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  Monthly CLE - 2009-2010
 

The Intellectual Property Law Section offers monthly lunchtime CLE seminars. The seminars are held at the Dallas Bar Association, 2101 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75201. Below is a listing of our recent and upcoming presentations, including links to speaker bios, papers, and slides, where available. Future dates and topics are subject to change.

CLE Archives: 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999

2009
Date Topic Speaker /Bio Paper / Slides
January 23

Design Patents and Product Configurations

Alan Herda 

David Bell  

Haynes and Boone, LLP

Design Patent

 

Trade Dress

 

Clearing Product Design

February 27

Criminal Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights

Paul Yanowitch

Assistant U.S. Attorney

 
March 27

Trademarks in the Background, Lawsuits in the Foreground

Shubha Ghosh

University of Wisconsin School of Law

 
April 24

IP Litigation in Canada

Scott Jolliffe

Gowling Lafleur Henderson

 
May 22

A Walk Through the European Patent Office Opposition Forest (or How to Get a Trip to Munich)

Brian Dunlop

Wynne-Jones, Lainé & James

 
June 26

Canceled due to overlap with SBOT Annual Meeting

   
July 24

Idea misappropriation and other lesser known means for protecting novel information

Casey L Griffith

Carstens & Cahoon

 
August 28

To Infinity and Beyond:  ICANN's plan to expand the number of gTLDs in the Domain Name System

J. Scott Evans

Yahoo! Inc.

gTLD Presentation
September 25

Issues in NPE/Troll Licensing 

Everett Upshaw

Nokia

 
October 23

China IP Practice

Horace Lam &

Geoffrey Lin

Lovells LLP

Intro. to PRC Patent Practice

IPR in China

December 4

U.S. Patents: The Trend Toward Making them Harder to Obtain and Enforce, A perfect Storm that May Be Showing Signs of Dissipating (incl. ethics credit)

R. Ross Viguet

Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

 
2010
January 22 Legislative Update

Sharon A. Israel

Mayer Brown

 Update
February 26 Copyright/New Media

Mark Fischer

Fish & Richardson

 
March 26 Value-Added Patent Prosecution: Bigger, Stronger, Faster, & Cheaper

Marc Hubbard

Gardere Wynne

 
April 23       
May 28      
June 25      
July 30      
August 27      
September 24      
October 22      
December 3      

 

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