bain as well as clerked for Judge Dorothy W. Nelson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Peter S. Menell
After graduating from law school, Peter Menell clerked for Judge Jon O. Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. He joined the Boalt faculty in 1990 and co-founded the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology in 1995, where he serves as a director. Menell has visited at the Georgetown University Law Center, Harvard Law School, and Stanford Law School; taught an annual course on U.S. intellectual property law at the ETH (Zurich) since 1997; and organized more than two dozen intellectual property education programs for the Federal Judicial Center since 1998.
 
Aaron Thacker
Aaron Thacker is Legal Counsel for North American Publishing at Electronic Arts.  In that role, he serves as the lead attorney for EA's sales and operations groups, providing a wide range of counseling and transaction support.  Prior to joining EA, he was a litigation associate at Heller Ehrman, working on unfair competition and intellectual property disputes.  He is a graduate of Stanford Law School, where he helped lead the Stanford Law and Technology Association and worked as a research assistant to Professor Paul Goldstein (Goldstein on Copyright).


Sponsors

Drinker, Biddle & Reath LLP

CLE

Credits: 2.0 Hours CLE
State: California
Category: General

Contact

DeeDee Ford
Phone: 510.226.1838

Location

Four Seasons Hotel Silicon Valley at East Palo Alto
2050 University Avenue
Paol Alto, CA 94303


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Cost

Members: ACC Members: FREE
Non-members: Non-Members: $50 (Registration fee will be reimbursed if eligible attendee joins ACC within 30 days of the event.)

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