IP STRATEGY: Atlanta 2015
The AIA has transformed the landscape: IP owners are finding it harder to monetize and enforce their patent portfolio and face growing hostility when they do.
Yet IP leaders are being asked internally to deliver on revenue targets by proactively monetizing, licensing, selling and enforcing their IP assets. This surge in IP commercialization means that companies now have to defend against infringement claims from rivals, corporate trolls, as well as NPEs.
IP leaders need to build a coherent offense/defense strategy on solid processes and tools: due diligence, portfolio evaluation, unified patent prosecution – all while benchmarking its effectiveness.
With increased scrutiny from company boards and the media, IP executives must also demonstrate top-level management skills: allocating resources, making a strong business case for their strategies and getting leadership on board.
The IP Strategy Summit covers all the challenges and opportunities of this new IP landscape.
5.5 hours of CLE CREDITS: Application for Georgia accreditation of this program is currently pending.
- Portfolio Management – Aligning Business Goals with IP Strategy
- Designing a Prosecution Strategy for the Global Market
- Strategies for Dealing with NPEs - Fight or Flight
- The Price of Entry: Litigation & Enforcement
- Defending Against Infringement Claims from Operating Companies
- Post Issuance Proceedings - Their Role in Your IP Strategy
- Monetization for Operating Companies in a Post AIA & Alice World
- Chief IP Counsel
- VP & Director of IP Strategy
- Chief, Deputy and Associate General Counsel
- Intellectual Property, Trademark and Copyright Counsel
- Head of Litigation
- Director of Business and Legal Affairs
- Director/VP of Intellectual Property
- Director/VP of Licensing
- IP Counsel
- Patent Counsel
- VP & Director of Intellectual Asset Management
Emma Roubtsov joined Innography in 2010 as a Client Success Manager, focusing on training and implementation of the proprietary software suite. She has conducted innumerable training and collaborative project work sessions with some of the world’s global brands across the US, UK, Europe and India. As a Sales Engineer, Emma continues to work with Innography power users, providing technical solutions via web-‐based product demonstrations. Prior to joining Innography, Emma spent several years as a management consultant working with Fortune 1000 companies assisting and developing their employees. Prior to this she was a National Sales Manager for one of the Inc 500’s fastest growing companies based in Austin, Texas. British by birth, a polyglot by nature. Emma obtained her BA Hons I from the University of Wales in Russian and German and a Linguistics Masters Diploma for the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
Dr. Judy Jarecki-Black is Head, Patent Prosecution and Patent Litigation, of Boehringer Ingleheim Animal Health. Dr. Jarecki-Black is admitted to the state bars of Georgia and South Carolina, and is admitted to practice before several federal courts including the United States Supreme Court. Since 2002, Dr. Black’s department maintains and enforces the global patent portfolio for Merial (now Boehringer Ingleheim Animal Health). Her department obtains patent protection, generates patentability and freedom-to-operate opinions, and conducts due diligence for a variety of licensing opportunities. Dr. Jarecki-Black is also responsible for global patent litigation and leads the trial team on all patent cases.
Elizabeth Thomas is corporate counsel for OFS Fitel, LLC. At OFS, Ms. Thomas is responsible for global legal issues relating to research and development, manufacturing, and security in connection with OFS' fiber optic solutions. Prior to moving to OFS, Ms. Thomas was corporate counsel at Sage, handling matters related to cloud computing, intellectual property, and privacy; and before moving in-house, an associate at several large law firms, where her practice included representing both non-practicing entities and corporations in procuring, litigating, and monetizing intellectual property. As an intellectual property litigator, Ms. Thomas experienced both worlds by handling litigation matters from an offensive and defensive approach depending upon the clients' intellectual property assets and strategic objectives.
