GSU Corporate IP Roundtable
The GSU Corporate Intellectual Property Roundtable ("Roundtable") is a partnership initiative between the Georgia State University College of Law and the J. Mack Robinson College of Business and provides the premier forum for the exchange of intellectual property ideas, best practices, information, and networking, exclusively for corporate attorneys and business people.
The Roundtable is Chaired by Creighton Frommer, ChoicePoint Inc., and is one of the Initiatives of the GSU Intellectual Property Advisory Board (IPAB)
Current members of the Roundtable include:
AT&T
Center for Disease Control
Coca Cola
CompuCredit
Cox Communication
Delta Airlines
Equifax
General Electric
Georgia Pacific
Georgia Power
Georgia State University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Kimberly-Clark
Microsoft
SAP America
Scientific-Atlanta
Southern Company
The Weather Channel.
On July 17, 2007, the Roundtable hosted its last luncheon meeting of 2007, focussing on IP Enforcement/Defense. The presentation materials
(available here) were prepared and presented by three panelists from local law firms, including Bill Ragland from Hunton & Williams, LLP, Jim Ewing, from Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP, and Bill Dyer from Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner, LLP.
Sub-Groups of the Roundtable have included:
- IP Inside the Company
Subject Matter:
- Strategy
- Budget
- Incentives
- Sr. Management Buy-in
- Culture
- Internal Public Relations
- Training
- Employee/vendor Agreements
- IP Marketing
Subject Matter:
- Strategy
- Budget
- Prioritization
- Licensing
- Selling
- IP Enforcement/Defense
Subject Matter:
- Strategy
- Budget
- Approaching Infringers
- Responding to Offers to License
- IP Asset Development
Subject Matter:
- Strategy
- Budget
- Prioritization
- Quality
- Cost
- Timeliness
Another partnership initiative between the
Georgia State University College of Law and the
J. Mack Robinson College of Business is the
Corporate IP Institute, which is an annual two-day comprehensive event. For more information, Contact Chason Carroll at
chason.carroll@compucredit.com.
Comments or suggestions may also be sent to suggestions@gsuip.org.
