Intellectual Property Forum: Reforms, Trends and Strategies
Issues covered include: patents, trade marks, copyright, remedies, IP litigation, due diligence, asset monetisation, governance, ethics
Description
Make it easy on yourself by making this your one stop shop for everything you need for your IP practice. The latest trends in patents, trade marks, copyright and commercialising IP? Check. Ticking off your CPD core area points in sessions tailor made for IP practitioners to sharpen your skills and fine tune your practice? Another check. Make the easy call to square away your CPD points while exploring all the critical updates you need to know in IP to keep your practice racing along ahead of the pack.
Attend and earn 7 CPD units including:
4 units in Substantive Law
1 unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1 unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
1 unit in Professional Skills
This conference was recorded in NSW on 12 March 2019
Session 1
IP Roundup
Chair: Sonia Stewart, Barrister, 5 Wentworth Chambers
9.00am to 10.00am: Recent Developments in Remedies in IP Litigation
- Quantification of damages
- Injunctions: limitations and difficulties
- Recent cases
Presented by Lucy McGovern, Barrister, Tenth Floor Chambers and Andrew Fox, Barrister, Wentworth Chambers
10.00am to11.00am: Trade Mark Law: Changes and Recent Cases
- Parallel imports
- Non-use period
- Additional damages for unjustified threats
- Impact on Australian businesses
- Recent cases
Presented by Donna Short, Partner, Addisons; Recommended Lawyer, Legal 500 Asia-Pacific for Intellectual Property 2018
11.00am to 11.15am Morning Tea
11.15am to 12.15pm: Digital Age and Copyright: Internet and More
- Online marketplaces and content sharing services
- EU proposed directive on copyright
- Linking
- Copyright modernisation (Aust)
Presented by Dianne Beer, Special Counsel, Thomson Geer; Past President of the Licensing Executives’ Society for Australia and New Zealand
12.15pm to 1.15pm: Changes to Australia’s Patent Landscape
- Computer-implemented inventions: the latest on manner of manufacture
- Patent exhaustion: repairing versus rebuilding
- Proposed changes to inventive step and other legislative developments
Presented by James Lawrence, Partner, Mills Oakley; editor, Patents Chapter in Halsbury’s Laws of Australia
Session 2
CPD Compulsory Units for IP Lawyers
Chair: Derek Baigent, Principal, Griffith Hack
Professional Skills
2.00pm to 3.00pm: IP Due Diligence: How to Maximise the Benefit
- Assessing risk and value
- The role of warranties and indemnities
- IP searches
- Contract reviews
- Start-ups and established businesses: differences
Presented by Derek Baigent, Principal, Griffith Hack
Practice Management & Business Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm: Understanding IP Asset Monetisation and Governance
- Monetising IP assets: strategies that have a higher chance of success
- IP-centric M&A: what are companies looking for?
- Investment and IP: how important is IP to investors?
- IP assets in the boardroom: what should board members know about IP?
Presented by Joe Sesidedos, Principal, Trans-Tasman Patent Attorney, Foundry Intellectual Property
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
4.15pm to 5.15pm: Firm Management and Ethical Scenarios for IP, Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys
- The Code of Conduct 2018 one year in: What's next?
- Managing conflicts
- Ethical scenarios for today's professional
Presented by Carl Harrap, Principal, FPA Patent Attorneys; Board Member, Trans-Tasman IP Attorneys Board