Media and marketing solutions company CMP, US, has announced the speaker line-up for the inaugural Intellectual Property Symposium (http://www.eetimes.semiconductor.com/?cid=IPPR), a joint effort of EE Times, Semiconductor Insights and Portelligent. The symposium, scheduled to take place April 15-16, 2008 at the San Jose Fairmont, will be co-located with ESC Silicon Valley, the largest electronic systems design event in North America.
The Intellectual Property Symposium is claimed to be the first and only event to bring together the foremost legal, business and government minds to discuss the importance of properly protecting, managing and leveraging intellectual property. It will bring together industry leaders under two distinct knowledge tracks, business and technology. These knowledge tracks enable all attendees, including engineers, legal professionals, business managers and executives, to better understand best practices for successfully utilising intellectual property in the rapidly changing marketplace for embedded design patents.
Keynote speakers include Peter Detkin, Co-founder, Managing Director, Intellectual Ventures, and former Director, Intellectual Property, Intel; and Mike Meurer, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law and noted author on the problems of the patent system. The presentation will include an overview of the intellectual property market with a special focus on technology, and a discussion on the inefficiencies and imbalances that have led to opportunities for a variety of new players. 'Today's Trends and Tomorrow's Realities in the Intellectual Property Marketplace' will be presented by Jon Dudas, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. He will provide a rare perspective on recent Supreme Court decisions regarding intellectual property, proposed patent modernisation legislation, and trends in intellectual property protection and enforcement around the world, including in China.
Expanding on the high-quality keynote conversations, attendees will learn from panel discussions and drill-down sessions discussing 'Open source software' with executives from Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and MontaVista; 'Issues in silicon intellectual property' featuring top technologists from Intel and Texas Instruments; 'Intellectual property practices in China' with hands-on experience from TSMC and UTStarcom, Inc.; and 'How to read and write patents effectively' from noted author David Pressman.
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