This webinar will explore ways that companies in the financial services industry can strategically protect their most valuable intellectual property assets, avoid inadvertent liability to third parties, and capitalize upon potential hidden asset values in their store of information and market data. You will hear about the expanding patent landscape for the financial services industry; find out what you need to know about industry patent trolls and patents on trading; learn the latest copyright and contract issues related to financial services data and databases; receive an update on financial privacy; and get the facts on best practices in constructing relevant agreements concerning ownership of your company's intellectual property in connection with the activities of your employees, whether regular or temporary, consultants, or subcontractors.

SPEAKERS

Mark W. Batten
Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP
Mark W. Batten assists clients with all aspects of employment policies and practices, including hiring, termination, leaves, accommodation of disabilities, and other matters. He also handles diverse civil litigation, including litigation of noncompetition agreements, ERISA matters, discrimination and wrongful termination litigation in federal and state courts; proceedings before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination; wage and hour matters; and labor arbitrations. He has also written and lectured on employment-related matters, including, for instance, MCLE's Representing Clients Before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.

Mark is also an experienced appellate attorney both in employment cases and other civil litigation, handling appeals at all levels in the state courts and in the United States Courts of Appeals.

In his spare time, Mark is an experienced computer programmer, conversant in C, C++, and other languages. He has ported software between computer operating systems and has published several commercial computer games.

Before joining Proskauer, Mark was a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, where he was lead counsel in major litigation for over two dozen federal agencies, ranging from the U.S. Air Force, the CIA, and the U.S. Secret Service to the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Steven M. Bauer
Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP
Steven M. Bauer is a partner in, and co-chair of, our Patent Law Group, and is head of the Firm's Boston office.

Mr. Bauer has over twenty years of experience concentrating exclusively in matters relating to complex patent and other intellectual property enforcement, litigation, and dispute resolution. He was selected as one of the leading lawyers in his field in the 2006 edition of Chambers USA and is named in the 2007 edition of Best Lawyers in America.

Steven has been lead trial counsel in matters involving surgical and other medical devices; genetic and biomolecular science; financial software and business method processes; high-energy plasma systems; telecommunications, VoIP and SONET switching, voice recognition, and cable technology; nanotechnology; polymer chemistry; high temperature superconductors; and encryption, digital compression and error correction techniques.

Steven has electrical engineering and computer science degrees from MIT, and was a law clerk to Judge Philip Nichols, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Steven is presently vice-chair of the Litigation Committee of the Intellectual Property Owners Association, and has been an adjunct professor at Boston University School of Law, where he has taught intellectual property trial advocacy, patent law, and computer law courses. Steven has published a number of papers, speaks regularly to leading patent law and industry groups, and is frequently quoted in the national press on intellectual property issues.

Jon A. Baumgarten
Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP
Jon A. Baumgarten is widely recognized as one of the country's leading domestic and international intellectual property lawyers, with particular emphasis in copyright and related law.

Formerly general counsel of the U.S. Copyright Office and a principal architect of the U.S. Copyright Act and Copyright Office Regulations, he has been named in Chambers USA, Best Lawyers in America, International Who's Who of Internet and E-Commerce Lawyers and of Business Lawyers, and a periodical article, "Best Lawyers in Washington."

Jon has been counsel in many leading copyright decisions having lasting impact. When it comes to copyright and technology matters, Jon regularly applies his seasoned experience and leadership in counseling teams of business persons and technologists in the development and formulation of cross-industry legal and technical standards and DRM solutions for content, information and data protection.

Jon is the author of numerous articles and a book on international copyright, and has lectured on copyright at numerous scholarly, professional and industry seminars and programs in the United States and abroad.

Joseph A. Capraro, Jr.
Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP
Joseph A. Capraro, Jr. is a partner in, and co-chair of, our New England-based Patent Law and Intellectual Property Groups.

Joseph has been advising clients in all aspects of the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights for thirteen years. His experience spans the spectrum of intellectual property areas, including strategic intellectual property portfolio development; patent and trademark prosecution; intellectual property and technology licensing; intellectual property due diligence in corporate transactions; alternative dispute resolution; and intellectual property litigation. Joseph was selected as one of the leading lawyers in his field in the 2006 edition of Chambers USA.

He represents a wide range of clients having products in the engineering arts with particular emphasis on plasma devices, semiconductor equipment, medical lasers, image processing devices, optical components, medical devices, telecommunications, alternative energy technologies, power delivery systems, business methods and software.

James H. Shalek
Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP
James H. Shalek is co-chair of our Patent Law Group. He has extensive experience litigating patent, trademark, trade secret and contractual matters in federal and state courts, before the International Trade Commission, and before arbitration tribunals. He has a gift for explaining complex technology in simple terms and has led teams of lawyers successfully in patent cases relating to lasers; bar code scanning; handheld computers; semiconductor electronics; medical device technology; irrigation equipment; three dimensional modeling; photopolymers; optical coatings; DNA sequencing; pregnancy test kits; pharmaceutical capsules; and various forms of genetic engineering. He has represented numerous major corporations in patent infringement litigation. Currently, James represents NYSE in a patent infringement suit relating to patents directed to business methods for trading through wireless communication with handheld computers.

James spent many years counseling Silicon Valley start-ups in relation to all their patent concerns. He continues to provide strategic counseling across all aspects of patent practice for venture capitalists and corporations assessing acquisitions in which intellectual property issues are of central concern.

He also regularly handles opinion work respecting patentability and infringement, licensing matters, and issues before the United States Patent & Trademark office, where he has been involved in numerous re-examinations, reissues, interferences, oppositions, and cancellation proceedings.

Christopher Wolf
Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP
Christopher Wolf is a litigation partner in the Washington, DC office of Proskauer Rose LLP, and chairs the Firm's Privacy and Data Security Group.

Within the area of privacy law, Christopher focuses especially on the law applicable to the financial services industry, such as Gramm-Leach-Bliley.

He is the author of the Financial Privacy chapter of the recently-published Proskauer on Privacy, a treatise of the Practising Law Institute (PLI). Christopher was Editor and Lead Author of that treatise. He also is a regular instructor at CLEs on financial privacy and he teaches and speaks widely on privacy law issues generally.