Beer, wine and hors d'oeuvres will be served.
Join your host, Pepper partner Gregory J. Nowak, for another thought-provoking and informative discussion on issues affecting funds and investment managers.
This month, Mr. Nowak will be joined by Pepper attorneys Lori E. Harrison, Michael K. Jones, Peter T. Wakiyama, Joseph J. Holovachuk and
Evan Katz, Managing Director of Crawford Ventures, Inc., to discuss the topic entitled "Protecting Intellectual Property Using Business Process Patents, Trade Secrets, Copyrights and Trademarks". The panel will discuss
the importance of having an IP strategy and IP portfolio as well other topics including but not limited to:
- Trademarks
- Benefits of federal registration
- Properly searching and clearing new trademarks
- Policing and enforcing trademark rights
- Copyrights
- Qualifying for copyright protection
- Using copyright notices
- Avoiding infringement of third-party copyrights
- Trade Secrets
- Protecting trade secrets
- Responses to trade secret theft
- Patents
- Determining patentability of new innovations
- Benefits of patent protection
- Patent licensing and enforcing patent rights
- Defending against third-party patent infringement actions
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