Library: 2021 Mid-Winter Institute
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Communication Challenges: A Primer for the Week
February 1st, 2021
2021 Mid-Winter Institute
Join speakers from our distinguished Mid-Winter Institute faculty to hear about key communications problems and pitfalls that will be addressed as the week progresses. This program will walk you through the series of Master Classes that will be provided to help you improve your negotiation, persuasion, and communication skills.
- Moderator — Ury Fischer, Lott & Fischer, Coral Gables, FL
- Communications — James Rea, Communications Coach, ExpertsClearly
- Negotiation — Ury Fischer, Lott & Fischer,, Coral Gables, FL
- Written Communication — Michael Stewart, Partner, Fishman Stewart
- Putting your Best Foot Forward — Gillian Drake, Founder and President, Acting for Lawyers
Titans of the IP Bar
February 1st, 2021
2021 Mid-Winter Institute
Moderated by AIPLA Executive Director Vince Garlock, this is our second Titan's of the IP Bar Program - bringing the insights of stalwarts in the IP field to share their words of wisdom.
- Moderator — Vince Garlock, AIPLA Executive Director
- Panel — Donald S. Chisum, Co-Founder, Chisum Patent Academy, Louis T. Pirkey, Founding Partner, PirkeyBarber, Austin, TX, Robert A. Armitage, IP Strategy Consultant, former Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Eli Lilly & Co.
Opening Keynote: Shira Perlmutter
February 1st, 2021
2021 Mid-Winter Institute
Opening Keynote Speach by Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights.
- Moderator — Joseph Re, President, AIPLA, Robert Stoll, Partner, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath
- Keynote Speaker — Shira Perlmutter,, Register of Copyrights, US Copyright Office, Washington, DC
Diversity & Inclusion: Recognizing and Disrupting Negative Biases
February 1st, 2021
2021 Mid-Winter Institute
This CLE is designed to raise consciousness about negative biases, discussing these biases at work, how they move about in society, and how they can negatively influence individual decision-making in the workplace. The webinar will conclude with a brief look at strategies to recognize the biases when they arise and how to mitigate their effects to avoid harmful decision-making.
- Moderator — Melvin C. Garner, Leason Ellis, White Plains, NY
- Speaker — Professor Kimberly Norwood, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, St. Louis, MO
Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery
February 2nd, 2021
2021 Mid-Winter Institute
AI is being increasingly applied in drug discovery, for tasks such as establishing biomarkers, re-purposing existing drugs, and validating and optimizing drug candidates. Not only are advances in AI improving research and development, they are also challenging traditional ways in which companies protect intellectual property, particularly with respect to patents, trade secrets, and data. The panel will explore how AI is transforming drug discovery and IP protection in the life sciences, as well as broader difficulties and opportunities which AI poses to the fundamental IP framework. Finally, the panel will discuss how advances in AI are changing how regulators approach drug and device approvals.
- Moderator — Ryan Abbott, MD, JD, MTOM, PhD, Mediator and Arbitrator, JAMS & Professor of Law and Health Sciences, University of Surrey School of Law
- Panel — Corey Salsberg, Vice President, Global Head IP Affairs, Novartis, Andrew Whitehead, Assistant General Counsel, Informatics & Personalized Health Care IP at Genentech, Stephen Johnson, Senior Director, Molecular Structure and Design, Bristol Myers Squibb, Esther Bleicher, JD MPH, Executive Director of Regulatory Policy and Counsel at Valo Health
Communicating Complex Ideas Efficiently & Effectively: Part 1
February 2nd, 2021
2021 Mid-Winter Institute
This workshop is crafted from the ideas and lessons learned in the twenty-plus years of James Rea’s communication experience. It will offer training that is foundational to any communication an attorney might seek to undertake. Whether the attorney is writing or speaking, and whether the audience is a client, a witness, a judge, the media, or even other attorneys, the ideas and exercises herein can help those interactions become more successful. In particular, the workshop seeks to arm participants with a new awareness of audience, and with the agility to meet each audience with the most impactful language possible. The result, we believe, will be attorneys who can meet the goals of their work more efficiently and effectively.
- Speaker — James Rea, Experts/Clearly, Montpelier, VT
Communicating Complex Ideas Efficiently & Effectively: Part 2
February 2nd, 2021
2021 Mid-Winter Institute
This workshop is crafted from the ideas and lessons learned in the twenty-plus years of James Rea’s communication experience. It will offer training that is foundational to any communication an attorney might seek to undertake. Whether the attorney is writing or speaking, and whether the audience is a client, a witness, a judge, the media, or even other attorneys, the ideas and exercises herein can help those interactions become more successful. In particular, the workshop seeks to arm participants with a new awareness of audience, and with the agility to meet each audience with the most impactful language possible. The result, we believe, will be attorneys who can meet the goals of their work more efficiently and effectively.
- Speaker — James Rea, Experts/Clearly, Montpelier, VT
Negotiation Training: Session One
February 3rd, 2021
2021 Mid-Winter Institute
(1) [Conflict Theory: Psychology of Negotiation] What is your style? How do you respond to conflict? What should you avoid? When should you accommodate?; (2) [Introduction to 7 Different Bargaining Strategies: Positional/Traditional Bargaining] Learn the push and the pull of traditional bargaining and when it may be right for you and your clients; (3) [Transactional Tactics] How do they do it? Let’s learn from China, Japan, Europe and the Middle East; and (4) [Hardball Tactics] Ready to rumble? When do you want to take it or leave it?
- Moderator — Phil Petti, USG Corporation, Chicago, IL
- Conflict Theory: Psychology of Negotiation - What is your style? How do you respond to conflict? What should you avoid? When should you accommodate? These questions and more will be answered! — Ken Adamo, Law Office of KRAdamo, Chicago, IL, Jim Pooley, James Pooley, PLC, Portola Valley, CA
- Transactional Tactics - How do they do it? Let's learn from China, Japan, Europe, and the Middle East — Kenneth K. Cho, Wiggin and Dana, LLP, New York, NY
- Hardball Tactics - Ready to rumble? When do you want to take it or leave it? — William L. LaFuze, McKool Smith, Houston, TX
Negotiation Training: Session Two
February 3rd, 2021
2021 Mid-Winter Institute
(1) [Interest-Based Bargaining (“Getting to Yes”)] Now is your chance to cooperate: learn what you need to do; (2) [Problem-Solving] Are you empathetic and relational? This may be the style for you; (3) [Decision-Based Bargaining] Learn how to start with no and get to yes; and (4) [Hostage Negotiation] We will teach you how to negotiate like your life depends on it!
- Moderator — Phil Petti, USG Corporation, Chicago, IL
- Interest-Based (“Getting to Yes”) - Now is your chance to cooperate: learn what you need to do — Barbara Fiacco, Foley Hoag, Boston, MA
- Problem-Solving - Are you empathetic and relational? This may be the style for you — Elizabeth Ann "Betty" Morgan, Morgan Mediation and Arbitration System, Philadelphia, PA
- Decision-Based Bargaining - Learn how to start with no and get to yes — John T. Johnson, Fish and Richardson, New York, NY
- Hostage Negotiation - We will teach you how to negotiate like your life depends on it! — Sharon Israel, Shook Hardy & Bacon, Houston, TX
Getting and Keeping the Job: Writing Skills to Impress Your Boss
February 4th, 2021
2021 Mid-Winter Institute
(1) Marketing yourself to patent law firms - guidance from a recruiter or other career guidance mentor; (2) Advice from your mentor: general writing skills to impress your boss - guidance from an experience private practitioner; and (3) More advice from your mentor: patent-drafting skills to impress your boss - guidance from an experience private practitioner and in-house practitioner.
- Moderator — Mark Hollingsworth, Mueting Raasch Group
- The Reality of Job Hunting — Ilene Rein, Executive Recruiter, Marketing and Sales Resources, Inc.
- The Art of Patent Searching & Legal Opinions — Rochelle "Rocky" Lieberman, Co-Founder, Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC
- Patent drafting/prosecution tips from in-house counsel — Matthew DeRuyter, Senior IP Counsel, SABIC
SEP and FRAND Licensing Developments
February 4th, 2021
2021 Mid-Winter Institute
Get the latest updates on International SEP and FRAND Licensing from Experts in the field. Our ever-shrinking world has benefited from the increase in international standards to allow compatibility across the globe in wireless and other technologies. We are now seeing an increase in decisions from national courts in different countries addressing the issue of licensing patents that may be essential to a standard (standard essential patents or SEPs) in which the patent owner agreed to negotiate licenses to the SEPs on certain terms or conditions (e.g., fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory or FRAND terms). These different national decisions have some common and some disparate treatment of SEP licensing issues. This panel will review some key cases on SEP licensing arising from the United Kingdom (Unwired Planet), Germany (Sisvel v. Haier) and the United States (FTC v. Qualcomm) as a backdrop for discussing what we have learned so far and what the future may hold in licensing SEPs.
- Moderator — Monica Barone, Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, CA
- Panel — Cordula Schumacher, Partner, Arnold Ruess, Germany, Sir Colin Birss, Judge of the Patents Court of England and Wales, Erik Puknys, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner, Palo Alto, CA
How To Put Your Best Foot Forward
February 4th, 2021
2021 Mid-Winter Institute
Learn from an expert on how to put your best foot forward in the virtual world. Theater Director and Acting Coach Gillian Drake will present a 90-minute master class on acting for IP Professionals.
- Moderator — Patrick Coyne, Partner, Finnegan
- Speaker — Gillian Drake, Founder and President, Acting for Lawyers
IP During a Pandemic: Business Agility and Ethics
February 4th, 2021
2021 Mid-Winter Institute
Top in-house counsel discuss unique challenges presented by a pandemic particularly in relation to protecting IP and closing IP transactions, and strategies utilized to thrive in these conditions.
- Moderator — Randi Karpinia, Sagacity Legal, PLLC
- Ethical implications of distributed and remote working, including contract execution and privilege, and strategies utilized by business to thrive in these new conditions — Professor David Hricik, Mercer Law School, Macon, GA, Phyllis Turner Brim, Deputy General Counsel, HP, Seattle, WA
- Creative use of trademark law to combat price gouging of N95 personal protective equipment during the pandemic — Kevin Rhodes, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, 3M, St. Paul, MN
Vaccine Development and Immunization Law
February 5th, 2021
2021 Mid-Winter Institute
A Discussion on Vaccine Development.
- Moderator — Jeremy McKown, Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ
- Speaker — Brian D. Abramson, Bloomberg Law Author, Vaccine and Immunization Law Specialist, Falls Church,VA
Effective Written Communication
February 5th, 2021
2021 Mid-Winter Institute
Join AIPLA President Joe Re for a conversation with US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Judge Kathleen O'Malley, as they discuss the importance of written communication from the Court perspective.
- Moderator — Joseph Re, President, AIPLA
- Speaker — Honorable Kathleen O'Malley, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
The Communication Wizard
February 5th, 2021
2021 Mid-Winter Institute
The Communication Wizard will discuss the “six deadly sins” of written and oral communication, and then direct a series of vignettes to demonstrate best practices.
- Moderator — Stacy Lewis, Finnegan, Washington, DC
- Instructor — Tom Irving, Finnegan, Washington, DC
- Vignette Actors — Elizabeth Dougherty, USPTO, Aisha Mahmood Haley, Reichman Jorgensen, Hira Javed, American University Washington College of Law, Anna Ziskind Lloyd, Oblon, Leon Lim, Novo Nordisk, Ted Mayle, Kilpatrick Townsend, Angela Nieves, St. Thomas University College of Law, Gabe Olander, Applied Materials, Laura Powell, Fish & Richardson, Meredith Schoenfeld, USPTO, Aastha Tandon, University of the District of Columbia, Vlad Semendyai, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Brian Trotter, Bishop Rock, Chris Weber, Corporate IP Counsel, ABB, Bruce Wu, Nutcracker Therapeutics
The Art of Written Communication
February 5th, 2021
2021 Mid-Winter Institute
Using the imagery of brushes, highlighters, and felt tip pens as a framework for discussion, this panel will provide guidelines to minimize the challenges often associated with technical writing.
- Moderator — Sarah Knight, Talem IP, Gainsville, FL
- Panel — Ed Good, Trainer, Author, Writer (now semi-retired), Leesburg, VA, Michael Stewart, Fishman Stewart, Troy, MI, James Crowne, Consultant to AIPLA on Legal Affairs (retired), Bowie, MD