Holland & Hart is proud to be a presenting sponsor at the 15th Annual Rocky Mountain Intellectual Property & Technology Institute conference. The Institute is one of the premier intellectual property continuing legal education programs in the country, and we are pleased to once again participate.
Holland & Hart Trademark Attorney Hope Hamilton will moderate Thursday’s Track B Trademarks/Copyrights events and sessions. IP Litigation Partner Mark Miller will participate on a panel for the session “Discovery Rules Limitations” on Friday, which will give an overview of 2015 amendments to Rule 26 – how courts have addressed the “proportionality” requirement, interplay of local patent rules and the Federal Circuit’s model E-discovery order for patent cases, and practice tips and avoiding pitfalls.
Other topics covered at the two-day CLE event will include:
- Plenary session on “Mile High Sports and Intellectual Property”
- National panel of federal district court judges discussing trends in IP law and litigation
- Plenary ethics sessions on ethics of artificial intelligence and ethics and disclosure exposure
- Panels of USPTO SPEs and ALJs on the past year and ahead
- Chief Judge David Ruschke of the PTAB on new developments
- Chief Judge Gerard Rogers on developments at the TTAB
- Year in review updates for patent, trademark, copyright, licensing, trade secret, and TTABs
- PTAB developments
- The new DTSA and the workplace
- Limiting IP Risk – Six things you can do to protect your company and clients
- IP 2025 – The Future Today – What’s next, drones and mapping the known world, and gaming and reality
- Big data, data breaches, open source, and more
- How to search, clear, and register a trademark
- Ransomware, robots, and raging machines
- Getting indemnity agreements right
- Recent developments at the intersection of IP and antitrust law
- Commonly overlooked risks in licensing agreements
- Marijuana and cannabis update
- Asset protection for IP
- Drafting and prosecution strategies
- Not all is fair (use)
- Estoppel in the district courts following PTAB decisions
- Hot topics in bio-pharma prosecution
- Trademarking pop culture
- Marketing food, beverages, and supplements
To find out further details, including costs and timings, please click here to download the event brochure. Alternatively, please visit http://cle.cobar.org/Seminars/Event-Info/sessionaltcd/IP060117L to register.
We look forward to seeing you there!