Maggiano's Little Italy at Cumberland Mall
1601 Cumberland Mall SE
Atlanta, GA 30339
Overview (Program Summary)
A program hosted by:
ACC GeorgiaJoin ACC Georgia and Womble Bond Dickinson attorneys John Perry and Rodney Miller as they outline best practices on how to protect your most important assets. The presentation will cover the GA Restrictive Covenants Act, the current state of the law, and how to litigate a Restrictive Covenant claim. They will also discuss how this process is similar to protecting intellectual property rights such as trade secrets and patents, through confidentiality and invention assignment agreements, and how to litigate claims involving the violation of confidentiality and invention assignment agreements.
Speakers
John Perry (Partner) is a business litigator who helps business clients address and resolve commercial disputes. He advises clients across multiple industries including financial institutions, insurance companies and brokerages, manufacturing and healthcare companies. John has represented major banks and financial institutions in complex issues involving problem loans, receiverships, and issues arising under the Uniform Commercial Code and other consumer protection statutes. He has defended officers and directors of publicly traded companies against claims of federal and state securities fraud and breaches of fiduciary duty, and numerous officers and directors of failed banks against claims asserted by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
Rodney Miller (Partner) is a registered patent attorney with more than a decade of experience and concentrates his practice on intellectual property matters, including due diligence, licensing and transactional work, patent office post-grant review, and litigation. He has represented both public and private companies in patent, trademark and trade secret disputes, as well as counseling clients in obtaining, protecting, licensing, and enforcing intellectual property. He has litigated intellectual property cases across numerous industries, including telecommunication, semiconductors, Internet protocols, operating systems, hardware and software storage systems, user interface, and pharmaceuticals.
Notes
Attendance is limited to ACC members and their invited in-house counsel guests, as well as prospective ACC members. ACC membership is open to attorneys who practice law as in-house counsel employees of organizations and who do not hold themselves out to the public for the practice of law.
Thanks to Womble Bond Dickinson, the CLE lunch program is complimentary for the first 130 ACC members who register on-line. Thereafter, the fee for current ACC members is $25, and, in all circumstances, $35 for non-members, including prospective members. A CLE credit of one (1) hour is being applied for, and if approved, will be submitted to the Georgia State Bar for attendees licensed to practice in Georgia.
While we understand that some "no shows" are unavoidable, we kindly ask that you please consider our speakers and hosts who have spent a considerable amount of time and resources to put this event on for you before deciding not to attend. Good attendance helps ensure that ACC Georgia can continue to offer CLE programming and networking events at no cost to our ACC Georgia members. If you need to cancel, we ask for 48 hours’ notice to georgia@accglobal.com. ACC Georgia reserves the right to charge a fee for attendees who do not cancel.