SVIPLA MEETING ON IP ISSUES IN OFFSHORING DEALS
Thursday, November 18, 2004
Westin Hotel, Santa Clara (Great America Parkway, east of Tasman Drive)
6:00 p.m., cocktails and registration; 7:00 p.m., dinner and program
SPEAKER: Joel Riff, Partner, GCA Law Partners
Joel Riff, partner, joined GCA in 1998. His practice focuses on technology licensing and online commerce for a wide variety of clients (from start-ups to multinational publicly-held companies) that develop, distribute, and utilize computer and Internet technologies. He advises clients on issues relating to compliance with anti-spam laws, privacy, copyright, trade secret, trademark, and patent protection, as well as on intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions and open source licensing. Prior to joining GCA, Joel was a partner at Fenwick & West LLP in Palo Alto, where he headed Fenwick\'s Licensing and Online Commerce group. He organized Fenwick\'s first Internet Law Symposium and co-authored its annual International Legal Protection for Software survey. Before coming to California, he was an associate at Mayer, Brown & Platt in Chicago.
TOPIC: \"IP Issues in Offshoring Deals\"
Joel’s presentation will analyze how choice-of-the-law’s legal rules result in foreign intellectual property laws governing IP rights created in foreign countries by offshore developers. He will also focus on the chain-of-assignment that must be put in place among multiple companies in order to ensure that intellectual property developed offshore winds up being entirely owned by the U.S. company paying for its development.
To register (in the RSVP email message, please include attendee name(s), company name, email address and any special dietary needs): CLICK HERE
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Cost: Member - $50 Non-Member - $65 Student - $25
Bring your check for dinner payment to the meeting on November 18, payable to: SVIPLA.
PLEASE DO NOT MAIL YOUR CHECK - BRING DINNER PAYMENT TO MEETING.
DEADLINE FOR RESERVATION OR CANCELLATION: Noon, Tuesday, November 16. 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.
YOU CAN ALSO BRING YOUR 2004-2005 MEMBERSHIP DUES PAYMENT TO THE NOVEMBER MEETING (see renewal/new member information below). Attendees will be assessed at the member or non-member rate for the dinner meetings. If you have recently mailed in your membership dues, you are encouraged to bring a copy of your dues payment check with you. Dues are also accepted at the meeting.
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.
SPECIAL SVIPLA RECEPTION AT MACARTHUR PARK IN PALO ALTO
As a special thank you to the IP professionals in the Silicon Valley, the SVIPLA Board of Directors invites you to attend a special membership mixer reception as SVIPLA’s guest on Tuesday, November 30 at MacArthur Park Restaurant, Palo Alto. Here is an opportunity to bring your IP co-counsel and mix and mingle.
TO REGISTER: YOU MUST PRE-REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT BY EMAIL TO: SVIPLA@YAHOO.COM. THERE IS LIMITED SPACE AND WE WILL NEED TO PLAN ACCORDINGLY.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 5 p.m., Friday, November 26.
DATE: Tuesday, November 30
TIME: 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
LOCATION: MacArthur Park Restaurant (Veterans Room), University Avenue just east of El Camino Real, Palo Alto.
Complimentary appetizers and beverages will be served (your first two beverages are complimentary-drink tickets will be provided; cash bar thereafter)
PRESIDENT\'S MESSAGE
Greetings! As you read above, SVIPLA is having a mixer on Tuesday, November 30 , 6-8:00 PM. The idea is for you to come, and for you to invite your non-SVIPLA member-IP brethren too. That’s right; all of you. Just let us know how many are coming. Yes-a free event with appetizers and two free drinks. We’re promoting SVIPLA visibility and membership growth! But with some limited space, so RSVP ASAP.
This month’s speaker, Joel Riff, will give us an insight into the sometimes black hole of foreign laws regarding IP ownership and transfer.
See you at the meeting!
Robert Q. Guillot, SVIPLA President
DECEMBER SVIPLA MEETING
DECEMBER 16 – “Enablement and Written Description Requirement Strategies in Complex Biotechnology Applications,” presentation by Laurie Axford, Partner, Burns Doane Swecker Mathis LLP. Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Palo Alto.
SVIPLA 2004-2005 RENEWAL/NEW MEMBER DUES! NEW MEMBERSHIP YEAR HAS BEGUN (September 2004 through June 2005)
To renew membership dues or join SVIPLA, complete the application by clicking on this link: www.svipla.com/application.html. If you have trouble accessing the link, go to www.svipla.com and click on Application.
Mail completed application with your check to the address indicated on the application.
Dues have been received by many new and renewing SVIPLA members – these will be posted to indicate your membership during this month. Thank you.
POSITION AVAILABLE
Director of IP – SRI Intl.-Major functions: patent portfolio growth/strategy, IP transactions strategy, research, etc., IP investigations & disputes; requires 7 yrs. work exp., BS chemistry/Biochem (prefer MS/PhD and/or JD). email resume to: daniel.swartz@sri.com.
2004-2005 SVIPLA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT
Bob Guillot, IP Law Offices, rguillot@iplo.com
VICE PRESIDENT
Brian R. Coleman, Perkins & Coie LLP, bcoleman@perkinscoie.com
SECRETARY-TREASURER
Andre Gibbs, andre_gibbs@yahoo.com
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Marcel Bingham, Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP, mbingham@hptb-law.com
Sean Fitzgerald, Sean M. Fitzgerald, Attorney at Law, sean@competitivefactors.com
PAST PRESIDENTS
Stephen Sullivan, The Sawyer Law Group LLP, stephen@sawyerlawgroup.com
Paul Hickman, Perkins Coie LLP, phickman@perkinsCoie.com
Debra A. Shetka, dlearyously@aol.com