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IT Legal Issues
Date:
July 16, 2003
Location:
Dominion Resources,
Richmond, VA
Synopsis:
IT managers are increasingly being
confronted with a variety of legal issues, including
contracts, intellectual property rights, and privacy. This
CMIT program will review contemporary legal issues related to
IT within the framework of a roundtable discussion. Our
keynote speaker, John Farmer, will begin by focusing on
contemporary legal issues pertaining to outsourcing
relationships including special issues raised by using
overseas outsourcers. Following Mr. Farmer’s presentation,
we will open the floor to a roundtable discussion on the
topic.
Agenda
| 7:30 -
8:00 |
Registration and
Continental Breakfast
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| 8:00
- 8:30 |
John B. Farmer,
Founder, Leading-Edge Law Group, PLC
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| 8:30
- 10:00 |
Roundtable Discussion
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Speakers:
John B. Farmer
John wears two hats - columnist
and lawyer. He
writes a monthly column, Leading-Edge Law, for the Richmond
Times-Dispatch on breaking legal issues in the e-commerce,
intellectual property and high-tech fields.
When wearing his lawyer hat,
John devotes his practice entirely to intellectual property,
e-commerce and other high-tech issues.
He frequently works with both start-ups and existing
businesses to build or upgrade e-commerce strategies, and to
identify, form and protect intellectual property.
In these subject matters,
John's practice spans both corporate matters and litigation.
He has represented clients in numerous cases in those
fields in federal court and in the Trademark Trial and Appeal
Board. These
cases have concerned Internet connectivity, Web domain name
cybersquatting, copyright infringement, copyright abuse,
trademark and service mark infringement, trade secret
misappropriation, unfair competition, ERP software
implementations and software license breaches.
John is a member of the
Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property Issues to the
Virginia General Assembly's Joint Commission on Technology and
Science.
John is the immediate past
president of the Greater Richmond Intellectual Property Law
Association. He
also is a member of and vice chair of the Board of Governors
of the Intellectual Property Section of the Virginia State
Bar.
In its most recent ratings,
Richmond Magazine listed John as one of the top intellectual
property lawyers in Central Virginia, based upon a poll of
area lawyers. Virginia
Business magazine also listed John as one of the top
information technology and intellectual property lawyers in
Virginia in its most recent ratings, also based upon a survey
of lawyers. Virginia
Business magazine has conducted this survey annually for the
past three years; John is one of only four attorneys to make
the list in each those three years.
John is frequently called
upon to teach other lawyers in the areas of intellectual
property and e-commerce.
He has spoken frequently for Virginia CLE (the
continuing legal education arm of the Virginia State Bar) and
in programs sponsored by the Virginia State Bar itself.
He has spoken to the plenary session of the annual
meeting of the American Intellectual Property Law Association.
John graduated from the
University of Virginia in 1985 and its School of Law in 1988.
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