CELEBRATE WITH THE INVENTOR OF THE YEAR RECIPIENT AT ANNUAL AWARD DINNER
Thursday, June 24, 2004
LOCATION CHANGE TO: The Fairmont Hotel (170 S. Market Street, San Jose, 408.998.1900)
6:00 p.m., cocktails and registration; 7:00 p.m., dinner and program
INVENTOR OF THE YEAR: Radia Perlman, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems Laboratories
Each year SVIPLA awards the Inventor of the Year based upon contributions to the technical arts. Through the nomination process, Ms. Perlman was selected by her peers to receive this award. At Sun, she conducts research on network security and routing technologies. She holds 47 patents with others pending, has published in numerous publications and was named as one of the 20 most influential people in information technology by Data Communications Magazine in its 20th and 25th anniversary editions.
Her lifelong body of work made her an excellent recipient of SVIPLA\'s annual award as many of her inventions served as one of the underpinnings for the Internet. Her earlier inventions are now receiving the recognition they rightfully deserve for their applicability to today’s issues in routing, security and tangible computing. Ms. Perlman launched “tangible computing” in the early 1970’s. This process involved making the concepts of programming comprehensible (even to preschool children) by using physical objects for commands and then being able to plug them together to create programs. Even though it was intended for human use, MIT researchers, having rediscovered this work, are conducting experiments to see if this system can be used to teach parrots to program. They have dubbed her “the inventor of tangible computing.”
As a result of a Harvard Business School study, Ms. Perlman was designated as being the highest connected inventor during the 1990’s. She had the highest number of patents as inventor referenced by other patents, and, because of her collaborative nature, she was also identified as having the highest number of distinct co-inventors.
CONGRATULATIONS TO RADIA PERLMAN!
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Cost: Member - $50 Non-Member - $65 Student - $25
If you have difficulty responding to the \"Click Here\" above, you can send your registration directly to the email: svipla@yahoo.com.
Bring your check for the dinner payment to the meeting on June 24, payable to: SVIPLA.
PLEASE DO NOT MAIL YOUR CHECK - BRING DINNER PAYMENT TO MEETING.
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DEADLINE FOR RESERVATION OR CANCELLATION: Noon, Tuesday, June 22. Please make your reservation by the deadline as there are only a few extra spaces allotted at the meeting. The hotel may not be able to serve meals beyond the guaranteed number expected for the meeting.
TAX ID#: 77-0491659
MCLE: This activity has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of California in the amount of 1.0 hour. SVIPLA certifies that this activity conforms to the standards for approved education activities prescribed by the State Bar of California governing minimum continuing legal education.
PRESIDENT\'S MESSAGE
Regrettably, our Inventor of the year meeting will be the last meeting of the 2003-2004 year. Please be sure to attend and help celebrate the achievements of Ms. Perlman.
I\'d like to take this opportunity to thank my fellow Board members for performing their duties so diligently and making this year a success. During this year, we have implemented SVIPLA\'s new website, allowing member access and update of information, as well as introduced email meeting announcements. Next year will bring even more changes.
Thank you for allowing me to serve as President, it has been an honor.
Stephen Sullivan, SVIPLA
President
NOMINEES SELECTED FOR PROGRAM CHAIR DUO
Congratulations to Marcel Bingham, Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP, and Sean Fitzgerald, Law Offices of Sean M. Fitzgerald - they were nominated and selected to serve on the SVIPLA 2004-2005 Board of Directors as Co-Program Chairs. Thank you to those who placed members in nomination.
SEEKING PATENT AGENTS/CLERKS
Opportunity in a Silicon Valley High Tech Specialty Law Firm working with exciting Internet, Chips, Telecommunications and Biotech Start-Ups. Duties Incl: Assisting Patent Attorney in preparing Patent Application, such as preparations of Engineering Specifications & Drawings; misc legal tasks. Good Tech-Writing skills preferred. BSEE/CS or Physics. Send Resume to Fernandez & Associates, LLP., 1047 El Camino Real, Ste 201, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, or email: iploft@iploft.com.
CALENDAR OF IP-RELATED PROGRAMS
TRADEMARK SEARCHING AND CLEARANCE SEMINAR - JUNE 10
Dechert LLP will host a June 10 breakfast seminar titled \"\"Trademark Searching and Clearance,\" presented by Glenn Gundersen, author of the well known treatise \"Trademark Searching,\" published by the International Trademark Association. The event will be held in Menlo Park. Breakfast begins at 8:45 a.m.; program at 9:15. The seminar will finish with an optional lunch. We have a limited amount of seats and must give first preference to in-house trademark attorneys. For details, please contact Monica Schreiber at 650-813-4925 or monica.schreiber@dechert.com.
STANFORD OFFERS CONFERENCE ON UNCERTAINTIES OF ONLINE BUSINESS
On June 25, the Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology (LST), its Center for E-commerce and the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsels (ACC) are sponsoring a conference entitled \"Stanford Ecommerce Best Practices Conference - How to Deal with the Uncertainties of Online Business\" on Stanford University campus.
The program will address timely issues relating to online best practices, including how e-commerce best practices evolve, how they operate and how US companies deal with incompatible regulatory environments and diverse corporate cultures. Contract formation, limitations and enforcement, negating of implied licenses, international jurisdiction, privacy regimes, online security, piracy of digital content, and taxation of digital content are among the session topics.
For more information, and registration, please visit http://lst.stanford.edu/best_practices.
SILICON VALLEY SEMINARS - 2004 WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
U.S. Patents & the Patent Process - October 28, 2004 - San Francisco Area (for Secretaries, Paralegals, New Patent Attorneys/Agents)
Patents & Patent Claim Drafting - July 12 and 13, 2004, October 29, 30, 2004 - San Francisco Area (for Summer and new Associates/Agents)
Trademarks & the Trademark Process - June 15 - San Francisco Area (for Secretaries, Paralegals, Attorneys)
FOR DETAILS - VISIT: www.patentseminars.com or contact: Steve Shear at steve@patentseminars.com.