Seminar

This seminar will give participants an overview of intellectual property concepts, explaining, comparing and contrasting legal protection for trade secrets, copyright, trademarks and patents.

Participants of this seminar will understand how to recognize and resolve ownership issues regarding intellectual property, between you and your employees, subcontractors, and your clients, including:

• Who owns the intellectual property in your work?
• What rights does your client obtain to use your work now and in the future?
• What rights do you retain to re-use your work or portions of your work for another client or another project?

The following topics will also be covered:
Contracts: How to effectively define your relationship with your clients and others, including:

• Protection of intellectual property
• Use of intellectual property
• Confidentiality
• Warranties and indemnities
• Review of specific contract language

Disputes: How to prepare now to better handle problems in the future.

There will be a detailed Question and Answer session. Please come prepared with questions you may have on any intellectual property issue.

Instructor: Christopher S. Wilson, LLB - Bull, Housser & Tupper LLP

Chris Wilson is a partner at Bull, Housser & Tupper LLP whose practice focuses on intellectual property litigation. He has acted as lead counsel in trademark, patent, trade secrets and copyright litigation in the Federal and British Columbia trial and appellate courts.

Chris regularly lectures on intellectual property at Simon Fraser University and the British Columbia Institute of Technology, as well as the intellectual property portion of the Law & Ethics program, a requirement for all new engineers in British Columbia, through the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia. Chris has also written and spoken on a variety of other intellectual property and technology topics.

*Webcast Instructions

System requirements:

• Pentium class 600 MHz PC or better
• Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000 or XP
• Full-duplex sound card
• 28.8 kbps modem dial-up or better (Greater than 56K recommended)
• Internet Explorer 5.5 (or higher)
• Cookies must be enabled (no cookie mongers)

You will need speakers to hear audio. IE service packs should be current, and since a software download is required, your network, firewall and/or PC security must be set to allow this.

Upon registration, you will be forwarded instructions on how to access the session.

APEGBC is an AIBC/CES registered provider offering an AIBC-Accredited activity for 3.25 Core Learning Units.

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