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Provider:
Society of Automotive Engineers
Topic(s):
Law/Legal
Who Should Attend?
Mid and upper level management and in-house legal personnel in automotive, aerospace and related industries
Full Seminar Description
This seminar focuses on the intricacies of acquiring, protecting and transferring proprietary rights. After this seminar, you will effectively understand these rights and ways to protect you and your company's valuable assets -- patents, copyrights, trademarks and tradesecrets -- which your company needs to maintain and enhance its position in the marketplace. .7 CEU. Includes lunch and refreshments. Fee per person: $725 for SAE members; $653 for non-members.This information-packed seminar focuses on the intricacies of acquiring, protecting and transferring proprietary rights. Attendees will explore the important subject of protecting "intellectual property." After this seminar, you will effectively understand these rights and ways to protect you and your company's valuable assets--patents, copyrights, trademarks and tradesecrets--which your company needs to maintain and enhance its position in the marketplace. This seminar has been directed to mid- and upper-level management and in-house legal personnel in automotive, aerospace and related industries.
Benefits of Attending
You should attend this seminar if you are a mid-level or upper-level manager who needs to understand patent, trademark and copyright law, or any in-house legal personnel in the automotive, aerospace and related industries.Who Should Attend
Participants should have an undergraduate engineering degree.Seminar Content
- Patents
- Definition of a Patent
- Eligibility for Patent
- Protection Obtaining Patent Protection
- Maintaining Patent Protection
- Notice
- Infringement Suits
- Duties & Obligations of an Inventor
- Duty of Candor
- Conception & Reduction to Practice
- Documenting Inventions
- Disclosing Inventions
- Foreign Patent Protection
- Licensing Patented Technology
- Trademarks
- Definitions
- Trademark
- Service Mark
- Trade Name
- Generic Name
- Functions of Trademarks & Service Marks
- Creation of a Trademark
- Obtaining Trademark Protection
- Proper Trademark Usage
- Maintaining Trademark Protection
- Licensing Trademarked Products
- Trade Secrets
- Fundamentals of Trade Secret Law
- Trade Secret Guidelines
- Management Involvement
- Document Legending
- Access Control
- Employee Security Measures
- Facility Security Measures
- Licensee Security Measures
- Copyrights
- Definition of a Copyright
- Potentially Copyrightable Material
- Obtaining Copyright Protection
- Maintaining Copyright Protection
- Loss of Copyright Protection
- Licensing Copyrighted Materials
.7 CEU
Sponsor Background:
About SAEWhat do cars, aircraft, trucks, off-highway equipment, engines, materials, manufacturing, and fuels have in common? SAE. The Society of Automotive Engineers is your one-stop resource for technical information and expertise used in designing, building, maintaining, and operating self-propelled vehicles for use on land or sea, in air or space.
Who we are & what we do
Nearly 80,000 engineers, business executives, educators, and students from more than 97 countries form our network of members who share information and exchange ideas for advancing the engineering of mobility systems. More than 16,000 volunteer leaders serve on our Board of Directors and our many other boards, councils and committees. Our technical committees write more new aerospace and automotive engineering standards than any other standards-writing organization in the world. We publish thousands of technical papers and books each year, and leading-edge periodicals and Internet and CD-ROM products too. Our Cooperative Research Program helps facilitate projects that benefit the mobility industry as a whole. Numerous meetings and expositions provide worldwide opportunities to network and share information. We also offer a full complement of professional development activities such as seminars, workshops, and continuing education programs. The meetings and activities of local sections provide an opportunity to network with colleagues near you.
Services for the public and the profession
Every day, we demonstrate our commitment to society through local, national, and international public awareness programs that promote vehicle safety and maintenance and energy resource conservation. Through the SAE Foundation, we are also deeply involved in the engineering-related education of children, teachers , college students, and faculty. Industry and faculty awards provide recognition to outstanding contributors in the profession.
Since its founding in 1905, SAE's dedicated people, strong technical base, and vision have helped serve the professional needs of engineers and the transportation needs of humanity. We are clearly poised to continue that role into the 21st century.
Instructor(s):
Russell E. Levine or David K. CallahanInstructor Background:
Russell E. Levine, Esq. (B.S. in Engrg. & B.S. in Economics from Univ. of Michigan; J.D. from Univ. of Chicago Law School) is a partner with the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis and specializes in intellectual property litigation and counseling. He has represented clients and continues to represent numerous Fortune 500 companies and other small and large entities. He has litigated matters involving a broad array of patented technology such as semiconductor memory chips, paper products, cellular phone technology, chemical additives, oil refining technology, household kitchen utensils, office products and bio technology. He is a member of the American Bar Assoc., American Intellectual Property Law Assoc., the Federal Circuit Bar Assoc., and the Licensing Executives Society.David K. Callahan is an attorney with Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago. His practice is focused on litigation in the areas of patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright and the Internet. He has participated in numerous bench and jury trials in Federal Courts, as well as appeals before the Federal and Seventh Circuits. In patent matters, he has represented clients in a diverse range of technologies, including semiconductors, abrasives, paper products, automotive products, business methods, cellular telephony, building products and agricultural equipment. In trademark actions, he has represented clients before Federal Courts, as well as the Trademark Office and the U.S. Customs Service. He also has extensive experience representing clients with respect to their rights in Internet domain names, including court and administrative actions to obtain domain names. He holds a J.D. from the Univ. of Michigan Law School and an A.B. from the Univ. of Chicago.
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