February 2014 Meeting: Current US Legislative, Administrative and Judicial Proposals – Dealing with Trolls and Other Issues

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Kevin Kirsch, a partner at Baker Hostetler, will present an update on current US Legislative, Administrative, and Judicial proposals designed to deal with patent trolls and other issues in IP law. In particular, Keven will discuss various aspects of the Goodlatte Innovation Act and the Hatch Patent Litigation Integrity Act as well as various Supreme Court and agency studies. Following Keven’s presentation, a panel, including Steve Miller and Tom Rafferty, will discuss various implications of the proposals addressed by Kevin. Steve Miller is Vice President & General Counsel – Intellectual Property for The Procter & Gamble Company and Tom Rafferty is Chief IP Counsel at Vantiv, LLC.

*Please note that the presentation will begin promptly at 12pm*

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December 2013 Meeting: Licensing in the 21st Century

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Licensing Industry Professionals Elizabeth Dambriunas and Jim Kipling will discuss concepts, structure, and preferred positions of Licensors and Licensees in the context of current market forces. In particular, the speakers will discuss pressure resulting from balancing leverage between the parties when that leverage is utilized to negotiate away from boilerplate contracts and what headaches ensue on both sides in this brave, new world. Elizabeth Dambriunas is Of Counsel at Levine Plotkin & Menin, LLP, formerly SVP Business & Legal Affairs, Deputy General Counsel, MTV Networks Kids and Family Group. Jim Kipling is Partner of Counsel at Dinsmore, formerly Generaly Counsel for Kenner Toys.

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November 2013 Meeting: Measuring Quality and Value of IP Work

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Join us for a moderated panel discussion on measuring the quality and value of intellectual property work and overcoming the measurement difficulties posed for intellectual property work, which is not directly tied to a particular income stream. The discussion will address the utility of measurements based on various publicly available data, including statistics provided by the USPTO and responses to surveys conducted by intellectual property organizations. It will also talk about how to deal with information which is harder to quantify, such as changes in scope due to amendments made to get an application approved and the level of complexity of particular tasks.

The panel will be focused primarily on patent preparation and prosecution, and will include both in-house and outside counsel perspectives. The moderator will be William Morriss, a member at Frost Brown Todd LLC, with speaker Joshua Lorentz, a partner at Dinsmore & Shohl LLP.

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