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Corporate, Antitrust, Licensing, Open Source 

Moderator  

David Long, Essential Patent, LLC, Oak Hill, VA

Speakers:

Antitrust, Patents and Licensing, Oh My! Analyzing the fallout from the groundbreaking FTC v. Qualcomm case, including how the FTC and DOJ's divergent views will impact the interplay of antitrust and IP. -- Lisa Kimmel, Crowell & Moring, LLP, Washington, DC

Adventures in Licensing: Lessons from the experts on the best practices for licensing patents, trade secrets and know how.  -- Brian O'Shaughnessy, Dinsmore, Washington, DC

What Were You Thinking? The Strategy and Management of Jointly-Developed Intellectual Property in Open Innovation: Creating new business opportunities, joint venture versus strategic alliance, using program IP, termination and dissolution. -- Angela Grayson, Precipice IP, PLLC, Bentonville, AR

Speakers

• Grayson, Angela

  Precipice IP | Founder and Principal Member

  Angela J. Grayson, CIPP/US, CLP is an accomplished nationally recognized lawyer, speaker, and author. She is Principal Member and Founder of Precipice IP PLLC. PRECIPICE is an award-winning consultancy and technology law boutique specializing in patent, trademark, copyright, and data law. PRECIPICE helps entrepreneurs and technology-focused businesses protect their products, brands, designs and data.
• O'Shaughnessy, Brian

  Dinsmore | Partner

  Brian O'Shaughnessy, immediate past president of the Licensing Executives Society (USA and Canada), Inc. (LES), is an internationally recognized authority in licensing and commercial transactions involving intellectual property rights.
• Long, David W.

  Essential Patent LLC | Patent Attorney

  David has over twenty years of experience litigating complex patent issues in the telecommunications industry ranging from simple matters to high-stakes litigation. He was a judicial law clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and has substantial experience leading litigation in federal courts and in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (“PTO”). His experience includes balancing parallel proceedings in multiple courts and the PTO. He counsels domestic and international clients on patent licensing, product redesigns, trade secrets and other legal issues in telecommunications, electronic circuits, microchips, computer and other high-tech industries.