New York partner Peter Brown, national leader of Baker Hostetler's Technology Law Practice, has been invited to Co-Chair the Practising Law Institute's "Information Technology Law Institute 2009," to be held March 5-6, 2009, in New York City and April 2-3, 2009, in San Francisco. The San Francisco event will also be delivered live via webcast.
New York partner Heather McDonald will be a presenter at the New York event and Cleveland partner Deborah Wilcox, Ohio coordinator for the firm’s Intellectual Property, Technology and Media Practice, will present at the San Francisco event.
The event, subtitled, "Web 2.0 and the Future of Mobile Computing: Privacy, Blogs, Data Breaches, Advertising, and Portable Information Systems," is designed for technology and intellectual property lawyers, in-house counsel and outside counsel, and all lawyers who need to be on the cutting edge of legal changes in IT law.
In addition to co-chairing the event, Brown will also present a session on "Information Technology Litigation," which will address the following topics:
- The continuing battle over the use of key words and meta-tags
- Housing discrimination claims reach the Internet
- The defense of defamation claims under the Communications Decency Act
- Does trademark protection extend to distinctive sounds on the Internet?
- Defending copyright infringement claims and recovering attorney fees for a successful defense
- Joint and several liability under the Copyright Act
McDonald and Wilcox will present the session, at the respective locations, "Protection of Trademarks in a Web 2.0 World," which will address the following topics:
- Monitoring the Internet: Best practices after Tiffany v. eBay
- User-generated content — blogs, fan sites, and more — affecting trademarks
- DMCA take-down letters — appropriate for trademark issues?
- Real trademarks in virtual worlds — protection strategies for new media
- What trademark owners need to know about domain names, including developments at ICANN
For more information, or to register for the event, click here to be taken to the PLI website.