Intellectual Property

With extensive experience in M&A, West Monroe Partners is on the front line of tech due diligence, and they’ve seen a few trends emerge when it comes to open source and M&A deals. Buyers and sellers alike need to understand these trends to get the most value out of any transaction.

Join us for this live webinar to learn what buyers and sellers need to know and how they operate during a transaction. We’ll cover:

•Why OSS management should fit into a broader security program
•How (and when) sellers need to prepare for a transaction
•How buyers are becoming more sophisticated in transactions

Don’t miss this informative webinar. Register today.

Join some of the award-winning Ricoh eDiscovery team LIVE from Japan on eDiscovery Day, as they discuss their transformation from a service provider, to a trusted business partner.

Please join EDRM's Project Trustees as they share exciting updates and resource needs and how to get involved or start a project!

Presented by David Horrigan, Relativity with Mary Mack, EDRM moderating
Description:
From Taylor Swift to Kevin Spacey, Prince and Tom Brady – celebrities have prompted eDiscovery cases! David Horrigan presents compelling tales of how proper or not so proper handling of ESI and the processes involved with turned the tides favorably or ended up in a hurricane of trouble.

Mary Mack and Kaylee Walstad of EDRM along with George Socha Co-Founder of the EDRM and Melinda Vaughn of Bolch Judicial Center share everything from Project updates, Vision for EDRM, What's Upcoming and Events, Ways to Plug In and Get Involved and Answer Your Questions!

Did You Say Two-Faced, or Two-Phased Review?

Sure, TAR will be more efficient than a linear review -- but why stop there? Why not look at ways to make even your TAR review even more efficient. We did. And what we discovered might surprise you.

Join Tom and John (minus our two faces--that's why we do podcasts) as we talk about this revolutionary new workflow for optimizing a TAR 2.0 review. We will show you why a two-phase TAR protocol will minimize the total cost of review, even if you have to look at some of the documents twice! Two phased? Beats looking at our two faces every day of the week. Get the Tar Talk take on a better way to do your review.

Mary Mack and Kaylee Walstad of EDRM along with George Socha Co-Founder of the EDRM and Melinda Vaughn of Bolch Judicial Center share everything from Project updates, Vision for EDRM, What's Upcoming and Events, Ways to Plug In and Get Involved and Answer Your Questions!

Companies’ use of open source software has surpassed the occasional and solidified itself as mainstream. Effectively identifying and managing the compliance and security risks associated with open source software can be a difficult task. Whether you’re acquiring another company, preparing for acquisition or simply wanting to manage the use of open source, the universal first step is to figure out the composition of the code, often via an audit. But what do you do once you have the audit report?

Join us for this live webinar to learn best practices before and after an open source audit. We’ll cover how to:

•Select and prepare the code base
•Get the most out of an audit
•Implement a third-party software policy
•And more

Don’t miss this informative webinar. Register today.

California’s entry into the cannabis market has been less than smooth. Understanding the regulations and upcoming deadlines is important to make sure you pass inspections and receive your license, especially as provisional licenses expire before you receive your annual license. Join live to have your questions answered by a panel of experts what you need to know to stay ahead.

(Spoiler alert: Yes.)

In an acquisition where a software asset is a core part of the deal valuation, it’s important to understand the overall quality of the software before doing the deal. Buggy software is problematic and needs to be cleaned up, so assessing code quality is important. But also, with poorly designed software, every fix is costly, laborious, and risky. The cost of fixes can significantly affect the long-term technical and economic viability of the application, and maintaining the software can seriously degrade ROI. That’s why understanding a software system’s design and architectural health and the likely “cost of ownership” is key.

Join us for this live webinar to learn how to paint a complete picture of the technical quality of software to avoid buyer’s remorse post-close. We’ll cover:

•The dimensions of technical due diligence
•The difference between design quality and code quality
•How software architecture can have a long-term impact
•What to look for in software design and code quality audits

Don’t miss this informative webinar. Register today.

Pairing our world-class staffing capability with an extremely powerful and unique search engine, Smart-Look Analytics™ review services is a technology-optimized human capital solution that will help you address a broad range of business needs—from due diligence and post-merger integration analysis to regulatory compliance reviews and business health audits. Discover what it can do for you.

CRISPR gene-editing continues to hit the headlines regularly as a ground-breaking technology with many millions now flowing into companies seeking to exploit the technology in both the therapeutic and agricultural fields. Unfortunately, the IP landscape continues to lack clarity with possibility of divergence between Europe and the US.

This webinar will provide an update on the CRISPR IP saga and seek to shine light on the interplay between the latest chapter in the US, starting with new interference proceedings instigated by the USPTO, and opposition and appeal proceedings affecting key European patents at the European Patent Office. With oral proceeding now scheduled for early February 2020 for the opposition to the basic European patent of the University of California et al. and availability of a non-binding preliminary opinion on the arguments from the opposition board, it is an apt time for review of the main focus of the battle - coverage of CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing in eukaryotic cells. The webinar will also discuss the considerations for those needing to think about freedom-to–operate in the absence of resolution of a standard for CRISPR gene-editing for therapy and the growing number of
claims outside the main battle lines.

This webinar is aimed at those wishing to hear about the latest developments in the CRISPR IP landscape whether in the commercial, academic, legal or patent world. With the CRISPR IP saga not evidently close to the final chapter, it will also provide an opportunity to raise questions which may arise from the on–going lack of clarity.

In the past few years, cybersecurity has become more intertwined into each step of the automotive development process. In particular, fuzz testing has proven to be a powerful approach to detect unknown vulnerabilities in automotive systems. However, with limited instrumentation, especially on systems such as in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) system and telematics units, there are several types of issues that go undetected, such as memory leaks and cases where the application crashes but restarts quickly. Since these systems are typically based on operating systems providing more functionality such as Linux and Android, it is possible to use appropriate tools to collect additional information from the system under test (SUT) to determine whether there were any exceptions detected during the fuzz testing. Furthermore, it would be possible to gather more details about the detected exceptions on the SUT which helps developers to better understand and identify the root cause of the issues and fix the problems more efficiently. To this end, we introduce the Agent Instrumentation Framework and explain how it can be used to improve fuzz testing of IVIs and telematics units. We show how additional information can be collected from the target system and used to identify whether there are exceptions on the SUT and additionally help developers identify the underlying cause of any issues detected. Finally, to showcase the effectiveness of the agent instrumentation framework we built a test bench based on this approach and performed fuzz testing on multiple SUTs. Based on our findings we highlight several examples of issues that would have not been detected unless we used agent instrumentation.

If you’re a provider of financial services, then client trust, privacy, and risk management are critical to your success. Therefore, you must protect your organization’s sensitive data from cyber attacks and data breaches. A recent survey of current software security practices in the financial services industry explores the industry’s software security posture and its ability to address security-related issues.

In this webinar with Drew Kilbourne, managing director, Synopsys and Larry Ponemon, chairman, Ponemon Institute, will review findings from the report and discuss what they mean for the industry at large. Here’s a preview of some key findings:

- 56% of organizations had experienced an attack resulting in system failure and downtime.
- 74% were concerned about security vulnerabilities introduced by third-party suppliers, but less than 43% said they require third parties to adhere to cyber security requirements.
- Only 34% of financial applications are tested for vulnerabilities, and only 25% of respondents were confident in their ability to detect vulnerabilities before going to market.

On the buy side of a tech deal and want to better understand sellers? Selling a company and want to benefit from the experience of someone who’s been there (and been there and been there)?

Building a successful software company takes a lot of blood, sweat, and tears. When a liquidity opportunity presents itself, sellers want to make sure they get the best deal they can, and quickly. During due diligence, the potential acquirer will delve into all facets of the technology. The more prepared the sell side is, the fewer issues will arise, and the smoother the transaction will be.

What do buyers need, and what can prepared sellers do to streamline the process? Security, quality, and the intellectual property rights of the software are critical. Buyers, sellers, and their legal advisors need to be comfortable that no big technical issues will crop up post-close. Plus, they want to know that they have absolute and uncontested rights to the software assets—in particular, that there are no issues with open source licenses.

Irad Deutsch, CTO of Belong.Life, has successfully made it through the process with two companies and has it down to a science for his third. Join Irad and Synopsys’ Phil Odence as they discuss the seller’s perspective, lessons learned on the seller’s side, and how to prepare for the M&A tech due diligence process.

Don’t miss this informative webinar. Register today.

Want to grow your firm? Historically, you could charge more per hour or hire an associate. But what if there was a third way? Technology facilitates access to high-quality legal expertise at a surprisingly reasonable cost. Using freelance and contract legal help, you can do more work, grow your firm, and help more clients. But, as is the case with everything for a lawyer, it's important to be mindful of the business and, of course, ethical implications of working with freelance attorneys.

In this program, Dan Lear, attorney and legal technology evangelist, and Kristin Tyler, attorney and Co-Founder of LAWCLERK (a marketplace for freelance legal help), will lay the business and ethical groundwork to help growth-driven attorneys understand how they can use freelance legal help to achieve their law firm business goals.

*This presentation is geared at solo and small firm attorneys who need a flexible way to staff up their cases with freelance lawyers from time to time, or on a regular basis.

*The presentation will walk through the ethical - and practical - concerns as well as solutions when an attorney outsources to freelance lawyers.
*This course offers an informative, frank, and even fun discussion about how to apply the freelance legal ecosystem to up-level your legal practice.


Speakers -
Kristin Clark, Co-Founder, LAWCLERK
Dan Lear, Chief Instigator, Right Brain Law

Law firms make an easy and obvious choice for hackers due to the nature and amount of confidential information they access and store on behalf of their clients. The number of attacks on law firms continues to rise steadily in the last few years and todays’ existing security solutions don’t seem to have a meaningful impact. It’s time for a radically different approach to protect the modern law firm and its business. This webinar, featuring industry experts, will discuss a new Zero-Trust approach to protect law firms.

Ransomware & business email compromise incidents collectively make up 42 percent of reported Cyber Risk incidents handled by the Insurance marketplace in 2017 according to NetDiligence’s® 2018 Cyber Claims study.Today, malware is becoming more destructive while ransom demands and associated costs are on the rise. Join this timely Webinar to learn about current risks affecting organizations of all sizes and walk away with actionable tips to prevent attacks and improve your resiliency.

SAM professionals drive vendor compliance, operational efficiencies, and ROI across the business. However, the introduction of SaaS has drastically impacted traditionally centralized IT and license management. Now that 70% of application spend is sourced outside of IT budgets according to IDC, what role do SAM practitioners play in building and maintaining modern ITAM strategies? How are SAM practitioners affected?

This 30-minute webinar will focus on:
●The evolution of ITAM
●The difference between SAM and SaaS Management
●The competitive advantage of evolving a career alongside the growth of SaaS
●The future of ITAM, inclusive of both SAM and SaaS management.

Zylo co-founder Cory Wheeler will utilize his experience of building procurement teams both in the on-prem and SaaS world to discuss the evolution of ITAM organization which led to the founding of Zylo.

He will be joined by Connor Consulting Executive VP Rich Reyes who will leverage his experience from building a sustainable ITAM practice at a Fortune 100 retailer and leading the Global Software Advisory (SA) practice at Connor Consulting to inform this discussion.

Register today to reserve your seat.

WIPR and Brandstock are hosting a complimentary webinar on the exciting possibilities blockchain offers copyright owners.
Our expert speakers will guide listeners through the latest blockchain developments, including the security of blockchain tools, the value of blockchain-stamped evidence, and the improvements it can make to licence agreements—plus much more.

Immunotherapies, such as CAR-T cells, are a hugely promising therapeutic area, both in terms of clinical benefits and potential market size.
While the treatments are complicated and expensive, they have proven remarkably effective in achieving positive outcomes in forms of cancer that are otherwise difficult to treat. As a result, their clinical use has recently been approved in both the US and Europe.
The webinar will consider how commercial and technological developments have also impacted patent filings in this area. As the field becomes increasingly crowded, the likelihood of obtaining very broad patent protection decreases. However, the number of patent filings continues to grow dramatically.

In this live, one-hour webinar we’ll explore the key ways to leverage IP data so you can empower the R&D process, track and overtake competitors, and identify new opportunities for innovation.

The world of innovation is fast moving, ever evolving, and growing more complex than it ever has been. As a result, companies are constantly wrestling with the twists and turns of the R&D lifecycle and need to manage it in more effective ways to remain ahead of the curve. The best way to do that is to put IP data on the agenda and use it to accelerate your innovation.

The evolution of Software Asset Management (SAM) is upon us as the latest trends such as cloud, IoT and digitization are making it more difficult than ever to track, manage and drive a positive ROI for IT investments. With a changing technology landscape, companies require a more modern and agile approach to SAM that incorporates the power of enterprise data, strategic program governance, and repeatable processes. Join Rich Reyes, EVP of Software Advisory at Connor Consulting and Alex Geuken, CEO, North Europe of Xensam as they discuss factors impacting IT and SAM, leading practices to modernize your license management program, and recommendations on how smart technology with thought leadership can get you there.

In any matter, your potential e-discovery burden will greatly affect your case strategy. What if you could immediately—right after receiving a complaint—not only know how much likely data you would need to search, collect, process and review, but also have access to potentially responsive documents prior to collection? New e-discovery technology now empowers legal teams to do just that with in-place Early Case Assessment (ECA) capabilities.

In our new technology webcast series, you will hear from technology experts along with in-house legal professionals like yourself on what e-discovery tools they are keeping an eye on and those that have made a lasting impact on their legal departments. This webcast will discuss how in-place ECA works, how other leading legal departments are using it, and why this technology will enable you to make big case strategic decisions earlier, saving you time and money.

Financial service companies will need to lead the charge in flexible and remote working if they are to attract the best possible talent. Something that has never been more important against a backdrop of Brexit and a growing millennial and Gen Z workforce.

Today, only one in six (15%) employees work in businesses that don’t offer flexible working. What used to be a perk is now a mandatory offering.
Alongside the importance of employee satisfaction, the UK is also facing a productivity challenge, on average the UK is 31% less productive than France.

Join Mark Elwood, Director at TeleWare, Dr Lucy Green, CEO & Business Development Expert at Larato and David Mellard, Director and Founder at Bedrock HR, as they discuss:
•The flexible working challenges financial services companies face – including security and data protection
•Can financial services companies safely implement a bring your own device (BYOD) policy?
•How to use tech to increase productivity
•Scalable IT solutions for growing companies