Intellectual Property

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The minutes from the June meeting can be found here

the final draft of the Intellectual Property pamphlet can be viewed here

The agenda for the meeting at the retreat this weekend in Naples can be found here

I have uploaded for the use of members of the committee a presentation I did last year on Google keyword advertising and trademark infringement issues. To view the presentation, click here. The cases are linked here by name:   Merck v. Mediplan   Rescuecom v. Google  Buying for Home v. Humble Abode    International Profit v. Piasaola    Geico v. Google   Wentworth v. Settlement Funding

For the committee’s consideration, please review the current version of the intellectual property pamphlet. To review the pamphlet, click here.  Thanks to Leora Herrmann for taking the lead and revising and updating the pamphlet. Thanks also to Steph Nagin for the original work on this. We hope to have Bar approval soon. Comments, please!

The NEW Florida State Trademark Act

Carey Presentation-Patent Licensing-Florida Bar IP Certification Review

Dear Intellectual Property Committee Member:

 I am writing to you regarding the 2008 Intellectual Property Certification Examination.  This examination will be given on May 16, 2008.  Please note the application deadline is October 31, 2007.  If you intend to apply for certification, you must submit your application by this deadline. There is a direct link to the application for certification on the Intellectual Property Committee website. The link is http://www.floridabar.org/DIVCOM/PI/CertSect.nsf/9736b6935363096385256fd4005e5cea/79e88f175562f769852571d30050c699?OpenDocument.

 Please direct any questions regarding certification to Julie Coiro (850) 561-3143.

 For those of you taking the inaugural examination on October 1, 2007, good luck!

Regards,

 Mark E. Stein

Dear Florida I.P. Committee Member:

For all of you that attended the Business Law Section Retreat this weekend, it was great to see you at the Ritz in Naples.  For those of you that did not make it, we missed you, but hope to see you at the mid-year meeting at Miami Downtown Hyatt on January 17, 2008.

A professor at Georgia State University has asked us to circulate the attached link to an I.P. Program taking place October 23-24, 2007 in Atlanta, Georgia.  We are circulating this link because the program may interest many of you and also because some of you may need larger blocks of I.P. specific CLE to satisfy the CLE requirement for I.P. certification.   

http://www.gsuip.org/corporate/broch.pdf

The Corporate IP Institute, October 23 & 24:

17 Florida IP Certification credits

17 Florida General/ 2 Ethics credits

The next committee meeting will be held at 9am on June 28 at the Florida Bar’s Annual Meeting in Orlando. The materials you will need for the meeting are available on the IP Committee’s webpage or on the link below.
June 28, 2007 Meeting Package