The protection of patents and IP is critical to the financial services industry due to the increasingly competitive marketplace and the growth of patent trolls.
The 10th Annual Patents for Financial Services Summit 2013 covers topics such as:
- Implementing a successful monetization program to determine the most valuable and effective use of IP
- The America Invents Act and its impact on patent procedures and litigation
- Patent post grant review
- Patent cross licensing
- Foreign patent consideration
- Patent litigation and the characteristics you want to look for in vendors
- Obtaining internal corporate support for monetization
- Defending against patent trolls
- Effectively managing your legal department activities and budget
- Legal update on the US Patent Office Examination of financial services inventions post-Bilski
- Social media update on managing control over protected IP
- Communicating with outside counsel to ensure an updated knowledge of the ever-changing legal landscape
- Best practices for aligning patent portfolio development in view of corporate direction and case law
- Incentivizing employees and finding new ways to encourage creativity
- Indemnification as a "sword & shield" against patent trolls
