Morgan & Finnegan is a certified New York State Continuing Legal Education provider. We manage a customized program that offers our attorneys and scientific and technical advisors continuous formal training and seminars that develop professional skills. Firm attorneys and industry leaders address a wide range of specialized topics at regularly scheduled CLE luncheon seminars.
Certain CLE courses are designed expressly to assist first- and second-year associates in satisfying transitional credit requirements; others provide advanced skills training for experienced attorneys. Courses are not limited to intellectual property law, and focus on subjects such as ethics and professionalism, legal skills, law practice management, areas of professional practice and other topics of interest to attorney development. Programs are designed from the vantage point of the practice and development of our lawyers in all aspects of intellectual property law.
Recent topics presented by firm partners include Trying a Patent Case to a Jury and the Federal Circuit at the Same Time; Opening and Closing Statements to a Jury in a Patent Infringement Litigation and Ethical Considerations in Presenting Evidence to the Jury, Litigating IP in the ITC; Patent Damages; Minimizing the Risk of Patent Antitrust; Rule 11; The Art of Taking and Defending Depositions; Electronic Discovery in Patent Litigation; Inequitable Conduct and Other Ethical Issues; Recent Developments in the Federal Circuit; Best Practices in the Preparation of Freedom to Practice Opinions; Due Diligence Issues Concerning Licensing; The IP System of China; Internet Law - Protection of Copyrights and Trademarks; Avoiding the Pitfalls of PCT Practice: Form over Substance; Good Practices in Patent Prosecution and Ethics.
Industry leaders have been invited to present on topics such as Legal Writing Skills; Legal Research Strategies; Practice and Procedure in the Federal District Court of Delaware; Electronic Evidence; Demonstrative Evidence; Patent Litigation in Europe; Australian Patent Practice; Japanese Patents on Dialog; Patent Prosecution and Enforcement in Europe; Software and Business Method Patents in Europe; Chemical Structure Searching and Trademark, Domain Name and Common Law Searching.
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