TIPLA Events: Historical Information: November, 2001
TIPLA sponsors two Symposiums a year for patent attorneys, patent agents, trademark attorneys, and copyright attorneys. Each symposium includes lectures by Tennessee attorneys and others who speak on topics of interest to those who practice patent, trademark, copyright, and IP law in general. In the past, distinguished judges have appeared, as have officials from the Patent and Trademark Office.
Fall 2001 Symposium
The Fall 2001 Symposium was held on November 16 and 17 at the Doubletree Inn in Nashville.
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PROGRAM
Friday, November 16, 2001
| 2:00 p.m. |
Entertainment Law Contracts
Craig Hayes, Esq., Zumwalt, Almon & Hayes |
| 3:00 p.m. |
Issues in Copyright Law - An overview
Dorothy K. Campbell |
| 4:15 p.m. |
Patent Donations - another way to derive value from patents
Cheryl Tubach, Eastman Chemical Company |
| 6:30 p.m. |
Dinner and speaker - treatment of non-assignable contracts (such as IP licenses) in Bankruptcy
Honorable Randolph J. Haines |
Saturday, November 17, 2001
| 9 a.m. |
Ethics panel
Karen Harding, Eastman Chemical Company
Ed Lanquist, Waddey & Patterson
Steve Stark, Miller, Martin
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| 10 am |
Source Code Legal Issues
Peter Brewer |
| 10:35 am |
Admissibility of Web-Intercept Surveys
Joel Tragesser, Locke Reynolds LLP |
| 11 am |
Markman Hearings - a panel discussion
Jack Waddey, Mark Patterson, both of Waddey & Patterson |
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