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IP for Everybody Webinar Series

Webinar #1: Trademarks for Everybody!

Webinar #2: Copyrights for Everybody!

Webinar #3: Patents & Trade Secrets for Everybody!

Webinar #4: Licensing Agreements for Everybody!

A Basic course/refresher for Non-IP Attorneys


Dates and Times

Webinar #1: Trademarks for Everybody!


Webinar #2: Copyrights for Everybody!


Webinar #3: Patents & Trade Secrets for Everybody!


Webinar #4: Licensing Agreements for Everybody!



Course Summary


THE BASICS EVERY ATTORNEY SHOULD KNOW ABOUT:

  • TRADEMARKS
  • COPYRIGHT
  • LICENSING
  • PATENTS & TRADE SECRETS

Intellectual property issues abound, for every client, in every state, every city, for every law firm – no matter how big or small.  Can you comfortably conduct a short, IP-focused client meeting?

Do you know what to do – and what not to do -- to limit your clients’ and your firm’s liabilities in an IP case?  Can you effectively protect a new domain name?  Do you know the most effective ways to respond to a demand letter?

Do you know when to tell your clients to propose an NDA, or sign one – or to refuse?  What one clause must be in a licensing agreement to render it enforceable – which is quite often missing?

If you can answer these questions, then this series of seminars is not for you. 

If, however, you – like the vast majority of attorneys – are not an experienced IP practitioner, then this series of four Webinars is for you.  Leave with a set of IP-specific “Top 10” lists – Checklists on each of the major issues of IP – that you will keep near your phone.  Forever.  You will learn a lot in these six hours.

Do you have the key contracts & checklists -- the most critical IP forms -- at your fingertips?

Just as critically: Do you know what matters most -- and least -- in each of these contracts?
 
In just four, 90-minute telephone seminars -- all CLE-accredited, and available on your phone -- you'll leave having garnered contracts, checklists & forms to focus all your client meetings.

The 4 speakers (bios below) have been hand-picked for their national reputations, rare talent for teaching, and practical approach to these hard issues.  Register now: Save $100 for all 6 hours.

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What You Will Learn if You Attend This Seminar

Overall:

Key contracts & checklists -- the most critical IP forms, including:

Trademark-specific Agreements

  • Trademark license agreement 
  • Trademark assignment agreement 
  • Sample demand letter 
  • Sample reply to demand

Copyrights-specific Agreements

  • Software development agreements
  • Copyright license
  • Copyright assignment agreements
  • Sample Work For Hire clause

Patent-specific Agreements

General IP Protection Documents

  • Documents relevant to emerging companies' agreements with contractors, employees, and business partners. 
  • Non-Disclosure agreement(s) 
  • Manufacturing agreements (including IP provisions for more general contracts)
  • Other sample (non-tech) development agreements

#1 TRADEMARKS by Robert Cumbow on July 8

  • How do I trademark my business or product name?
  • How much does it cost?
  • I searched the Trademark Office for the name and nobody has it, so it's available, right?
  • When is it OK to use someone else's trademark?
  • I got a letter saying my name infringes someone else's trademark. How do I respond?
  • How do I get an international trademark?
  • Can I register a trademark to keep others from using it--just like with domain names?
  • How is it possible for someone to get a trademark for an ordinary word or phrase and take it out of the language?
  • What sort of word or phrase should I look for in a good trademark?
  • My marketing people want a descriptive word or phrase that really tells the customer exactly what the product is.
  • Why do you keep telling me I can't get trademark rights in a descriptive mark?

#2 COPYRIGHTS FOR EVERYBODY by Michael Keyes on July 15

  • How do I get a copyright?
  • Who owns the copyright in the work I made for someone else?
  • When can I use the “©”?
  • What is the Visual Artists’ Rights Act?
  • How much do I have to change someone else's work before it's OK?
  • How can I protect my work from being used by others?
  • How can I tell if something is copyrighted?
  • What about licensing my work to others?

#3 PATENTS & TRADE SECRETS FOR EVERYBODY by Brian Bodine on July 22

  • What is a patent, and how do I obtain one?
  • What is a trade secret and how do I keep one?
  • How do I choose between patent and trade secret protection?
  • How do I know whether someone else has already obtained a patent or has applied for a patent relating to my invention?
  • What types of patents are available?
  • Why would I obtain a design patent rather than a utility patent?
  • How do I enforce my patents/trade secrets against others who are using them?
  • What remedies are available for use of my patents/trade secrets?
  • What kind of issues arise in licensing of my patents/trade secrets to others?
  • How is ownership of inventions developed by employees, contractors, and joint venture partners determined?
  • How do I insure that my client maintains ownership of IP developed by employees, contractors, and joint venture partners?
     

#4 LICENSING AGREEMENTS FOR EVERYBODY by Brian Myers on July 29

  • Non-Disclosure Agreements

                Keeping trade secrets, secret.

  • Employees and Contractors

            The golden rule: Just because you paid for it doesn’t mean you own it. IP issues for employee agreements and contractor agreements.

  • Licensing Agreements

            Anatomy of a Deal: A modular approach to license drafting.  We walk through the key sections highlighting typical contract terms and methods. 

  • Development Agreements
  • Manufacturing Agreements 
  • Marketing and Sales

 

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Fees

Each 90 minute webinar is only $149! 


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Home Study Course

2010 IP for Everybody Webinar Series


These are live recordings of our 2010 webinar series.  

$149 (per webinar)   

Please click here to order this program in an online/downloadable format from our online/streaming web portal.


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MCLE Credit

1.5 CLE units per webinar session in CA, IL and WA (6 CLE units if you take all four webinars).

 

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Instructors

Faculty:

J. Michael Keyes
Partner
K&L Gates

Michael Keyes is an intellectual property litigator at K&L Gates, which was founded (in part) by Bill Gates, Sr., and is now among the largest firms in the world.  Mike has served as Chair of the ABA Copyright Litigation Committee.  Mike now is Co-Editor of the ABA Copyright Litigation Handbook.  In 2009, he was chosen to write the ABA’s “Annual Review of Intellectual Property Law Developments,” and also to present “The Year in Copyright” at its 2009 Spring Conference.

Mike clerked for a state Supreme Court, and is admitted in three states.  His client list includes many of the Fortune 500.  His wins for Major Leaguer George Brett could be his most famous.       

Brian L. Myers

Myers Law Group

Educated in Illinois, Co-Chair/Commentator Brian Myers holds degrees in business and in law, and also has substantial coursework in math, science and engineering.  He has advised scores of companies on IP licensing.  He now focuses on advising emerging companies and entrepreneurs, and on educating general practice attorneys.  He is very active within the MIT Enterprise Forum, having served as its President and as its director of 50 seminars for executives, entrepreneurs and attorneys about key IP commercialization strategies for every stage of a company’s development.    

Brian started his career at KPMG, where he helped structure major international transactions.  He eventually joined Gray Cary (now in DLA Piper), where he helped on (among many other deals) the big California merger of Active Voice into Cisco Systems.  Other representative transactions include lead responsibility for metals, digital/data and transportation clients.  Brian has spent 20+ years advising startup entrepreneurs, small/medium companies, and publicly traded corporations.   

Brian also teaches law and MBA students.  He now practices alone, allowing him a bigger role in helping manage his clients’ businesses.  Brian also runs a private equity firm, Medici Northwest.

Robert C. Cumbow
Shareholder
Graham & Dunn PC

Co-Chair/Commentator Robert Cumbow of Graham & Dunn knows IP from virtually every angle.  Bob has long analyzed both the transactional and litigation angles of IP risks for movie producers, television stars (“The Deadliest Catch”), books (Amazon.com), professional sports, outdoor recreation (REI), wineries, and myriad international, regional and local retailers.  Bob has long been a SuperLawyer®, and Best Lawyer in America.  His Avvo score is a perfect 10.

Bob is an excellent teacher, having taught in both law school and film school.  In addition to his law degree (with highest honors), Bob holds an M.A. in English, and is known for presentations on law, language and literature.  He has presented at scores of IP seminars, and delivered many papers and chapters.  He has testified repeatedly as an expert witness, including on the value of trademarks.  Because Bob can distill complex issues, he is often chosen to clarify key concepts of IP by groups such as: the International Trademark Association (“Teaching Trademark Law"); the WSBA Corporate Law Department Section (“Trademark and Copyright Tips For Corporate Counsel”); and the National Council of Graduate School Deans (“Intellectual Property Basics”).  Trademark World published his quick review: “Protectable Trademark or Mere Ornamentation?”

Brian G. Bodine
Shareholder
Lane Powell PC

Brian Bodine is a leading patent and trade secret litigator.  He is a registered patent attorney and chemical engineer.  He clerked both for a federal judge and for a state Supreme Court.  Brian is admitted to three states’ bars, and has headed both the Patent Law, and the Intellectual Property, associations of the Washington state bar.  He has argued IP cases across the country, including many in New York, California, across the Midwest, and before the Ninth and Federal Circuits.  He is perennially listed in the Best Lawyers in America, SuperLawyers®, and similar rankings.

Formerly Managing Partner of Merchant & Gould (Seattle), and now with Lane Powell, Brian is well-known for clarifying complex topics; making them practical and tactical.  He was selected from among thousands of attorneys for the national “Advanced Patent Litigation Roadshow” of the American Intellectual Property Law Association.  Brian helps businesses clarify complexity.

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