James Morando, Jeff Fisher and Brian Keating, Moderators: "Hot Topics in the Parallel Universe of Patent Reexamination and Patent Litigation"

8:30 am - 10:30 am
Garden Court Hotel
Palo Alto, CA

James Morando, Jeff Fisher and Brian Keating, Moderators: "Hot Topics in the Parallel Universe of Patent Reexamination and Patent Litigation"

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Farella Braun + Martel
San Francisco, CA

ABA Litigation Section Intellectual Property Committee
November 2009 IP Roundtable - San Francisco
"Resetting the Judicial Doctrine of Inequitable Conduct"
Moderators: James Morando and Racheal Turner
Garden Court Hotel, Palo Alto

James Morando, Speaker, "Trends in Federal Circuit Patent Damages Decisions"

Discussion of DePuy Spine Inc. v. Medtronic, and its findings regarding eligibility for lost profits, Lucent v. Gateway and Cornell v. Hewlett-Packard which address the standard of analysis required to determine a reasonable royalty and the availability of the entire market value rule, as well as developments in i4i v. Microsoft, currently under appeal to the CAFC.

ABA Litigation Section Intellectual Property Committee
September 2009 IP Roundtable - Silicon Valley
"Hot Topics: A Summary of the Summer's Sizzling Patent Happenings"
Moderators: Bob Sloss and James Morando
Garden Court Hotel, Palo Alto, CA

ABA Litigation Section Intellectual Property Committee
September 2009 IP Roundtable - San Francisco
"Hot Topics: A Summary of the Summer's Sizzling Patent Happenings"
Moderators: Bob Sloss and James Morando
Farella Braun + Martel, San Francisco, CA

James Morando, Speaker, "Aggressive Early Strategies for Protecting Your IP and Disposing of the Case"
Sutton Palace Hotel, Chicago

Areas covered include:

• Strategies regarding effective early motions
• Considerations in making an employee's new employer a defendant in the action
• Securing restraining orders and preliminary injunctions
• Requesting and obtaining accelerated discovery
• Issues as to identifying what has been misappropriated
• Seeking protective orders to protect the company's trade secrets
• Responding to actions for declaratory relief

James Morando, Speaker, Patent Claim Construction - "Litigation Strategies from Plaintiff and Defendant Perspectives"
San Francisco, CA

James Morando, Speaker, CEB 2009 Civil Litigation Practice: 27th Annual Recent Developments Seminar
Hyatt Regency Embarcadero, San Francisco.

James Morando & Racheal Turner, moderators, ABA Litigation Section Intellectual Property Committee January IP Roundtable, "Not Just for Hackers Anymore? Use of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to Respond to Theft of Information"

January 21st - San Francisco location: Farella Braun + Martel
January 22nd - Silicon Valley location: Garden Court Hotel, Palo Alto

James Morando, Speaker, CEB 2009 Civil Litigation Practice: 27th Annual Recent Developments Seminar
Hyatt Regency Santa Clara.

Trade Secrets: A Practical & Strategic Overview

Speakers, James Morando & Eugene Mar.
Garden Court Hotel, Palo Alto

ABA Litigation Section Intellectual Property Committee
October 2008 Silicon Valley IP Roundtable
"Hot New IP Cases: An End of Summer Review"
Moderator: James Morando
Garden Court Hotel, Palo Alto

Partners Dennis Cusack, Mary McCutcheon and James Morando, speakers, "Insurance Coverage for IP and Technology Claims - Data Privacy, Infringement and Errors & Omissions Coverage"
Denver, CO

ABA Litigation Section Intellectual Property Committee
September 2008 IP Roundtable
"Hot New IP Cases: An End of Summer Review"
Moderators: James Morando, Karen Kimmey, Andy Leibnitz
Farella Braun + Martel's San Francisco office

ABA Litigation Section Intellectual Property Committee
May 2008 IP Roundtable
"Trademark Rights vs. The Internet - Who is Winning the Battle?"
Moderators: Karen Kimmey & James Morando
Farella Braun + Martel's San Francisco office

Partners Karen Kimmey and James Morando to serve on as panelists at the Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB) program "Mediation and Arbitration Practice: Skills for the Successful Advocate" being held at the PLI California Center in San Francisco.

James Morando will moderate a panel of corporate counsel attorneys addressing the business, legal challenges and selection of outside counsel.  Tampa Bay, FL.

James Morando will be serving as a moderator for a "reverse" coporate counsel program at the Meritas Annual Meeting in Tampa in which corporate counsel will give their thoughts on effective marketing strategies for lawyers to reach corporate counsel.

Farella Braun + Martel will host an ABA IP Roundtable on the topic, "Trademark Fair Use." James Morando and Anthony Schoenberg will moderate the discussion.  ABA Litigation Section Intellectual Property Committee

James Morando will speak on the subject of "Beyond SCO: Emerging Open Source Issues," at the Advanced Law Patent Institute at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose.  He will co-present with Chris Nadan of Sun Microsystems.

December 4, 2003, James Morando, "The Inequitable Conduct Defense in Patent Infringement Cases," Advanced Patent Law Seminar (sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology), Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, CA

November 17, 2003, James Morando, Supporting Claims Under 35 U.S.C. 112, First Paragraph, noon, IP Section, Bar Association of San Francisco, CLE Auditorium, 465 California St., 12th fl., San Francisco, CA

James Morando, "Frustrations Patent Clients Have With IPLaw Firms" Advanced Patent Law Seminar.