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Lunch and Presentation

Date:
Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Time:
12:00 p.m.

Title:
"Enforcing Cross-Border Non-Disclosure Agreements: What You Don't Know Might Hurt Your Client."

Companies increasingly find themselves entering into non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) with controlling law in a country other than their own. Where are the potential pitfalls, and what are some best practices for crafting these important agreements? This session will highlight some surprising differences between countries in the enforceability of "standard" provisions often found in NDAs drafted by US practitioners.

Speaker:
Henry N. Wixon
Co-Vice Chair, Intellectual Property Department
Partner| henry.wixon@wilmerhale.com
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

Henry Wixon focuses his practice on national and international intellectual property, licensing and technology transfer issues. A registered U.S. patent attorney, he counsels start-up and small-to-medium-size technology companies on procuring and enforcing intellectual property protection for key corporate technology assets.

Mr. Wixon is a past chair of the Communications and Intellectual Property Law Section of the Federal Bar Association, and of the FBA Patent, Trademark & Copyright Committee. He is a member of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO). Mr. Wixon is a charter member of the Biotechnology Practice Committee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association and of the International Federation for the Advancement of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology. Mr. Wixon is a member of the Committee on Representing Emerging Companies of the Business Law Section of the Maryland State Bar Association, the Patent, Trademark and Copyright Section of the District of Columbia Bar and the Litigation Section of the American Bar Association.

Mr. Wixon was awarded his J.D. degree from George Washington University, where he was a member of The George Washington Law Review. He holds an M.S. degree in neuropharmacology from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Mr. Wixon is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, the state of Maryland and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Location:
Nixon Peabody LLP
Suite 900
401 9th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004-2128
Office: 202-585-8250

Cost and Registration:
$20.00 for LES members
$25 for non-members

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