MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT: November 10, 2009 – 11:45 a.m.

Our next meeting will be at the Toledo Club on 11/10.  Lunch will be served at 11:45 and will include a house salad, warm rolls & butter, pot roast with mashed potatoes and a carrot medley, and chocolate mousse w/ raspberry sauce.

Please RSVP by Thursday (11/05) if you will be attending lunch.

Marshall Bennett of Marshall & Melhorn will present on the Proposed Local Patent Rules to be adopted by the Northern District of Ohio.  Mr. Bennett’s presentation will start after lunch at approximately 1p.m.  One hour of CLE credit will be sought from the Ohio Supreme Court. Payment for the CLE portion of the meeting is $20 and will be accepted in advance or at the door.

**CANCELLED** – TIPLA Industry Tour – October 27, 2009.

UPDATED 10/23/09 – The tour of the BASF facility in Whitehouse is canceled and we will advise when the tour is rescheduled.  We apologize for any inconvenience this causes.

On October 27^th, TIPLA will be holding its annual industry tour.  This year we will be touring the BASF Automotive Coatings R&D facility located at 6125 Industrial Parkway, Whitehouse, OH 43571.

BASF is the world’s leading chemical company with a portfolio that ranges from chemicals, plastics, performance products, agricultural products and fine chemicals to crude oil and natural gas. BASF’s Whitehouse facility is its Coatings Technology Support Center. The facility is the R&D site for BASF’s Automotive Refinish Coatings Solutions business in North America. The site also houses color information laboratories, a state-of-the-art refinish Application and Training Center, and BASF’s North American Customer Service Center that supports BASF’s refinish and industrial coatings customers in North America.

The tour is scheduled to begin at 9am and is expected to last for approximately 1hr. Please RSVP to Ray Meiers at meiers@mstfirm.com by October 20^th, if you can attend.

Northern District Local Rules – October 2009

Dear TIPLA Members:

The local rules for the Northern District of Ohio have been published for comment, a copy of which is available for down here.

All comments must be submitted before the deadline of October 21, 2009.  Please contact the TIPLA officers should you have any questions.

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT: October 13, 2009 – 11:45 a.m.

The October luncheon meeting of the Toledo Intellectual Property Law Association will be held at the Toledo Club on Tuesday, October 13, 2009.

We are very pleased to announce that our featured speaker will be Andrew M. Malec, Ph.D., on the topic of “Intangible Asset/Intellectual Property Valuation & Damage Calculations“.   Dr. Malec is the Director and Practice Leader for the Valuation & Litigation Services Group at Gordon Advisors, PC.  He has significant experience in the financial valuation & litigation advisory services industry including tenures with a national, premier financial advisory services firm, an international accounting and consulting firm, and co-founded his own corporate value consulting firm.  Dr. Malec’s business valuation expertise spans a broad range of industries and has been performed for numerous purposes including acquisitions, fairness opinions, financial reporting, gift and estate taxation, litigation, marital dissolution, purchase price allocation, shareholder disputes, and other tax and corporate related matters.

Dr. Malec also has significant experience in providing economic analysis and litigation advisory services to attorneys throughout the dispute resolution process and has testified on numerous occasions. His experience includes, but is not limited to, matters involving securities litigation, intellectual property litigation, alter ego claims, antitrust, breach of contract, corporate governance, insurance matters, personal injury, post merger and acquisition disputes, shareholder derivative actions, shareholder disputes, statistical analysis, and employment matters.

The regular luncheon will begin at 11:45 a.m. and end at approximately 12:45 p.m. The CLE program will commence immediately following the completion of the luncheon. Members are welcome to attend either or both portions of the regular meeting, as time permits. To receive CLE credit, members are required to be present for the full CLE program and to submit a registration form accompanied by the discounted fee.

Our lunch will be pulled pork in a honey barbecue sauce served with a vegetable medley and buttermilk mashed potatoes.  Dessert will be apple pie served with caramel sauce and whipped cream.

Please confirm your intent to attend the October luncheon with Ray Meiers (telephone (419) 255-5900 or email: toledoipla@gmail.com) by Friday, October 9, 2009, before 2:00 PM.

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT: September 8, 2009 – 11:45 a.m.

The September luncheon meeting of the Toledo Intellectual Property Law Association will be held at the Toledo Club on Tuesday, September 8, 2008.

We are very pleased to announce that our featured speaker will be Mr. David Kramer, Vice President and Practice Leader for Oswald Companies’ Lawyers’ Professional Liability (LPL) practice. The LPL practice involves program placement, coverage analysis, risk management and claims consulting. Prior to joining Oswald Companies, Mr. Kramer worked for a national broker, specializing in lawyers’ professional liability insurance, and acting as general counsel. Prior to his work in the insurance industry, Mr. Kramer worked as an attorney.

Mr. Kramer will be speaking on Intellectual Property Insurance and Risk Management. The presentation is pending with the Ohio Supreme Court for 1.0 CLE hours. 

The regular luncheon will begin at 11:45 a.m. and end at approximately 12:45 p.m. The CLE program will commence immediately following the completion of the luncheon. Members are welcome to attend either or both portions of the regular meeting, as time permits. To receive CLE credit, members are required to be present for the full CLE program and to submit a registration form accompanied by the discounted fee.

Our lunch will be honey barbecued chicken w/ a side salad. Dessert will be peach cobbler.

Please confirm your intent to attend the September luncheon with Ray Meiers (telephone (419) 255-5900 or email: toledoipla@gmail.com) by Friday, September 4, 2009, before 2:00 PM.