McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP will be offering a live webinar entitled "An In-House Counsel’s Guide to Product Clearance: Best Practices in Freedoms-to-Operate, Landscaping and Opinions of Counsel" on October 13, 2020 from 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CT). In this presentation, MBHB attorneys Grantland Drutchas and Jason Kray will address the steps in-house counsel need to take to protect their companies from assertions by competitors and NPE's and the goals and expectations they should you have for their outside counsel in conducting clearances and drafting opinions of counsel, In addition, the panel will explore the following topics:
• What steps you should take to explore the IP landscape when developing or on-boarding new products.
• How to get the most from your freedom-to-operate opinions.
• How to ensure that a search addresses the full scope of potential IP in all relevant countries.
• What you need to do to make sure that your outside counsel's opinion will pass muster in litigation.
• What you can do to evaluate NPE challenges, both in the U.S. and in the growing international NPE market.
• How to evaluate risks of competitors re-crafting IP to cover your products.
• What you should do to assess clearance risks for products from suppliers.
While there is no fee to participate, attendees must register in advance. Those wishing to register can do so here. CLE credit is pending for the states of California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, and Virginia.
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