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The Crucial Nature of Trade Marks in Franchising
Daniel Jepson, Senior Associate – Business, Corporate and Commercial, Holman Webb Lawyers
4 pages

The article highlights the importance of trademarks in the franchise agreement and process in Australia. Franchising is very popular in Australian business, and as a result, has very detailed requirements for trademarks.

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Interest Area: Intellectual Property
Region: Australia
Audience: Deputy GC, Mid-Career
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In today's competitive innovation economy, companies across industries face a wide range of potential legal issues and risks related to intellectual property (IP). Whether it is infringement of a valuable patented technology, unlawful use of key trademarks or copyrights, or anti-counterfeiting and IP crime, when IP issues arise, in-house counsel need to be ready to face off against competitors and fiercely defend the commercial IP rights of their business.

Join us for an engaging roundtable discussion with our diverse panel of in-house counsel and IP litigators from Smart & Biggar LLP as they share lessons learned from the front lines of IP enforcement and litigation matters. The panel, moderated by Urszula Wojtyra, Partner at Smart & Biggar, will include Cameron Weir, Senior Counsel at Reckitt Benckiser (Canada), Denise Lacombe, Head of Legal at AstraZeneca Canada and Michael Okerlund, formerly in-house at Huffy Corporation and Arctic Cat, now CEO of Cloud Court Inc.

Learn from their first-hand experience on how to leverage and protect your company's valuable portfolio to win with IP.

Breakout Rooms - Following the panel discussion, join a breakout room for a host facilitated discussion to extend your learning and network with our panel speakers and ACC members.

This program qualifies for up to 1 hour 30 minutes of Substantive CPD credit under the Law Society of Ontario's mandatory CPD regime.

This event is open and free of charge only to in-house counsel who are practicing lawyers and are current members of a provincial law society; however, you must RSVP to attend. Please RSVP by no later than Wednesday, June 16, 2021.

ACC Ontario reserves the right to review all registrations for eligibility. In-house counsel must be ACC members or meet ACC membership eligibility. Please click here for further details.

Note: All instructions and information on how to access the webinar will be sent by email in advance of the program.

Questions? Please email us.

This program will address:
• various intellectual property tools for protecting designs, such as product form factor and graphic user interfaces; and
• how to respond after receiving a patent cease and desist letter, including options for attacking the patent outside of a conventional lawsuit in court.
 

Please join us for our webinar on navigating the complexities of patent due diligence investigations and strengthening patent portfolios.  Our seasoned panelists will share diverse perspectives on the following issues which will be explored from the vantage points of the target, acquirer, and in-house and outside counsel:

  • When are due diligence and freedom-to-operate investigations important?

  • What happens during due diligence investigations?

  • How to determine scope and best practices on tight timelines and budgets?

  • How to assess follow-up action items, including protecting against allegations of willful infringement?

  • What are best practices for assessing the strength of patent portfolios?

RSVP below.  Login address will be provided 24 hours in advance of the webinar.

 

This presentation will provide relevant, user friendly takeaways for in-house counsel who do not necessarily deal with SSO related IP issues on a daily basis. We will address topics including:

  • Intellectual property issues arising from participation in standard setting bodies or industry consortia
     
    • Developments impacting (F)RAND
       
    • Providing practical guidance to personnel participating in SSOs and OSS Orgs.
       
    • Status of submissions to standard setting organizations (“SSOs”) as prior art in the U.S.
       
  • The basics of patent pools and monetization of essential IP
     
    • Technical vs. commercial essentiality
       
    • The mechanics of the patent pool submission process

       

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Interest Area: Commercial and Contracts, Intellectual Property, Sports and Entertainment, Corporate, Securities, and Governance
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Knobbe Martens is pleased to partner with ACC Southern California to bring you a 2021 Earth Day event focused on the timely issues of environmental and social responsibility from a branding viewpoint. We’re bringing these very relevant topics to light, along with our clients ECOS and JACUZZI who have had corporate experience with these issues.

RSVP Deadline: Tuesday, April 15

3:00 pm – 3:15 pm
Introductory Remarks

Host: Jeff Van Hoosear, Knobbe Martens 

 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm
Panel Discussion
Panelists: Somath Hasina, Associate Corporate Counsel, ECOS; Jason Weintraub, Chief Legal Officer & General Counsel, JACUZZI;  Charlene Azema and Wendy Peterson, Knobbe Martens 

4:15 pm – 4:30 pm

Donation Raffle & Closing Remarks
Host: Jeff Van Hoosear, Knobbe Martens
Brexit and Intellectual Property Rights
Simon Barker, Partner & Head of Intellectual Property, and Rhian Banks, Managing Associate - Solicitor and Chartered UK & EU Trade Mark Attorney, Freeths LLP
3 pages

Intellectual Property (IP) rights post-Brexit are yet to be determined. In this article, learn more about how the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union (EU) are handling these discussions.

Resource Details
Interest Area: Intellectual Property
Region: European Union, United Kingdom
Audience: Deputy GC, Mid-Career, New to In-House
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