TN Intellectual Property Law Association (TIPLA) Spring 2024 CLE Seminar

Welcome to the TN Intellectual Property Law Association (TIPLA) Spring 2024 CLE Seminar! Join us on Fri, May 03, 2024 at the Law Offices of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings for a day of learning and networking with fellow IP professionals. Our seminar starts at 8:30 AM and will cover the latest developments in intellectual property law. Don't miss this opportunity to stay up-to-date on important legal issues and earn CLE credits. See you there!

Sean B. Seymore is the Centennial Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School, where he’s taught since 2010. He’s also taught at Washington & Lee, Northwestern, and Notre Dame; and did a sabbatical at MIT. Prof. Seymore teaches Torts, Civil Procedure, Evidence, Remedies, Patent Law, and Trade Secrets. Before entering law teaching, Prof. Seymore practiced patent law at Foley Hoag in Boston. He earned a B.S. in chemistry at the Univ. of Tennessee (Tennessee Scholar, 1993); a M.S. in chemistry at Georgia Tech (1996); a Ph.D. in chemistry at Notre Dame (Arthur J. Schmitt Presidential Fellow, 2001); and a law degree at Notre Dame (Allen Endowment Fellow, 2006). Prof. Seymore is a member of the Massachusetts bar and is licensed to practice before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. He’s an elected member of the American Law Institute.

Franklin Graves is an experienced in-house counsel currently serving as a member of the technology law group at HCA Healthcare, Inc., where he provides guidance and strategic counsel for corporate technology initiatives. He is also a Lecturer on Law with New England Law | Boston where he teaches Cyber Law, and an Affiliated Faculty with Emerson College’s Business of Creative Enterprises MA program where he teaches business and IP law. Franklin previously held roles on the commercial legal team at Eventbrite, Inc. and the business and legal affairs team at Naxos Music Group. Franklin also runs the weekly newsletter, Creator Economy Law, on LinkedIn. He regularly contributes to IPWatchdog, Tubefilter, and Passionfruit, as a means to educate creators and raise awareness of all legal aspects of the creator economy. He is based in Nashville, TN.

Walter Anderson is a partner at HWG LLP in Washington, DC, where he helps clients confront complex—and frequently novel—legal issues. He has guided companies through high-stakes government investigations, advised on compliance with ever-changing state and federal regulatory regimes, and successfully litigated disputes over issues that range from IP licensing, to financing of trash incinerators, to construction of fiber-optic communications networks on land and at sea. Walter is also a Nashville native who views Nissan Stadium as one of his happy places and, as a child, learned how to gracefully accept defeat through years of Vanderbilt Football fandom.

Pat O’Donnell has been a Washington lawyer for over 25 years, mostly at HWG LLP, where he co-founded the firm’s litigation practice in 2000. He has three main practice areas: white-collar criminal investigations, complex civil litigation, and legal ethics. Pat’s white-collar cases have run the gamut from financial fraud to politics to pollution. His civil practice has been similarly diverse, including consumer class-action defense, twice defending a foreign sovereign in federal court, and litigating a unique dispute over rights in the Intracoastal Waterway in Florida. For many years, he was the main defender of the intellectual property rights of Waterford Wedgwood in the United States. Pat has focused on legal ethics throughout, both as HWG’s general counsel for most of the firm’s history and in counseling and defending other lawyers on legal ethics issues.

Based in Minneapolis, Jim Rieke is a Partner at Merchant & Gould and Chair of its Design Patent & Trade Dress Group. As one of the nation’s leading design patent filers, Jim specializes in patent preparation, prosecution, and strategic IP portfolio management, helping clients across industries protect original designs. Jim brings a unique perspective to the field of intellectual property law. As a former design engineer, he takes a multidisciplinary approach to his work which draws on his background in mechanical and medical technologies to better serve clients.

Eric Raciti, partner at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, has more than 25 years of experience advising companies as a trusted advisor on intellectual property matters. He received his formational training in industrial systems engineering, learning the importance of a multidisciplinary approach that includes a marriage of technology and business processes. Earlier in his career, Eric worked as a patent examiner for five years at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in the field of medical devices, and later, after earning his masters of laws degree, for the Commissioner of Patents in the Office of Legislative and International Affairs. Eric previously served as an adjunct professor at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, where he taught a course on technology licensing. A frequent speaker on intellectual property matters, Eric has delivered dozens of seminars across North America and Europe on a wide range of topics to audiences of lawyers, business managers and engineers.

Nicolas Beaudoing is a media and advertising attorney in Nashville. He currently serves as Director, Digital Advertising Contracts, at Hearst Magazine Media, Inc., where he negotiates agreements for Hearst’s co-branded advertising campaigns. He possesses over fifteen years of experience drafting and negotiating photography and author agreements for publications such as Esquire, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, Oprah, and Elle. A graduate of McGill University Faculty of Law in Montreal, Canada, he holds degrees in common law and civil law. He also earned a B.A. in Political Science, cum laude, from Loyola University, New Orleans. He fronts the Cajun and Americana band, Runner of the Woods.

Bradley

ONE 22 ONE

1221 Broadway, Suite 2400

Nashville, TN 37203

When you arrive at ONE 22 ONE, you will find parking underneath the portico. In the event that the first garage indicates that it is “FULL” there are still spaces available in another area. You will need to pull through the portico, turn left into the alley, and left again to go up for parking. There are 10 levels, so plenty of parking should be available there.

Please be sure to scan one of the QR codes throughout the parking area – you will need to complete this step to validate your parking. Additionally, please make note of your license plate number, as you will need that as well. Should you choose to pre-register your vehicle, there is a link below to do so.

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Arrival

Once you have arrived in the lobby, please approach the security desk and let them know that you are visiting Bradley on the 24th Floor for the TIPLA event. The security team will let you know which elevator to take. Please note that floor selections cannot be made inside of the elevators, so you’ll need to be sure that you enter the correct car.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Law Offices of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, 1221 Broadway, Nashville, United States