Topics

Sample Topics Include:

• Ian Forrester of White & Case, who represented Microsoft before the European Court of Justice in which the Court upheld - on September 17, 2007 - the EU Commission's ruling that Microsoft had abused its dominant market position, and ordered the compulsory licensing of Windows software. Mr. Forrester will discuss Microsoft's position, the legal and policy stakes involved in regulating intellectual property rights with the legal arsenal of competition law, and the next steps for Microsoft in the case.
• A presentation of cutting edge IT issues examining new areas of IT law and what the future holds: Cleantech, Nanotech and Building Information Modeling (BIM).
• A panel on "net neutrality”; the highly charged confrontation between content providers and broadband and other ISPs about who controls the consumer's access to internet content and services.
• Peter McLaughlin, the general counsel at Cardinal Health (no. 19 in Fortune's list of the 500 largest US companies in 2006) in charge of privacy and data security, will lead a multi-jurisdictional roundtable on the new practice of Binding Corporate Rules; what do they do? who do they bind? what protection do they offer companies that adopt them? what factors to consider when advising a client whether to adopt BCRs? What advantages do they offer for companies with international operations.
  

Committee Breakfast, November 2nd, Open to all ITechLaw Members

This Committee Breakfast includes all members of the association's four Law Committees, which address particular substantive areas of the law (outsourcing, e-commerce, IP and data protection), and which are open to all ITechLaw members. This will be an opportunity for committee members to come together, meet with committee leaders, find out more about joining a committee and the committees' activities, and how they can get involved.