OCBA IP & Technology Law and OCIPLA Joint Session - In Living Color: Counseling Clients on Color Marks This program will discuss how attorneys can counsel their clients to seek registration for color marks and demonstrate acquired distinctiveness along with practical considerations to meet that goal. The program will also discuss recent TTAB decision where a color mark was denied registration and federal court cases showing the difficulty in enforcing color marks. Date: Monday, June 17, 2024 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Location: Live Webinar (Zoom) Registration: OCIPLA and OCBA IP & Technology Section Members: $0.00 OCBA Member (non-section): $25.00 Non-OCBA Member (Attorney): $35.00     SPEAKERS Stacey C. Kalamaras, Founding Partner, Kalamaras Law Office Stacey C. Kalamaras is a seasoned trademark attorney who has represented some of the world’s most well-known brands in more than 150 countries. She started her career as marketing and advertising executive working for multi-national corporations before attending law school in her mid-30s. As a lawyer, she has spent the bulk of her career working in big law, assisting companies of all sizes from start-ups to multi-national corporations identify, register, and protect their brands in the U.S. and abroad. She is the founding partner of Kalamaras […]

Luck, Residue, Design?  A Post-Mortem Deconstruction of a Copyright Infringement Trial Topic: Hargis v. Pacifica Senior Living Management LLC pending in the district court for the Central District of California Description: Our May Luncheon speakers will be John Tehranian and Taylor Foss of One LLP.  They will discuss their recent landmark $6.3 million jury verdict in the copyright infringement case Hargis v. Pacifica Senior Living Management LLC pending in the district court for the Central District of California, where the jury found the senior care provider willfully infringed dozens of Hargis’ photographs. Date: Thursday, May 16, 2024 Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm Location: Andrei's Conscious Cuisine, 2607 Main St, Irvine, CA 92614 Registration: Member: $55.00 Non-Member: $80.00 Student Member: $20.00     SPEAKERS John Tehranian, Founding Partner, One LLP John is a founding partner of One LLP.  His practice focuses on litigation, counseling and crisis management for clients in intellectual property, entertainment and constitutional matters.  John has handled high-profile disputes and transactions involving numerous legends from the worlds of music (Bootsy Collins, Don Henley, B.B. King, Madonna), film (Luis Bunuel, Harold Lloyd), fashion (Jeremy Scott), theater (Stephen Sondheim), photography (David LaChapelle, Annie Leibovitz), literature (John Fante, Ernest Hemingway, Frank Herbert, Jules Verne) and athletics (Oscar de la […]

Topic:  Patent Year in Review Description: Mark Lemley is the William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and the director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology. He is also a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and affiliated faculty in the Symbolic Systems program. In addition to teaching, he also litigates and counsels clients in all areas of intellectual property, antitrust, and internet law as a founding partner of Durie Tangri LLP. Date:  Monday, April 15, 2024 Time:  12:00pm – 1:00pm Location:  Virtual Presentation (Zoom link will be provided) Registration: Member: $20.00 Non-Member: $30.00 Student Member: $20.00