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Annual Meeting 2006: The scope and reach of the US Patriot Act is daunting and pervasive; it reaches across borders and oceans. Its net casts beyond the realm of counter-terrorism and catches and impacts legitimate commercial activities. Its effects are felt not only by foreign customers of US corporations but also by customers of subsidiaries and affiliates of those companies. Many Canadian companies, for example, are now reviewing their traditional relationships with subsidiaries of US companies.

Annual Meeting 2006: Don't know a copyright from a trademark, or just looking for a refresher to help you spot issues? This program will cover the fundamental issues in intellectual property law, including copyrights, trademarks, and patents. You will learn how to spot major issues and avoid common mistakes.

Learn how leading departments deal with the complexity of managing intellectual property in today's global marketplace. What management approaches work? What technology tools and business processes lead to success or to failure? How can communications be best focused to draw from the strengths of the in-house and outside lawyers, subject matter experts, and business team? Our panel of corporate IP specialists will share with you successful models for managing a global patent portfolio, including successful techniques and pitfalls to avoid.

Annual Meeting 2006: Litigation, regardless of what type, can be expensive. Make that very expensive. Your legal knowledge can help you manage lawsuits in such a way that you can reduce your expenses. Take this opportunity to learn some tried and true methods for managing these costs in an IP lawsuit including outside counsel fees, costs of using experts and consultants, and more. We’ll send you home with the knowledge you need to manage these and other costs along with an understanding about why some costs will always be out of your control.

CCU 2007: Intellectual property is for the lawyers, you say. Not so. As a corporate paralegal, you likely encounter IP issues on a regular basis. This basic review will provide a primer on the IP issues every corporate paralegal needs to be aware of and the steps required to ensure IP best practices are implemented as part of your daily environment in the work place.

The following outline is intended to provide a short overview of some of the issues at the heart of this discussion topic. There may be other issues we’ve not identified or perspectives on the identified issues that are not adequately represented in the outline: you should feel free to raise these additional thoughts, as you like.

Presented at the NJCCA Chapter Meeting on October 16, 2007.
Examines the key changes to the United States Patent and Trademark Office Rules

By mid-century, China, the world’s fastest-growing economy and the second largest behind the United States, is expected to be number one. Business can no longer avoid the Chinese market. The keys to a successful business in China are a clear Chinese strategy, sound business and legal policies, effective implementation plans and performance goals that are updated on a continuous basis.

The goods have your logo, but they aren't your company's products. Learn the best practices that corporate counsel should follow to most effectively protect against the growing problem of counterfeit and gray market goods. We begin with a discussion of the current state of the law including the most relevant cases, key statutory provisions and current governmental policies. Then, we look ahead to discuss current plans and proposals to improve the present protection available to companies. We conclude with the speakers discussing their relevant experiences both in the U.S.

If you conduct business around the world, you know data privacy policies are far stricter outside the US than in. When you add Sarbanes-Oxley regulations to the mix, all bets are off. If you have US headquarters with international operations, you likely ponder the issue of privacy vs SOX often. Have all the answers? Didn’t think so!

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