COVID-19 is the ‘new normal’ but has your entity compliance kept pace?
Learn the secrets to good compliance: strong processes, transparency through a centralized platform, plus how to improve efficiencies, reduce costs and streamline workflows.
Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP will present a free webinar, “Tales from the IPR Counsel’s Table,” featuring Fitch Even partners Nicholas T. Peters and Paul B. Henkelmann.
The webinar will take place on Thursday, June 3, 2020, at 9:00 am PDT / 10:00 am MDT / 11:00 am CDT / 12 noon EDT.
As is often the case with new legal proceedings, inter partes review (IPR) has evolved over the nearly eight years since being established. Primarily intended to a be a lower-cost, faster path to determining a validity challenge to a patent, this proceeding and its CBM and PGR cousins have morphed into highly contested, high-stakes affairs. Motion practice, additional evidentiary filings and briefing, and complex cost-benefit analysis for each step in the process have turned IPRs from a relatively straightforward procedure into more of a litigation-like experience.
During this webinar, the presenters will explore the evolution of the IPR and the tactical decisions practitioners and their clients face while navigating the process, covering these topics and more:
• A comparison of the current IPR process to its original form
• Strategic concerns at each stage of the proceeding
• The importance of “evidence” beyond the prior art grounds and the challenge to the patent
• How IPR counsel must weigh the effect of the IPR on co-pending litigation
CLE credit has been approved for California and Illinois and is pending in Nebraska. Other states may also award CLE credit upon attendee request.
Following the live event, a recording of the webinar will be available to view for one year at www.fitcheven.com.
A critical component to improving the performance of your contracts and contracting process is to establish measurable key performance indicators (KPIs). But where do you begin, which KPIs should you track, and how do you tackle establishing them?
Join our team on Friday, May 15th at 12:00pm ET to learn about 10 contract management KPIs that every organization can benefit from. Our experts will discuss what they are, why they’re important, and how to leverage them. By implementing the KPIs covered in the session, you can immediately identify ways to optimize and streamline your contract management efforts while reducing risk to your business.
Having a clear vision and plan for technology has never been more important. Join us to hear Curtis Batterton from McDonald’s Corporation discuss how his legal department went through the process of creating a legal technology roadmap to enable its strategic vision. He will also discuss how they are executing against this roadmap and how they are adapting their plan to the current economic and health crisis.
You’ll also see:
– The process McDonald’s used to define their technology roadmap
– Whether the COVID-19 crisis is causing any changes or additional hurdle
– How McDonald’s uses Onit and how it is helping during this time of remote work
and increased need for visibility and cost savings
Can’t make it? Fill out the form on the register page and you’ll receive a recording.
Please join us on Wednesday, April 22nd at 12:00 PM Eastern Time (45 Minutes)
We’d like to invite you to our next webinar: Managing Contracts Remotely with CLM Software.
In this session, we’ll discuss and demonstrate some of the advantages of using contract management software to overcome the challenges of managing contracts when everyone is working from home.
Some key topics that we’ll cover include how to:
– Make your contracts securely accessible from anywhere at any time.
– Quickly search for any and all information in your agreements.
– Request, create, process, and execute contracts remotely.
– Automate alerts for key dates and obligations.
– Get real-time reports on your contracts’ stage, status, and performance.
The rapid shift to a remote workforce can create a number of business challenges when it comes to contract management. As you implement your business continuity plans, it’s critical your contract management efforts are not impacted by employees working from home.
To help navigate this challenging environment, please join us for an upcoming webinar: Best Practices for Managing Contracts Remotely.
Our speakers will review important considerations and strategies you can leverage to keep your contracting activities moving forward effectively and efficiently, including:
-Contract management challenges to watch out for when working remotely
-Best practices for successfully managing your contracts remotely
Speakers:
Tim Donaghy
CTO
Contract Logix
David Parks
Director, Product Marketing
Contract Logix
Justin Perkins
Solutions Engineer
Contract Logix
The rapid shift to a remote workforce can create a number of business challenges when it comes to contract management. As you implement your business continuity plans, it’s critical your contract management efforts are not impacted by employees working from home.
To help navigate this challenging environment, please join us for an upcoming webinar: Best Practices for Managing Contracts Remotely.
Our speakers will review important considerations and strategies you can leverage to keep your contracting activities moving forward effectively and efficiently, including:
Guess what? If you answered “yes,” then I have really good news for you (and if you answered “no,” don’t worry, I can help you too!).
If you are using spreadsheets for contract management (in other words to capture and track all your contracts) then you can transform that data into a dynamic and modern contract management system in a matter of minutes. I’m not kidding.
We recently hosted a webinar on this very topic where Contract Logix Solution Engineer Justin Perkins walked through a real-world example of how this process works using our data-driven contract management software. It’s an extremely easy, fast, and intuitive way to take that next step in your digital contract transformation.
Below are a few highlights of how this 3-step process works. For more detail, you can watch the full webinar here.
Set Up Your Spreadsheet
First, figure out what information is important to your business when it comes to contracts. Again, if you already have a spreadsheet that tracks your agreements then chances you already have this information. In fact, it’s probably the labels you use for your column headers. I’m talking about things like contract types, organizations, contacts, execution dates, renewal dates, contract owners, terms, etc. You can also put links to wherever the contracts and related documents exist like a shared folder or hard drive.
The best part is this list doesn’t have to be exhaustive or 100%. It’s very easy to add additional information later or make changes directly in the software. The important thing is to capture what you can in the spreadsheet so that you have a starting point but don’t overthink or overcomplicate it.
Import the Spreadsheet into Contract Logix
Now comes the fun part! With just a few clicks of a mouse you can import your spreadsheet and all of the information in it into our contract management software. The software will automatically and intelligently structure that information for you in the system. Your contract types like NDA and MSA will be established. Your contact information will be populated. All the relevant contract-related dates are captured. All your actual contracts and other documents are indexed and FULLY SEARCHABLE using our OCR technology. And voila’, you now have a dynamic and centralized repository of all your contracts.
You can see upcoming expirations, search the data by any relationship such as contract, contact, organization, document, etc., and begin using all the high-impact features of a modern contract management software solution. Which brings me to third part.
Begin Leveraging Your Data for Actionable Insights
Now that all your contract documents and data are centralized you can really start to reap the business benefits of using a true contract lifecycle management solution. You can set up alerts, tasks, and reminders so that you never miss another obligation, date, or milestone. You can regulate access and better secure your contractual information by leveraging role-based and feature-based permissions. You can conduct simple or advanced text searches to instantly find any information you need about your contracts. You see the real-time stage and status of all your agreements via colorful progress bars. And you can run insightful and visual reports and dashboards to monitor and optimize the performance of your agreements. You can even automate contract workflows to shorten cycles and ensure compliance. And guess what, those are just a few of the many benefits you’ll be able to experience.
Takeaway
If you are currently using spreadsheets for contract management then you can easily convert that information into a modern, automated, and streamlined contract management solution. This means that you can begin realizing significant business benefits such as never again missing an important contract date or term. You’ll also be able to gain actionable insights about your contracts to further mitigate risk and uncover opportunity.
Join us for the second live webinar in our Lean Into LegalOps virtual program. This webinar will highlight practical ways for legal departments to create meaningful cost savings to strengthen and sustain their companies through these times.
Register to hear the discussion about critical questions like:
• If your legal department had to quickly find 10% savings, where could it come from?
• What process improvements can be made quickly to generate not just efficiency but also savings?
• How can you optimize existing technology or quickly implement new tools to drive savings and achieve rapid ROI?
Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP will present a free webinar, “American Axle: Does Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Depend on Enablement?,” featuring Fitch Even attorneys Stanley A. Schlitter and Andrew C. Wood.
The event will be on Thursday, January 30, 2020, at 9 am PST / 10 am MST / 11 am CST / 12 noon EST. It will also be available as an on-demand webinar after the presentation.
In American Axle & Mfg. Inc. v. Neapco Holdings LLC, the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court ruling that American Axle’s drive shaft patent is ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101 because the claims covered an application of a law of nature. American Axle’s petition for rehearing en banc has attracted several amicus briefs, some of which argue that this decision places in jeopardy the validity of many process patents for making physical structures and adds a § 112 enablement requirement to § 101 subject matter eligibility. In general, the decision has created further uncertainty about what a patentee needs to do to meet the requirements of § 101.
During this webinar, the presenters will discuss the following:
• The district court and Federal Circuit decisions in this case
• Arguments presented in the amici briefs
• How American Axle comports with the USPTO’s patent eligibility guidance
• Strategies for litigators and prosecutors regarding Alice in view of American Axle
ACC-Northeast and RFP Advisory Group will present a webinar designed to teach how to use a request for proposal (RFP) as a tool to better manage outside counsel.
Using the RFP process effectively can help a legal department pick the law firms that are the best fit for a company and its existing needs/budget, ACC says.
The event will be Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020, at 1 p.m. EST.
The webinar will cover how to use an RFP to:
* create a preferred provider panel
* identify the best firm for a specific matter or project
* convert your pricing structure from the billable hour to an alternative fee arrangement (AFA)
* incorporate the latest technology and innovations into your legal strategy
* increase the diversity of the lawyers working on your matters
* create a set of outside counsel guidelines for your law firms to abide by
Attendees will learn the latest trends in how RFPs are being used, and best practices in how to structure and execute a successful RFP, the sponsors said.
Flexera has posted a complimentary on-demand webinar discussing the role of in-house and external counsel in managing open source software in the business environment.
“Having some best practice guidelines that more clearly define your role and help you guide companies through license compliance and risk management only reinforces and bolsters one of your most important responsibilities as a legal advisor,” the company says in its invitation to view the event.
Speakers are Amy Chun, partner in Knobbe Martens, and Marty Mellican, vice president and associate general counsel of Flexera.
Some of the topics covered include:
Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP will present a free webinar, “Alphabet Soup: A Review and Summary of Post-Grant Practice at the USPTO,” featuring Fitch Even partner David A. Gosse.
The event will be on Thursday, November 21, 2019, at 9 am PST / 10 am MST / 11 am CST / 12 noon EST. It will also be available as an on-demand webinar after the presentation.
After a U.S. patent issues, many procedures are available to correct the patent, challenge its validity, and even change its scope. These include a bewildering array of procedures sprinkled with Latin phrases and confusing acronyms. The America Invents Act, passed in 2011, changed the face of post-grant practice at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. As the procedures presented in that bill have matured, keeping up with ever-evolving policies and practices has been a challenge even for highly engaged practitioners. This webinar will provide a summary of post-grant procedures and an introduction to when, why, and how each procedure is useful (or not) to patent owners and third parties.
During the webinar, the presenter will cover these topics and more:
• Review of post-grant procedures at the USPTO including inter partes review (IPR), post-grant review (PGR), covered business method review (CBM), supplemental examination, ex parte reexamination, and reissue applications
• Strategic purposes of the various post-grant procedures
• Tactics for petitioners and patent owners in USPTO trial proceedings
Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP will present a free webinar, “Patent Prosecution Options at the USPTO: Tried-and-True or New to You,” featuring Fitch Even attorneys Alan E. Schiavelli and George N. Dandalides.
The event will be on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, at 9 am PDT / 10 am MDT / 11 am CDT / 12 noon EDT. It will also be available as an on-demand webinar after the presentation.
The firm said the USPTO is constantly striving to reduce average pendency and achieve compact prosecution office-wide, but that’s of little consequence if your patent application is bogged down in prosecution with the examiner—or if business reasons dictate a patent be obtained more quickly than usual. Fortunately, the USPTO offers several programs and initiatives to applicants designed to advance the examination process.
During this webinar, presenters will provide background information and helpful advice on these prosecution tactics and publication strategies:
• Track One prioritized examination
• Petitions to make special and accelerated examination
• First Action Interview Pilot Program
• Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH)
• Early publication and non-publication
• After Final Consideration Pilot 2.0 (AFCP 2.0)
• Pre-Appeal Brief Conference Pilot Program
San Antonio law firm Langley & Banack, Inc. announced it has launched a new podcast featuring in-depth discussions and stories based on cases from the field.
The first series focuses on fiduciary litigation, hosted and produced by attorneys Chris Hodge and Jobe Jackson. Attached is a photo of Hodge (left) and Jackson (right).
In a release, the firm said each Langley & Banack law podcast offers in-depth discussions about litigation that involves will and trust clashes, power of attorney contests, declaratory judgments and guardianship challenges. Together, Hodge and Jackson examine cases and approaches to this area of the law using real-world examples and high-profile guests who add to the conversation.
Hanzo, a developer of contextual collection and dynamic web content software, and Zapproved, an ediscovery software provider for managing corporate litigation readiness, announced the lineup of industry experts for an upcoming live webinar, “Emojis and the Law: The Real-world eDiscovery Challenges Posed by Enterprise Collaboration.”
The event will be on Oct. 31, 2019, at 2 pm ET. This free web event will include a discussion surrounding modern enterprise collaboration platforms, the increasing trend in casual and emoji-filled communications, the challenges that these communications pose from a legal perspective, and how corporate legal teams can mitigate risk.
The panel of industry experts will discuss the challenges of managing data risk with modern communications within corporate collaboration applications.
The speakers will:
– Explore communication trends and tools affecting the enterprise
– Delve into the phenomenon of emojis, case law, and share some surprising facts that legal teams need to know to conduct eDiscovery better
– Share best practices for enterprise collaboration data management and governance policies
– Discuss the importance of applying best practices in preserving and collecting enterprise collaboration data
Speakers
– Eric Goldman, Professor of Law, Santa Clara University
– Ashley Fischer, Managing Counsel, H-E-B
– Ryan Zilm, Information Lifecycle Management Advisor, USAA
– Brad Harris, Distinguished Fellow, eDiscovery, Zapproved
– Evan Gumz, Senior Account Executive, eDiscovery, Hanzo
Register
– Emojis and the Law: The Real-world eDiscovery Challenges Posed by Enterprise Collaboration
– Date: Thursday, October 31, 2019
– Time: 2:00 pm ET
– Cost: Free
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP will present a CLE program for in-house lawyers only to help attendees learn how to identify and disseminate pro bono opportunities and become familiar with special rules that apply to in-house lawyers.
The event will be Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, with registration and a hosted breakfast beginning at 8 a.m. Pacific time. The program will last from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. PT. Lunch will be provided.
This program will be hosted in the firm’s Seattle office and broadcasted to each of the firm’s other locations: Anchorage, Bellevue, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.
Presenters from Microsoft, Amazon, T-Mobile, Starbucks panelists about how to:
* Develop a strong and impactful pro bono program
* Build a CSR, sustainability, and community arm
* Institute pro bono policy and establish a pro bono form bank
* Form or recalibrate/energize a pro bono committee
* Identify meaningful pro bono opportunities
* Enter into corporate partnerships with PPPs
* Comply with ethical rules regarding in-house pro bono work
Attendees will receive a resource manual with sample polices, forms, briefs, templates and a menu of pro bono opportunities.
The keynote will be by Lucy Lee Helm, chief partner officer at Starbucks
For registration or questions: JoannaBoisen@dwt.com
Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP will present a free webinar, “Effective Trade Secret Practices: What You and Your Employees Need to Know,” featuring Fitch Even attorneys Thomas F. Lebens and Donald “Bob” Bunton.
The event will be on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019, at 9 am PDT / 10 am MDT / 11 am CDT / 12 noon EDT. It will also be available as an on-demand webinar after the presentation.
With the passage of the America Invents Act and the Defend Trade Secrets Act, as well as recent case law creating uncertainty in some areas of patent law, many intellectual property owners have expressed a renewed interest in trade secret protection for innovations and information. However, very few of these IP owners have a well-developed program for identifying, classifying, and intentionally protecting these trade secrets. And even for those owners with such a program, establishing a record of training leaders and employees in trade secret protection can be important to show that the owner has engaged in “reasonable efforts” to protect its trade secrets.
During this webinar, our presenters will discuss the following:
• Best practices for identifying and classifying trade secrets
• Key features of a trade secret program
• Internal ongoing education on trade secret protection needed to support a showing of “reasonable efforts”
Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP will present a free webinar, “How Late Is Too Late? Setting the Timeline for Patent Protection,” featuring Fitch Even attorneys Mark A. Borsos and Vincent R. Meyer.
The event will be on Thursday, August 29, 2019, at 9 am PDT / 10 am MDT / 11 am CDT / 12 noon EDT. It will also be available as an on-demand webinar after the presentation.
Patent considerations do not always align with commercial realities. Although pursuing patent protection as early as possible is generally preferred, at times product development, financial issues, and other factors get in the way. In some circumstances, inventors do not even think about patenting an invention until they are sure that their idea is practical and there is sufficient commercial interest to warrant investing the necessary time and resources into reducing the invention to practice. This webinar will explore considerations affecting the timing of patent filings and what to do if an inventor’s prior actions have potentially put their patent rights in jeopardy.
During this webinar, presenters will discuss the following:
• Supreme Court and Federal Circuit decisions regarding statutory bars
• When an invention is “ready for patenting”
• Potential scenarios that could endanger patent rights
• Factors that may weigh for and against patentability once an invention has been disclosed or offered for sale
• Strategies for coordinating patent filings with development efforts
Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP will present a free webinar, “Not So Obvious: Secondary Considerations at the PTAB,” featuring Fitch Even attorneys Dave A. Gosse and Evan Kline-Wedeen.
The event will be on Thursday, July 18, 2019, at 9 am PDT / 10 am MDT / 11 am CDT / 12 noon EDT. It will also be available as an on-demand webinar after presentation.
Objective evidence of non-obviousness can overcome a prima facie case of obviousness, both in district court litigation and at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. These “secondary considerations” are an important tool that patent owners can use to defeat obviousness challenges. Historically, the PTAB has not often been persuaded by such evidence. But in recent years, patent owners have found some success when presenting compelling objective evidence of commercial success, copying, long-felt need, and other secondary considerations.
During this webinar, presenters will discuss the following:
• Developing trends at the PTAB concerning secondary considerations
• How to insulate your petition from secondary considerations
• Best practices for patent owners developing evidence related to secondary considerations