Handling Intellectual Property in Business Transactions

The Practicing Law Institute event Handling Intellectual Property in Business Transactions will be held in San Francisco on April 30-May 1, 2007.  The event will cover the following issues:

  • Strategies in creation of intellectual property assets;
  • Obtaining ownership of intellectual property assets;
  • Strategies for licensing of intellectual property assets;
  • Trademark licensing and branding issues;
  • Understanding and analyzing intellectual property assets;
  • Maximizing the value of intellectual property assets;
  • The impact of Sarbanes-Oxley and FAS 141/142 on IP issues;
  • Critical open source issues; and 
  • Protecting IP assets in the event of bankruptcy.