讲座通知：Understanding Trends in U.S. Patent Litigation（美国专利诉讼的新发展）

报告题目：Understanding Trends in U.S. Patent Litigation（美国专利诉讼的新发展）

报告人：　Chris Gilbert, Esq.

                     Eric Rhodes, Esq.

报告时间：2011年10月14日下午3：00

报告地点：东南大学九龙湖校区法学院模拟法庭

主讲人简介：

Chris Gilbert devotes his practice to high-stakes, complex litigation and appeals.  He has a diverse practice but focuses on intellectual property with an emphasis on patent and trade secret litigation in a wide range of technologies, complex business disputes and dissolutions, international litigation and entertainment and art law.  He has litigated across the country in trial and appellate courts from New York to California, as well as multidistrict litigation panels (MDL), bankruptcy courts, the International Trade Commission (ITC), mediations and arbitrations.  Internationally, Mr. Gilbert’s practice centers on Asia. 

He represents individuals, professional entertainers and athletes, closely-held, private equity and Fortune 500 companies on both sides of the docket.  Using state-of-the-art courtroom and litigation technology, he works closely with his clients, prominent experts and jury consultants to efficiently prepare and win high-stakes, bet-the-company business and technology disputes whether at trial, on appeal or through alternative dispute resolution.

Mr. Gilbert also serves as outside general counsel for clients, regularly advising management and board members on corporate governance and transactions, strategic protection of intellectual property assets and managing business risk.

Prior to joining Bryan Cave, Mr. Gilbert was a partner in the Dallas office of two international law firms, and a partner in a prominent law firm in Nashville, Tennessee, where he practiced complex business and music and entertainment litigation for several years, enforced and collected judgments amounting to over $450 million and served as litigation co-chair of an international legal network comprised of 140 law firms and over 7500 lawyers worldwide.

Professional Affiliations

                           Federal Bar Association

                           American Bar Association - Section of Litigation

                           State Bar of Texas - IP Litigation Committee

                           State Bar of Tennessee

                           Dallas Bar Association

                           Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce

                           Association for Corporate Growth

                           American Intellectual Property Law Association

                           Former Barrister, John Marshall American Inn of Court

                           National Institute for Trial Advocacy

                           Holderness Moot Court, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law

                           The North Carolina Banking Institute Journal

 

 

Eric S. Rhodes focuses his practice on general corporate transactional work and international dispute resolution.  His experience includes serving as in-house counsel for both privately held and publicly traded companies based in China and the United States, and two years of private practice in California.  Mr. Rhodes has advised clients on a broad range of multi-million dollar corporate matters including cross-border financings, mergers and acquisitions, complex international litigation and arbitration proceedings, and licensing transactions.  Mr. Rhodes speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese.

During law school, Mr. Rhodes served as Publication Editor for the North Carolina Banking Institute Journal and worked as a Legislative Intern for the U.S.-China Business Council.

Mr. Rhodes is licensed to practice in California.

 

Overview

Bryan Cave LLP is a leading business and litigation firm with global reach, a strong reputation and a long history of success. We do interesting and challenging work for a diverse client base, including businesses, financial institutions and not-for-profit organizations, government entities and individual clients. With more than 1,000 lawyers and consulting professionals in 19 offices worldwide, we pride ourselves on proactive, solution-oriented work in every major area of interest to clients.

Our Core Values

At Bryan Cave, we take our role as an advocate for, and a trusted advisor to, our clients very seriously – whether we are working on a $100 million problem or a pro bono matter. At the heart of everything we do is a set of core values that define who we are and who we want to be:

                          We are One Firm

                          We have a passionate, long term commitment to our clients

                          We treat our colleagues as we do our best clients

                          We demand and offer professional excellence

                          We promote and embrace diversity

                          We make a difference in our communities and society

                         
Serving Clients

At Bryan Cave, we truly have a shared practice and not just a shared name. That means lawyers from different offices often collaborate as a routine part of every day. We have worked hard to eliminate fiscal and geographic boundaries between our offices; central to that viewpoint is the fact that we practice in Client Service Groups which are either specific to an area of law or directed toward industry groups. Group members may come from various disciplines and offices around the globe. Client Service Groups facilitate crosspractice and inter-office collaboration.

It is significant that our offices are not profit centers. Each client is considered a client of the whole firm – with access to the resources that will best serve their needs. We act as one firm because it serves our clients best. We serve clients around the world, and they deserve and expect guidance from professionals with a vision, footprint and perspective as broad and global as their own. 

Chris and Eric Patent Seminar.ppt  

 

      Chris's Seminar-USA IP litigation.pdf