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Course Information
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    On-Demand

  • signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level

  • work Practice Area

    Trademark and Copyright

Date & Time
  • event Date

    Tuesday, September 18, 2018

  • schedule Time

    1:00 PM E.T.

  • timer Program Length

    90 minutes

Credit Information

  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.


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$347.00

This course is $0 with these passes:

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This CLE course will examine 3D printing and its current and potential implications for patents, trademark, trade dress, trade secret, and copyrights. The panel will offer guidance for developing enforcement strategies to police and protect IP rights in the emerging world of additive manufacturing.

Faculty

Elizabeth D. Ferrill
Partner
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP

Ms. Ferrill focuses her practice on all aspects of design patents, including prosecution, counseling, and litigation. She also has extensive experience in utility patent litigation in the areas of software- and hardware-related technologies. She counsels clients who hold design patents as well as those accused of infringement. She has experience with consumer and industrial products, graphical user interfaces and icons. She has prosecuted families of design patents before the USPTO, directed prosecution in foreign countries, and argued appeals before the PTAB. 

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Christopher Higgins
Atty
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Marc H. Trachtenberg
Shareholder, Chair Internet, Domain Name, e-Commerce and Social Media Practice
Greenberg Traurig LLP

Mr. Trachtenberg has over 20 years of experience handling intellectual property, domain name, internet, and other technology-related issues. He represents clients of all sizes in matters involving promotion and protection of their IP, both online and in the brick-and-mortar world. In this capacity, Mr. Trachtenberg advises clients and helps them implement comprehensive strategies to protect their IP rights, identifies threats to their online brand presence, including through domain name and social media abuse, and aggressively enforces these rights on their behalf. He has recovered or shut down thousands of problematic domain names, social media accounts, email addresses, and content using platform-specific takedown processes, dispute resolution processes like the UDRP, and civil litigation remedies including the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. Mr. Trachtenberg has actively participated in ICANN for over 20 years and regularly advises some of the largest registries, registrars, e-commerce, social media, search engine, and other online platform providers.

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Description

3D printing impacts all industries—from aviation and automotive to medicine and toys. 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, turns industrialization on its head, moving from mass production to individual production. For example, Porsche prints spare parts for its vintage cars, and Siemens uses the technology for quick repair of gas turbine components.

The implications of 3D printing are enormous for all forms of IP. A 3D printed item may be very similar to a patented product and may infringe on patent rights, trade dress or trademark rights. Similarly, unique art scanned and 3D printed may infringe on an artist’s copyright. Counterfeit goods used to take significant coordination and investment to be cost effective. Now the creation of a counterfeit product can be accomplished with a 3D printer and can be done anywhere.

While companies can take advantage of 3D printing for their purposes, policing IP in a 3D printer world will be increasingly difficult. Counsel to IP owners must prepare strategies now to protect IP.

Listen as our authoritative panel of IP attorneys discusses the potential impact of 3D printing on patent, trademark, trade secrets and copyrights. The panel will offer enforcement strategies to protect IP rights.

Outline

  1. 3D printing implications for IP
    1. Patent
    2. Trademarks and trade dress
    3. Trade secret
    4. Copyrights
  2. Policing and enforcement strategies
  3. Overarching issues

Benefits

The panel will review these and other high profile issues:

  • How does 3D printing of products impact different types of intellectual property?
  • When determining which type of protection to seek, what factors related to 3D printing should IP counsel consider?
  • What steps should counsel take to police and protect IP in light of 3D printing?