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This Tuesday, March 23 at noon central, I am presenting a CLE program to the Chicago Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Law Committee about the Local Patent Rules. If you read the Blog regularly, you have read a lot of my thoughts on the new Rules. The presentation Tuesday will spend some time on the logistics of the Rules, but will focus far more heavily on how to use the Rules in practice both offensively and defensively. The event is being held at the CBA’s building, 321 S. Plymouth Court, and lunch will be served.
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Continue Reading CLE: Leveraging the N.D. Illinois Local Patent Rules for Litigation Success

The annual Chicago IP Colloquium continues this Tuesday, March 9, 2010. The Chicago IP Colloquium is jointly sponsored by Chicago-Kent College of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law to discuss a range of issues in intellectual property and cyberspace law based upon papers by six nationally renowned intellectual property scholars. The sessions are uniformly excellent, and well worth your time. The next session will be Tuesday, March 9 from 4:10 pm to 5:50 pm at Chicago-Kent Room 305 and will feature Professor Oren Bracha, The University of Texas School of Law, discussing Motion Pictures: The Development of Modern American Copyright and the Film Industry.
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Continue Reading Chicago IP Colloquium: The Development of Modern American Copyright & the Film Industry

On March 8, I will be speaking at the Publishing Business Conference & Expo in New York City with Camille Miller of Cozen O’Connor. Our panel is titled Online Legal-ease: Fair Use, Copyright and Content Aggregation Issues in the Digital Age, and here is the program description:
With the advent of digital publishing, social networking and user-generated content, publishers are faced with a litany of new legal issues to consider. A pair of legal experts will arm you with strategies to protect yourself — and your content — in this increasingly litigious age.
We have a lot to cover in a one hour program, so it promises to be a lively discussion. If you are interested in attending the premier conference for book and magazine publishers click here for registration information.
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Continue Reading Online Legal-ease: Fair Use, Copyright and Content Aggregation Issues in the Digital Age

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at noon central, Law.com is hosting an in-depth webinar discussion of the Seventh Circuit’s new Principles Relating to the Discovery of Electronically Stored Information – click here for registration information. The Principles are designed to streamline discovery and resolve e-discovery disputes by, among other things, incentivizing early and informal information exchange on common issues. The Principles also identify formats of e-discovery that are generally not required to be preserved in order to reduce fights and costs. For more on the Principles, click here. In October 2009, the Seventh Circuit initiated Phase One of its E-Discovery Pilot Program across the Seventh Circuit’s district courts, with a special emphasis on the Northern District of Illinois. In Phase One, the Principles are being applied to 80 selected cases during Phase One.
The panelists for the webinar include:
Chief Judge Holderman;
Magistrate Judge Nolan;
Thomas Lidbury, Mayer Brown; and
Alexandra Buck, Senior Counsel and Director of E-Discovery and Records Management at Abbott Laboratories.
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Continue Reading CLE: Seventh Circuit E-Discovery Pilot Program Phase One

The annual Chicago IP Colloquium continues this Tuesday, January 26, 2010. The Chicago IP Colloquium is jointly sponsored by Chicago-Kent College of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law to discuss a range of issues in intellectual property and cyberspace law based upon papers by six nationally renowned intellectual property scholars. The sessions are uniformly excellent, and well worth your time. The next session will be Tuesday, February 9 from 4:10 pm to 5:50 pm Loyola and will feature Professor Jeanne C. Fromer, Fordham University School of Law, discussing her paper District Courts as Patent Laboratories.
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Continue Reading Chicago IP Colloquium: District Courts as Patent Laboratories

The annual Chicago IP Colloquium returns this Tuesday, January 26, 2010. The Chicago IP Colloquium is jointly sponsored by Chicago-Kent College of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law to discuss a range of issues in intellectual property and cyberspace law based upon papers by six nationally renowned intellectual property scholars. The sessions are uniformly excellent, and well worth your time. The first session of 2010 will be Tuesday, January 26 from 4:10 pm to 5:50 pm in Room 305 at Chicago-Kent and will feature Professor Peter C. DiCola, Northwestern University School of Law, discussing his paper: Sequential Musical Creation and Sample Licensing.
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Continue Reading Chicago IP Colloquium: Sequential Musical Creation & Sample Licensing

On March 8, I will be speaking at the Publishing Business Conference & Expo in New York City with Camille Miller of Cozen O’Connor. Our panel is titled Online Legal-ease: Fair Use, Copyright and Content Aggregation Issues in the Digital Age, and here is the program description:
With the advent of digital publishing, social networking and user-generated content, publishers are faced with a litany of new legal issues to consider. A pair of legal experts will arm you with strategies to protect yourself — and your content — in this increasingly litigious age.
We have a lot to cover in a one hour program, so it promises to be a lively discussion. If you are interested in attending the premier conference for book and magazine publishers click here for registration information.
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Continue Reading Online Legal-ease: Fair Use, Copyright and Content Aggregation Issues in the Digital Age

Tomorrow, January 12, at noon, I will be participating in a panel discussion of the Bilski case as we await the Supreme Court’s decision that could significantly change patentability of business method and potentially software patents. Here is Northwestern’s description of the panel:
Currently pending in the Supreme Court, the Bilski case stands to redefine the boundaries of what is patentable and has captured the attention of major software and technology giants like Microsoft and Google. Practicing IP attorneys will discuss the potential ramifications of this case on patent law and the issues presented by patenting abstract business practices and innovations.
Joining me on the panel will be:
* Andrea Augustine from Foley & Lardner; and
* Thomas Donovan from Barnes & Thornburg.
The panel is open to the public, so please join us January 12 at noon in Northwestern Law’s Room RB140.
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Continue Reading Defining ‘Patenable’: A Discussion of Bilski and Business Method Patents

DePaul Law is hosting an impressive CLE program (11 hours of credit) this Thursday and Friday, October 15-16 at its downtown Chicago campus titled Cyberlaw 2.1: Legal Challenges of an Evolving Internet. The panels are largely academic and very impressive. Here is how DePaul describes the program:
[The conference] contemplates the changing role of the internet in society. These developments bring, as technological advances often do, both opportunities and risks. Correspondingly, cyberlaw doctrine now confronts challenges resulting from the increasing importance of social networking applications and cloud computing, the drive toward “personalization” of search, advertising, and other internet experiences, and, as life is lived more and more online, the related threats to private life caused by the potential to store more and more complete records of individuals’ experiences. Our speakers will explore the ways in which Web 2.0 and beyond affects a wide spectrum of legal issues, ranging from privacy and freedom of expression through intellectual property.
In connection with the program, DePaul is also hosting the 12th Annual Niro Distinguished Intellectual Property Lecture and Luncheon. The speaker will be Stanford’s Mark Lemley presenting his paper, “Irrelevant Confusion.” Click here to register and here for more information on either program.
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