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This material helps your company improve its policies regarding new technologies and social media. The document also discusses important cases regarding intellectual property rights and trademark infringement.

Experts from the USPTO will discuss current patent and trademark issues, and more importantly, listen to you — the customer. If your practice has anything to do with patents or trademarks, you should not miss this important session.

An overview of intellectual property. Provides guides to trademarks, branding selection, trademark clearance searches, immediate elimination search, preliminary searches, filing considerations, the application process, and other issues related to copyright and patents.

Your company spends big bucks on creating and communicating your brand and its continued marketplace success is essential. But there are those who would undercut it at every turn if you are not diligent. This panel explored the ways you can unite with police and local private forces to stop the fakers who are diluting the value of your company’s brand. Get our experts’ views on appropriate investigatory tactics and practical tips on how to get the local authorities to provide effective remedies in a timely fashion.

Trademarks are an area of legal practice that many corporate counsel seek to bring in-house to reduce fees for outside counsel. In this program, a panel of in-house trademark attorneys provided a detailed overview of trademark practice in-house, including a review of global trademark clearance processes, when and how to file for federal registration rights, and how to file for foreign trademark rights. The panel also highlighted important updates in US and foreign trademark laws.

Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover have created uniform data security standards for any business that accepts credit cards. This program provided an overview of these requirements, how they evolved, what is required, who is impacted, what happens if there is a breach, drafting suggestions for agreements with vendors impacted by PCI, suggestions for making sure your business is compliant, and a look at the future direction of the standards.

Presented at ACCA?s Annual Meeting 2000; Program - Advertising, Sponsorship, and Endorsement: Distinctions for Tax Exempt Organizations

Presented at ACCA’s Annual Meeting 2000; Program - Advertising, Sponsorship, and Endorsement: Distinctions for Tax Exempt Organizations

Presented at ACCA’s Annual Meeting 2000; Program - Conducting Business Online - What General Counsel Need to Know

Presented at ACCA’s Annual Meeting 2000; Program - Copyright Protection in Cyberspace: IP on the ’Net

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