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DESCRIPTION:Protecting Your Markets from Unlawful Foreign Competitors\n\n
 Date:  Wednesday\, February 10\, 2010\nTime:  7:30 - 10:00 a.m.\nCost:  
 $50 members\, $110 nonmembers\nCLE Credits Pending Approval\n\nAbout the
  Event:\nIn challenging economic times and as competition grows fiercer\
 , many companies find that enforcement of their intellectual property ri
 ghts is critical to their success.  Knock-off products\, often from comp
 anies outside the United States\, eat into sales.  But defending your in
 tellectual property is not inexpensive.   Three of Portland’s leading 
 companies will tell you how they defend their domestic and foreign marke
 ts quickly\, efficiently\, and inexpensively\, and how to make these str
 ategies work on any scale. \n\nWhat will you learn?\n - How to diversify
  your IP portfolio to put your company in the best position to defend yo
 ur markets \n - How to use the laws of foreign jurisdictions to stop inf
 ringing products where they are manufactured \n - How to use the fastest
 \, most cost-effective IP enforcement actions available \n\nPanelists:\n
  - Tom Evans\, Corporate Patent Attorney at Mentor Graphics will relate 
 lessons from Mentor’s patent infringement lawsuit in China and describ
 e how Mentor uses its IP portfolio to defend its markets around the worl
 d.\n\n - Julianne Davis\, Assistant General Counsel/Intellectual Propert
 y at Nike\, Inc. will tell you why you should add design patents\, trade
 mark registrations\, and copyright registrations to your IP portfolios\,
  and how Nike uses its diverse portfolio to police its markets in the US
  and around the world.\n\n - John Motley\, Associate General Counsel &am
 p\; Director of Intellectual Property at Columbia Sportswear\, will talk
  about Columbia’s successful use of Thai and other foreign patent and 
 trademark law to combat infringement where products are manufactured.\n\
 n - Tigran Guledjian\, a partner at Quinn Emanuel in Los Angeles\, pract
 ices extensively in complex intellectual property litigation with an emp
 hasis in high technology patent litigation.  Tigran will discuss his eff
 orts on behalf of Seiko Epson and other clients to use the International
  Trade Commission to obtain and use exclusion orders to stop infringing 
 products at the border.\n\nModerator:\n - Brenna Legaard is a partner at
  Chernoff Vilhauer McClung &amp\; Stenzel\, an intellectual property law
  firm in Portland\, Oregon. A seasoned trial lawyer\, Brenna brings sign
 ificant real-world experience to her patent prosecution and opinion prac
 tice and routinely helps start ups and publicly traded clients alike pri
 oritize their IP budgets and cost-effectively enforce their rights again
 st infringers.\n\nEvent Details:\nWhen:  Wednesday\, February 10\, 2010\
 nTime:  7:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.\nWhere:  Oregon Zoo\, Skyline Banquet R
 oom\, Portland\, OR\nCost:  Discounted Rate (available to new registrant
 s) $50 TechAmerica members and LES Industry members\, $110 nonmember tec
 hnology companies\nCLE Credits Pending Approval\n\nTags: foreign competi
 tion\, foreign competitors\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events
 /1250458096
URL:http://www.techamerica.org/tipdec
SUMMARY:Protecting Your Markets from Unlawful Foreign Competitors
LOCATION:Oregon Zoo\, Skyline Banquet Room: 4001 SW Canyon Rd.\, Portland
   OR  97221-9704 US
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