Law Education Institute, Inc. (LEI) will be holding the 28th Annual National CLE Conference on January 1-5, 2011 in Vail, Colorado.  The Intellectual Property program of the conference, which will be held at the Vail Marriott Resort & Spa, will offer presentations on a number of topics, including:

• The state of inequitable conduct;
• Continued importance and use of opinions of counsel post-Seagate and Broadcom;
• Strategic use of the joint infringement defense;
• Legal research made easy with WestlawNext;
• Legal ethics can be fun:  Lawyers on TV and in the movies;
• Unglamorous but deadly — Invalidity under Section 112;
• A dialogue between Bench and Bar on the Federal Circuit;
• Patent corporate counsel panel:  What keeps corporate counsel awake at night;
• What hath Bilski v. Kappos wrought:  Fallout in the courts and the USPTO;
• Insurance coverage for IP disputes; and
• Patent markets.

An agenda and list of speakers for the Intellectual Property program of the conference can be found here.

The registration fee for the conference is $645.  Those interested in registering for the conference can do so by calling either 1-303-860-0608 or 1-888-860-2531, by faxing a registration form to 1-303-860-0624, or online here.