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WITH HIGH-STAKES PATENT CASES ON THE RISE
CORPORATE LAWYERS TAKE TIPS FROM LITIGATION EXPERTS
Contact: Heather Kelly 561/750-9800 x17
E-mail: hkelly@TransMediagroup.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEW YORK, NY, September 11, 2000 --As patent case verdicts
mushroom on the legal landscape, sending shock waves through
the stock market and causing jitters in the boardroom, corporate
lawyers and executives from across the country are gathering
Sept. 21-22, to sharpen their skills for Bickel & Brewer's
"Litigating The Patent Case."
Greeting them at The Roosevelt Hotel will be The Honorable
Denny Chin, U.S. District Judge of the Southern District of
New York, who will deliver the keynote address at the Second
Annual Forum for Corporate Counsel sponsored by the Bickel
& Brewer law firm.
"With the number of bet-your-business patent cases on the
rise and billions in the stock market hinging on each outcome,
never has the role of corporate counsel been more crucial
in shepherding the patent case from complaint through discovery
to successful conclusion," said William G. Todd, Partner in
the Dallas-based law firm known for litigating high-profile,
"bet-the-company" cases.
Founded in 1984, Bickel & Brewer has achieved a national
reputation as one of the country's most aggressive litigation
firms, practicing exclusively in the field of complex commercial
litigation and dispute resolution.
Designed for the benefit of corporate counsel and executives,
the forum comprises panel discussions featuring litigation
experts at Bickel & Brewer as well as senior in-house counsel
and intellectual property managers at some of America's leading
corporations, including Kraft Foods, Inc.; Corning Incorporated;
Cargill, Incorporated, Pfizer Inc; Nortel Networks, Inc.;
Texas Instruments Incorporated; SmithKline Beecham; The TransMedia
Group; The University of Illinois at Chicago; The University
of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Compaq Computer Corporation.
"Litigation is an end-oriented process which requires the
coordination of talents not typically available to or understood
by traditional patent counsel. This conference is designed
to introduce corporate counsel and executives to that reality
and to promote an exchange of ideas on the talents needed
to win the large scale intellectual property dispute," said
William A. Brewer III.
Among topics to be covered are "Valuation of the Patent Estate,"
"The 3 L's of a Successful IP Portfolio - Litigation, Licensing
and Leverage," "Leveraging the Power of Trial Counsel, " "Leveraging
Your Fee Arrangement - Litigation Costs and Billing, " " Managing
the Pretrial Process, " "Telling the Story - Developing a
Trial Theme, " "Winning the Courtroom Beauty Contest - End
Justifying the Means, " and "Public Relations and Spin Control."
Registration Contact: Fulcrum Information Services, Inc.
150 Fifth Avenue, Suite 200
New York, NY 10011
Phone: 800.869.4302 (inside USA); 212.647.0808 (outside USA)
Fax: 212.367.9444 or 212.647.9511
Website: www.fulcruminfo.com
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