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Upcoming Standing Committee Meetings and MCLE Programs
- New! International IP Interest Group Teleseminar on Privacy Concerns -- What Every IP and International Lawyer Needs to Know, Thursday, Feburary 16 at 12:30 p.m.
- New! Licensing Interest Group Teleseminar on Information Security and Cloud Services, Wednesday, March 14 at 12 noon. Click here for more info.
- New! Save the Date! The Patent Office Comes to California featuring new Commissioner of Patents, Margaret "Peggy" Focarino and other unconfirmed PTO officials, will be held Wednesday, April 11, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. at Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in San Diego; Thursday, April 12, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. at UCLA School of Law in Los Angeles, and; Friday, April 13, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. at Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco.
- New! Save the Date! The Copyright Office Comes to California will be held Monday, May 14, 2012 in San Francisco and Wednesday, May 16, 2012 in Los Angeles
- Save the Date! IP and the Internet will be held on Friday September 14 at the L.A. Marriott
- Did You Miss One of Our Teleseminars or Webinars? Our Recent Programs Have Now Been Added to Our Online CLE Catalog.
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Upcoming MCLE Programs and Meetings
International IP Interest Group Teleseminar on Privacy Concerns -- What Every IP and International Lawyer Needs to Know
Thursday, Feburary 16, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
This program offers 1 hour participatory CLE credit. You must register in advance in order to attend.
David Bender author of Bender on Privacy and Data Protection ( LexisNexis 2011) will speak on:
WHY is Privacy important?
-- Examples of privacy issues
WHEN will privacy expertise be needed?
WHAT are the sources of privacy law?
-- Two types of privacy law: US federal law and State privacy law generally
-- California privacy law
-- International privacy law
-- EU privacy law
-- The APEC privacy framework
WHERE is privacy expertise important?
HOW does one acquire privacy expertise?
David Bender is an expert on U.S. and international privacy regulation and compliance. He is the author of Bender on Privacy and Data Protection (2011 LexisNexis). He teaches privacy at Houston Law Center after retirement from White & Case in New York, whose IP practice he founded and whose international privacy consultancy he managed. He served as in-house counsel at AT&T for ten years, becoming responsible for all AT&T IP litigation. He has many years experience in anti-trust litigation as well. Before turning to law, David served as an engineer with the Ford Motor Company's aerospace division and as a mathematician with Hughes Aircraft. He has an LLM in Patent Law and an S.J.D from George Washington University, where he wrote a dissertation on "Computer Evidence and Procedure." His law degree is from the University of Pennsylvania.
Licensing Group Teleseminar: Information Security and Cloud Services
Wednesday, March 14, 12 noon - 1 p.m.
This program offers 1 hour participatory CLE credit. You must register in advance in order to attend.
While a cloud computing environment offers organizations significant gains in flexibility and capacity, it also raises myriad security and compliance issues. This program will explore the current legal landscape for information security, strengths and weaknesses of public and private cloud services in terms of security and compliance, and risk-mitigation, including negotiation of information security provisions into cloud services arrangements and other security best practices.
John Pavolotsky's practice focuses on technology transactions and other intellectual property matters. Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, John was Corporate Counsel of SugarCRM Inc. and General Counsel of Fourth Dimension Software. Prior to earning his law degree, John worked as a Research Associate at the University of California, San Francisco. John works primarily with clients in the software, hardware, Internet, mobile, wireless and life sciences industries.
Speakers: John Pavolotsky, Greenberg Traurig and Jay Seirmarco, SugarCRM, Inc.
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Now Available! 2011 Supplement to Trade Secret Litigation and Protection in California (Second Edition)
The IP Section proudly announces publication of its 2011 Supplement to the practice guide "Trade Secret Litigation and Protection in California (Second Edition)" published by the State Bar of California in 2009. Written by California practitioners, this treatise explains the fundamentals and intricacies of California trade secret law. The treatise is a resource for anyone working with trade secrets prior to or during litigation.
The 2011 Supplement updates the statutory and case law in the Second Edition of the Trade Secret Protection and Litigation in California practice guide. The updates include additional practical tips for protecting trade secrets and for handling trade secret disputes.
Recent developments addressed in this supplement include:
- Discussion and analysis of more than fifty new cases on topics including misappropriation, preemption, identification of trade secrets, injunctions, damages, and attorneys fees;
- New content regarding social media policies and measures to protect against trade secret theft;
- New and updated jury instructions from the Judicial Council's official California Civil Instructions (CACI) for use in use in trade secret misappropriation cases applying California law.
The cost of the treatise and supplement together is $105.00 and the supplement alone is $10.00. You can order online now (click on "Order Sections Products," then "Intellectual Property") or use the publications mail order form.
Meet Your Executive Committee: Jason Far-hadian
Jason Far-hadian is a member of the Executive Committee of the IP Section of the State Bar of California and serves on its Social Network Task Force. He is a shareholder at Century IP Group, a small IP boutique with offices in Southern California servicing Fortune 100 Corporations domestically and worldwide. Jason is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the State Bar of California. He primarily acts as counsel on the topics of technology licensing, patent prosecution, and IP portfolio valuation and management. He has also authored many articles and lectured on the related topics. When he is not busy working or wrestling with his two young boys (ages 5 and almost 2), he reminisces about romantic walks on the beach with his wife, writing vignettes, and participating in triathlons.
New Officers Added to IP Section's Interest Groups
New officers have been added to IP Section's Interest Groups.
The Litigation Interest Group is pleased to announce that it has added Robert Payne, of LaRiviere, Grubman and Payne, as its program chair. Robert is a former chair of the IP Section and currently serves as an advisor to the Section.
The Trade Secrets Interest Group has just appointed two programing directors. The co-directors are David Almeling of O'Melveny & Myers in San Francisco and Robert Milligan of Seyfarth Shaw in Los Angeles.
If you are interested in assisting in developing programing on these topics, please contact our new programming directors: Robert Payne at rpayne@lgpatlaw.com, Robert Milligan at rmilligan@seyfarth.com or David Almeling at dalmeling@omm.com.
MCLE is Now Available for Select Articles in New Matter
One hour of MCLE in Substance Abuse Elimination is available in the current issue of New Matter. For the Winter issue that just arrived in your mail, MCLE for Substance Abuse is available for the article “Substance Abuse–The Sobering Truth.” One hour of MCLE credit can be obtained by answering 20 True/False questions.
Log on to the website www.calbar.org/self-study for details. Watch for other MCLE credit availability in future issues of New Matter.
Coming Soon! New IP Section Benefit: Current IP-Related Content via Lexology
by Joanna Mendoza and Sophie Cohen
The IP Section is one of the first of The State Bar of California sections to provide Lexology, a web-based legal resource that provides topical and customized legal content directly to each of our members. Lexology is a valuable benefit received by over 120,000 subscribers and is already being provided to members of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), the State Bars of Texas and New York, and many other legal organizations globally. The service will be free, but you must be a member of the IP Section to receive it.
The specially tailored daily e-mail newsfeed for the IP Section will display content related to intellectual property and entertainment law coming out of California, the United States and international jurisdictions. In mid-May, section members will receive an introductory email explaining the service and giving members the ability to amend their personal preference settings with respect to topical content and jurisdictions of interest. Members will also be given the opportunity to “opt-out” of receiving Lexology anytime after the service has begun.
The newsfeed you receive will also include information about the section's upcoming MCLE programs, committee meetings, and other matters of interest from the State Bar and the IP Section. We hope that you will find this new resource to be a valuable new benefit associated with your section membership.
Word Versions of the Trade Secret Committee's Model Protective Draft Order
The Trade Secrets Committee has now posted the preface and draft of its Model Protective Draft Order, in Word Format for your ease of use. See the links below.
Preface to Model Protective Draft Order
Model Protective Draft Order
Save Money with CEB
Continuing Education of the Bar, California (CEB) is extending some special discount offers to our section. As a member of the Intellectual Property Law Section, you're eligible for:
- 10% off selected CEB print or online books
- A rebate on your section dues that can be applied to the cost of a CEB Gold CLE Passport or a CLE program ticket
A complete list of the products eligible for a discount is available on a CEB web page accessible through our Members Only Area. Information about the section dues rebate program can be found on the CEB Web site.
Third-Party Programs
USC Gould School of Law 2012 Intellectual Property Institute
The USC Gould School of Law 2012 Intellectual Property Institute will be held on March 15! Click here to register now.
When: Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 8:30 a.m. to 5:25 p.m.
Where: The Beverly Hills Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA
What: Network with over 400 intellectual property professionals
Who: National speakers on patent, copyright and trademark issues:
- The Hon. Randall Rader (Fed. Cir.) , the Hon. David Folsom (E.D. Tex.), and the Hon. Andrew Guilford (C.D. Cal.) on patent issues
- The Hon. Alex Kozinski (9th Cir.), the Hon. Dean Pregerson (C.D. Cal.), and the Hon. Christina Snyder (C.D. Cal.) on copyright and trademark issues
- The Hon. Margaret Morrow (C.D. Cal.) on the management of complex cases
- The IP year in review with Professors Lemley , Nimmer and McCarthy
- And dozens more!
See the full lineup of speakers and topics by clicking here.
Also: Concurrent breakout sessions focused on patent, copyright and t rademark issues, Five networking breaks, including a hosted cocktail reception, 7.5 hours of MCLE and 7.0 hours of CPE credits
For more information, visit http://law.usc.edu/cle/ip . Contact the USC Law Continuing Legal Education office with questions at (213) 743-1772 or cle@law.usc.edu.
USPTO Patent Group 1600 Road Show will be held in San Francisco on February 23
The San Francisco Intellectual Property Law Association's (SFIPLA) next hot-topic series will be the popular USPTO Road Show featuring members of Group 1600.
The program will be held at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliff's San Francisco Offices at 408 Howard Street from 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. on February 23, 2012.
The ABA Forum's Video Games and Digital Media Conference will be held in San Francisco on March 6M
Video Games and Digital Media Conference: Current Business and Legal Issues in the Interactive Entertainment Space, sponsored by the ABA Forum on the Entertainment & Sports Industries, will be held March 6, 2012 at The Palace Hotel in San Francisco.
The Intellectual Property Colloquium
We believe IP Section members may be interested in this message from the IP Colloquium:
The Intellectual Property Colloquium is an online audio program devoted to intellectual property topics. We aspire to be something like an NPR talk show, but focused on copyrights and patents, and aimed primarily at a legal audience. The programs are neither lectures nor debates. They are conversations, with high-profile guests drawn from academia, the entertainment community, and the various technology industries.
Each program lasts one hour: is downloadable; and any lawyer who listens can earn free CLE credit in California, New York, Texas, Illinois, Washington, and soon over a dozen more states.
The programs are hosted by UCLA Law Professor Doug Lichtman. Our current show, an archive of previous programs, a schedule of upcoming audios, and various subscription methods are all available at www.ipcolloquium.com. Questions: Email Professor Lichtman at lichtman@law.ucla.edu.
Contact Us
Intellectual Property Law Section
The State Bar of California
180 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94105-1639
415-538-2375
415-538-2368 fax
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