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Expert Panel
Session
Managing
IP in Complex Deal Structures
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MODERATOR: |
PANELISTS: |
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Cheryl Perkins
CoDev Conference Chair
& President and
Founder
of
Innovationedge™ |
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Mark A. Fischer
Partner
Duane Morris LLP |
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John M.
Neclerio
Partner
Duane Morris LLP |
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Greg Lefkowitz
Intellectual Property Attorney
Duane Morris LLP |
This panel
of outside counsel with a broad range of complementary
backgrounds related to the establishment, protection and
commercialization of intellectual property rights, will
discuss and field questions about developing and
maintaining successful co-development relationships
based upon their real world experiences.
Topics for discussion
will include:
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Owning and sharing
intellectual property in co-development
relationships in ways that incentivize the parties
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Identifying and
avoiding common pitfalls
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Considerations for
different types of intellectual property and
different technology areas, including biotech,
media, and high tech
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Managing risk in co-development relationships.
About the Panelists:
Mark A. Fischer
Mark A.
Fischer is a Partner at Duane Morris LLP, based in
Boston and New York City. His law practice is focused on
solving problems and making deals for innovative
companies, academic institutions, and individuals. Mr.
Fischer's clients are in the creative industries, such
as new media, social networking, technology, the
Internet, software, biotechnology, entertainment media
such as music and television, and print and electronic
publishing. He has particular expertise in copyright,
licensing, open source, privacy law, and trademarks. He
has considerable experience in copyright litigation as
well as mediation and arbitration of contract and
intellectual property issues. Mr. Fischer teaches
Advanced Copyright at Suffolk University Law School. He
formerly taught Legal Aspects of the Music Business at Berklee College of Music.
John M. Neclerio
John M.
Neclerio is a partner at Duane Morris LLP, based in
Philadelphia. He practices in the areas of intellectual
property licensing and commercial contracting, copyright
and trade secret law, e-commerce and technology law, and
privacy and data security law. He frequently represents
software, IT services, consulting, e-commerce, gaming
and other technology companies and has served as counsel
for both an IT services subsidiary and the sourcing
organization of a large telecommunications company. He
advises companies on contractual matters, including
patent and software license agreements, purchase and
service agreements, reseller agreements, strategic
alliance agreements and outsourcing agreements, and a
broad range of technology-based issues, including open
source software issues, online services issues and IT
issues in mergers & acquisitions. John is a graduate of
Emory University School of Law and the Roberto C.
Goizueta Business School of Emory University, and a
graduate of Duke University.
Gregory M. Lefkowitz
Gregory
M. Lefkowitz is an intellectual property attorney at
Duane Morris, LLP, based in Boca Raton and Miami. He
advises corporations, universities, research
institutions and entrepreneurs on all aspects of
patents, trademarks and copyrights, including
procurement, enforcement, and licensing. Mr. Lefkowitz
has helped his clients acquires more than a hundred U.S.
patents in a wide variety of technology fields,
including chemistry, biotechnology, materials science,
and mechanical engineering. Prior to entering the
practice of law, Mr. Lefkowitz was a research scientist
for Kimberly-Clark, where he conducted and managed
research related to material science, chemistry, and
related production processes. This work resulted in Greg
being a co-inventor of five U.S. patents. He is a
graduate of the University of Florida, Levin College of
Law with high honors, and holds a B.S. in Chemical
Engineering from the University of Florida.
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