World Research
Group (WRG) will be holding its Second Annual Corporate IP Counsel Summit on
April 27-28, 2010 in New York, NY. 
The conference will focus on the latest developments in monetizing and
maximizing IP, patent portfolio optimization.

Among the
presentations to be offered by WRG faculty are:

• Keynote Session
— Dennis Crouch, Patently-O;
• Enhancing your
value as in-house counsel by learning to operate in the new world of open
innovation (panel discussion);
• Preparing for
litigation:  Best practices to
prepare, assert or defend against a patent assertion which leads to litigation;
• Overcoming
barriers to patenting "green" intellectual property;
• Navigating the
Patent Office for streamlined, less costly filings;
• Maximizing patent
life cycles:  Lessons learned from
the pharma industry;
• Adjusting IP
strategies through the transition from start-up to steady-stay;
• Adjusting to the
new normal:  Thriving despite
budgets and billing pressures;
• Leveraging proactive
patent infringement mitigation strategies;
• Negotiating and
drafting license agreements for patents and trademarks (panel discussion);
• Effectively
quantifying and assessing ROI for IP programs;
• Examining the
relationship between standard setting and patent licensing;
• Latest
developments in remedies for patent infringement;
• Best practices
for protecting business method patents threatened by Bilski; and
• Assessing Federal
Circuit case law related to patentable subject matter and beyond (panel discussion).

The agenda for
WRG's Corporate IP Counsel Summit including descriptions of each sessions and
list of speakers, can be found here (Day One;
Day Two).  A complete brochure for this conference
can be downloaded here.

The registration
fee for the conference ranges from $1,895 (corporate rate) to $2,195 (consultant
and law firm rate).  Those
interested in registering for the conference can do so here,
by sending an e-mail to info@worldrg.com, by calling 1-800-647-7600 or
1-781-939-2500, or by faxing 1-781-939-2543.