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U.S. IP Year in Review: Looking Back at 2024
hosted by the Silicon Valley Chapter
Tuesday, January 21, 2024
11:00am-12:00pm - Registration, Lunch & Networking
12:00pm-1:30pm - Program
1:30pm-2:00pm - 7:30pm - Networking
at
NEDO
3965 Freedom Circle, Santa Clara
Santa Clara Towers, Seminar Room, 1st floor of Tower 2
Thank you to our meeting sponsors:  
Early Bird Registration ends January 9, 2025
Online registration ends January 19, 2025
Program:
This marks the 11th annual U.S. IP Year-in-Review, presented by the Licensing Executives Society Silicon Valley Chapter. Our content-packed program will review the most significant IP legal developments of 2024, highlight critical takeaways, and provide actionable tips for everyday application. Whether you are involved in obtaining IP rights, negotiating deals, drafting agreements, enforcing rights, or defending against IP challenges, this program is designed for you!
Key takeaways:
- Insights for dealmakers on strategizing, structuring, and drafting IP licenses and joint ventures.
- Lessons learned from recent landmark U.S. IP court cases regarding enforcement and defense.
- Best practices for effective IP protection.
CLE: 1.5 hours CLE credit available (California)
Panelists:
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Michael Zachary, Partner, Bunsow De Mory LLP
As a partner at Bunsow De Mory, Michael focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation and licensing, and regularly represents clients in patent infringement, trade secret, trademark and other intellectual property litigation cases. He counsels clients on a variety of technology and intellectual property agreements, including design and development, manufacturing and supply, product evaluation, and patent and trademark license agreements. He has represented large, mid-size, and start-up companies based in the United States, Japan and Europe, including Volkswagen, Bradium, Skype, Amazon, Wacom, PRISM Pharma and Boston Scientific. In 2016 and 2017, he was recognized as a California “IP Star” by Managing Intellectual Property. He is also a cellist who performs with two local orchestras and with area chamber groups.
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Joe Yang, Partner, PatentEsque Law Group
Joe represents U.S, Japanese and European companies:
• in tech transactions involving complex IP issues and/or industries that historically didn’t interact with each other;
• in patent licensing, cross-licensing, pools & sales; and
• as an expert witness for high stakes licensing disputes.
Joe is also a Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School, teaching the "Technology and Patent Licensing" course. In addition, he chairs nationwide licensing programs at the Practising Law Institute. He was previously VP & General Counsel of Cryptography Research, Inc., whose technology is licensed for use in credit card chips, phones, printers and content in excess of 10 billion products/year. Joe also developed, enforced & defended the company’s patent portfolio, and oversaw the company’s acquisition for $400+ million. Earlier, Joe co-founded and later led the “IP Strategy & Transactions” practice at Skadden Arps (Silicon Valley). He is recognized by Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) and Super Lawyers. He is a board member of the Licensing Executives Society - Silicon Valley chapter. Joe was originally a research engineer. He holds a J.D. from Stanford and a Ph.D. (engineering) from the California Institute of Technology.
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LES-SVC CLE Credit: 1.5 hours MCLE credit available (California)
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