Intellectual Property

Join Gowling WLG and Managing IP for a complimentary webinar on February 12 at 4pm GMT/11am EST as we review the challenges posed by the future development of connected cars and autonomous vehicles. Guest speakers Matt Hervey and James Nurton will discuss strategies for innovative and disruptive technology trends. Topics to be discussed include:
• Challenges to the automotive industry: scale of investment needed, new entrants, competition for AI skills
• Patentability of AI in automotive applications
• Alternatives to patenting including the importance of trade secrets, copyright, designs and branding
• Is data properly recognised in IP?
• SEPs and connected vehicles and the potential for standards for AVs
• Growth of litigation in the automotive sector and licensing models
• IP for mobility as a service

Gain insights into important legal developments from two of the leading open source legal experts, Mark Radcliffe, Partner at DLA Piper and General Counsel for the Open Source Initiative and Tony Decicco, Shareholder, at GTC Law Group & Affiliates.

This annual review will highlight the most significant legal developments related to open source software in 2018, including:

•The rising importance of data and licensing considerations
•Business model problems and the proposed solutions (RedisLabs and MongoDB)
•Dangerous Legal Theories: core developers as fiduciaries
•OSS vs. SSO: clash of models
•Return of Linux patent troll: McHardy
•The need to extend the scope of an audit to cover web services/APIs
•The changing tide in open source license adoption
•Big open source transactions
•And more

Live attendees will earn CLE credit for this webinar. Don’t miss out – register today.

CLE:
DLA Piper LLP (US) has been certified by the State Bar of California, the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, and the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board as an accredited CLE provider. The following CLE credit is being sought:
•California: 1.0 Credit (1.0 General, 0.0 Ethics)
•New Jersey: 1.2 Credits (1.2 General, 0.0 Professional Responsibility)
•New York: 1.0 Transitional & Non-Transitional Credit (1.0 Professional Practice, 0.0 Ethics and Professionalism)
CLE credit will be applied for in other states where DLA Piper has an office with the exception of Minnesota, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Puerto Rico.

It’s no secret that “software is eating the world,” as Marc Andreessen once described—and it’s taking entire development communities to support it. Recently, open source has become a primary contributor to software found in the enterprise. According to a 2018 report from the Synopsys Center for Open Source Research & Innovation, the average percentage of open source in codebases examined in Black Duck audits has increased to 57% from only 36% from the previous year. But open source isn’t risk-free—and the implications can have a direct impact on the business.

Join Scott Crawford, research director for information security with 451 Research, and Phil Odence, general manager of Black Duck On-Demand with Synopsys, to take a closer look at open source risks and the ways that businesses can better evaluate and mitigate them. They’ll cover the following points and more:

• One of the highest-profile breaches of 2017 was the result of a widely exposed vulnerability in a popular open source application component, exposing millions of personal financial records—and costing business leaders their jobs.
• In just the last few weeks, the implicit trust on which the open source ecosystem is based has been exploited to steal tangible assets.
• What’s the real cost of a data breach? In at least one highly visible case, a breach reduced the dollar value of an acquisition by hundreds of millions. As business dependence on open source grows, so too does business exposure.
• And of course, compliance with open source licenses remains a concern.

Getting a handle on taming these threats to the business requires an approach that fits with the central role open source plays in the fast-moving world of continuous innovation.

You won’t want to miss this webinar, if you have received Black Duck audit reports and anticipate more in the future.

Black Duck by Synopsys constantly strives to improve our offerings and reporting capabilities. We’ve expanded the range of our audit offerings, and by the first of the year, we’ll be rolling out a new set of reports and a new process for sharing them. Join us for a preview of the new reports and process. Black Duck On-Demand’s Phil Odence and Emmanuel Tournier will demonstrate how we have combined customers’ ideas with the best elements of our reporting to develop new reporting technology and processes designed to make reviewing audit results easier, more insightful, and more productive.

Coaching is now a key component of many development packages, but do we really understand what it is and how to use it to our advantage?
In this practical session we’ll explore the following questions:
•What is coaching and what isn’t coaching?
•What type of challenges and goals can coaching help with?
•What happens in the coaching process?
•Are you ‘coachable’?
•How do you find a coach and assess whether they are the right fit for you?

Julie Smith is Director and Coach at Pressurevalve Ltd. As well as being a qualified executive coach, she’s also an experienced leader with 15+ years in management positions. Ten of these were in senior posts, including heading national operations and an interim CEO post. This means she understands the complexities, challenges and rewards of leadership. Key success factors in her coaching include helping people develop: skills in viewing situations from different perspectives, self-awareness, decision-making, confidence, self-belief, self-coaching and resilience. As well as coaching, Julie: designs and facilitates sessions for leadership programmes in London and New York, runs network groups for leaders and is Chair of the Global Taskforce of the American Express Leadership Academy, Alumni Network. If you’d like more information on Julie’s coaching services, plus self-coaching resources, visit: https://www.pressurevalvecoaching.com/free-stuff

The headline of Wall Street Journal article from March read “Due Diligence on Cybersecurity Becomes Bigger Factor in M&A.” In April, Gartner reported, “Cybersecurity is Critical to the M&A Due Diligence Process.” Companies that invest in open source license compliance as part of diligence are starting to dive more deeply into security issues.
 
A first step in assigning the security of software assets is looking at known vulnerabilities in open source components. But, now as part of the Synopsys Software Integrity Group, Black Duck can bring much broader capabilities to bear to analyze the overall security of code assets, including proprietary code.
 
This webinar will discuss application security issues at a high level and the security services that you can include with a due diligence audit.

Employee expectations to technology are changing rapidly. In their personal lives they often use the very latest technology, but often that can be difficult for firms to replicate. So, BYOD is becoming increasingly attractive for many employees who would like to use the technology they know and love for business as well as pleasure.
Join our panel of experts who will explore how BYOD strategies are evolving and how Re:Call from TeleWare could be the secret weapon you didn’t know you needed.

Launching Re:Call from TeleWare at Microsoft's premier UK event. The TeleWare stand was a great success. Watch the video today

Just 29% of UK employees work for firms that operate flexible working policies for all employees according to recent research commissioned by TeleWare.

This highlights the stark differences in how firms are creating workforces who can work flexibly in an increasingly mobile environment. One thing is certain, tools that enable employees to work wherever and whenever they want to are here to stay, but how firms deploy them could be the difference between success or failure.

Join us in the latest webinar in our mobility and productivity programme where we will share exclusive insight into mobile and flexible working practices.

Join our panel of experts to find out:
•The impact on businesses who fail to deliver changing flexible working expectations
•The technological advancements that are helping firms operate flexibly
•The benefits and the pitfalls of a more mobility enabled workforce
•The barriers to successful adoption and how you can overcome them.

Panellists:
Steve Haworth, CEO, TeleWare
Andrew Fawcett, Product Manager, TeleWare

Check out our highlights video from Future Decoded 2018 to see what we got up to (you might have even made the final cut!).

Join this live panel discussion with experts at VMworld Europe for up-to-date trends on what's disrupting the market and how to take your business to the next level.

Tune into this interactive Q&A session with world renowned IT and business leaders while they discuss the following:

- How to declutter and take on today's most pressing IT priorities
- The latest technologies, methodologies and best practices for IT leaders
- How to ensure your organization is primed for 21st century trends from both a business and tech perspective

This live panel will be streamed directly from VMworld Europe! Join us for live Q&A from the comfort of your desk.

Panellists
Dave Welch, CTO, House of Brick Technologies
Oliver Lindner, Head of Business Line DCIM, FNT Software
Jay Hibbin, Sales Director, Financial Services, CenturyLink EMEA
Christine McMonigal, Director of Hyperconverged Marketing, Intel Corporation

With just a few days to VMware’s premier digital infrastructure event, we've gathered some of the elite speakers who will be taking the stage to debate the hottest solutions, trends and the biggest opportunities and challenges for businesses to successfully embrace digital change.

- Innovation Through Digital Transformation
- The Future of Data Centres and Cloud in a Virtualized World
- Securing Your Cloud Networks
- Next-Gen Trends and Technologies

Join this session to get a glimpse of the innovations that will accelerate your journey to a software-defined business—from mobile devices to the data center and the cloud!

This session (and VMworld Europe) is specifically aimed at CTOs, CIOs, heads of IT infrastructure, security specialists and technical experts.

What will they be talking about at the Fira Gran Via Barcelona, on the 5 – 8 November 2018, what do they want to hear about, what are they looking forward to?

Moderator: Omar Alassil, Cloud Solution Owner, Nokia

Panellists;
Dave Welch, CTO, House of Brick Technologies
Melinda Safdarzadeh, Senior Business Manager, Hybrid Cloud, Data Center Group at Intel

It’s 2018 and threat actors continue to leverage the same tactics – phishing, ransomware, botnets, etc. – against their targets. They’ve using the same techniques for years, yet it’s still working. Do we sound like a broken record yet?

With October being National Cyber Security Awareness Month, it’s an ideal time to re-evaluate the cyber threat landscape and your cybersecurity hygiene. Topics like fake news, privacy, and the Internet of Things are “hot” topics in mainstream culture, and you need to know their impacts on your organization.

Join LookingGlass’ Senior Vice President of Product, Eric Olson, and Vice President of Customer Support, James Carnall, in a lively discussion about the hottest cybersecurity topics and what your organization can do to protect itself against them. Wednesday, October 24 @ 2PM ET.

This webinar will also cover:
· Business Email Compromise (BEC)
· Single Sign-On and Password Managers
· Information Warfare
· Third Party Risk

Once you get a handle on what open source your organization has in house and you're through remediating any issues that came up during your code scan, then what? How do you ensure you avoid surprises the next time around and fully leverage your investment?

Join this webinar with top open source legal experts Mark Radcliffe (partner at DLA Piper and General Counsel for the Open Source Initiative) and Tony Decicco (shareholder, GTC Law Group & Affiliates) as they discuss effective policies for managing and releasing open source in your company:

- What are key aspects of an effective open source / third-party software policy for both inbound use and outbound contributions?
- What are key success factors for effectively releasing code as open source?
- How does this play out in transaction due diligence and integration following an acquisition?

The UK Supreme Court's 2017 decision in Actavis v Eli Lilly introduced a doctrine of equivalents into UK law. In this webinar, we'll discuss the implications of that decision and look at how it is being applied in other cases in the UK courts.

Technology commercialisation at its core requires for an invention to be applied to a use case in a specific market. Doing this successfully will ensure that you are getting ROI out of your research and inventions. Mireya McKee has over 16 years experience in research, academia and commercialisation and will be talking about how she utilises technology trends to maximise commercialisation value.

Some of the topics discussed in this webinar will be:

* How to track technology trends
* What can patents tell us about technology trends
* Technology adoption cycle
* How technology readiness levels can affect commercialisation opportunities

Modern applications are constructed using open source components. Most organizations understand they’re using open source. What they likely underestimate is its prevalence in their homegrown applications and the potential security and license compliance risks they assume if they’re not continuously monitoring those libraries. When companies merge or are acquired, that unknown risk is transferred, potentially to organizations with greater regulatory exposure. Join Daniel Kennedy, Research Director, Information Security, and Phil Odence, GM, Black Duck On-Demand, for a discussion of these risks and how to address them.

It’s 2018 – why are we still manually blocking firewall ports, manually ingesting threat feeds, and manually implementing blocks from well-known, trusted sources? Automation and integration allows security professionals to keep up with the pace of today’s threat landscape. The two go hand in hand but are they right for every organization?

This webcast explores the pros and cons of automation and integration, focusing on what an organization needs to consider before implementing such an approach. Most important, the webcast and associated white paper will help answer these key questions:

What would it take to manually do what automation does?
How can I protect my assets?
How do I get actionable threat intelligence?

Personalised healthcare (sometimes referred to as precision medicine) is an evolving field in medicine where a therapeutic treatment is tailored to an individual with a particular disease. The patenting of personalised healthcare inventions has proved problematic in a number of jurisdictions, most notably the USA. However, various aspects of these inventions are patentable in Europe.

This webinar will set the scene as to what personalised healthcare is and will run through the history of second medical use patenting in Europe. Discussing key cases such as G5/83, T1020/03 and G2/08.

It will then focus on how second medical use patenting can be applied to personalised healthcare inventions and will give examples of claim language that is finding favour at the EPO.

Traditional cybersecurity leads with a “block & tackle” strategy. But as threats become more complex, targeted, and sophisticated, security operations centers (SOC) require a better understanding of how threats beyond the perimeter interact with their network. Join IDC special guest, Research Director Chris Kissel and LookingGlass Product Manager Brandon Dobrec in a discussion on modern-day SOC needs for a threat platform that marries automated intelligence tradecraft with the human element.

Patent licensing negotiations have an extremely high fail rate- this can be down to unfavourable licensing terms or weak patent portfolios. One of the ways universities and industry are trying to bridge the gap between innovation and commercialisation is by working together much earlier.

From a university standpoint, their research can be tailored to specific industry needs, as well as having research costs covered. Through the eyes of industry, they can get their hands on the latest research developments, and attract the brightest and talented individuals to their businesses.

Laura Schoppe, President and Founder of Fuentek, who has years experience helping TTO's improve their chances of commercalisation will be joining us to discuss:

- How to start sourcing strategic sponsorship deals
- Where to begin with searching and conversations for partnerships
- The benefits of this chosen pathway. i.e Minimising risk

Please note: All viewers will have their data shared with our guest speaker.

A ‘Patent cliff’ describes a severe drop in revenue once the patent for a company’s leading product expires. The sharp revenue decline is a result of competitors being able to start developing and selling the product, often at a much lower price.

As US biopharmaceutical company Celgene struggles to get regulatory approval from the FDA, the company is facing major market, shares and revenue losses, and is facing a phenomenal patent cliff. Furthermore, research from EvaluatePharma reports that an estimated $250 billion in projected sales is at risk between 2018-2024 as many drugs lose exclusivity.

When it comes to acquisitions, the effects of a dwindling patent term can severely impact the value of your company. So how do you create 5-year plan to prepare for an inevitable patent cliff? We are very excited to welcome back Jurgen Vollrath, President of Exponential Technology Counsel, and customer of PatSnap. ET Counsel, advise clients on IP strategy & business alignment to ensure the most successful M&A and exit outcomes.

In this webinar, Jurgen will be discussing:

- Risk vs. reality when it comes to patent cliffs
- How to create a 5-year M&A plan for your organisation
- How to find potential acquisition targets
- Predicting the potential impact a patent cliff could have on your business.

The use of open source has surpassed the occasional and solidified itself as the standard. In fact, the Black Duck by Synopsys 2018 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis found that 96% of the applications we scanned last year contained open source components.

It’s increasingly difficult to properly manage open source in an organization to ensure compliance with the over 2,000 different licenses in use today and defend against new vulnerabilities, which surface frequently.

Join this webinar with top open source legal experts Mark Radcliffe (partner at DLA Piper and general counsel for the Open Source Initiative) and Tony Decicco (shareholder, GTC Law Group & Affiliates) as they discuss best practices for managing open source in an organization and throughout an M&A transaction:

- How do you conduct an open source / third-party software audit?
- How do you get the most out of your Black Duck code scan?
i.e. Handling license compliance issues and managing security vulnerabilities
- What are key aspects of an effective open source / third-party software policy for both inbound use and outbound contributions?
- What are key success factors for effectively releasing code as open source?

UK Intellectual Property Office is going to be joining this webinar to explore some of the ways UK and Chinese companies can work together on innovation projects, where patents are involved.


Some of the topics covered will be:

- Different types of collaboration i.e. university, industry
- Tips for setting up successful partnerships
- Chinese Policy on Licensing and Ownership of incremental innovation

In the highly dynamic online landscape of misinformation, fake news, gossip, and the trading of absconded data, organizations must expand their cybersecurity arsenals in protecting their brands, personnel, facilities, and sensitive information. They must take into account what exists outside the perimeter in the greater cyber ecosystem: the surface, dark, and deep web. Locating and assessing these threats, however, is a challenge for even experienced threat hunters. The tools and techniques are non-standard. You should ask yourself, “Is my security team ready to tackle what lies beyond the perimeter?” If not, let us shed light on this topic. Register for LookingGlass' "Threats Beyond the Perimeter" webinar on Tuesday, July 17 @ 2 pm ET to hear Michael Suby, VP of Research at Frost & Sullivan and James Carnall, VP of Customer Support Group at LookingGlass discuss how these scenarios may affect your brand, employees, and facilities.