October 2011

Molly Keelan Reports on the 2011 AIPLA Annual Meeting

Thu, 10/27/2011 - 4:52pm — Molly Keelan

Thank you to all who stopped by the Ocean Tomo booth at the annual AIPLA conference last week. Michael Milani, Managing Director of Expert Testimony, and I enjoyed meeting new contacts and catching up with our clients.

IP Strategy: Game Much Bigger than “Sword and Shield”

Wed, 10/26/2011 - 2:51pm — Elvir Causevic

John Palfrey, formerly an IP attorney with Ropes and Gray, now at Harvard Law, recently published a unique guide to IP strategy in a brief and feature-packed book, named aptly “Intellectual Property Strategy”.

United States International Trade Commission - Section 337 Patent Investigations

Fri, 10/21/2011 - 1:30pm — Joel Lutzker

Effective November 15, 2011, the United States International Trade Commission rules for Section 337 patent investigations have been amended to require that with the filing of complaint, the complainant file a separate statement of public interest.

Chicago Ideas Week and the Power of Intellectual Capital

Mon, 10/17/2011 - 11:07am — Tim Binney

Last week I attended a few of the events put on by Chicago Ideas Week, Brad Keywell’s weeklong series of over 100 presentations by world-renowned speakers with the goal of creating “an ecosystem of innovation, exploration, and intellectual recreation.”

Jim Malackowski Participates in a Discussion with the UN Economic & Social Commission for Western Asia

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 11:48am — Jim Malackowski

My final stop in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was a small group discussion with the Executive Director of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, Fouad Mrad, members of the local Licensing Executives Society (LES) Arab Countries Chapter, and other invited guests.

We continued the discussion of intellectual property as a tool for economic development.

I shared three work streams:

Development of an Intellectual Property-Based Investment Strategy

Thu, 10/13/2011 - 1:43pm — Michael Friedman

After many years as a mergers and acquisitions and securities lawyer, I began investing in special situations professionally in 1996. Although the strategy has evolved to include any sort of idiosyncratic trade around a specific event or catalyst, then it was basically merger arbitrage.

For the entire period prior to 2000, before such field leveling laws as Sarbanes-Oxley and Regulation FD, a special situations investor could outperform the market by exploiting the informational advantage that came from just researching harder.

Jim Malackowski Reports from the Licensing Executives Society Arab Countries Meeting in Abu Dhabi

Thu, 10/13/2011 - 11:18am — Jim Malackowski

Yesterday I attended a most interesting meeting of the Licensing Executives Society Arab Countries Chapter held in collaboration with the Abu Dhabi Higher Colleges of Technology. The meeting was held at one of Abu Dhabi's leading science centers, the CERT Technology Park.

Plenary Session Report from the WEF Summit on the Global Agenda 2011 by Jim Malackowski

Mon, 10/10/2011 - 1:56pm — Jim Malackowski

I attended the first plenary session for the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council meeting this morning, sharing the room with a most distinguished panel of regional and global leaders including the Ruler of Abu Dhabi, the Ruler of Dubai and Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Update from the WEF Summit on the Global Agenda 2011 from Jim Malackowski

Mon, 10/10/2011 - 12:44pm — Jim Malackowski

I attended this afternoon in Abu Dhabi the introductory session for new members of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Action Council (GAC).

Not one to shy from big ideas, I was more than impressed by the scope and impact of WEF overall, and the GAC in particular.