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"Maximizing the Value of Corporate IP Assets: Strategies for an Ever-Evolving Global Landscape "

Background & Value Proposition

Today, companies considering how to realize the value of their hard-earned intellectual property (IP) are faced with numerous and often confounding decisions. Tried and true strategies may no longer be optimal in a shifting global environment that has experienced escalating cost, complexity, and scope as well as turnover of relevant players in recent years.



Workshop Goals

Attendees will gain insights into:

1. Navigating the decision tree when determining whether to retain or divest assets.
2. Selecting and structuring partnerships with third parties, including advisors, managers, capital providers and outside counsel.
3. Recent shifts in patent law and practice, including developments at the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) and Unified Patent Court (UPC), and their expected impact on licensing strategy.
4. Currently available options and deal structures for financing of costly licensing strategies, including equity financing, loans, non-recourse arrangements, and other financial risk mitigation tools.
5. Current market key players and real-world case studies where third-party capital has been successfully utilized as a strategic partnership for market growth, and how to obtain such capital to optimize IP licensing strategies and leverage it in partnership with outside counsel

"Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications and Implications: Recent Developments, Opportunities and Mitigating Risks"

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly pervasive in all aspects of life, and it’s important to understand both the opportunities and risks associated with this technology. The panel will discuss a range of topics related to AI, including different types of AI systems and how they work, challenges in developing AI systems, and different applications of AI systems. Panelists will also present on what it means to use AI responsibly, risks associated with using AI (including bias) and best practices in managing these risks. Further, implications for Licensing of AI technologies will be considered, including what can be done to manage risks associated with using and licensing output of AI systems, and how to negotiate and manage transactions in which AI will be provided as a service. (This program description was prepared with the assistance of ChatGPT.)

"UPC Infringement Actions as a Tool for Global Patent Disputes"

This panel will discuss the advantages of the UPC system for patentees and how they can be leveraged for global litigation, including US infringement proceedings. Discussions will include leveraging the advantages of the short deadlines of the UPC system, utilizing the preliminary cross-border injunctions for UPC and non-UPC states, cross-jurisdictional evidentiary tools available between the UPC and the US, and the UPC’s impact on global litigation funding. The panelists will discuss both procedural and jurisdictional strategies within the UPC (and US Courts for evidentiary tools) to further benefit global disputes. This panel is for in-house counsel and litigation attorneys participating in global or US/EU patent disputes that wish to leverage the benefits of the UPC system to further their global/US litigation goals.

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