“Trademark Trends: Year in Review - 2006”
Date: NOTE: MEETING ONE WEEK EARLIER IN NOVEMBER - Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Location: Crowne Plaza Cabana Hotel, Palo Alto (El Camino Real just north of San Antonio Road)
Time: 6:00 p.m., cocktails and registration; 7:00 p.m., dinner and program
Speaker: Professor David Franklyn, University of San Francisco Law School
Professor David Franklyn, who teaches intellectual property courses, has been building the law school\'s IP/Cyberlaw program since he joined the faculty. Professor Franklyn received his B.A. (1993) magna cum laude from Evangel College and his J.D. (1990) cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School. Upon graduation, he clerked for the Hon. John Feikens of the U.S. District Court in Eastern Michigan, and practiced law for 5 years at Mayer, Brown & Platt. In 1998, Professor Franklyn was voted the Outstanding Professor of the Year at Northern Kentucky University, where he taught before coming to USF. He has published articles on various trademark issues in the Southern California Law Review, Case Western Reserve Law Review, and the Wisconsin Law Review and is Editor-in-Chief of the 3rd Edition of McCarthy\'s Desk Encyclopedia of Intellectual Property. Professor Franklyn serves as Executive Director of the McCarthy Institute and as Executive Director of the LL.M. Program in Intellectual Property and Technology Law.
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2005-2006 SVIPLA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT
Marcel Bingham, Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP, mbingham@hptb-law.com
VICE PRESIDENT
Sean Fitzgerald, Sean M. Fitzgerald, Attorney at Law, smf@competitivefactors.com
SECRETARY/TREASURER
Glenn von Tersch, Perkins Coie LLP, vontg@perkinscoie.com
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Steven Cahill, sjc@eecspatents.com
Cynthia Wickstrom, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, cwickstrom@orrick.com
PAST PRESIDENTS
Brian Coleman, Perkins Coie LLP, bcoleman@perkinscoie.com
Robert Guillot, IPLO, rguillot@iplo.com
Stephen Sullivan, Strategic Law Group, Inc., stephen@spatents.com