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conference program*
Tuesday, February 1, 2005 | day One
Time Session Details
8:00am - 8:45am Sponsored Breakfast for CLA Officers and Directors, Speakers, Planning Committee Members and International Delegates
8:00am Onwards Registration
9:00am - 9:02am Introduction
Stephen Mathias, Co-Chair - Kochhar & Co., Bangalore, India
9:02am - 9:05am Welcome Address
Esther Nunes, President - CLA
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
São Paulo, Brazil
9:05am - 9:35am Keynote Address
Fali S. Nariman, President - Bar Association of India, India


Fali S. Nariman is a Member of Parliament Rajya Sabha; Chairman of the Rajya Sabha Sub-Group of the Group on Telecom and IT Convergence; Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India; President of the Bar Association of India since 1991; Vice-Chairman, ICC International Court of Arbitration, Paris; Honorary Chairman, ICCA (International Council of Commercial Arbitration); Co-Chair of the Human Rights Institute of the I.B.A.; Named as "Living Legend of the Law" by the International Bar Association; Awarded the International Justice Prize, 2002 by the Peter Gruber Foundation.
9:35am Co-Chair Stephen Mathias announces morning agenda and introduces Program Chairs
9:35am - 10:50am
Session 1: Protecting Intellectual Property in the Information Technology World

Program Chair: Richard Allan Horning, Co-Chair - Tomlinson Zisko LLP, Palo Alto, California

A Legal Strategy for Protecting Intellectual Property Globally
Pravin Anand - Anand & Anand, New Delhi, India

Preventing IP Piracy: The Challenges
Tarun Sawney, Director for Anti-Piracy - BSA Asia, Singapore - PPT

Key Issues in Licensing Intellectual Property
Carole V. Aciman - Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, New York - PPT
10:50am - 11:10am Tea/Coffee Break
11:10am - 12:30pm
12:30pm Co-chair Stephen Mathias announces Lunch and introduces First Day Lunch Sponsor
12:30pm - 1:30pm Network Lunch Sponsored by Simmons & Simmons
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Track A : Outsourcing Track Track B: Intellectual Property Track
1:30pm
Introduction
Rahul Matthan, Co-Chair - Trilegal, Bangalore, India
Introduction
Richard Allan Horning, Co-Chair - Tomlinson Zisko LLP, Palo Alto, California
1:30pm - 3:20pm
International Outsourcing

Program Chair: Rosalind Messer - Norton Rose, London, England

Drafting Doable Service Level Agreements
Stephen N. Hollman - Business & Technology Law Group, San Jose, California - PPT

International Tax Issues Arising From Outsourcing
Rajendra Nayak - Ernst & Young, Bangalore, India - PPT

Employment Concerns in Outsourcing
Christiane Feral - Schuhl, Salans, Paris, France - PPT
Intellectual Property

Program Chair:
John Carson - Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP, San Diego, California - PPT

Techniques and Traps in International Source Code Escrow
Rajiv Patel - Fenwick & West LLP, Mountain View, California - PPT

Protecting Trade Secrets on a Global Basis
Dov Scherzer - Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner LLP, New York
3:20pm - 3:40pm Tea/Coffee Break
3:40pm - 5:30pm
Outsourcing Contracts

Program Chair: Alan N. Sutin - Greenberg Traurig LLP, New York

Liability Management in Outsourcing Contracts
Murali Neelakantan - Simmons & Simmons, London, England - PPT

IP Ownership Issues in Outsourcing Contracts: Challenges and Solutions
Ruprecht Hermans - Brinkhof, Amsterdam, Netherlands - PPT

Strategies for Engagement and Disengagement
James Kunick - Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw, Frankfurt, Germany - PPT

International IT Procurement
Hamish Sandison - Bird & Bird, London, England - PPT
Competition in Licensing Models

Program Chair:
Peter McLaughlin - Mallory & Tsibouris Co., LPA, Columbus, Ohio


Proprietary vs Open Source Models
Charles H. Fendell - Thompson Coburn LLP, and Adjunct Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri

Government Procurement Policies
Ursula Widmer - Dr. Widmer & Partners, Bern, Switzerland - PPT

Open Source: Legal and Policy Issues
Deepak C. Pillai - Rajes Hisham Pillai & Gopal, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Risks of the GPL Virus
Stephen J. Davidson - Leonard Street & Denard, Minneapolis, Minnesota - PPT
5:30pm
Co-chair Rahul Matthan announces Adjournment, Evening Gala Buffet and Sponsor of Evening Buffet Co-chair Richard Allan Horning announces Adjournment, Evening Gala Buffet and Sponsor of Evening Buffet
6:00pm - 9:00pm Evening Gala Dinner & Announcement of the
winner of the CLA India Traveling Fellowship Award

Wednesday, February 2, 2005 | day Two
8:00am - 8:45am Sponsored Breakfast for CLA Officers and Directors, Speakers, Planning Committee and International Delegates
9:00am Introduction
Rahul Matthan, Co-Chair - Trilegal, Bangalore, India
9:00am Co-Chair Rahul Matthan announces morning agenda and introduces Program Chairs
9:00am - 10:35am
Panel Discussion: Financing the International Growth and Expansion of Technology Companies

Panel Chair: Daniel Kahn - Kahn & Associes, Paris, France

Cyril S. Shroff - Amarchand Mangaldas, Mumbai, India - PPT

Anoop Narayanan - Majmudar & Co., Mumbai, India - PPT

Saurabh Shah - Citigroup, Mumbai, India - PPT
10:35am - 10:55am Tea/Coffee Break
10:55am - 12:30pm
Panel Discussion: M&A in the Global Environment - A Cross-Border Dialogue

Panel Chair: Jyoti Sagar - J. Sagar Associates, New Delhi, India

Michael C. Doran - Tomlinson Zisko LLP, Palo Alto, California

Lee F. Benton - Cooley Godward LLP, Palo Alto, California

Gaurav Deepak, Executive Vice President - Avendus Advisors, Mumbai, India
12:30pm
Co-chair Rahul Matthan announces Lunch, and introduces Second Day Lunch sponsor
12:30pm - 1:30pm Network Lunch Sponsored by Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Track A: International Trade Track Track B: Growing the Tech Business Track
1:30pm
Introduction
Stephen Mathias, Co-Chair - Kochhar & Co., Bangalore, India
Introduction
Richard Allan Horning, Co-Chair - Tomlinson Zisko LLP, Palo Alto, California
1:30pm - 3:20pm
Governance and Trade in Cyberspace

Program Chair: Wolfgang Buechner - Lovells, Munich, Germany

P to P Products and the Legal Crisis
Jaclyn Tsai - Lee, Tsai & Partners, Taipei, Taiwan - PPT

VOIP: The Tsunami Ahead
Burt A. Braverman - Cole, Raywid & Braverman LLP, Washington, DC - PPT

Regulation of the Internet: The Indian Experience
Pavan Duggal - Cyberlaws.Net, New Delhi, India - PPT

Virtual Copyright: Legal Protection for Online Music Rights Management
Prof. Kristoffer Schollin - Chalmers University Center for Intellectual Property Studies, Goteborg, Sweden - PPT
Building the Business

Program Chair: Christian Frank - Taylor Wessing, Munich, Germany

Venture Funding for the Start Up: Competing Models
Abrar A. Hussain - Greenberg Traurig, Palo Alto, California

Doing Business in India: Practical Considerations
Vaibhav Parikh - Nishith Desai Associates, Bangalore, India - PPT

Doing Business in China: Practical Considerations
Daniel Liew - Simmons & Simmons, Hong Kong SAR, China - PPT
3:20pm - 3:40pm Tea/Coffee Break
3:40pm - 5:30pm
Data Protection

Program Chair: Juan Daniel Rodriguez - Martinez Rodriguez y Asociados, S.C., Mexico City, Mexico

Data Protection Law in Europe
Kiran Sandford - Mishcon de Reya, London, England - PPT

Challenges for India in Protecting Data and Privacy
Rodney D. Ryder - Preconcept, New Delhi, India - PPT

Towards an Ideal Global Data Protection Law
Denis Rice - Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin, San Francisco, California - PPT
Closing Major International Transactions: A Panel Discussion of the Infrastructure of IPO, M&A and Strategic Alliance Transactions

Panel Chair : Stephen Gillespie - Fenwick & West, Mountain View, California - PPT

Sajai Singh - J Sagar Associates, Bangalore, India - PPT

Poojitha Rao - Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner LLP, New York - PPT

Steven Lo - Allen & Gledhill, Singapore - PPT 1| PPT 2

Akshay Jaitley - Trilegal, Bangalore, India
5:30pm - 5:35pm Valedictory Address
Esther Nunes, President - CLA
5:35pm Exhibitor & Sponsor Reception
*conference program is subject to changes                                                   **To be confirmed


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IP Module Sponsor Growing the Business Module Sponsor Outsourcing Contracts Module Sponsor


Dinner Sponsor Speaker Sponsor


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