Events
Monthly luncheon meetings for CincyIP are held on the second Tuesday of each month from 11:45-1:30. Additional meetings will be scheduled pending interest and speaker availability.
Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Event: Holiday Luncheon & Second Life
Speakers: Anne Chasser and Lynda Roesch.
Time:
11:45-12:15 Lunch
12:15-12:30 Registration
12:30-1:30 Presentation
Topic: TRADEMARKS IN VIRTUAL WORLDS
Second Life is purported to have over 10 million members. While much of the activity in a digital world is social interaction, there is a virtual economy with intellectual capital.
Intellectual property exists within these virtual worlds and has real world value. The virtual world developer certainly has ownership rights in its own content. Members can create and sell virtual goods and services. Members own rights in the content they create in Second Life. There is a trademark office; there are counterfeit products; and there are police.
Many companies have entered the virtual world to sell their products and to take action against infringers. What rights and responsibilities do trademark owners have in a virtual world? We will explore these and other trademark issues in virtual worlds during the session.
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Register Deadline: Noon - Friday, December 5, 2008.
CLE Credit: One credit hour of General CLE for OH (approved)
Cost: $20 for Members; $10 for Academics; $30 for Non-members.
CANCELLATION/REFUND requests must be in writing and must be received 48 hours prior to the event so that changes to the lunch order can be made.
Date: Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Event: Revision of Local Patent Rules
Speakers: David Mancino and Kevin Kirsch.
Time: 11:45am
Location: Cincinnati Bar Association
Event Description: In October, a set of proposed Patent Local Rules ("PLR") for the Southern District of Ohio ("SDOH") was formally presented to the SDOH Local Rules Committee for consideration and to the District Court Judges for the SDOH during their annual retreat. The proposed PLR for the SDOH creates a protocol and schedule for presenting the parties’ respective infringement and validity contentions, develops a timeline and protocol for proffering and presenting claim construction positions, places restrictions on certain willfulness discovery until thresholds are met, proposes a standard protective order, and presents a model case management order, among other components.
The discussion will also touch on a concept for possible future consideration, a “Black Box Procedure.” This procedure provides an approach to circumstances where information necessary to complete a party’s infringement contentions is not readily available, e.g., cases relating to software infringement, chemical processes and manufacturing processes or methods, technologies not readily scrutinized by the public.
Date: Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Event: Ethics
Panel Discussion.
Time: 11:45am
Date: Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Event: Digital Sampling
Speaker: Tracy Reilly.
Tracy Reilly, who teaches Real Property and Intellectual Property courses, was most recently a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Chicago, where she worked in the areas of intellectual property, entertainment, advertising, Internet, and e-commerce law. Previously, she was an associate at Garfinkle & Associates, practicing entertainment, intellectual property, marketing, and promotional law. Her clients have included Kraft, Sara Lee, Kellogg, Honeywell, Madison Dearborn Partners, United Airlines, the Chicago Sun -Times, Rand McNally, and the estates of gospel star Mahalia Jackson and Charles Stepney, producer for Earth, Wind & Fire.
Prof. Reilly also has experience as an adjunct professor at the Valparaiso University School of Law in Indiana, the University of Chicago Graham School of Business, and Lewis University in Illinois. She clerked for the Honorable Wayne R. Andersen in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and for the Honorable Anne M. Burke in the Appellate Court of Illinois.
She serves on the board of the Theatre Museum in New York, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the history of Broadway. She has also served as Vice-Chair of the Entertainment Committee of the Chicago Bar Association. Her scholarship is focused in the areas of copyright and trademark law.
Topic:
Since the emergence of digital sampling technology in the 1970’s, courts and legal scholars alike have failed to fully appreciate the true nature and consequences of allowing legally unchecked digital sampling—that is, until the recent Sixth Circuit decision in Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films, holding that defendants’ unlicensed sampling of three notes of a copyrighted sound recording constituted a per se infringement. This decision marked the first time a court hearing a sampling case truly discerned the subtle but existent differences between sampling a musical composition and sampling a sound recording, and applied the Copyright Act accordingly.
While the sampling technique is properly recognized as an art form in and of itself, unethical and unlawful use of a certain kind and/or a certain amount of a sampled musician’s prior work amounts to copyright infringement if the owner of the sound recording that has been sampled has not consented to such use. This presentationwill provide an overview of the history and continued growth of the modern technology that enables what is known as digital sampling and discuss the response of the courts and the music industry to sampling and the courts’ various and inconsistent attempts to reconcile sampling practices with the current language of the Copyright Act and other laws, including the Bridgeport Music case. Finally, a summary of the continuing moral and ethical debate in the music industry over whether sampling is “art” or merely “theft.”
Time: 11:45am
Date: Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Event: Annual Elections 2009
Time: 11:45am
Location: Frost Brown Todd
Date: Tuesday May 12, 2009
Event: Cost Management and Business Issues in Foreign IP prosecution and enforcement
Cost Management and Business Issues in Foreign IP prosecution and enforcement – in house and outside counsel perspective.
Time: 11:45am
Date: Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Event: PATENT AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ASSET ACQUISITIONS FROM DISTRESSED BUSINESSES
PATENT AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ASSET ACQUISITIONS FROM DISTRESSED BUSINESSES – STRUCTURING AND PRESERVING THE ACQUISITION FOR MAXIMUM VALUE AND MINIMUM EXPOSURE
Speaker: Richard Ferrell
Time: 11:45am
Date: July 16-17, 2009
Event: Quad City IP Meeting & Dinner
Dinner
Date: July 16, 2009
Time: 6pm - 9pm
Location: L’Auberge in Dayton - http://www.laubergedayton.com/
Speaker :Chief Judge Edward Damich from the Court of Claims on a copyright topic for 1 CLE hour
Reservations: Information to follow at a later date
Quad City IP Meeting
Date: July 17, 2009
Location: University of Dayton School of Law
Proposed Topic: Addresses by the Commissioners of Patents, Trademarks, and the Register of Copyrights
Registration: Information to follow at a later date
Date: August 11, 2009
Event: Judge’s Dinner
Time: 6pm
Date: September 2009
Event: AOAIOIP
Location and exact date to be determined.
Date: Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Event: Advanced FAR/DFAR meeting
Speaker: Robert (Bob) Hardy, Director, Contracts and Intellectual Property Management, Council on Government Relations (COGR).
Robert B. Hardy is Director of Contracts and Intellectual Property Management at the Council on Governmental Relations (COGR; (www.cogr.edu)), an association of 175 research universities and several affiliated hospitals and research institutes. COGR focuses on the impact of government policies and regulations on university research. Mr. Hardy has lead COGR responsibility for university issues pertaining to federal contracting and technology transfer policies and regulations.
Many university administrators and technology transfer officers are familiar with the federal rules relating to managing inventions and patents that have been developed in the performance of federally funded research. The Bayh-Dole Act (35 USC Section 200—212) provides a uniform federal regime for rights to inventions under federally funded awards. Unlike rights to inventions, there is no controlling statutory authority for rights to technical data and computer software. In fact, the federal data rules and regulations are inconsistent with the government’s approach to invention rights under Bayh-Dole. There is a particularly anomalous situation with regard to computer software. The federal rules treat computer software as technical data, and do not reflect the current legal situation with regard to the patentability of computer software.
In addition to their complexity, the rules often require an institution to take specific steps to retain the maximum rights to data and software developed under federally sponsored projects. Different federal agencies have different regulations and the same agency may have different regulations depending on what type of funding document it issues. A grant or a contract from the same agency may differ in the rules and regulations for the appropriate management, retention of rights, and use of data and software developed under the award.
It is important that research administrators and technology transfer practitioners be familiar with the application of a federal agency’s rights in data, technical data, computer software, and copyrights. These rights should be discussed with principal investigators before a response to a federal procurement solicitation or an unsolicited proposal is sent to a federal agency because it is important to identify and protect the rights of the institution and the faculty at the proposal stage. Copyright and license rights to copyrighted material developed under a federally sponsored project are important to the government, to the public’s right to use federally funded research, to authors, and to universities.
Guest Organization: Local Chapter for NCMA (National Contract Managers Association)
Time: 11:45am
Date: Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Event: Controlling/harvesting open innovation
Time: 11:45am
Date: Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Event: WIPO/International PCT
Time: 11:45am
Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Event: Drafting License Agreements in View of Recent Supreme Court Decisions (KSR and MedImmune)
Download Presentation: DRAFTING LICENSE AGREEMENTS IN VIEW OF RECENT SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.ppt
Time: 11:45-1:30
Speaker: Mark Levy of Thompson Hine
Location: Thompson Hine - 312 Walnut Street - 10th Floor - Cincinnati, Ohio - 45202-4089 - 513.352.6700
CLE Credit: 1 Hour approved by Ohio CCLE.
Cost: $10 members/students prepaid via website, $15 non-members or at the door.
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