Tuesdays: September 29, October 27, November 24 & December 1, 2015
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Who should attend: Solicitors, litigators, and in-house counsel who seek a grounding in IP concepts and issues affecting business transactions and disputes.
Learning level: All levels
Businesses need to take steps to protect their intangible business assets such as trade-marks and brands, reputation and goodwill, confidential information, designs, and inventions. Many of these intangible business assets, if identified and protected through intellectual property rights, can enhance the value and revenues of a business. Unfortunately, businesses do not always understand and appreciate the value of these classes of assets until something goes wrong or the opportunity is missed, and by that time it becomes much more difficult and costly, and, in some cases, impossible for them to remedy the situation. The Intangible Business Assets Series will help you to advise your clients on how to get ahead and deal with problems like:
- a former employee uses confidential information (trade secrets, customer lists, etc.) to compete with your client's business
- a vendor uses its knowledge of your client's technology to compete with your client or do work for the competition
- your client wants to sell their business, but discovers that their software is legally owned by the programmer who wrote the software program
In this series, you will learn...
- what your client’s rights are with respect to the common types of intellectual property rights
- how to assist clients with the proper use and protection of the intellectual property rights
- how to use agreements such as licensing agreements and employment agreements to help your clients own and protect their rights and properly utilize their assets
- how to help your clients manage disputes arising from misappropriation of their intellectual property rights
The programs in the Intangible Business Assets Series are:
I. Confidential Information & Trade Secrets – Tuesday, September 29, 2015
II. Protecting & Using Patents & Designs – Tuesday, October 27, 2015
III. Protecting & Using Copyright – Tuesday, November 24, 2015
IV. Protecting & Using Trade-marks – Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Register for the 4-part series at a discounted price ($500 $400), or pick and choose the individual programs that make most sense for you! Those who register for the series may attend any or all of the rebroadcasts for FREE (dates to follow), giving you 2 opportunities to attend each course. Please call Customer Service to register for these rebroadcasts.
Law Society of BC CPD Hours: 4 hours (a minimum of 40 minutes will involve aspects of professional responsibility and ethics, client care and relations, and/or practice management). NOTE: If you attend both the original live course AND the rebroadcast (dates to follow), you may claim credit for ONLY ONE of them.
Series Chairs/Presenters
Scott E. Foster — Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, Vancouver
Vincent Kam Sun Yip — McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Vancouver
Pricing
1. The Intangible Business Assets Series (all 4 courses)
EARLY BIRD (Register by September 22, 2015 and SAVE): $360; After September 22, 2015: $400
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2. Individual courses:
September 29 course—Register by September 22
October 27 course—Register by October 20
November 24 course—Register by November 17
December 1 course—Register by November 24
EARLY BIRD (Register by "Register by" dates and SAVE): $115; After "Register by" dates: $125
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For all courses, registration includes an electronic copy of the reference materials.
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CLEBC Program Lawyer
Genevieve Chang
gchang@cle.bc.ca