Broadcast Date: Thursday, December 05, 2024
from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm (ET)
Overview:
Protecting trade secrets is crucial for maintaining a competitive edge in today’s business landscape.
Join John A. Stone of DeCotiis, FitzPatrick, Cole & Giblin, LLP and James A. Gale of Cozen O’Connor in this CLE webcast as they explore the essentials of trade secret law, including key definitions, misappropriation, interim remedies, and damages. Gain valuable insights into emerging trends, such as biotech trade secrets and cross-border challenges, while learning actionable strategies to safeguard your proprietary information effectively.
Key issues to be discussed in this course are:
- What is a trade secret?
- The common law and statutory definitions.
- How reverse engineering factors into the definitions.
- What is misappropriation?
- Interim remedies
- TRO’s and preliminary injunctions.
- Seizure.
- Damages
- Actual and consequential damages.
- Head Start damages.
- Royalties.
- Permanent Injunctions.
- Hot topics in trade secret law
- Biotech trade secrets.
- Cross-border issues.
- Protecting your trade secrets
- Legally sufficient measures to protect trade secrets
- Handbooks
- Contracts
- Security
- Lots more
Credit:
Course Level:
Intermediate
Advance Preparation:
Print and review course materials
Method of Presentation:
On-Demand Webcast
Prerequisite:
General knowledge in intellectual property rights
Course Code:
1411324
Total Credit:
CLE Credit:
CA CLE 2.00 General - Approved Until: 12/05/2026
PA CLE 2.00 General - Approved Until: 12/05/2026
VT CLE 2:00 General - Approved Until: 12/31/2025
NJ CLE 2:00 General - Credits through Reciprocity
NY CLE 2:00 Areas of Professional Practice - Credits through Reciprocity
AR CLE 2:00 General - Credits through Reciprocity
CT CLE 2:00 General - Credits through Reciprocity
NH CLE 2.00 General – Meets the requirements of NH Supreme Court Rule 53
MO CLE 2.00 General - Approved Until: 12/05/2024
TN CLE 2.00 General - Approved Until: 12/05/2025
WI CLE 2.00 General - Approved Until: 12/31/2025
MS CLE 2.00 General - Approved Until: 12/05/2025
GA CLE 2.00 General - Approved Until: 12/31/2024
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Not Eligible for CLE:
AK, AZ, HA, IL
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Speaker Panel:
James A. Gale, Co-Chair, Intellectual Property Litigation
Cozen O'Connor
James A. (Jim) Gale is the co-chair of Cozen O’Connor’s Intellectual Property Litigation Department and focuses his practice in the area of intellectual property counseling and litigation. He is a registered patent attorney with over 38 years of experience and is Chambers Band 1 ranked in Florida, Martindale AV Preeminent© rated, Board Certified in Intellectual Property by the Florida Bar, an AAA Arbitrator and the former inaugural chair of the IP Board Certification Committee. Jim has handled hundreds of cases involving patents, theft of trade secrets, restrictive covenants, trademarks, unfair competition, and internet disputes. He has appeared in over 400 federal cases in more than 48 federal district and circuit courts, as well as handled hundreds of injunctions in over 35 different states around the nation.
John A. Stone, Partner
DeCotiis, FitzPatrick, Cole & Giblin, LLP
John A. Stone is a partner in DeCotiis’ New Jersey and New York offices. Mr. Stone’s practice focuses on complex business matters, including trade secret and other intellectual property litigation, and unfair competition and tortious interference claims, as well as construction, land use and intra-company disputes, in State and Federal Court. He has particular expertise in complex litigation and takes pride in getting results for his clients. Mr. Stone received his B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College, his J.D. from the University of Richmond, Virginia, and studied International Law at Cambridge University. Mr. Stone is a frequent lecturer at seminars and nation-wide and international conferences regarding trade secrets, trade dress, and theft-of-ideas, and has published numerous articles on those and other issues. He is also co-chair of the ABA’s Litigation Section’s Trade Secrets Subcommittee, and co-editor of the ABA ABA’s Litigation Section’s Intellectual Property Newsletter.
Agenda:
James A. Gale, Co-Chair, Intellectual Property Litigation
Cozen O'Connor
AND
John A. Stone, Partner
DeCotiis, FitzPatrick, Cole & Giblin, LLP
- What is a trade secret?
- The common law and statutory definitions.
- How reverse engineering factors into the definitions.
- What is misappropriation?
- Interim remedies
- TRO’s and preliminary injunctions.
- Seizure.
- Damages
- Actual and consequential damages.
- Head Start damages.
- Royalties.
- Permanent Injunctions.
- Hot topics in trade secret law
- Biotech trade secrets.
- Cross-border issues.
- Protecting your trade secrets
- Legally sufficient measures to protect trade secrets
- Handbooks
- Contracts
- Security
- Lots more
Date & Time:
Thursday, December 05, 2024
12:00 pm to 2:00 pm (ET)
Who Should Attend:
- General Counsel
- In-house Counsel
- Compliance and Security Professionals
- Risk Management Professionals
- Labor & Employment Lawyers
- Alternative Dispute Resolution Lawyers
- Intellectual Property Lawyers
- Patent and Trademark Lawyers
- Trade Secrets Lawyers
- IP Managers
- IP Analysts
- Trade Secret Managers
- Portfolio Managers
Industry
- Pharma, biotech and life sciences
- High-tech
- Manufacturing
- Finance, including private lending
- Sales-intensive businesses
- Cannabis
- Venture Capital
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