Defeating IP Counterfeiting: From Retail Goods to Counterfeited Companies
Policing and Protecting Brands and Enforcing Rights Against Infringers
Please Note: The start time for this webinar is 12:00 PM EST
Recording of a 90-minute CLE webinar with Q&A
This CLE webinar will provide IP counsel with a reality check on the expanding scope and breadth of counterfeiting in copying and selling retail goods and co-opting brands. This global phenomenon involves the counterfeiting of anything possible, including entire companies. The panel will discuss how counsel can successfully manage the growing global threat both from outside and inside a client's company.
Outline
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Alarming reality of counterfeiting today
- Broader scope and reach
- Expansion into associated crimes
- Regulatory/legal issues in China aiding counterfeiting today
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Solutions
- For external threats
- For internal threats
- Regulatory/legal solutions in China to protect IP under new Chinese trademark law
Benefits
The panel will provide you with the following techniques and approaches to manage this threat:
- An appreciation of the alarming rate of increase in IP counterfeiting and associated crimes—and how it hurts the economies not only of industries, but of countries around the world.
- The internal steps your clients or company can take to protect their IP and corporate brands and the external measures needed to enforce their IP rights.
- The ways that the current Chinese trademark law helps counterfeiters, and how the new Chinese trademark law may help your company protect their IP.
Following the speaker presentations, you'll have an opportunity to get answers to your specific questions during the interactive Q&A.
Faculty
Rex Donnelly
Shareholder
Ratner Prestia
Mr. Donnelly’s practice involving every step of the IP process, including risk management and client... | Read More
Mr. Donnelly’s practice involving every step of the IP process, including risk management and client counseling; development of IP strategy; procurement of domestic and foreign patents, trademarks, and copyrights; enforcement of IP rights through litigation and alternative dispute resolution, and transactions involving IP. He has extensive background prosecuting, providing counseling on and/or litigating patents in the fields of software and business methods, medical and mechanical devices, industrial processes and technology, graphic arts, and alternative energy.
CloseEdward Hardcastle
Executive
Rouse
Mr. Hardcastle advises on the clearance, acquisition, maintenance, enforcement and commercialization of soft IP,... | Read More
Mr. Hardcastle advises on the clearance, acquisition, maintenance, enforcement and commercialization of soft IP, principally trademarks, with an emphasis on the Middle East and North Africa. He is responsible for advising clients on a range of soft IP issues across the MENA region, for some clients that advice extends in to Europe, Asia and America, as well as the trademark prosecution practice in the MENA region.
CloseJohn Lee
Chief Executive Officer
LeeCore
Mr. Lee works with clients in world markets to solve business process issues as well as poorly performing sales... | Read More
Mr. Lee works with clients in world markets to solve business process issues as well as poorly performing sales forces on a systemic, sustainable and self-directed basis. He provides guidance to plan/design/implement those ideas with the cooperation of our clients. He founded his boutique management consultancy which came into existence predicated on his 30 years of experience encompassing most major world markets and from his extensive business development background in five separate industries.
CloseVan H. Leichliter
Counsel
RatnerPrestia
Mr. Leichliter concentrates his practice on trademarks, copyrights, and Internet domain names. He recently... | Read More
Mr. Leichliter concentrates his practice on trademarks, copyrights, and Internet domain names. He recently retired from E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company where he was their global IP leader for trademarks, copyrights and Internet domain names. He previously served as business counsel for various DuPont business enterprises relating to chemicals, plastics, pharmaceuticals, textile fibers, elastomers, electronics, and international. His responsibility for DuPont’s trademark portfolio included prosecuting and maintaining trademark registrations, and for protecting and enforcing those marks.
CloseRoland Pamm
Director, Brand Protection Center
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
Mr. Pamm established the DuPont Corporate Brand Protection Center within the Brand Management Center of Excellence... | Read More
Mr. Pamm established the DuPont Corporate Brand Protection Center within the Brand Management Center of Excellence to facilitate brand protection programs and provide DuPont businesses with tools and best practices for preventing counterfeiting and enforcing trademark rights. His team works closely with DuPont Legal Trademark and Corporate Security regional organizations to integrate and develop strategies for implementing brand protection projects. He is an active member of the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition and currently co-chairs the IACC’s Internet Task Force.
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