Friday,
September 17, 2021
7:30 a.m.– 4:15 p.m. CT
(Hosted Online on Remo)
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Register Online
CLE Credit: 7.25 Hours, including 1 Hour of Diversity & Inclusion (pending)
General Registration: $95
Free for UIC students, faculty, adjunct professors, staff, IP Center advisory board members, and government attendees.
Limited scholarships available for 2019–2021 UIC Law graduates, non-UIC students, faculty, staff, and need-based attendees.
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Corporate counsel play a critical but often underappreciated role in a company's success. They must interface well with a wide range of stakeholders and balance competing considerations to help their business stay ahead of the competition. In the post-pandemic world, outside counsel will need to recognize new challenges and opportunities to remain relevant and effective.
This one-of-a-kind, one-day CLE program, featuring experienced corporate and outside counsel, will explore relevant intellectual property and technology, issues through honest and practical discussions of topics, including:
- Thinking globally, acting locally
- Best practices and strategies for IP, tech, and privacy counsel
- Tips for patent prosecution, licensing, and litigation
- Brand versus budget
- Diversity in the profession
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Featured Speaker
Yen Florczak
Chief Intellectual Property Counsel
3M Company |
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Innovation that Sticks: Engineering Intellectual Property, Internationality & Inclusiveness
Yen Florczak was appointed Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for 3M Company and President of 3M Innovative Properties Company in June 2019. She currently serves as 3M’s Legal Affairs executive sponsor for its Diversity and Inclusion group, as well as Inclusion Champion for 3M Company. From June 2016 until her appointment, she led 3M’s Asia Pacific IP team and was based in Shanghai, China. Yen has held various IP positions in her more than 20 years of experience with 3M having had assignments in each of 3M’s four business groups. Before entering the legal profession, Yen worked as an engineer at 3M and at Abbott Laboratories.
Yen holds a JD from the University of Minnesota Law School and Bachelor of Science degrees in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Minnesota.
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Daryl Lim
Professor of Law & Director, Center for IP, Information & Privacy Law
University of Illinois Chicago School of Law
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Session 1: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
Topics include:
- Licensing considerations when representing clients in foreign jurisdictions: local laws, culture, customer behavior.
- How to build an IP portfolio for a start-up brand (how to tier brands, prioritize filing, assess risk).
- Social media considerations: agreements with social media providers.
- IP and other considerations when shipping or selling food online.
- Anti-counterfeiting in the food, food safety, and hospitality industry.
- IP enforcement tactics.
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Moderator / Panelist
Ainslee Schreiber
Vice President & Head of IP
WeWork
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Panelists
Christopher Chan
EVP, Legal and Government Affairs, Lazada Group;
General Counsel, Lazada SG
Lee Eulgen
Partner
Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
Sarah Lockner
Chief Trademark Counsel
Ecolab
Peter Moody
Principal
Red Pie Consulting
Kenneth L. Ng
Client Liaison Principal - USA
Davies Collison Cave
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Session 2: Best Practices & Pitfalls
Topics include:
- Competitive data management: hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp
- Regulatory issues with data.
- Advertising issues with IP, privacy, and technology.
- Patent landscape analysis.
- Attorneys v. non-attorney communications.
- Takeaways from the Illinois Biometric Data Act.
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Moderator / Panelist
Adam G. Kelly
Partner
Loeb & Loeb LLP
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Panelists
Ann Chen
Director & Assistant General Counsel - Litigation, Enforcement & Strategy
TransUnion
Erin Fox
Group Technology Counsel
Illinois Tool Works
Jim Johnson
Patent & Competitive Intelligence Analyst
The Chamberlain Group
Erin Lothson
Senior Counsel
Uber Freight
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Featured Session:
Innovation that Sticks: Engineering Intellectual Property, Internationality & Inclusiveness
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Yen Florczak
Chief Intellectual Property Counsel
3M Company
Moderator
Esther Lim
Partner
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
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Session 3: Tips for Patent Prosecution, Licensing & Litigation
Topics include:
- Evaluating US and non-US patent prosecution firms.
- Prosecution management: Inhouse and outside counsel teams.
- Considerations when presenting large numbers of patents for licensing.
- Different methods for valuing a license to a portfolio.
- MFN clauses when licensing to multiple parties.
- Litigation finance and strategy.
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Moderator / Panelist
Mark Campagna
Senior Director, Portfolio Strategy
Medtronic
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Panelists
John Blake
Senior Counsel
PlayStation
Sylvia Chen
Patent Counsel & Head of Patent Operations
Google
Mony Ghose
Chief IP Counsel
Danaher Corporation
Lauren Rabinovic
Principal
GLS Capital
Mike Schwartz
Senior Vice President, IP Litigation
Xperi
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Session 4: Brand v. Budget
Topics include:
- Working with the C-suite.
- Educating clients to maximize IP value while saving costs.
- Returns on investment: Why measure, what to measure, how to save costs.
- Registration: Global coverage without cutting corners.
- Developing, messaging and enforcing internal policies around trademark use.
- Using AI in trademark clearance.
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Moderator / Panelist
Jomarie Fredericks
Deputy General Counsel
Rotary International
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Panelists
Meghann Garrett
Assistant General Counsel
Goodwill Industries International
Monique Joe
Senior Vice President,
Head of Brands and Content Intellectual Property
NBC Universal Media, LLC
Michael Moore
Associate General Counsel & Senior Director, Trademarks & Copyrights
Mattel, Inc.
Sanjiv Sarwate
Senior Legal Director
Dell Inc.
Chris Turk
Partner
FisherBroyles LLP
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Session 5: Diversity in the Profession
Topics include:
- High attrition rates: Who, why, and what can be done.
- What does the data tell us?
- Diversity initiatives: Selling the buy-in
- Financial obstacles and information barriers.
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Moderator / Panelist
Lisa Dunner
Managing Partner
Dunner Law PLLC
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Panelists
Brianna Hinojosa-Smith
Director of Legal, Digital & Technology
Yum! Brands
Keisha Hylton-Rodic
Founding Partner
Hylton-Rodic PLLC
Joy Monahan
Associate Director, Legal Diversity & Outside Counsel Programs
AbbVie
Aracely Muñoz
Director
Lawyers Network - Washington, D.C.
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Closing Remarks &
Virtual Reception
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Please contact Adam Ernette, IP Fellow, at aernette@uic.edu with
event-related questions or to apply for a needs-based scholarship.
For sponsorship information see https://bit.ly/uic_ip_sponsor.
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