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Dallas/Ft. Worth Chapter Upcoming Luncheon Meeting
IP Issues in Outsourcing
A panel discussion with brief introductory remarks
Distinguished Members of the Panel
Thomas Hall, Senior Vice President - Affiliated Computer Services (ACS)
Cindy Lafrance, Founder - Lafrance International
Allen Lineberry, Patent Counsel - Electronic Data Systems (EDS)
Date:
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
11:30 - 1:00 p.m.
Location:
Park Cities Hilton
5954 Luther Lane - Dallas
Cost for Luncheon:
$25 for all guests
RSVP
By April 9th to Sue Cooper (214) 220-7747
or
register online by credit card
Please forward this invitation to others in your organization who
focus on intellectual property or technology licensing issues.
Thomas Hall
Thomas Hall, Senior Vice President and Group Counsel for Commercial Solutions, joined ACS in 2002
to manage the legal department's support of Commercial Solutions from Dallas. Thomas' group is
comprised of attorneys and staff who serve Commercials Solutions' global operations and outsourcing
transactions. Before joining ACS, Thomas was a partner in a technology and media transaction boutique
law firm in Austin and later served as general counsel at Customer Analytics, Inc. Thomas is a graduate
of Illinois State University and the University of Texas' School of Law and McCombs Graduate School of
Business.
Cindy Lafrance
Cindy Lafrance is the founder of Lafrance International, a strategic marketing firm, focused exclusively
on increasing the revenue of underperforming software products and services. Cindy has over twenty
years of product management, development management, sales and consulting experience at companies
including BMC Software, Schlumberger, Digital Equipment Corporation, RCA, and DuPont. Cindy was
a pioneer in the early days of software process improvement, licensed by the Software Engineering
Institute in 1992. She trained a group of ISO 9000 auditors from the National Indian government in 1993
in the Software Process Assessment methodology. Cindy has spoken at Oracle Open World,
UNIX/EXPO, and corporate international sales training meetings in Europe and Australia. Cindy has
briefed IDC, Gartner, and META Group analysts, and delivered countless training sessions. Cindy is a
member of the National Speakers Association, IEEE, Tau Beta Pi, ABWA, and is currently serving on the
Board of Directors of Leadership Austin.
Allen Lineberry
Allen Lineberry is the Patent Counsel for Electronic Data Systems Corporation (EDS) headquartered in
Plano, Texas. EDS is a multi-billion dollar IT services and consulting company with over 140,0900
employees globally. At EDS, Mr. Lineberry is responsible for patent procurement, IP licensing and
litigation and IP support for mergers and acquisitions and contracts. Prior to joining EDS, he was General
Counsel at Readycom, Inc., a wireless content delivery solutions provider. Prior to entering the legal
profession, he was a software developer at American Airlines. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in
Computer Science from Baylor University and a J.D. from Southern Methodist University.
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