Papers/Seminar Presentations

TexasBarCLE’s Advanced IP seminar is early next month, and I’ve sent in my two papers and just recorded my presentation.

Well, we’re not in NYC to present this year, which means probably no Broadway show afterwards.  (Sigh).

I’m speaking (virtually) at 2:15 this afternoon at the State Bar’s AIP course – and will be online to chat with attendees.

When I signed up to present last fall on the newly fascinating subject of copyright litigation as it pertains to copyrights of photographs, we were expecting two days at the Four Seasons in Dallas. Fate intervened, and we switched to pre-recorded sessions from our respective homes and offices.

So what attendees will see today is a split screen with the speaker and the slides. But there’s a bonus to the remote presentations – the Bar has invited speakers to be available to chat with attendees during their presentations, so when virtual me starts talking this afternoon – accompanied by my portfolio when I was studying photography in college – I’ll be popping up in a chat box on their screens in case they want to comment or ask questions.

I’ve watched some of the sessions and the substantive quality of the presentations – which we expect from TexasBarCLE – is matched by the technical quality. So if you’re interested, sign up and watch live or watch later at your leisure. The Denver PTO Office director is up next, followed by EDTX Judge Love and PTAB Judge Quinn on claim construction in parallel proceedings, followed by me at 2:15.

I’ve never watched myself present before. It’s going to be weird.

Just finished remotely recording my paper for the Advanced IP course. I got to use my portfolio from my time as a photo student in the slides. “Can in a Pipe” anyone?

Oh, look – it’s blue this year. And I have a different picture on the back cover.

Somewhere in the freak show that was December I also had an article in the IP Section’s newsletter based on my work moderating two judge panels during the fall – it’s available here, but I’ve also attached a copy.

My annual article in the Texas Bar Journal reviewing the year’s developments in patent law is out. You can access it here at p. 45-6.

Really enjoyed my visit to NYC last week to present on social media & jury selection with Suann Ingle.