NEW YORK (March 3, 2010) – ALM’s Corporate Counsel magazine announced today that Theodore Herhold, litigation partner at Townsend and Townsend and Crew, will chair its upcoming 6TH Annual IP Counsel Forum, taking place March 23-24 at the Hilton San Jose in San Jose, Calif.  The conference theme, “What Is The Future of Your IP Portfolio?,” will be explored in a wide range of sessions and panel discussions featuring speakers from organizations including Cisco, eBay, Google, Motorola, Sony and Sun. The complete conference agenda and registration details are available at www.corpcounsel.com/ipcounsel.

Targeted to general counsel, chief IP counsel, IP litigators, senior IP counsel and IP portfolio managers, the event will offer sessions on topics including:

•    “The Future of the Practice of IP In House ”

•    “Global IP Protection”

•    “Patent Pools”

•    “Patent Litigation in the ITC ”

•    “Blood from the Stone: Extracting Invention Disclosures from Busy Engineers”

•    “Claim Construction: The District Court and the Federal Circuit Both Can Be Right”

•    “Do Economic Downturns Increase or Decrease

Industry experts and practitioners who will be speaking at the conference include:

•    Jim Brelsford, general counsel, SanDisk Corporation

•    Matthew Fawcett, senior vice president and general counsel, and secretary, JDS Uniphase

•    Kirk Goodwin, senior counsel, patents, Whirlpool Corporation

•    David Hetzel, director, IP licensing, mobile devices, Motorola, Inc.

•    Eugene Kim, senior patent counsel, eBay Inc.

•    Dan Lang, director of intellectual property, Cisco Systems, Inc.

•    Carol Mimura, assistant vice chancellor for intellectual property & industry research alliances (IPIRA), University of California, Berkeley

•    C. Eric Schulman, managing patent counsel, Google Inc.

•    Jaime Siegel, senior IP counsel, Sony Corporation of America

•    George Simion, assistant general counsel, IP Law Group, Sun Microsystems

Herhold is a litigation partner in Townsend’s Palo Alto office where he specializes in patent infringement, trade secret and other intellectual property litigation. He has substantial trial experience in both federal and state courts throughout the country. Herhold has litigated cases involving a wide range of technologies, including computer hardware and software, telecommunications, Internet, semiconductors, relational databases, photolithography, medical devices, and other electrical, mechanical and biotechnology devices and methods.

Program attendees are eligible for up to 14 CLE credits.

For additional conference information, or to register, please contact customer service at (212) 457-7905, e-mail trios@alm.com or visit www.corpcounsel.com/ipcounsel.

The conference is presented by Corporate Counsel, in conjunction with ALM Events, a leading producer of educational and networking events for legal and business professionals.

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