Thursday, 9/17 @ 8:45am PT
Joint Development Activities and Working with Frenemies

When first entering joint development or licensing agreements, there are many issues that can be addressed to avoid or minimize potential future disputes. As the economy changes and your partners’ businesses change through acquisitions or organic developments, your partners may become your competitors or adversaries.

- What steps can you take in the beginning of the relationship to prevent future disputes?
- If you have already entered a relationship and a dispute arises, what steps can you take to fix the problem?
- How can you extract your company from an agreement that is no longer advantageous? 
- What can you do to reshape the relationship? 
- How can you prevent the other party from using your IP?
- How to negotiate joint development agreements, joint IP clauses, fields and best practices?
- Who owns the resulting IP? How to prevent blurred lines?

Speakers:

- Raphael Gutierrez, Director of IP, Uber
- Rabiya Kader, Senior Patent Counsel, Sanofi
- Christine Lam, Director of IP, NetApp
- Eric Maschoff, Partner, Maschoff Brennan
- George Simion, Associate General Counsel, Senior Director of IP, Palo Alto Networks