Upcoming Conference

Event Title: "IP Meets the Pacific Rim: Cross-Border Branding In an Era of Multi-Platform Licensing, Privacy and Trade Secrets." This event is jointly hosted by the ABA Section of International Law & Los Angeles County Bar Association International Law Section.

Date: September 20, 2011

Description: Join the bar associations and the dynamic speakers of the event to learn and discuss: proprietary rights, privacy, IP and the internet, global world of IT damages, international trade and the IP digital world, famous marks in your home and workplace and their impact on your clients.

To learn more about this event, please visit: http://www.americanbar.org/intlaw or click here.

Spring 2011 Global Gavel Newsletter Vol. 6 No. 2

The latest issue of the IPS newsletter, The Global Gavel has arrived!

Featured in this issue:

• Thoughts from the Section Chair - Glen Yaguchi



• "Maximizing Trademark Value Through a Unified Portfolio: A Global View" - Scott Smith and Krista Wittman



• "The Kiobel Case: An Untenable Precedent?" - Jacques LeJeune



• Hot Topics in International Trade - Braden Pence



• Upcoming Events, Employment Opportunities and Sponsors

Click here for the e-newsletter.

Upcoming CLE Opportunity

Title: "FINDING MONEY: INTERNATIONAL ASSET SEARCH AND RECOVERY METHODS FOR COLLECTING JUDGMENTS"

Dates/Times: June 27th, 2011, 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Description: Join Juval Aviv, President & CEO of Interfor , Inc., an international corporate intelligence and investigations firm as he discusses issues pertaining to the enforcement of judgments in and outside of the United States. In order to effectually enforce an obtained judgment, counsel must be familiar with certain methods and procedures that may be nontraditional or non-domestic – outside a lawyer’s usual problem-solving ‘tool box’. Such methods are especially apropos when enforcement of US judgments may be carried out overseas, where it is often easier for defendants to hide assets and/or make them unavailable through fraudulent conveyances to controlled trusts and nominees. A plaintiff with a reasonable expectation of a judgment for damages in the US can take steps in anticipation of enforcement of the judgment by obtaining an attachment of the defendant’s assets, which could include those assets kept in and outside of the United States. Many countries, in Europe and elsewhere, permit separate proceedings for these prejudgment attachments (or the functional equivalent thereof) to be brought in their courts for the purpose of holding the assets as security. Both the English Commonwealth jurisdictions and Switzerland afford creditors opportunities to make use of attachments and obtain information for the enforcement of judgments.

Location: William Kastner
Two Union Square 601 Union Street, Suite 4100 Seattle, WA 98101-2380

CLE Credits: 1.5 General Credits (pending)

Registration: Space will be limited, please RSVP by mailing or faxing the registration form, by June 24, 2011 to:

Jennifer Keene
WSBA CLE
1325 4th Avenue, Suite 600
Seattle, WA 98101

FAX: 206.727.8324