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Don't forget to attend the
Welcome Reception, Sunday, November 5th!
Full details are on our Prague home page.
November
6, 2006 - Day 1
(Jump to November 7,
2006 - DAy 2)
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8:00-8:45
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Registration and Breakfast,
Smetana Hall, Municipal House
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8:45-9:10
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Welcome
Plenary
Sladkovsky Hall
Richard Allan Horning, President of International
Technology Law Association, Inc.
Remarks:
Mr. Bohuslav Klein, President of the
Czech Arbitration Court
Mr. Victor Saez, EU Commission (DG Information Society)
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9.15-11.00 |
TRACK A:
Sladkovsky Hall
Outsourcing Trends
Moderator:
Amy-Lynne Williams
Deeth Williams Wall LLP, Toronto
Key elements of the outsourcing contract
Aparna Viswanathan, Viswanathan & Co., New Delhi
Multi-jurisdictional outsourcing
Alan Sutin, Greenberg Traurig LLP, New York
Clive Davies, Olswang, London
Value-creation in outsourcing
Ole Horsfeldt, Bech-Bruun, Copenhagen
Common and
uncommon risk in outsourcing agreements and the "failing
project"
Anja Dekhuijzen, Van Doorne, Amsterdam
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TRACK B:
Gregr Hall
Intellectual Property Issues
Moderator: John Carson
Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, San Diego
Sarbanes-Oxley and IP
Marc Friedman, Sills Cummis Epstein & Gross, New York
Understanding trends in US patent litigation in developing a
global patent strategy
Rory J. Radding, Morrison & Foerster, New York
Extraterritorial effect of US patent rights
Bruce W. Stratton, Dimrock Stratton, Toronto
Patent Opinions: What, why, and when?
Richard Bone, Fish & Richardson P.C., Silicon Valley
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11.00-11.20 |
Coffee Break:
Smetana Hall
Hosted by
Simmons and Simmons
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11.20-13.00 |
TRACK A:
Sladkovsky Hall
Outsourcing
Trends
Moderator: Pietro Tamburrini
Tamburrini Savi & Associati, Milan
Benchmarking, exit management and technology refresh in
outsourcing arrangements
Paul Barton, FFW, London
Managing global outsourcing litigation and dispute
resolution
Diana J.P. McKenzie, Neal Gerber & Eisenberg, Chicago
Using the IT infrastructure library and the
balanced scorecard in technology agreements
Amanda Lewis, Berwin Leighton Paisner, London
Contractual compliance when offshoring to India: how to ensure
you get what you paid for
Bradley Joslove, Franklin, Paris
IT Outsourcing: destination Central Europe
Jirí Cermák, Baker & McKenzie, Prague
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TRACK B:
Gregr Hall
Intellectual
Property Issues (continued)
Moderator: Susan
Barty, CMS Cameron McKenna, London
The
implementation of the EU Enforcement directive
Matthias Nordmann, Schwarz Kelwing Wicke Westpfahl, Munich
Europeanization
of US software license agreements
James M. Kunick, Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw LLP, Frankfurt
Trading used
software licenses: the impact of the January 19, 2006 Munich
decision
Thomas Stögmüller, TecLegal Habel Rechtsanwälte, Munich
Data Crime:
prosecuting for infringement of business IT secrets
Kaisa Fahllund, HannesSnellman, Helsinki
Database
rights in Europe after the British Horseracing Board decision:
new strategies for protection
Richard Budworth, 2 Pump Court, London
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13.00-14.30 |
Lunch:
Pilsen Resaurant, Municipal House
Hosted by
CMS Cameron McKenna
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14.30-16.20
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TRACK A:
Sladkovsky Hall
IT Dispute Resolution
Moderator: Enrique Batalla
Batalla Abogados, Madrid
Choice of law and jurisdiction in licensing agreements
Prof. François Dessemontet, University of Lausanne
How the new E-Discovery Rules will change US litigation and
email retention policies
John Froemming, Howrey LLP, Washington, D.C·
EU Domain name dispute resolution
Ursula Widmer, Dr. Widmer & Partners, Bern
Online ADR Programs
Mark Appel, ICDR (International Centre for Dispute Resolution),
Dublin
The use
of expert witnesses in IT/IP disputes in the US
Sandra A. Jeskie, Duane Morris, Philadelphia
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TRACK B:
Gregr Hall
Digital Rights Management
Moderator:
Denis Rice
Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, San Francisco
Digital rights management in Europe and the USA
Maury Shenk, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, London
DRM - copyright levies and fair use in Europe
Christian Frank, TaylorWessing, Munich
Balancing consumer and industry interests in DRM: privacy,
anonymity and fair use
Françoise Gilbert, ITLawGroup, Palo Alto
The challenges of mobile content distribution
Ingrid Silver, DentonWildeSapte, London
Emerging models for a DRM compliant peer-to-peer music
industry
Les Ottolenghi, CEO, INTENT MediaWorks, Atlanta |
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16.20-16.40 |
Coffee Break:
Smetana Hall
Hosted by
Fish & Richardson P.C. |
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16.40-18.30 |
TRACK A:
Sladkovsky Hall
PLENARY SESSION
Technology Contracting
Moderator:
Stuart Meyer, Fenwick & West, Mountain View
Limiting risks in IT contracting: indemnification vs.
insurance
Katheryn A. Andresen, Bonnabeau Salyers Stites Doe Andresen,
Minneapolis
The legal challenges of smart metering systems deployment in
Europe
Johan Nylén, Lindahl, Stockholm
Healthcare issues in ICT contracting
Susan Hall, Cobbetts, Manchester
The trans-atlantic rift in antitrust law: the impact of the
US and EU Microsoft cases
on global IT companies
Dr. Hans-Werner Moritz, Jones Day, Munich
The promise of grid-computing
Michael Wolner, Gassauer-Fleissner, Vienna
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TRACK B:
Gregr Hall
PLENARY SESSION
The Arbitration of IP Disputes:
Lessons from a Mock Case
Moderator:
Richard Allan Horning, Fish & Richardson P.C., Silicon Valley
Mark Appel, ICDR, Dublin
Alexander Blumrosen, Bernard-Hertz-Béjot, Paris
Prof. François Dessemontet, University of Lausanne
David Perkins, Milbank, London |
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19.30
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Champagne
Reception (spouses/guests invited) -
Smetana Hall
Entertainment provided by Druha Trava Band
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21.00 |
Gala Dinner at French Restaurant in The Municipal House -- Black
Tie requested (separate registration fee)
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