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The PLI "Open Source and Free Software 2015" program will be on Wednesday, December 16, 2015, in San Francisco. Please join us in person or on the web <http://www.pli.edu/re.aspx?pk=158157&t=THF5_OPEN5> and earn continuing legal education credits. This is the agenda for our legal program this year: * Luis Villa (Wikimedia), Gabriel Holloway (Leonard Street & Deinard) and Marc Visnick (Johnson-Laird): These three popular speakers will define the open source community and describe its licenses for those new to this area of intellectual property in software. * David Marr (Qualcomm) and MItch Segal (Hewlett-Packard): Attorneys for large technology companies describe their own best practices for open source license enforcement, and identify the standards they expect from their software vendors' development ecosystems. * Heather Meeker (O'Melveny & Myers) and MIchel Jaccard (id est avocats sarl): Keep abreast of open source litigation in the US and Europe. * Harrison "Buzz" Frahn (Simpson Thacher & Bartlett) and Gwyn Murray (Matau Legal Group): Earn one unit of ethics credit with this NEW topic for our legal open source program -- and learn ways to recognize and to eliminate bias in the engineering and legal profession. * Pamela Chestek (Chestek Legal) and Stephen LaPorte (Wikimedia): These trademark specialists will describe new efforts in the open source community to create and protect trademarks for free software. * Heather Meeker (O'Melveny & Myers), Cliff Allen (Microsoft), Duane Valz (Google), Jim Wright (Oracle), Lawrence Rosen (Rosenlaw & Einschlag): A closing panel on HOT TOPICS. This expert panel will alert you to critical issues for open source attorneys, and answer your questions. For further information, please go to http://www.pli.edu/re.aspx?pk=158157 <http://www.pli.edu/re.aspx?pk=158157&t=THF5_OPEN5> &t=THF5_OPEN5. We are proud to co-chair this PLI program together this year. Lawrence Rosen and Heather Meeker
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