Past CLE Events

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October 21, 2008 ("Intellectual Property License Agreements" -- Ed Cavazos, Fish & Richardson, and Keith Witek, AMD)
Course Number: 900050393
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September 23, 2008 ("Patent Litigation Surveys" -- Robert Cote, McKool Smith)
Course Number: 900049596

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August 12, 2008 ("Quanta-fying Patent Exhaustion: Impact on Patent Litigation and Licensing Strategies -- Amber Rovner, Weil Gotshal & Manges, and Jennifer Wuamett, Freescale Semiconductor)
Course Number: 900047647
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June 17, 2008 ("Perspectives on IP Litigation" -- Hon. Lee Yeakel, W.D. Texas)
Course Number: 900045488

May 20, 2008 ("Software, Business Methods and the Subject Matter of Patents" -- Brian Nash, Fish & Richardson)
Course Number: 900044413
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April 22, 2008 ("Ethical Issues for Patent Prosecution Attorneys and Patent Litigators Related to the Duty of Candor and Inequitable Conduct" -- Darryl J. Adams, Dewey Lebouf)
Course Number: 9000042102 (includes 1.0 hour ethics)
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March 25, 2008 ("Recent Developments in Trademark Law and the Internet" -- Wendy Larson, Pirkey Barber)
Course Number: 900040075
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February 26, 2008 ("Willfulness and Opinions of Counsel after In re Seagate" -- H. Kenneth Prol, Vinson & Elkins)
Course number: 900039089

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January 29, 2008 (Annual Meeting and CLE Lunch: "2007 -- The Year in Review in Patent Law" -- Bart Showalter, Baker & Botts)
Course Number: 900037674
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October 23, 2007 (CLE Lunch: "New Rules at the USPTO" -- James W. Babineau)
Course number: 900032659
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July 31, 2007 (CLE Lunch: Panel Discussion on Obviousness after KSR v. Teleflex)
Course Number: 900027829
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June 26, 2007 (CLE Lunch: "Injunctions After eBay" -- Alan Albright, Fish & Richardson)
Course number: 900025718
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May 22, 2007 (CLE Lunch -- "Perspectives on Patent Licensing Language in Free/Open Source Software Licenses" -- Prof. Greg Vetter, University of Texas (visiting), and University of Houston)
Course Number: 900024734
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April 24, 2007 (CLE Lunch -- "Top 10 Mistakes that Patent Practitioners Make" by Robert E. McLaughlin, Fields, Howell, Athans & McLaughlin, LLP)
Course Number: 900022976
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March 27, 2007 (CLE Lunch -- "Licensing & Assertion Challenges for Patentees Post-MedImmune" by David L. Fox, PhD, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.)
Course Number: 900021030

February 28, 2007 (CLE lunch -- "A Room with a View: A Jury Consultant's Perspective on Big Ticket Patent Trials" by Dr. Don Nichols, Courtroom Intelligence)
Course Number: 900019186

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October 17, 2006 (CLE Lunch -- "Panel Discussion: “Opinions of Counsel & Waiver of Privilege After EchoStar” by Trent Campione, Pete Roossien, and Michael Cannatti)
Course Number: 900012515

May 24, 2006 (CLE Lunch -- "Claim Construction Update: Phillips and Beyond," by David O'Brien (Zagorin O'Brien Graham LLP), Ranjeev Singh (Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.), and Amber Rovner (Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP))
Course Number: 000099947
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April 20, 2006 (CLE Lunch -- "The Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2005" by Susan Hightower, Fulbright & Jaworski )
Course Number: 000098474

March 22, 2006 (CLE Lunch -- "Has 35 USC 120 Been Misconstrued for Fifty Years?" by Darryl Adams, Dewey Ballantine LLP)
Course Number 000096403

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July 2004 (CLE Lunch -- "A Perspective From the Bench," by Hon. Lee Yeakel, W.D. Texas)
Course Number 000067000

May 2004 (CLE Lunch -- "Inter Partes Reexamination," by Pierre Hubert)
Course Number 000065087
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April 2004 (CLE Lunch -- "The Not-So Secret Forum: How the U.S. International Trade Commission Became a Prime Venue for Intellectual Property Litigation," by Bryan Schwartz)
Course Number 000063562
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March 2004 (CLE Lunch -- "Visual Communications Throughout Multi-Stage Intellectual Property Litigation," by Jason Barnes)
Course Number 000061819

February 2004 (CLE Lunch -- Protection from Trade Dress and Trademark Copycats, by Trevor Choy)
Course Number 000059933
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July 2003 (CLE Lunch -- Section 112 Written Description, by Peter Ayers)
Course Number 000050307
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May 2003 (CLE Lunch -- Trademarks 2002-2003: Lingerie to Lawn Care)
Course Number 000047534 (1.0 Hour of Texas MCLE Credit)
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April 2003 (CLE Lunch -- The Use of Dictionaries in the Federal Circuit, by Jen Kuhn)
Course Number 000047023 (1.0 Hour of Texas MCLE Credit)
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March 2003 (CLE Lunch -- Strategic Role of IP in Company Valuation)
Course Number 000045052 (1.0 Hour of Texas MCLE Credit)

February 2003 (CLE Lunch -- Fundamentals of Electronic Discovery)
Course Number 000043822 (1.0 Hour of Texas MCLE Credit)
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November 2002 (CLE Lunch -- How To Obtain a European Patent)
Course Number 000040729 (1.0 Hour of Texas MCLE Credit)

September 2002 (CLE lunch -- Covenants Not To Compete)
Course Number 000038113 (1.0 Hour of Texas MCLE Credit)

May 2002 (CLE Lunch -- Ethical Considerations in Prefiling Investigation)
Course Number 000033127 (1.0 Hours of Texas MCLE Credit)
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April 2002 (CLE Lunch -- Ethical Considerations in Drafting Opinion Letters)
Course Number 000032079 (1.0 Hours of Texas MCLE Ethics Credit)

March 2002 (CLE Lunch -- "Symbol Technologies and the Doctrine of Prosecution Laches")
Course Number 000031219 (1.0 Hours of Texas MCLE Credit)
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Feb. 2002 (CLE Lunch -- "Taking Design Patents to the Next Level")
Course Number 000029414 (
1.0 Hours of Texas MCLE Credit)
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Sept. 2001 (CLE Lunch - "Current Ethics Topics-Roundtable Discussion")
Course Number 000023611 (0.75 Ethics CLE Credit)

July 2001 (Markman's discussion of Protecting a Brand Name with IP Investigations)
Course Number 000021283 ("Detectives in The Digital Age...")

May 2001 (Professor Nimmer's discussion of UCITA)

April 2001 (DSI Technology Escow's discussion of technology escrow)
(0.75 CLE credit)

March 2001 (Discussion of Impact of Recent Patent Statute & Rule Changes on Prosecution Practice.)
(1.0 hour CLE credit)
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February 2001 (Panel Discussion of the Festo Decision)
(1.0 hour CLE credit)

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September 2000 (Napster and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act)
Course Number 000009692 (1.0 hour CLE credit)

July 2000 (Trends in Patent Damage Awards)
Course Number 000008096 (1.0 hour CLE credit)

May 2000 (Judicial Perspective on Intellectual Property Cases)
Course Number 000006112 (1.0 hour CLE credit)

April 2000 (Overview of Online Music Issues for the General IP Practitioner)
Course Number 000005388 (1.0 hour CLE credit)

March 2000 (Investigating Industrial Espionage)
Course Number 000004608 (1.0 hour CLE credit)

February 2000 (Presentation by Commissioner Dickinson)
Course Number 000003928 (1.0 hour CLE credit)