November 6, 2019

Santa Clara University Locatelli Center
Co-hosted by SCU High Tech Law Journal and Unified Patents

Join heads of IP from Facebook, Google, Sony, Twitter, Mozilla, Ecobee, NetApp, Uber, and over 40 other leading in-house attorneys to learn about the latest in IP issues.  Keynote by Honorable Kevin Turner, Administrative Patent Judge at the PTAB, USPTO.

Complimentary Registration for a limited time, but seating is extremely limited.

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CLE Meeting & Happy Hour

Pre-Conference Dinner (Unified members / Sponsors / Speakers / Special Guests)

Breakfast Reception

Introduction

Speakers: Kevin Jakel - CEO, Unified Patents & Nayef Andrabi - Editor-in-Chief, SCU High Tech Law Journal

Keynote Speaker: IP & Innovation at the USPTO

Speaker: Honorable Kevin Turner - Administrative Patent Judge, USPTO

Networking Break

Tools to Help Make Your Job Easier

Speaker: Shawn Ambwani - Unified Patents, COO

Panel 1: Innovation in Standards

Moderator: Kevin Post - Partner, Ropes & Gray
Jeremiah Chan - Facebook, Head of Patents
Matt Wade - HP, IP Counsel
Emily Lough - Tesla, Associate GC
Michael Lee - Google, Head of Patents
Bill Harmon - Uber, IP Director

Lunch

Panel 2: How to Innovate in Open Source

Moderator: Jaime Siegel - OIN, Global Director of Licensing
Talal Shamoon - Intertrust, CEO
Peter Toto - Sony SVP of IP
George Kanabe - McAfee, Head of IP

Networking Break

Patent Quality Initiative

Speakers: Jonathan Stroud - Unified Patents, Chief IP Counsel & Colleen Chien - Santa Clara University, Law Professor

Panel 3: KPIs for IP in Emerging Companies

Moderator: Mark Selwyn - Partner, WilmerHale
Julian Moore - Twitter, Associate Director
Everitt Long - Ecobee, Director of IP
Diane Gabl Kratz - Seagate, Senior IP Counsel

Networking Break

Panel 4: Update from Inside the Beltway

Moderator: Jonathan Stroud - Chief IP Counsel, Unified Patents
Daniel Nazer - Mozilla, Senior IP Counsel
Robert Pechman - Seagate, Chief IP Counsel
Ken Korea - Samsung, SVP & Head of Silicon Valley IP Office
David Killough - Microsoft, Assistant General Counsel
Colleen Chien - Santa Clara University, Law Professor

Closing Remarks & Cocktails

Dinner for all participants on SCU campus

Santa Clara University 

Paul L. Locatelli, S.J. Student Activities Center
500 El Camino Real Santa Clara, California 95053
Parking available at Lot F - Leavey Center Lot 

CLE MATERIALS

Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit is available for this event. Links to referenced materials are provided below:

Panel 1: SEPs & Patent Pools

• Robert P. Merges & Michael Mattioli, Measuring the Costs and Benefits of Patent Pools, Ohio State Law Journal (2017).

• Erik Hovencamp & Herbert J. Hovenkamp, Patent Pools and Related Technology Sharing, Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository Faculty Scholarship (2017).

• Michael Mattioli, Patent Pool Outsiders, 33 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 225 (2018).

Panel 2: Open Source & Innovation

• James Boyle, Open Source Innovation, Patent Injunctions, and the Public Interest, 11 Duke L. & Tech. Rev. 30 (2012).

• David J. Kappos, Open Source Software and Standards Development Organizations: Symbiotic Functions in the Innovation Equation, 18 Colum. Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 259 (2017).

• John D. Harkrider & Russell M. Steinthal, The Open Source Paradox: Innovation in the Absence of Exclusive Property Rights, 7 Competition L. Int'l 38 (2011).

Panel 3: KPIs for IP Management

• Gideon Parchomovsky & R. Polk Wagner, Patent Portfolios, 154 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1 (2005).

• George Wheeler, Patent Portfolio Strategy for the America Invents Act, 12 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. (2013).

• Jason Schultz & Jennifer M. Urban, Protecting Open Innovation: The Defensive Patent License as a New Approach to Patent Threats, Transaction Costs, and Tactical Disarmament, 26 Harv. J. L. & Tech. 1 (2012).

Panel 4: Update from Inside the Beltway

• Robert P. Merges, The Hamiltonian Origins of the U.S. Patent System, and Why They Matter Today, 104 Iowa L. Rev. 2559 (2019).

• Meeting the Challenges to America's Economic Future: Charting the Course in U.S. Intellectual Property & Innovation Policy, 67 Cath. U. L. Rev. 605 (2018).

• Jonathan S. Masur; Adam K. Mortara, Patents, Property, and Prospectivity, 71 Stan. L. Rev. 963 (2019).

Co-Hosted by: Unified Patents and
Santa Clara High Tech Law Journal

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