Globinar Six Things to Know About Intellectual Property When You Are Expanding Overseas

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Globinar Six Things to Know About Intellectual Property When You Are Expanding Overseas

• Thursday, April 21 at 8am PT / 10am CT / 11am ET / 4pm London

The Global Chamber® globinar will feature Flavia Campbell & Cindy Villanueva, Intellectual Property Attorneys at Dickinson Wright PLLC.

More than ever, companies are engaging in the cross-border exchange of goods, services, capital and knowledge. In this seminar, we will discuss how intellectual property intersects with the import/export of goods and services. We will highlight six things you should know in order to protect your intellectual property when you decide to go global and export products outside your home country.

Outline

1-     IP rights are territorial, so get protection in all countries of interest

2-     What you must know about the timing of filing patents, trademarks and copyright applications

3-     Trademark Adoption and Clearance from a global perspective

4-     Advantages of registration

5-     Interfacing with local licensees and distributors

6-     Policing the marketplace and enforcing your rights

Keynote Speakers:

• Flavia Campbell - Intellectual Property Attorney at Dickinson Wright PLLC

• Cindy Villanueva - Intellectual Property Attorneys at Dickinson Wright PLLC

Biographies

Flavia Campbell

Shareholder at Dickinson Wright

Flavia focuses her practice in the areas of trademarks and copyrights. In addition to assisting clients with the registration of copyrights and with drafting and negotiating copyright agreements, she assists clients with the selection, clearance, prosecution and enforcement of trademarks in the United States and abroad. She negotiates and drafts license agreements, helps clients with trademark policing efforts, and counsels clients on IP validity, infringement and enforcement. Flavia also assists clients with domain name disputes and drafts and reviews website privacy policy statements and terms of use.

Cindy Villaneuva - Attorney at Dickinson Wright 

Cindy is an attorney in the firm’s Intellectual Property Department practicing in the areas of domestic and international trademark and copyright prosecution, licensing and enforcement. Cindy assists clients with brand development and with identifying various protectable aspects of the clients’ products, services and concepts. She also helps clients with clearing all aspects of advertising, promotional and marketing materials and products, including trademark, copyright and right of publicity clearances.  

In addition to her prosecution practice, Cindy drafts and negotiates a variety of intellectual property agreements such as assignments, licenses, rights of publicity agreements, non-disclosure agreements, and work for hire agreements.  As part of her practice, she also represents clients in a wide variety of disputes involving trademarks, copyrights, rights of publicity, and domain names, including the resolution of disputes over contested trademarks before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and enforcing clients’ intellectual property rights in court.

Moderator

Larry Harte - Executive Director at Global Chamber® Cincinnati + Denver

Larry Harte graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in Civil Engineering.  He worked for companies ranging from engineering to sales and marketing and banking before entering the world of politics. After being elected to the Glendale, CO city council in 2002, Larry was mayor for eight years until he was term limited and returned to the private sector.  He continued to work in the community as the CEO of the chamber of commerce and to lead economic development efforts for the city.  Noteworthy projects included new land use and redevelopment, decommissioning a wastewater treatment plant, integrating fire departments, creating a city center, and building a rugby stadium.  These experiences helped place him into a variety of consulting roles - most recently as the COO of a construction company.  He is well known for his collaborative leadership style and his results oriented approach to solving problems. There are not many people with Larry’s experience in government, non-profit management, and for-profit business.  It’s this collective experience combined with his passion for building relationships and helping companies thrive that fuels his interest in the Global Chamber of Commerce.

Larry served on the Boards of the Denver Metro Mayors Caucus, YMCA, Livewell Colorado, the Kaiser Permanente Colfax Marathon, the Four Mile Historic Park, and the Better Business Bureau, as well as the Symmes Township Finance Committee. Architecture, music, health, soccer, and bike riding are among his interests.  Larry and his wife Heather met in seventh grade. They have two children, both in high school.

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