IP Issues in Business Transactions 2023

What You Will Learn

• Overview of how intellectual property issues arise in the context of transactions
• Updated review of new issues impacting transactions related to copyright, trademark, domain names, trade secrets and patent
• Nuts and bolts of due diligence
• Practice Points: Clause-by-clause analysis of a licensing agreement
• Data and online assets in IP transactions
• Artificial intelligence as assets in business transactions
• Panel discussion: IP issues for in-house counsel

Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only with the purchase of the entire program.

• Opening Remarks* [00:05:45]
  Kenneth K.. Cho, Angela J. Grayson, CIPP/US, CLP
• Basic IP Principles and Recent Developments [02:03:26]
  Eleanor M. Lackman, Kenneth K.. Cho, Maria A. Scungio, Benjamin I. Fink
• Designing, Creating, and Pruning an IP Portfolio [01:14:58]
  Melvin C. Garner, Gail H. Zarick
• Developing and Implementing an IP Licensing Program [01:00:20]
  Jennifer D. Silverman, Kimberly Chotkowski
• Negotiating Critical License Terms: A Clause-by-Clause Review [01:16:52]
  Amy Benjamin, Jose A. Duthil, Eleanor M. Lackman, Nancy J.. Mertzel
• Negotiation of IP License Terms and Clauses [in Software] [01:00:21]
  Kenneth K.. Cho, Angela J. Grayson, CIPP/US, CLP, Peter J. Kinsella, Michael F. Martin, Heather J. Meeker
• IP Issues in Emerging Technologies: Artificial Intelligence, NFTs, Crypto Issues and more [00:59:23]
  Joseph M. Casino, Jason T. Raylesberg, Andrew Cooper
• IP Issues in International Business Transactions [01:14:45]
  Kenneth K.. Cho, Zhun Lu
• Shared or Jointly Developed IP [00:58:54]
  Angela J. Grayson, CIPP/US, CLP, Laura B.. Taylor
• Nuts and Bolts of Due Diligence [00:59:02]
  Violetta Kokolus
• IP Issues for In-House Counsel [01:17:03]
  Carolyn H. Blankenship, Michael R.. Manley, Joel Wolfson, Kim Youngberg
• Avoiding Ethics Issues in IP Transactions [01:07:59]
  David Rabinowitz

The purchase price of this Web Program includes the following articles from the Course Handbook available online:

• Complete Course Handbook
• Database Protection, Data Portability, Screen Scaping and the Use of Content and Data for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (2022)
  Ian C. Ballon
• Designing Creating and Pruning an IP Portfolio (October 8, 2021)
  Melvin C. Garner
• No One Owns Data, Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 70:1 (December 2018)
  Lothar Determann
• Open Source Software in Mergers and Acquisitions
  Heather Meeker
• Digital Exhaustion: New Law from the Old World, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 33:185 (2018)
  Lothar Determann
• WIPO, Technology Trends 2019, Artificial Intelligence, Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization (2019)
  Joseph Casino
• United States Patent Trademark Office, Public Views on Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property Policy (October 2020)
  Joseph Casino
• Wiggin and Dana, Software and AI Patents in the United States: Getting and Keeping Strong Patents (March 1, 2019) (PowerPoint slides)
  Joseph Casino
• Links to Additional A.I. in Business Transactions Articles
  Joseph Casino
• Electronic Form Over Substance: eSignature Laws Need Upgrades, Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 72:1385 (May 2021)
  Lothar Determann
• Global Supply Chain Compliance, Future-Proofing IP in Your Supply Chain (November 23, 2020)
  Cynthia Cole
• Connect on Tech, Artificial Intelligence, Selected Articles
  Cynthia Cole
• Baker McKenzie, IP License Agreements in Insolvency Survey (June 10, 2022)
  Cynthia Cole
• Baker McKenzie, North America AI Survey (September 9, 2022)
  Cynthia Cole
• Pride in Patent Ownership Act, S.2774, 117th Cong. 1st Sess. (2021)
  Angela J. Grayson
• U.S. Copyright Office, Copyright Small Claims and the Copyright Claims Board (January 4, 2022)
  Angela J. Grayson
• Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd. v. Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc., No. 21-2369 (Fed. Cir. 2022)
  Angela J. Grayson
• A Framework for the Strategy and Management of Jointly-Developed or Shared Intellectual Property in Open Innovation
  Angela J. Grayson
• Shared and Jointly Developed IP Outline (Substantive Outline) (2020)
  Winslow Taub
• Healthy Data Protection, Michigan Technology Law Review, Vol. 26:229 (Spring 2020)
  Lothar Determann
• Dr. Lothar Determann and Jonathan Tam, The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020: A Broad and Complex Data Processing Regulation That Applies to Businesses Worldwide, Journal of Data Protection & Privacy, Vol. 4, No. 1 (2021)
  Lothar Determann
• Basic Ethics for the Negotiating Lawyer (2019)
  David Rabinowitz

Presentation Material

• Basic IP Principles and Recent Developments: Patents
  Kenneth K.. Cho
• Copyright Basics and Hot Topics?
  Eleanor M. Lackman
• trade secrets
  Benjamin I. Fink
• trademarks and domain names
  Maria A. Scungio
• Designing, Creating and Managing ? an IP Portfolio Part II:? Acquiring and Selling IP
  Gail H. Zarick
• Designing, Creating and Pruning an IP Portfolio? Part I
  Melvin C. Garner
• How To Create ? A Real World Licensing Program
  Kimberly Chotkowski, Jennifer D.. Silverman
• The Allure of Licensing: Facilitating Creative Solutions to Business Challenges
  Jennifer D. Silverman
• Critical License Terms: ? A Clause-by-Clause Review
  Amy Benjamin, Jose A. Duthil, Eleanor M. Lackman, Nancy J. Mertzel
• Negotiating OSS and SaaS Terms
  Kenneth K.. Cho, Angela J. Grayson, CIPP/US, CLP, Peter J. Kinsella, Michael F. Martin
• Metaverse
  Andrew Cooper
• New Technologies: Privacy Law Considerations?
  Jason T. Raylesberg
• SHARED OR JOINTLY DEVELOPED IP
  Laura B.. Taylor
• The Strategy and Management of ? Jointly Developed IP in Open Innovation
  Angela J. Grayson, CIPP/US, CLP
• NUTS & BOLTS OF ? DUE DILIGENCE
  Violetta Kokolus
• IP Issues for In-House Counsel
  Michael R. Manley, Joel Wolfson
• The Impact of Google v. Oracle on the Financial Services Industry
  Joel Wolfson
• NEGOTIATION ETHICS – CASES AND RULES
  David Rabinowitz

Why You Should Attend

Attorneys confront intellectual property issues frequently in the context of a variety of corporate, commercial, and other business transactions. By attending this program, you will acquire, update or refine an in-depth understanding of IP considerations as they arise in business transactions.  The program will begin with a brief update of key developments, and will explore the strategic role of IP in a company and its business transactions.  Learn how to assess intellectual property as a strategic asset and how to monetize IP while avoiding costly mistakes. Expert faculty will also review joint development and shared intellectual property ventures, due diligence issues, and share best practices. This program – essential for all IP transactional attorneys – will cover issues that may arise across patent, trademark, and copyright law.

What You Will Learn

• Overview of how intellectual property issues arise in the context of transactions
• Updated review of new issues impacting transactions related to copyright, trademark, domain names, trade secrets and patent
• Nuts and bolts of due diligence
• Practice Points: Clause-by-clause analysis of a licensing agreement
• Data and online assets in IP transactions
• Artificial intelligence as assets in business transactions
• Panel discussion: IP issues for in-house counsel