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Evaluating and Leveraging ACR Procedures to Expedite Litigation
A live 90-minute CLE webinar/teleconference with interactive Q&A
Sponsored by the Legal Publishing Group of Strafford Publications
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 ~ 1:00pm-2:30pm EDT
Price: $297
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This CLE webinar will explain the advantages and disadvantages of using the TTAB’s Accelerated Case Resolution (ACR) process to resolve trademark cases and will provide strategies for trademark owners and their counsel for participating in ACR.
Description
The USPTO’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s (TTAB) Accelerated Case Resolution (ACR) gives trademark owners and their counsel a streamlined alternative for resolving cases. ACR is likened to the summary judgment process. The parties can expect a Board decision within 50 days of briefing.
The ACR process can save the litigating parties time, resources and costs. However, trademark owners and their counsel must carefully assess whether ACR is right for them.
When deciding whether to participate in ACR, trademark owners and their counsel should evaluate whether time is of the essence, the complexity of the case, and the volume of documents to be reviewed.
Listen as our authoritative panel of intellectual property attorneys discusses the ACR process and its benefits and disadvantages. The panel will examine the factors to weigh when determining whether to participate in the ACR process, review lessons learned from recent ACR cases, and offer best practices for participating in the ACR process.
Outline
- ACR process
- Advantages
- Disadvantages
- Timing
- Procedures
- Factors in weighing whether to use ACR
- Time — is it of the essence?
- Complexity of the case
- Volume of documents
- Number of experts expected
- Lessons learned from recent ACR cases
- Merelinda Farms LLC v. American Breeders Co-op
- Eveready Battery Co. Inc. v. Green Planet Inc.
- Direct Marketing Consultants LLC v. Wise-Buys Inc.
- GN ReSound A/S v. Lisound Hearing Aid (Fuzhou) Co.
- philosophy inc. v. Amansala USA LLC
- Anheuser-Busch Inc. v. BLhUE Inc.
- Best practices when using ACR
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key questions:
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of the ACR process?
- What considerations should parties evaluate when determining whether to participate in the ACR process?
- What strategies should parties employ when utilizing the ACR process?
Following the speaker presentations, you’ll have an opportunity to get answers to your specific questions during the interactive Q&A.
Faculty
Linda K. McLeod, Partner
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner, Washington, D.C.
Her practice focuses on litigation before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and the courts, trademark clearance and prosecution, and client counseling. She gained significant expertise while serving as Administrative Trademark Judge and Interlocutory Attorney with the TTAB. She sat on panels that decided cases involving a variety of marks, including product configurations and color trademarks.
Honorable Peter W. Cataldo, Final Confirmation Pending
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, Va.
He was appointed to TTAB in 2006. Prior to his appointment, he served as a trademark examining attorney and as a TTAB interlocutory attorney.
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Price covers an unlimited number of staff at your office location. Can’t participate in the live seminar? A CD of the full event proceedings, including Q&A and PDF files of all handouts, will be available 10 days after the seminar.
Continuing Legal Education
Continuing Legal Education credits are granted for an additional $65 per person. Please refer to the options on the order page to take advantage of these credits.
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