April 2010 Meeting – IP Issues in Business Transactions
IP Issues in Business Transactions
Date: April 13, 2010
Description: Intellectual property is increasingly becoming a focal point in various business transactions including mergers & acquisitions, private equity deals, venture capital and securitization. The business lawyer must become IP savvy and involve IP specialists at an early point to ensure that IP is transferred properly, is free from liens and, in some cases, to determine the strength or enforceability of intellectual property. The IP specialist may also provide input on the deal documents to the extent the provisions of those documents affect IP ownership and transfer. IP specialists, in turn, must learn to understand the mechanics and goals of the transaction so as to properly advise corporate counsel as to these matters. This panel will examine and discuss the role of the IP professional in a business transaction, and will touch on the various issues to be examined when preparing and executing a deal. The panel will examine issues related to intellectual property due diligence, chain of title, warranties/covenants related to IP, inter-party licensing issues, as well as touch on the different types of transactions and what role IP may play in those transactions. Panelists will provide expertise covering patent, trademark, trade secret and copyright, and will include perspectives from both in-house and outside counsel.
Panel Discussion including:
Courtney Laginess (Keating Muething and Klekamp)
Daniel Nesbitt (Hasse & Nesbitt)
Margaret Lawson (Taft)
Location: The Cincinnatian Hotel – 601 Vine Street Cincinnati
LUNCH: Lunch is Included with Registration
CLE: 1 hour Ohio (applied for)
Time: 11:45am – 1:30pm
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Cost:
Member (with CLE) $20
Non-Member (with CLE) $30
Non-Member (without CLE) $20
Students & Academics $15
2010 Membership Dues now being collected
2010 Membership Dues Now Being Collected
We are now collecting dues for the 2010 calendar year. As a reminder, you need to have your membership dues in by March 26 to participate in the election taking place between March 29 and 5pm on April 2.
The dues provide us with a budget to plan events and are primarily used to pay for out-of-town speaker expenses. Membership (whether Active or Associate) entitles you to a discount of both our regularly scheduled monthly luncheon meetings (second Tuesday of the month) as well as our Special Events.
Active: Professional ($50) and Academic ($25) (“Active – Academic” is reserved for law professors that may not receive reimbursement and are not necessarily receiving “law firm” salaries).
Associate: Professional ($25) / “Associate – Professional” includes non-lawyers such as interested business persons, paralegals, secretaries, etc.
Honorary/Student: $5 (Students, judges & other distinguished persons – no voting rights – please contact an office of CincyIP if you are unsure if you qualify for this category)
Open Source & Security Squared – Dispelling the Myths – 2nd Annual Symposium Monday, May 17, 2010
Open Source & Security Squared – Dispelling the Myths – 2nd Annual Symposium Monday, May 17, 2010
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Summary
8:00 – 8:30 Breakfast and Check-In
8:30 – 8:45 Welcome/Introduction
8:45 – 9:45 Bradley Kuhn (SFLC) – Demystifying GPL Enforcement: Using the Law To Uphold Copyleft
9:45 – 10:45 Bruce Perens (Kiloboot) – Combining Open Source and Proprietary Software: How to keep the reciprocal licenses from affecting your business-differentiating software.
10:45-11:00 BREAK
CONCURRENT SESSION # 1
Topic A
11:00-12:00 Panel moderated by Dr. James Walden (NKU) – Open Source Wireless Security – OWASP.
Topic B
Bruce Perens – The Basics – the basic licenses and their issues, how companies should best fulfill their license obligations, combining software under different licenses, how to license your own software.
12:00 – 1:00 LUNCH
1:15 – 2:15 Josh Bressers (RedHat) – Prove It! Is Open Source Software Secure?
2:15 – 3:15 Dave Marr (Juniper Networks) – From Zero to Hero: How to Build an Open Source Compliance Program From Scratch.
3:15-3:30 Break
CONCURRENT SESSION #2
Topic A
3:30-4:30 Trevor Stansbury – Pioneers in the Wilderness – Uitlizing Open Source to provide Software as a Service (SAAS).
Topic B
Bruce Perens – Open Source Community Relationship: When you need to do it, how to interface gracefully with a community that is itself often graceless
4:30-4:45 CLE and Dismissal
Location:
The METS Center
3861 Olympic Blvd.
Erlanger, Kentucky 41018
859-647-METS (6387)
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The Scholarly Symposia Series – current issues in intellectual property law
The Brewing Storm on the Horizon: Terminations of Transfers Under the Copyright Act
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Joseph E. Keller Hall – Albert H. Scharrer Atrium
Thursday, March 11, 2010
6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Heavy appetizers and cocktails
Guest Speaker
Professor Lydia Loren
followed by hearty debate
7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Brochure for The Scholarly Symposia Series
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Nominations for Comittees, Board and Officers
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