Presented by West LegalEdcenter
Join Gregory J. Nowak, a partner and practice leader for hedge funds in Pepper Hamilton’s Funds Services Practice Group, for a series of candid, interactive discussions on what is going on now in the investment management world, including issues that affect private funds and their managers.
This month, Mr. Nowak will be joined by Pepper attorneys Lori E. Harrison, Michael K. Jones, Peter T. Wakiyama and Joseph J. Holovachuk 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
CLE credit available.