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With intellectual property assertions from third parties becoming increasingly visible to companies, intellectual property indemnity provisions are more heavily negotiated and the focus of supply line and technology licensing agreements. Our licensing experts will discuss the key IP indemnity provisions that are often the most heavily negotiated. Plus they provide tips based on their past experience, share proven methods on how to negotiate provisions, and identify the most important ones to require.

In-house counsel often has the opportunity to help shape the record around a company’s conduct and then defend the record as best they can in litigation. Take this opportunity to evaluate the steps you can take to shape the record and develop a litigation strategy that does the most with whatever the record eventually turns out to include. In addition, receive practical pointers on what government agencies conducting their own investigations expect from companies and how you can negotiate with those agencies to protect your record.

"Patent litigation" - unfamiliar venues, strange procedures, and crippling potential downsides often come to mind with these words, and companies’ patent dockets continue to expand. This panel of patent litigation veterans will draw from their experiences to help you better address your next patent case, from practical tips to new case law that will drive the cutting edge of this important topic.

Records management is often not viewed as a responsibility of the general counsel's office, but records management decisions, and mistakes, can often raise a host of legal issues. This basics program will introduce in-house counsel to the basic elements of a records management policy including the law, review recent regulatory and judicial decisions that should influence a company's records management, and target the types of information that require special attention when it comes to preserving or destroying corporate records. An emphasis will be placed on automated information.

Presented on February 7, 2008 to the Oregon Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel, this program examined some of the critical intellectual property and commercial issues in joint ventures and development deals and identified ways to address these issues in legal documents.

The Data Protection Directive requires anyone who handles personal information to comply with a number of important principles. Among them: ensure that the personal information is lawfully processed, accurate and up to date, processed in line with the individual’s rights, secure and not transferred to other countries without adequate protection.

As intellectual property becomes increasingly important to a company's overall business strategy and performance, it is essential to understand the legal approaches to establishing a sophisticated IP regime through the efficient use of limited resources. This session discusses a variety of IP legal issues that your company is likely to face. It includes topics such as on-line IP asset management, practical approaches

This program includes an outline for a license agreement a fact sheet for negotiating, and sample license and service agreement.

Gain an overview of what needs to be cleared, how to clear it and whom to contact about movie, music and photo rights, as well as the risks of not doing so.

Learn about open business models that license and develop IP across organizational, industrial and national boundaries.

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