REGISTER TODAY FOR JANUARY 31 PROGRAM: “IP Damages & Injunctions”
Date: Thursday, January 31, 2008
Location: Hyatt Regency Santa Clara (Great America Parkway east of Tasman, Santa Clara)
Time: 6:00 p.m., cocktails and registration; 7:00 p.m., dinner and program
Program: “IP Damages and Injunctions”
Speakers: Robert Vigil, Vice President, and Kara Gorski, Manager, Analysis Group, Inc., Washington, D.C., will focus their presentation on lost profits damages, reasonable royalty damages, and the law and economics of permanent injunctions in light of the eBay v. MercExchange decision and other relevant cases.
Dr. Vigil specializes in the application of economics and finance to intellectual property, antitrust, and general commercial litigation damages-related matters. His work includes assessment of damages in complex litigation cases, including analyses of lost profits, reasonable royalties, price erosion, and unjust enrichment. Dr. Vigil’s experience spans a wide variety of industries including telecommunications, computer hardware and software, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and consumer products. In addition, Dr. Vigil has experience in technology valuation and licensing strategy in prospective non-litigation licensing matters. He has worked with inventors, corporations, and licensing experts to provide analysis of the products and markets to which technologies may be applied. He also has provided intellectual property owners with analysis of and recommendations for the appropriate terms of technology transfer and performed prospective market valuations of assorted intellectual property in an array of industries. He has given presentations on intellectual property issues before professional and academic groups.
Dr. Gorski is an expert in the application of microeconomic theory to intellectual property valuation and regulation. She has conducted economic analyses of damages related to patent and copyright infringement, breach of contract, and the misappropriation of trade secrets. Dr. Gorski’s experience spans various industries, including semiconductors, medical devices, and telecommunications.
Analysis Group, Inc. provides economic, financial, and business strategy consulting to law firms, corporations, and government agencies. Through their work in thousands of cases across multiple industries, they have built a reputation for excellence by providing fact-based, thoughtful interpretation of complex legal and business issues.
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PLEASE READ BEFORE REGISTERING ONLINE: SVIPLA Membership dues are due for the 2007-2008 membership year (September through June). To receive the member dinner rate of $60 for the January dinner meeting, please pay your membership dues in addition to registering for the dinner meeting (see link above). You have the option of paying dinner fee and membership dues together.
REGISTER TODAY – click here: Registration
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If you do not want to join SVIPLA at this time, you will be required to pay the $85 non-member dinner fee.
Cost: Member - $60 Non-Member - $85 Student - $25
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DEADLINE FOR RESERVATION OR CANCELLATION: Tuesday, noon, January 29, 2007. Online registration will close at that time - please make your reservation online (see link above) by the deadline as there are only a few extra spaces allotted at the meeting for walk-ins. The venue may not be able to serve meals beyond the guaranteed number expected for 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.
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To renew membership dues or become a new member of SVIPLA online, click here: Membership. We encourage you to join SVIPLA so that you can receive ample savings on the member rate for the dinner meetings of $60 versus $85 for non-members.
SAVE THE DATE – UPCOMING SVIPLA MEETINGS
February 28, 2008, Crowne Plaza Cabana Hotel, Palo Alto – Tentative topic: “Information Disclosure Statements – New Rule Changes” Speaker: Michelle Galloway, Cooley Godward.
JOB POSTINGS
You are invited to send any attorney or patent agent job placement ad to svipla@yahoo.com for posting on the SVIPLA website and in our monthly meeting announcement newsletter. At present, users are not able to post job placements directly on the SVIPLA website. We will have the job placements posted on the website for a period of 90 days. If the position is filled before the 90-day period ends, please send an email to svipla@yahoo.com to request removal of the job posting.
2006-2007 SVIPLA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT
Sean Fitzgerald, Sean M. Fitzgerald, Attorney at Law, smf@competitivefactors.com
VICE PRESIDENT/TREASURER
Glenn von Tersch, TIPS Group, gvontersch@tipsgroup.org
SECRETARY
Steven Cahill, mp_94025@yahoo.com
PROGRAM CHAIRS
David J. Aston, Peters Verny LLP, djaston@pvjsa.com
Anthony Diepenbrock, Dechert LLP, anthony.diepenbrock@dechert.com
PAST PRESIDENTS
Marcel Bingham, Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP, mbingham@hptb-law.com
Brian Coleman, Perkins Coie LLP, bcoleman@perkinscoie.com
Robert Guillot, IPLO, rguillot@iplo.com