IP Principles Can Provide for a Cause of Action in Personal Injury Cases

– Ken Germain

Join CincyIP for an IN-PERSON lunch event where Ken Germain of Wood, Herron & Evans LLP will speak on whether IP should provide a new cause of action in personal injury cases against ride-sharing companies for the tortious conduct of their “independent contractor” licensee. Ken says, “Definitely, YES!”

Ken Germain has more than 50 years of varied experience in the TM/unfair competition field and is a former law professor.

Registration and lunch will begin at 11:30, with the presentation from 12 to 1:15, and 1.25 General CLE credit in Ohio.

The event will be hosted by Dinsmore & Shohl, 255 E. Fifth St. Suite 1900, Cincinnati, OH 45202.

Registration closes at 5 pm September 20 and is limited to 48.

Registration is:

  • $15.00 for CincyIP members,
  • free for students and academics, and
  • $20.00 for non-members.

Register here by Friday, September 20, 2024, at 5 pm.


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CincyBio 2013 Registration Now Open

CincyBio 2013 General Slide for publication
CincyIP is proud to bring back CincyBIO for 2013, Cincinnati’s premier conference on bioscience and technology, for the third straight year on Tuesday, April 30, 2013.

CincyBIO 2013 will be held Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at the Phoenix in downtown Cincinnati. The conference will feature speakers including Tom Irving (Finnegan), Sam Han (McClure, Qualey & Rodack, LLP), Carin Miller (Blue Ribbon Patents), Jeff Weedman (Cintrifuse), James Zimmerman (Taft), David Willbrand (ThompsonHine), Vance VanDrake (Ulmer & Berne), Ralph Hall (University of Minnesota Law School and Faegre Baker Daniels), Dave Bassett (WilmerHale), Pat Lane (Dinsmore), Matt Willenbrink (University of Dayton), Nick Nikolaides (The Procter & Gamble Company), Marie Kerbeshian (Indiana University), Geoffrey Pinski (Office of Entrepreneurial Affairs & Technology, University of Cincinnati), and Chris Fick (Office of Technology Transfer, University of Louisville).

This activity has been approved by the Supreme Court of Ohio Commission on Continuing Legal Education for 6.25 total CLE hour(s) instruction.
6.25 CLE hours have also been applied for in Kentucky and Indiana.

Schedule of Events CincyBio 2013 Final Schedule
7:45 – 8:15 Registration and Coffee
8:15 – 8:30 Welcome and Introductions
8:30 – 9:30 “Exelixis and Novartis – Biopharm Patent Term Adjustment Based on (B) Delay” – Tom Irving
9:30 – 10:30 “New FDA Regulations and Their Effect on Existing and Emerging Technologies” – Ralph Hall
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 11:45 “Cintrifuse: Working With Technology Startups and Developing Cincinnati’s Innovation Ecoystem” – Jeff Weedman, James Zimmerman, David Willbrand, and Vance VanDrake
11:45 – 1:00 Lunch and Networking
1:00 – 2:15 “University Intellectual Property: The Tech Transfer Perspective” – Geoffrey Pinski (UC), Matt Willenbrink (UD), Marie Kerbeshian (IU) and Chris Fick (Louisville) with Nick Nikolaides (P&G) as moderator
2:15 – 2:30 Break
2:30 – 3:30 “The Exhaustingly Self-Replicating Seeds: Monsanto v. Bowman” – Dave Bassett and Pat Lane
3:30-4:30 “Gene: The New Four Letter Word” – Sam Han and Carin Miller
4:30 CLE and Closing

Prices thru April 15:
• CincyIP Member – $100
• Non-member with CLE – $125
• Non-member without CLE – $75
• Students – $25

Prices after April 15:
• CincyIP Member – $125
• Non-member with CLE – $150
• Non-member without CLE – $100
• Students – $25

To register:
http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=qq79j4lab&oeidk=a07e77yzn5r4802e853

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Strategies for Software Protection – June 2012 Monthly Meeting

CincyIP Presents:
Strategies for Software Protection

Featuring

William Morriss
Frost Brown Todd

Tony Bonner
Dinsmore

Tom Humphrey
Wood, Herron & Evans

and

Duke Haugh
Ulmer & Berne

Moderated by
Cindy Bolden
Wolfe SBMC

June 12, 2012

12:00pm– 1:30pm

Location: The Cincinnatian Hotel

This course has been approved by the Supreme Court of Ohio Commission on Continuing Legal Education for 1.0 total CLE hour instruction.

The panel will discuss various strategies for protecting intellectual property surrounding software. They will provide insight as to when patent protection may be desirable and when another type of protection may be more suitable, the efficacy of copyrights to protect software-related IP, and how the recent Federal Circuit cases of Noah v. Intuit and Ergo Licensing v. CareFusion will change how software patents are drafted. The panel will also provide thoughts on how the software industry is impacted by non-practicing entities and open source trends.

PRICES (including lunch):
• $20 for Members (includes 1.0 Hr Ohio CLE)
• $30 Non-Member with CLE
• $20 Non-Member without CLE
• $15 Students and Full-Time Academics

Registration ends at noon on Wednesday, June 6.

Cancellations will not be accepted without a 24 hour notice.

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