2009 Fall Symposium

The TIPLA 2009 Fall Symposium was held on November 13 in Nashville, Tennessee. Download Brochure here: TIPLA Fall 2009 Brochure

2009 Spring Symposium

The Spring 2009 Symposium was held on May 15 in Nashville, Tennessee. Download the 2009 Spring TIPLA Brochure here.  

2008 Fall Symposium

The Fall 2008 Symposium was held on November 14 in Nashville, Tennessee. PROGRAM Friday November 14, 2008 8:00 – 8:20 am Registration and Morning beverages and pastries 8:20 – 8:30 am Welcoming remarksKenneth Hoffmeister of TIPLA (Pitts & Brittian, PC) 8:30 – 9:00 am The Top 5 Trademark Decisions (of All Time!) from the Sixth CircuitThor Urness (Boult, […]

2008 Spring Symposium

The TIPLA Spring 2008 Symposium was held on May 2 in Nashville, Tennessee. PROGRAM Friday May 2, 2008 Morning Discovery Documents, Trial Exhibits and the Copyright Act Sam Miller; Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC; Memphis, Tennessee IP Valuation Issues Arising in M&A Transactions Erick Asmussen; GrafTech International Limited; Parma, Ohio Operation of the […]

2007 Fall Symposium

  Fall 2007 Symposium The Fall 2007 Symposium was held on November 8 & 9 in Nashville, Tennessee. PROGRAM Friday November 9, 2007  Morning In re Seagate and it’s Impact on Willfulness Litigation Jonathan Rose, Boult, Cummings, Conners & Berry, PLLC; Nashville, Tennessee In re Seagate and its Impact on the Attorney Client Relationship Mark […]

2007 Spring Symposium

Spring 2007 Symposium The Spring 2007 Symposium was held on March 30 in Nashville, Tennessee.   PROGRAM Friday, March 30, 2007 8:00 – 8:30 am Registration and Continental Breakfast 8:30 – 9:00 am Franchise Law, Grady Garrison (Butler, Snow) 9:00 – 10:00 am IP Audits, Paul Kruse (Bone, McAllester, Norton) and Peter Brewer (Baker Donelson) 10:00 […]

2006 Fall Symposium

The Fall 2006 Symposium was held on November 17 in Nashville, Tennessee. PROGRAM Friday November 17, 2006 8:00 – 8:30 am Registration and Continental Breakfast 8:30 – 9:30 am Patent Prosecution in the Growing Markets of China and India Susan Fentress and Cara Baer (Butler, Snow) 9:30 – 10:30 am Integrating IP analysis/legal analysis into a company’s […]

2005 Spring Symposium

Spring 2005 Symposium The Spring 2005 Symposium was held on May 20 – 21 at the Vanderbilt Marriott in Nashville. PROGRAM Friday, May 20, 2005 2:00 – 2:30 Issues involving parts numbers and catalogs Andrew Neely of Leudeka, Neely, & Graham 3:00 – 4:00 Steve Stark of Miller & Martin, Chattanooga 3:45 – 5:15 State […]

2004 Fall Symposium

The Fall 2004 Symposium was held in Nashville. The schedule describing the Symposium is reproduced below.   TIPLA FALL SYMPOSIUM Friday & Saturday, December 10-11, 2004   PROGRAM Friday, December 10, 2004 1:30 pm Registration 2:00 pm Exhaustion (Steve Stark, Miller & Martin) 2:30 pm Secret Prior Art (Doug Johnson, Miller & Martin) 3:15 pm Patent […]

2004 Spring Symposium

Spring 2004 Symposium The Spring 2004 Symposium was held on April 22 at the Tennessee Bar Center and April 23 at the Doubletree Inn in Nashville.   PROGRAM Thursday, April 22 Tenn. Bar Center 1:00 Copyright, Danny Awdeh 1:30 Trademark, John Williams 2:00 Trade Dress, Chuck Young 2:45 Patent Prosecution, Ed Landquist 3:15 Patent Lit, […]