MIP Trade Secrets Forum 2017 | Managing Intellectual Property | 26 September 2017 | Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel, 625 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, 94301

The newly enacted Defend Trade Secrets Act has been described as the most sinigficant expansion of federal intellectual property law since the Lanham Act was enacted in 1946. Moreover, trade secret litigation options will considerably expand in an aim to reduce trade secret misappropriation.

Business must start incorporating this new legislation now, the second annual MIP Trade Secrets Forum 2017 will be analysing the steps you need to be taking to ensure you fully prepared and understand your responsibilities as in-house counsel.

The programme will encourage participation and debates on all the pertinent topics relating to the newly enacted Defend Trade Secrets Act. The MIP Trade Secrets Forum 2017 brings together leaders in corporations, industry associations and leading legal experts to discuss and impart valuable knowledge

Anthony Sammi
Partner
Skadden

Douglas Nemec
Partner
Skadden

Diane Gabl Kratz
Senior IP Property Counsel
Seagate Technolgy

Nathan Walker
Head of Litigation
Sony Interactive Entertainment

Fabio Marino
Partner
Mcdemott Will & Enemy

Natalie Bennett
Partner
McDermott Will & Emery

Fortune F.Y Shieh
Associate General Counsel
TSMC

Jennifer Blank
Attorney-Advisor
US Patent and Trademark Office

Brooks Beard
Vice President and Deputy General Counsel
VMware

Kathy Tsai
Managing Legal Counsel
GoPro

Kevin O' Brien
Partner
Baker McKenzie

David Lashway
Partner
Baker McKenzie

Theodore Mccullough
Senior Director & Legal
Marketo

Elizabeth McBride
Director
Applied Materials

Deanna Kwong
Senior director & Legal
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Janis Kestenbaum
Partner
Perkins Coie LLP

2017 SPONSORS
• Baker McKenzie
• Fish & RIchardson
• Hogan Lovells
• McDermott Will & Emery
• PerkinsCoie
• Skadden
• StepToe