Corporate IP Institute, October 23 & 24

Dear Florida I.P. Committee Member:

 

For all of you that attended the Business Law Section Retreat this weekend, it was great to see you at the Ritz in Naples.  For those of you that did not make it, we missed you, but hope to see you at the mid-year meeting at Miami Downtown Hyatt on January 17, 2008.

 

A professor at Georgia State University has asked us to circulate the attached link to an I.P. Program taking place October 23-24, 2007 in Atlanta, Georgia.  We are circulating this link because the program may interest many of you and also because some of you may need larger blocks of I.P. specific CLE to satisfy the CLE requirement for I.P. certification.   

 

http://www.gsuip.org/corporate/broch.pdf

 

The Corporate IP Institute, October 23 & 24:

17 Florida IP Certification credits

17 Florida General/ 2 Ethics credits

ABA-IPL Teleconferences

The ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law and ABA Center for CLE present two important 90-minute CLE teleconferences/live audio webcasts

Two Recent Supreme Court decisions that will have
an impact on the practice of patent law

Microsoft v. AT&T: Does U.S. Patent Law Apply to Exported Software?
Thursday, May 24, 2007
1:00 – 2:30 PM ET

www.abanet.org/cle/programs/t07mat1.html

Patent Law After KSR v. Teleflex: Are Your Patents Still Valid?
(co-sponsored by the Section of Litigation)
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
1:00 – 2:30 PM ET

www.abanet.org/cle/programs/t07pla1.html

Proposed LLC Name Changes

Message from Lou Conti, chair of the Legislation Committee

I wanted you to focus on the attached proposed changes to the charging lien provisions of the partnership (GPs and LLPs) and LLC laws which are being pushed by the RPPTL section. 

The proposed changes would essentially limit remedies of creditors of partners of GPs and LLPs and members of LLCs to charging liens against the partnership or LLC interests owned by the debtors, and would not permit foreclosure against such interests. For those of you who followed our work on the Limited Partnership statute in 2005, you will know that we implemented exactly that statutory scheme in Limited Partnerships.  As to LLCs, the entry of a charging lien is the exclusive remedy in the Delaware statute, and is the exclusive remedy in the Uniform Revised LLC Act.
The documents are available here:
http://flabuslaw.org/index.php?//list.committees=7/1