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In-house and outside counsel struggle to adapt their Intellectual Property strategies in a world where new media emerge constantly and old rules are difficult to enforce. Join us as Anthony F. Lo Cicero of Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP discusses the legal challenges presented by social media sites, search engines, electronic market sites, online commerce and the like and provides practical suggestions for adapting IP value to these new platforms.

Our ongoing series on technology start-up companies continues. In this program, Peter Townshend, David Beckwith and Monique Ho of McDermott Will & Emery LLP discuss what constitutes intellectual property and how to protect it. Topics include, among others, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, domain names, patents, what is patentable and what is not, obtaining patents in the United States, in the EU and around the world, and in-bound and out-bound licensing of intellectual property by the company.

In Reed Elsevier, the Supreme Court unanimously held that federal courts could maintain jurisdiction over settlements involving non-registered works, even though the plain language of the statute seems to state that no lawsuit for infringement of such works can be brought. This ruling should allow for greater judicial review of cases involving large groups of parties interested in securing rights in the digital age, but it may have unintended consequences. Join us as Anthony F. Lo Cicero of Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP discusses the impact of Reed Elsevier on copyright infringement cases. NOTE to TX Attorneys: This course has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of Texas Committee on MCLE in the amount of 1 credit hours, of which 0 credit hours will apply to legal ethics/professional responsibility credit.

In recent decisions such as Alcatel-Lucent v. Microsoft and Cornell v. Hewlett-Packard, courts have taken on the much criticized methodologies used to award damages in patent cases and may have rendered even more unlikely any action by an already-occupied Congress. The courts have sharply criticized and curtailed what they believed to be unwarranted awards based on impractical assumptions and unrealistic reasoning. More cases like this may be coming. Join us as Anthony F. Lo Cicero of Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP discusses the potential impact of these cases on the future of patent damages.

RealNetworks DVD software was enjoined for violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and Kaleidescape lost a case on similar grounds. Join us as Anthony F. Lo Cicero of Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP discusses those two cases and considers the impact of the DMCA on the fair use doctrine enunciated by the Supreme Court years ago in the Betamax case, as once again courts struggle to adopt traditional copyright principles to emerging technology.

The application of fair use principles to internet technology, including You Tube, file sharing, movies on demand and the like, is proving to be both interesting and complex. In this installment of our Celesq®-West IP Master Series for the Intellectual Property practitioner, Anthony Lo Cicero discusses recent developments in this rapidly changing field, including the recent Harry Potter case, the newly filed DVD sharing technology litigation, and more.