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March 2010 Monthly Meeting – Funding For Start-Ups

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Funding For Start-Ups

Date: March 9, 2010

Description: Few issues are more critical to the success of entrepreneurial ventures than securing funding. When friends and family money has been depleted, few entrepreneurs know where to turn to get additional funds to help secure assets, such as intellectual property, and to help their businesses grow. Intellectual property attorneys are often the first legal professionals that entrepreneurs will work with, which gives these attorneys the opportunity to help their clients by connecting them with resources that give early-stage companies what they need to be successful. Represented on our panel are leaders of Cincinnati’s Angel and early-stage business community that will discuss identifying funding partners, the funding process, and other resources available to small businesses here in Cincinnati.

Panel Discussion including:

Carol Frankenstein, President of BIOSTART
Jeff June, Director of Capital Formation at CincyTech
Jim Cunningham, Executive Director of C-Cap, Cincinnati’s Angel Capital Hub
Don McKee, Member of QCA
Casey Barach, Northern Kentucky E-Zone
Vance VanDrake (moderator), Senior Associate at Frost Brown Todd

Date: February 9, 2010

Location: The Cincinnatian Hotel – 601 Vine Street Cincinnati

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

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February 2010 Monthly Meeting – Going Global: Real World Trademark Triage and Portfolio Management Strategies

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Meeting canceled due to snow!

Going Global: Real World Trademark Triage and Portfolio Management Strategies

Presenter: Lou Ebling

Description: A trademark portfolio is a collection of registered marks, pending applications and often unregistered marks owned by a business venture. Apart from the traditional route, these rights arise through licenses or franchise agreements, co-branding agreements or other transactions. “Portfolio management” involves developing strategies for acquiring, exploiting, maintaining and enforcing these rights in a way that maximizes their value. Companies conducting business outside the U.S. face growing challenges in determining how best to obtain the widest trademark protection possible, exploit the properties and provide meaningful enforcement in an era of shrinking budgets and staff.

Our speaker, Lou Ebling, is Chair of Greenebaum Doll & McDonald’s Intellectual Property Practice Group and a graduate of Albion College and the University of Michigan Law School. Lou concentrates his legal practice on all aspects of US and international trademark law and also advises on internet, advertising, data privacy, patent and copyright issues.

Date: February 9, 2010

Location: The Cincinnatian Hotel – 601 Vine Street Cincinnati

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

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January 2010 Meeting – Internet Advertising

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Internet Advertising

Date: Tuesday January 12, 2010

Location: The Westin Cincinnati 21 E. 5th Street    Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 United States

Description:

The Guardian reported that the UK reached a watershed mark of the advertisers spending more on internet advertising than on television advertising in September 2009 (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/sep/30/internet-biggest-uk-advertising-sector).  As the US approaches this watershed, new legal issues will develop as  the  issues introduced just a few years ago continue to mature.   Recent cases and issues that will be covered include:

*  First Amendment/Copyright/Trademark issues as advertisers become more and more creative with online content and as user-generated content becomes even more the norm.   Viacom Intl, Inc. v. YouTube, Inc., et al., No. 06-02103 (S.D.N.Y.).

*  Contractual issues as social media networks begin the tighten the terms of service [TOS] for using those platforms .  See, Facebook TOS.

*  ISP liability for trademark infringment  – See, Tiffany v. eBay, 576 F. Supp. 2d 463, 2008 WL 2755787 (No. 04 Civ. 4607) (S.D.N.Y. , July 14, 2008).  and Louis Vuitton Malletier, S.A. v. Akanoc Solutions, Inc., No. C07-03952 (N.D. Cal.).

Our featured speaker this month is Jill Meyer, a member in the Cincinnati office of Frost Brown Todd.  Jill Meyer concentrates her practice on counseling and litigating advertising & media law issues. Ms. Meyer represents a wide variety of clients – corporations, advertising agencies, and media outlets – on an array of issues, including advertising review and clearance, sweepstakes and promotions, viral marketing and interactive media, compliance with COPPA and FTC requirements for advertising and websites, intellectual property, right of publicity, advertising-related litigation and regulatory challenges. She also represents media clients in all aspects of First Amendment and newsroom-related matters, including pre-publication/pre-broadcast review, issues related to access to courtrooms, public meetings and public documents, and defamation and privacy related litigation.

PRICES:
$20 for Members (includes Lunch and 1 Hr Ohio CLE)

$30 Non-Member with CLE

$20 Non-Member without CLE

$15 Students and Full-Time Academics

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