March 23 to 24, 2010
• Hilton San Jose - San Jose, CA
Conference Sponsors & Exhibitors
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Townsend teams with businesses, inventors, entrepreneurs, scientists and investors to protect their innovative products and ideas. We are one of the largest law firms in the United States specializing in the protection of intellectual property rights, with more than 200 lawyers and technical professionals practicing in offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Walnut Creek, San Diego, Denver, Seattle, Washington, DC and Tokyo, Japan.
Townsend’s global reputation as one of the nation’s leading IP law firms has been earned through our ability to create formidable alliances with our clients. Townsend’s lawyers – including many with advanced scientific degrees and industry experience – integrate science, technology and legal principles with a pioneering spirit and insightful business acumen. Townsend also provides a full range of services related to technology transactions and licensing, antitrust and complex commercial litigation. For more information, please visit us on the Web at www.townsend.com.
Kroll Ontrack provides technology-driven services and software to help legal, corporate and government entities as well as consumers recover, search, analyze, produce and present data efficiently and cost-effectively. In addition to its award-winning suite of software, Kroll Ontrack provides data recovery, advanced search, paper and electronic discovery, computer forensics, ESI consulting, and trial consulting and presentation services. Kroll Ontrack has been recognized as the most used electronic discovery provider by AmLaw Tech (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008). Kroll Ontrack is a technology services division of Kroll Inc., the global risk consulting company. For more information about our offerings, please visit: www.krollontrack.com; www.ontrackdatarecovery.com; www.engeniumsearch.com; www.trialgraphix.com.
GOLD SPONSOR Adduci, Mastriani & Schaumberg, LLP is the recognized leader in the field of Section 337 litigation before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) (Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business; The Legal 500; IP Law & Business; Managing Intellectual Property). The firm’s attorneys are frequent speakers and authors with respect to current issues affecting practice before the ITC. Established nearly thirty years ago in Washington, D.C., Adduci, Mastriani & Schaumberg, LLP represents both domestic and international clients, including companies in the electronics, pharmaceutical, bio-technology and automotive industries. For more information, please visit www.adduci.com
GOLD SPONSOR With 500 lawyers worldwide, Faegre & Benson LLP handles the complex transactions and litigation facing businesses today. Our lawyers address the full range of business issues and deliver timely, cost-effective business and legal solutions. Our IP team has 70 lawyers in the United States, Europe and Asia, including 25 registered patent attorneys. This international team advises clients on national and cross-border strategies, IP protection and enforcement of IP rights around the globe.
We have been recognized as a Go-To Law Firm® for intellectual property by Fortune 500 general counsel surveyed by Corporate Counsel magazine (2010).
GOLD SPONSOR Kenyon & Kenyon LLP is one of the largest full-service intellectual property law firms in the United States, with offices in New York, Washington DC, and Silicon Valley. The firm is a leader in enforcing and defending intellectual property rights for its global and domestic clients. We provide our worldwide clients with litigation, prosecution, licensing and counseling services related to patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, unfair competition, false advertising, antitrust and international trade. The firm's experience spans the business spectrum, technologies of today to innovations of tomorrow.
For more information, please visit www.kenyon.com.
GOLD SPONSOR Novak Druce + Quigg LLP is a national law firm focused exclusively on complex intellectual property matters. With a renowned patent reexamination practice and more than 70 attorneys and professionals in offices in San Francisco, Houston, Washington DC, and West Palm Beach, Novak Druce attorneys help our clients navigate the complexities of U.S. intellectual property law by securing, enforcing, and defending their intellectual property rights. Novak Druce has been named the #1 firm in the WORLDleaders International IP Awards - North America / Canada Patent Excellence for the past three years. The Novak Druce Centre for Professional Service Firms at Oxford University launched on October 5, 2009. For more information, see www.novakdruce.com.
GOLD SPONSOR Schiff Hardin LLP is a client-focused law firm with nearly 400 lawyers located in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco and Washington D.C. More than 60 Schiff Hardin attorneys practice in the field of intellectual property law, in offices across the country, providing a broad range of litigation, counseling, and transactional services involving patents, trademarks, trade dress, trade secrets, copyrights, franchising, licensing, and electronic commerce of all types. Our intellectual property attorneys have prevailed for our clients in precedent-setting patent, trademark, and trade secret cases. We are on the cutting edge of intellectual property law outside the courtroom as well, leading in the creation of Internet-based securities trading businesses, Internet banks and other e-commerce related enterprises, and high-technology patent prosecution.
GOLD SPONSOR Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner (SLW) was founded in 1993 with a commitment to innovation. Unlike conventional IP firms that tend to concentrate significantly more resources on litigation than on patent prosecution, SLW developed a new IP law firm model in which obtaining the strongest patents is the sole focus of the firm. Today, SLW has offices in Minneapolis, Silicon Valley, and Austin and has grown to nearly 80 attorneys with advanced degrees in the areas of electrical, computer/software, chemical and mechanical engineering, chemistry, molecular biology, and other life sciences. SLW represents a spectrum of multinational corporations, middle-market businesses, universities, startups, and individuals.
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Established in 2003, Ocean Tomo, LLC, is the leading Intellectual Capital Merchant Banc® firm, providing financial products and services related to Intellectual Property expert testimony, valuation, investments, risk management and transactions. Ocean Tomo assists clients – corporations, law firms, governments and institutional investors – in realizing Intellectual Capital Equity® value broadly defined.
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