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Insights into the Economic Espionage Act
$295 – $334About the Course: Violating the Economic Espionage Act is very costly in terms of both monetary damages and imprisonment. To wit: A former Dow scientist was sentenced to five years in prison for stealing trade secrets relating to Dow Chemical’s CPE process and product technologies and conspiring to…
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Patent Valuation in the Wake of the America Invents Act
$295 – $334About the Course: This webinar provides insight into how the America Invents Act may impact patent valuation. The Post-Grant Review process, first to file and expanded user rights are explored in great detail. The nuances of changing standards for establishing claim invalidity; broader standards for claim interpretation; cost…
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Managing Intellectual Property in Bankruptcy
$295 – $334About the Course: This seminar provides a thorough overview of the rights and risks of licensors and licensees that are subject to bankruptcy proceedings. Insight into how various intellectual asset classes–patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets–are affected by bankruptcy filings is provided. Among the issues discussed during this…
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Intellectual Property and Video Games
$295About the Course: The creation and marketing of video games touches upon every aspect of intellectual property law which includes patents, trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights and rights of publicity. This webinar provides keen insight into the cost and ease of obtaining; terms; and, coverages provided by each form…
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Patents and Secrecy Orders
$295 – $334About the Course: The Director of the US Patent and Trademark Office is authorized to order patent applications to be kept secret and not published, if such publication is deemed to be “detrimental to national security.” Not only may such determinations risk depriving inventors of their ability to…
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Forward Rejection Analysis
$295About the Course: Forward Rejection Analysis is a unique and powerful tool for assessing patent strength. This methodology indicates the extent to which a patent or patent portfolio blocks competitors from receiving patents in a similar space. The more competitors blocked–and the more assertively they prosecute their patents–the…
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Patent Family Analysis
$295 – $334About the Course: Patent progeny can often be more valuable than their parents. For instance, continuation patents provide the holder of the parent patent the ability to amend and broaden the claimed inventions. Thus, patent offspring represent a source of optionality for patent-holders. However, children patents represent risks…
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A Review of Proposed Patent Legislation
$295About the Course: Does patent law stand at the brink of a legislative inflection point? Many industry participants argue that it is time for change. Patents have been disparaged, debased, disrespected and devalued long enough. It is time to restore patent rights so as to fuel the fire…
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Managing Complex ITC Litigation
$295About the Course: The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) is tasked by Congress with protecting domestic industries from unfair competition connected to foreign imports. The ITC is not an Article III court, rather it is an administrative agency that is governed by a trade statute. The ITC has…
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Robotics and Intellectual Property
$295About the Course: Robots have application in markets ranging from agriculture to defense; from automotive to health care; and, from manufacturing to consumer goods. It is estimated that the global industrial robotics market alone shall be worth $32.9 billion by 2017. Intellectual property — in the form of…
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Patent Anatomy and Hygiene
$345About the Course: You can’t value what you can’t read. Thus, you can’t value a patent if you can’t get a firm grasp of its anatomy. This course provides an unbeatable primer on understanding the impact of the information conveyed on patents. Through a detailed case study in…
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Preserving IP Rights with Provisional Patent Applications
$345About the Course: This seminar is an unparalleled opportunity to gain insight into the strategic use of provisional patent applications. Strategies related to using provisionals to arbitrage the U.S. and non-U.S. patent filing systems are discussed. The impact of well-written and poorly-written provisionals on the quality and value…
