The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) is the world's largest organization serving the professional and business interests of attorneys who practice in the legal departments of corporations, associations, nonprofits and other private-sector organizations around the globe.
This extensive presentation contains information on the best ways at foiling fraudulent activity, including the key steps to discovering fraud, investigating it and gathering the right electronic evidence.
Join this mock training for your marketing department with committee members offering questions and with practical and useful course materials that you can use when you return to the office. Topics to be addressed include sweepstakes/promotions issues, Digital Millennium Copyright Act compliance with respect to user generated content promotions, advertising and claim substantiation, copyright clearance and licensing issues for stock images, policies and procedures for legal approval, and outsourcing to advertising agencies and marketing vendors.
Your company's valuable proprietary information is at risk! What your employees may not know about what they can and cannot share may be costing you valuable business. What legal tools can you use to protect your company's IP? Our panel of IP and employment law experts will coach you through the methods to put a protective wall around those prized corporate assets. You'll take home detailed checklists and procedures to design and implement an enforceable IP protection program.
The use of free and open source software (FOSS) has been hotly debated in recent months and issues about its uses, benefits, and risks are still unclear. If your company makes use of or develops free or open source software, this session is for you. Our technology counsel will provide an overview of what FOSS is, legal issues concerning such software (including litigation), patents, different licenses, warranties, and indemnification involved, where and how FOSS is generally used, and risks and benefits involved with licensing and using these types of software, including pollution.
More often than not, litigation is the least desirable (not to mention the most unpredictable) vehicle for resolution of patent disputes, whether you are asserting or defending against a patent infringement claim. So what kind of pre-litigation activity can reduce the risk of having to engage in litigation? Our IP litigation specialists will discuss strategies they believe can assist in resolving patent disputes without resorting to litigation.
What does a sensible company do about document retention? This question is on the minds of corporate practitioners around the world as recent legal developments have put these corporate policies in the spotlight. Join your peers to learn what you should keep, what you can happily destroy, policies on saving emails and other strategic retention procedures.
A strategic IP management program is essential to increasing the value of your company’s innovative power. How can your IP be used to invigorate the business and enhance your company’s competitive position? Using real-world experiences, our panel will share their perspectives on how to develop an effective strategy for leveraging and protecting your company’s IP assets.