The Center for American and International Law is holding its 46th Annual Conference on Intellectual Property Law (CAILAW) at its headquarters in Plano on November 10-11, 2008. More information can be obtained at the seminar's website. The two-day seminar provides 13 hours of MCLE credit, great topics (check out the brochure) and wi-fi is available in the classrooms (how else could I post about how cool Bart Showalter's "super troll" graphics are during his presentation?)
Usually there's a panel discussion of federal judges talking about patent litigation, but this year they found something even better. From 3:30pm-4:15pm on November 10, I will be part of a panel "All the News That''s Fit to Blawg" which asks the burning questions "[a]re bloggers journalists for a new generation? [and] [h]as legal blogging impacted patent litigation?" and promises "[a] discussion of cutting-edge topics by some of today’s leading IP bloggers." (Does this remind anyone of Broadcast News?).
The discussion will be moderated by Bruce S. Sostek of Thompson & Knight LLP of Dallas (the orange circle folks). The panel (including me) includes:
Stephen R. Albainy-Jenei • Patent Baristas, Frost Brown Todd LLC (Cincinnati, OH)
Kyle B. Fleming • PATracer.com, Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP (Cleveland, OH)
Joe Mullin • The Prior Art, IP Law & Business Magazine (San Francisco, CA)
Michael C. Smith • EDTexweblog.com, Siebman, Reynolds, Burg, Phillips & Smith, LLP (Marshall, TX)
Peter Zura • The 271 Patent Blog, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (Chicago, IL)
I'm really looking forward to meeting Stephen, Joe, and Peter, whose work I have really enjoyed over the past few years, and especially Kyle, who has joined my crusade to to include Sam Kinison pictures with our weblog posts as often as possible, even when there's no discernable relationship between the post and the photo.
