This Friday (6/13/08) starting at 2pm at the Chicago Bar Association building [map], there will be an interesting 3-hour seminar titled “Management and Enforcement of Digital Rights on the Web.” The CBA’s Cyberlaw and Data Privacy Committee (which I’ll be chairing next year) is a co-sponsor of this event.

Topics include:

• Trademarks online
• Copyright online
• Online terms and conditions
• Conducting investigations online

Great faculty lined up:

• Chris McGeehan (Greer Burns & Crain)
• Tom Fitzsimons (Greer Burns & Crain)
• Debra Hutchings (Reed Smith)
• E. Leonard Rubin (Reed Smith)

The cost is $80 for CBA members and $140 for nonmembers.

Hope to see you there.

There is an exciting intellectual property law event coming up Chicago on the afternoon of July 27, 2006, and the registration deadline (July 21) is quickly approaching.

The Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (”IPLAC”) will be hosting an afternoon seminar with three panels addressing copyright, trademark and patent law. The program will end with a keynote address by Commissioner for Patents John Doll.

I will be moderating a panel discussion on copyright. The panel will consist of University of Chicago Professor Doug Lichtman, Northwestern professor Clint Francis, and Sachnoff & Weaver attorney John Hines.

Registration fee is $25 if you’re not an IPLAC member. Here is a link to a registration form. I encourage you to attend.

Frank Gruber over at Somewhat Frank is organizing the first TECH cocktail event which will take place on July 6 at State in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. Looks like it will be an interesting time: “mingling with other technology enthusiasts, VCs, bloggers and entrepreneurs.” I’ll be there.