The 2021 Sedona Conference on Remote Case Management of IP Proceedings

Date:

Thursday, June 10, 2021 - 12:00pm to Friday, June 11, 2021 - 4:30pm

Location: Online (Zoom)

The 2021 Sedona Conference on Remote Case Management of IP Proceedings will be held online on Thursday, June 10, and Friday, June 11.

Please join us virtually from 12:00 PM – 4:30 PM ET each day. This Conference will present the following panels:

[Panel 1] Remote Conferences, Motions, Ex Parte Applications
[Panel 2] Remote Depositions
[Panel 3] Handling Evidence Remotely: Maintaining Protection of Confidential/Trade Secret Information and Building the Record for Trial and Appeal
[Panel 4] Remote Trial and ADR
[Panel 5] The Future of IP Proceedings: How Should Remote Case Management by Incorporated Going Forward?
[Panel 6] Judicial Roundtable

We will maintain our dialogue-based format in moving this Conference online and carefully design our program to maximize the level of participation for each of our Conference participants.

At the conclusion of the substantive program on Day 1, we will hold an online social hour.

Please join our distinguished faculty of federal judges and leading patent, trademark, and copyright litigators in dialogue on effective remote case management of IP proceedings.

The Sedona Conference will seek CLE accreditation in accordance with rules and regulations set forth by individual jurisdictions for virtual meetings. Various state MCLE authorities require that we verify your live, active participation throughout the program.

The beautiful impressionistic watercolor of the Sedona red rocks displayed above was painted by Judge Faith Hochberg (ret.) for The Sedona Conference and is reproduced with her permission.

Chairs

Yar R. Chaikovsky

White & Case LLP

Palo Alto, CA, USA

Mindy Morton

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

San Jose, CA, USA

Faculty

Hon. Alan D. Albright U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas Waco, TX, USA	Marta Y. Beckwith TechSea Law San Jose, CA, USA	Hon. Cathy Ann Bencivengo U.S. District Court, Southern District of California San Diego, CA, USA	Brent Bersin FTI Consulting, Inc. Houston, TX, USA
Dr. Marissa S. Beyers Trial Behavior Consulting, Inc. Los Angeles, CA, USA	Elizabeth Rogers Brannen Stris & Maher LLP Tallahassee, FL, USA	Dale M. Cendali Kirkland & Ellis New York, NY, USA	Monte Cooper Goodwin Procter LLP Redwood City, CA, USA
Victoria Cundiff Paul Hastings (ret.) New York, NY, USA	Hon. James Donato U.S. District Court, Northern District of California San Francisco, CA, USA	Hon. Cameron Elliot U.S. International Trade Commission Washington, DC, USA	Bruce R. Ewing Dorsey & Whitney LLP New York, NY, USA
Benjamin I. Fink Berman Fink Van Horn P.C. Atlanta, GA, USA	Deborah E. Fishman Arnold & Porter Menlo Park, CA, USA	Hon. Beth Labson Freeman U.S. District Court, Northern District of California San Jose, CA, USA	Hon. Paul S. Grewal (ret.) Coinbase San Francisco, CA, USA
Azra Hadzimehmedovic Tensegrity Law Group, LLP McLean, VA, USA	Hon. Faith S. Hochberg (ret.) Hochberg ADR LLC New York, NY, USA	R. Eric Hutz Reed Smith LLP Wilmington, DE, USA	Karen E. Keller Shaw Keller LLP Wilmington, DE, USA
Christine Lehman Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP Washington, DC, USA	Hon. Barbara M.G. Lynn U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas Dallas, TX, USA	Mark G. Matuschak WilmerHale Boston, MA, USA	Hon. Laurie J. Miller Hennepin County Fourth Judicial District Minneapolis, MN, USA
Robert Milligan Seyfarth Shaw LLP Los Angeles, CA, USA	Mary Nix Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann, LLP Dallas, TX, USA	Hon. Andrew J. Peck (ret.) DLA Piper New York, NY, USA	Dean Pelletier Pelletier Law, LLC Chicago, IL, USA
Lisa B. Pensabene O’Melveny & Myers LLP New York, NY, USA	Matthew D. Powers Tensegrity Law Group LLP San Francisco, CA, USA	Douglas A. Rettew Finnegan Washington, DC, USA	Roderick M. Thompson JAMS San Francisco, CA, USA
Craig W. Weinlein The Sedona Conference Phoenix, AZ, USA	Mark L. Whitaker Morrison Foerster Washington, DC, USA	Kenneth J. Withers The Sedona Conference Phoenix, AZ, USA

Agenda - Remote Case Mgmt of IP - June 2021

Time	Session	Panelists
	Thursday, June 10, 2021 (all times EDT)
12:00 — 12:10	Welcome & Introductions	Chaikovsky, Morton, Weinlein
12:10 — 1:30	[Panel 1] Remote Conferences, Motions, Ex Parte Applications	Cendali, Cundiff, Fishman, Keller*, Peck (ret. (J)), Whitaker

1:30 — 1:45	Break
1:45 — 3:00	[Panel 2] Remote Depositions	Beckwith*, Bersin, Brannen, Hutz, Matuschak, Pensabene

3:00 — 3:15	Break
3:15 — 4:30	[Panel 3] Handling Evidence Remotely: Maintaining Protection of Confidential/Trade Secret Information and Building the Record for Trial and Appeal	Cooper, Fink, Hadzimehmedovic, Miller (J), Nix, Pelletier*, Withers

4:30 — 5:30	Social hour

Time	Session	Panelists
	Friday, June 11, 2021 (all times EDT)
12:00 — 12:05	Welcome and Introductions	Chaikovsky, Morton, Weinlein
12:05 — 1:25	[Panel 4] Remote Trials and ADR	Beyers, Ewing, Freeman (J), Lehman*, Lynn (J), Milligan, Thompson

1:25 — 1:40	Break
1:40 — 2:45	[Panel 5] The Future of IP Proceedings: How Should Remote Case Management be Incorporated Going Forward?	Bencivengo (J), Chaikovsky, Hochberg (ret. (J)), Morton, Rettew

2:45 — 3:00	Break
3:00 — 4:30	[Panel 6] Judicial Roundtable	Albright (J), Bencivengo (J), Donato (J), Elliot (J), Freeman (J), Grewal (ret. (J)), Lynn (J), Miller (J), Powers*
4:30 — 4:35	Closing Statements	Weinlein
*Panel Moderator

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