click above to reach source click below for course material	click the appropriate tab for more information about registration		click above to reach source In the decade since the Internet and cellular communication became omnipresent and inexpensive, intellectual property law has been pressed by technology in ways never imagined. Examples include: digital rights management (DRM), creative commons, open source software, digital movie and music downloading, eroding US patent dominance, Internet piracy, personal data ownership and privacy, fair use and the Internet.
	SPRING 2008 Tentative Program Program Day 1 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (Feb. 29, 2008)
	9:00 - Welcome (Outline/Introductions) 9:30 - History/Philosophy of IP 11:00 - Break 11:15 - Patents and Patent Law I 12:30 – Lunch Break 1:30 – Patents and Patent Law II 2:45 - Break 3:00 – TBD 4:00 – End of Session	David W. Matula Ray Van Dyke Ray Van Dyke Ray Van Dyke
	__________________________________________ Program Day 2 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Mar. 1, 2008)
	9:00 - Day 2 (Outline/Introduction) 9:15 - Inventor/Attorney Interface Workshop 10:00 – Copyrights 11:00 - Break 11:15 – Industrial Standards and Patents 12:15 – Trademarks, Trade Secrets 1:00 – End of Session	David W. Matula David W. Matula/Ray Van Dyke Ray Van Dyke Jim Carlo* Ray Van Dyke
	*Dr. James T. Carlo is an IEEE Fellow, Past President of the IEEE Standards Association and a systems engineer focusing on networking standards __________________________________________ Program Day 3 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM (Mar. 7, 2008) Presenters: Dr. Shubha Ghosh, Dr. David W. Matula PREVIOUS PRESENTATIONS Summer 2002 Presentations: Patents and IEEE Standards - Jim Carlo (J.Carlo@ieee.org) J.Carlo Consulting LLC 05/24/2002) (HTML) (Power Point) (Post Script) USPTO Search (Alexandru Fit-Florea - 05/31/2001) 2001 Presentations: Bounty Quest (Alexandru Fit-Florea - 03/09/2001) (HTML) (Power Point) (Post Script) USPTO Search (Alexandru Fit-Florea - 04/20/2001)