8:00 - 8:50am

Breakfast and Registration


8:50 - 9:00am

Opening Remarks


9:00 - 9:30am

Gregory Gorder            
Founder and Vice-Chairman            
Intellectual Ventures

Interviewer:   
Daryn Grossman       
Partner
Proskauer Rose LLP


9:35 - 10:15am

Panel Discussion

“Managing IP Assets in the Global Marketplace: Selecting the Right IP Strategy for your Business”

Moderator:

Jeffrey Neuburger
Partner
Proskauer Rose LLP

Panelists:

Gena Feist
Vice President & Associate General Counsel
Take Two Interactive

Livingstone Johnson
Counsel, International Operations
The Coca-Cola Company

Mark Nance
General Counsel, Medical Diagnostics
GE Healthcare

Jule Sigall

Senior Policy Counsel/Copyright & Trademark

Microsoft

*Please note this session is closed to the press.


10:20 - 11:00am

Keynote Roundtable Discussion

Keynotes:
Jacqueline Leimer
Vice President & Associate General Counsel, Global Intellectual Property        
Kraft Foods Global Inc.

Bruce Proctor
General Counsel, Intellectual Property
Diageo

Interviewer:

Arthur Zaczkiewicz
Director of Content
Argyle Executive Forum


*Please note this session is closed the press


11:00 - 11:30am

Coffee Break  


11:30am - 12:00pm

Jeffery B. Fromm
Former Vice President, Deputy General Counsel & Director of Intellectual Property        
Hewlett-Packard Company


12:05 - 12:45pm

Panel Discussion

“Effectively Managing IP Issues in Corporate Transactions, Including M&A and Private Equity”

Moderator:    

Daryn Grossman       
Partner
Proskauer Rose LLP

Panelists:

Hilmar Bragi Janusson
Vice President of Research & Development
Ossur HF


Dain C. Landon, Esq.  
Senior Counsel, Business & Legal Affairs  
New Line Cinema

Ron Laurie
Managing Director
Inflexion Point Strategy, LLC


12:45 - 1:45pm

Lunch 


1:45 - 2:15pm

William Heming           
Deputy General Counsel & Chief IP Counsel          
Caterpillar Inc.

Session Description:

  • The developing theory using IP as a financial instrument
  • The effect that investors have on the Research & Development work of a company like Caterpillar.
  • How would you hedge a patent?

 

2:15 - 2:20pm

Introducing Ramsey Homsany:

Charles Macedo

Partner

Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP


2:20 - 2:50pm

Ramsey Homsany       
Associate General Counsel          
Google Inc.

Session Description:

  • The view of IP as an asset vs. a copyright. 
  • How Google deals with others' IP vs. their own IP assets.
  • Google’s view of the world: IP strategies

 

*Please note this session is closed to the press.


2:55 - 3:25pm

Robert D. Manfred, Jr.   
Executive Vice President, Labor & HR   
Major League Baseball


3:25 - 3:55pm

Coffee Break


3:55 - 4:25pm

Cary Sherman
President        
Recording Industry Association of America - RIAA

Interviewer:

Susan Butler
Legal & Music Publishing
BILLBOARD


4:30 - 5:00pm

Stanley Pierre-Louis  
Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Intellectual Property & Content Protection      
Viacom Inc.

Session Description:

The Viacom "distribution and content" model

  • How can Viacom distribute their content out to more users?
  • Once the users have the content what do they do with it?
  • What is being done by Viacom to protect their content?


5:00 – 5:10pm

Closing Remarks


5:10 – 6:10pm

Cocktail Reception


 

April 30, 2008
8:00am – 6:00pm

New York, NY

Event Price: $875

Event location will be disclosed to attendees upon completion of the registration process.

 

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