Fitch Even Partner Lectures At DePaul Law School Regarding Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Fitch Even Partner Lectures At University Of Michigan Law School Regarding Markman Hearings

Fitch Even Partner Presents IP Program At McGill University

Fitch Even Helps Organize USPTO Conference In Chicago

Fitch Even Partners Present At 2006 LES International Conference In Seoul

Fitch Even Partner Serves As Panelist At MCCA Roundtable on Global IP Management

Fitch Even Partner Presents Seminar On Trade Secret Law

November 16, 2006

On November 16, 2006, partner Karl Fink lectured to students taking an advanced copyright seminar at the DePaul Law School in Chicago, Illinois. The seminar addressed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and Mr. Fink spoke regarding his involvement in the significant case entitled Chamberlain v. Skylink.

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October 5, 2006

On October 5, 2006, at the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, partner Karl Fink lectured to law students in an advanced patent law seminar regarding Markman hearings. Mr. Fink also met with the student body's intellectual property law society to discuss careers in intellectual property law.

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August 15, 2006

Joseph Nabor presented two advanced intellectual property programs at the McGill University in Montreal. The programs were a component of summer courses organized by the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada and McGill University addressing various aspects of intellectual property. On August 15, Mr. Nabor spoke regarding U.S. and Canadian trademark prosecution practice, and discussed the Madrid Protocol from a U.S. perspective. Mr. Nabor, a partner at Fitch, Even, focuses in the areas of trademark, copyright and unfair competition law.

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May 4, 2006

Fitch Even partner Phil Petti spoke at the "Protecting Your Intellectual Property in China and the Global Marketplace" conference in Chicago. The topic of his speech was the U.S. International Trade Commission's enforcement of intellectual property rights.

Fitch Even and several clients were also invited to meet with the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property & Deputy Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to discuss global IP issues and the newly proposed rule changes affecting U.S. patent prosecution practice.

The conference was organized with the assistance of Fitch Even, and was sponsored by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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April 12, 2006

Partners John Lyhus and Stephen Favakeh will speak regarding design patent and trademark protection for the automotive industry at the Licensing Executives Society International Conference in Seoul, South Korea, on April 12, 2006. Speakers from Europe and Japan will also be making presentations on related subject matter.

More information about the 2006 LES International Conference can be found at www.lesi2006.or.kr.

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March 17, 2006

On March 16, 2006, during the 5th Annual CLE Expo in Chicago, partner Stephen Favakeh discussed strategies for developing global patent portfolios, including various patent filing strategies. The Global IP Management panel discussion was organized by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association.

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January 27, 2006

On January 6th and 27th, Joseph Nabor presented a program titled "The Basics of Trade Secret Law" as part of an intellectual property seminar sponsored by the Illinois State Bar Intellectual Property Section. Mr. Nabor's presentation focused on protecting trade secrets and managing confidential disclosures, as well as issues that arise in trade secret disputes.

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