The Florida Bar Continuing Legal Education Committee and the Business Law Section present First Annual Intellectual Property Symposium Featuring Keynote Speaker: PTO Commissioner Robert L Stoll Live Presentation: March 25-26, 2010 Hyatt Regency Downtown, Two Tampa City Center, Tampa Additional details and registration information Guest registration for dinner 5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Welcome Reception 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Dinner (included in registration fee) Speaker: Robert L. Stoll. Commissioner for Patents, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Washington, D.C.
Friday, March 26, 2010 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Late Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Advanced Issues in Computer and Internet Law Samuel A. Lewis, Feldman Gale P.A., Miami, Andrew Greenberg, General Counsel XSLENT Energy Technologies, LLC, Novato, California, Professor Jacqueline Lipton, Professor at Case Western University School of Law
9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Intellectual Property Licensing James Coplit, Senior Counsel, World Wrestling Entertainment, Stamford, Connecticut, Glenn Ladwig, Saliwanchik, Lloyd & Saliwanchik, Gainesville
10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Hot Topics in Intellectual Property 2010:
Patent Law: Steven Milbrath, Allen Dyer Doppelt Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A., Orlando
Copyright Law: Julee Milham, St. Petersburg
Trademark Law: Leslie Lott, Lott & Friedland, P.A., Coral Gables 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch (included in registration fee)
Speaker TBA 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Design and Use of Consumer Surveys in Trademark Litigation Steven I. Peretz, Peretz, Chesal & Herrmann, PL, Miami
2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Calculating and Proving Damages in Intellectual Property Litigation Eric W. Buether, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Dallas, Texas
3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Ethical Considerations for Avoiding Claims of Fraud on the USPTO and Copyright Office Avoiding Mistakes That Can Lead to Patent Inequitable Conduct Charges: Cameron Weiffenbach, Miles & Stockbridge P.C., McLean, Virginia
Fraud on the Trademark Office in the Wake of Bose and Medinol: Susan Hightower, PirkeyBarber LLP, Austin, Texas Fraudulent Registration of Copyrights: David Carson, General Counsel, U.S. Copyright Office, Washington, D.C.
Busines Law SECTION Louis T.M. Conti, Orlando — Chair Michael J. Higer, Aventura — Chair-elect Alan H. Aronson, Miami — CLE Chair
CLE COMMITTEE Paul H. Chipok, Orlando, Chair Terry L. Hill, Director, Programs Division
FACULTY & STEERING COMMITTEE Ury Fischer, Coral Gables Leora Herrmann, Miami Joel Rothman, West Palm Beach Course No. 0872R
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