Maximizing Your Assets: Building, Managing and Enforcing Your Intellectual Property Portfolio

November 20, 2008
1:30p.m. – 6:00p.m.
The Ritz-Carlton, Boston
Boston, MA

Discussion topics

• Surgically managing your IP portfolio’s life cycle: strategies for innovating, identifying, acquiring and protecting IP and extracting the most value from your assets
• Supreme Court decisions, legislative reforms and changing rules and developments at home and abroad: understanding the impact on your business
• Today’s technology: navigating the licensing, e-commerce and Internet issues affecting your assets
• Protecting the company’s interests when dealing with employees, providers, partners, collaborators and clients: disclosures, agreements and negotiations

Co-Chairs
Gary L. Creason, Vice President, Intellectual Property, AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Lauren Bruzzone, Senior Group Counsel, IP Law, Global Services, IBM Corporation

Co-Hosts
Duane Morris LLP
Ropes & Gray LLP

Facilitator
Kent Zimmermann