Contract Law Conference - Latest Cases, Clauses and Contracting Conundrums: Managing IP in the Contracting Process
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Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
12.15pm to 1.15pm Managing IP in the Contracting Process
- How to avoid under-protecting your IP or losing it forever
- The potentially tangled web of IP joint ownership
- What you can and cannot do with another party’s IP
- Example IP clauses: what works, what doesn’t
Presented by Dr Gordon Hughes AM, Principal, Davies Collison Cave
Presenters
Dr Gordon Hughes AM
Dr Hughes is a principal lawyer in the firm’s Litigation and Commercialisation practice. Prior to joining the firm in 2016, he was a partner at Ashurst (formerly Blake Dawson). He is an acknowledged expert in the area of intellectual property commercialisation, information technology law, eCommerce, and data protection. Dr Hughes is a former president of the Law Institute of Victoria, the Law Council of Australia and LAWASIA, a former chair of the Law Council’s International Law Section, and current chair of LAWASIA’s Business Law Section and of the South Pacific Lawyers’ Association. He is a qualified arbitrator and a former part-time member of the Commonwealth Administrative Appeals Tribunal. Dr Hughes has authored, co-authored and/or edited nine legal texts, including ‘Data Protection in Australia’, ‘Computer Contracts: Principles and Precedents’, and ‘Trade Secrets and Privacy.’ He has received numerous awards in recognition of his achievements, including the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Australian Law Awards in 2004 and various honorary life memberships of Australian and international professional associations. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law in 2011. In 2017, Dr Hughes was awarded an Order of Australia “for significant service to the law, to professional organisations and to international affairs and legal practice in the Asia-Pacific region”.