Overview
Who Should Attend the Intellectual Property Symposium?
Senior Engineering and Engineering Management
including Directors and Vice Presidents of Engineering, Chief Technology Officers, Fellows, Members of Technical Staff.The program offers sr. engineers and engineering management sessions to help improve how they:
Decide what technologies to patent
- Surveying the Patent Landscape presented by experts from Semiconductor Insights
- How to Read Your Competitor’s Patents from noted author David Pressman and Key Ingredients of an Effective Patent Application from MIPS Technologies executive)
- Silicon IP Panel Discussion Panel includes experts from Intel, Texas Instruments and other companies.
- Subsystems: How to Accelerate and Lower Risks During Product Development
- Achieving Maximum Reuse Leverage: Lessons Learned from Benchmarking 1,200+ IC Projects
- IP Goes Hollywood A panel discussion with experts on the topic, including the founder of TiVo, and executives from Toshiba and the Electronic Frontier Foundation
- IP Risks in Open Source Software a panel discussion with experts from HP, Microsoft and MontaVista.
- Managing 3rd Party IP in Software Development LifeCycle presented by expert from Wind River
- The Role of IP in the Standards Process A panel discussion with leaders in the field from Intel, Motorola and HP.
Line of Business Managers
who are responsible for maximizing the revenues of their patent portfolios, creating and managing alliances that share technology, finding and executing merger and acquisition strategies and pursuing new business opportunities in emerging markets with unique intellectual property challenges such as China.The program offers sessions to help improve how they:
Reap maximum value from their patent portfolios
- Monetizing Patents A panel discussion on monetizing patents
- Pitfalls of Patents A panel on patent strategies
- China Panel, a panel discussion with experts who have hands-on experience on China’s developing intellectual property system
Legal Professionals
who are responsible for understanding the latest court and patent office rulings, negotiating intellectual property agreements, defining successful litigation strategies and understanding IP legal laws and practices globally.The program offers sessions to help improve how they:
Understand and respond to the latest court decisions on IP
- Practical Implications of Recent Supreme Court and Federal Circuit Decisions
- Part II - Practical Implications of Recent Supreme Court and Federal Circuit Decisions
- IP Rights You Really Need to Understand
- Pitfalls of Patents
- Enhance Your Firm's Value Through IP Communication
- Finding Evidence of Patent Infringement
- Understand how best to operate in emerging markets with unique IP practices and laws China Panel - a panel discussion with experts who have hands-on experience on China’s developing intellectual property system