Representing the Fashion Client CLE

W&M Partner Olivera Medenica to be part of a CLE panel tonight on IP and business issues in fashion.

Representing the Fashion Client

Course Description:
The rapidly growing area of fashion law covers issues of intellectual property, business law, licensing and the import/export side of customs. The panel will discuss how attorneys can best represent their fashion industry clients -- whether designers, manufacturers or retailers.

The topics covered by the panel will include: • how attorneys can best protect and exploit their fashion industry clients rights, including intellectual property rights such as trademark and copyright, as well as trade arrangements and contracts.• the unique issues related to drafting and negotiating commercial agreements for clients entering different types of business relationships within the fashion industry. • how attorneys can assist their fashion clients in minimizing customs duties and avoiding compliance problems with the U.S. Customs Service.• the various types of litigation in which a fashion client may be involved. • current issues, such as the protection of new fashion designs through the proposed Design Piracy Prohibition Act now pending in Congress, which, if passed into law, would extend copyright protection to fashion designs.

Faculty:
Elliott J. Brown, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Marc Ecko Enterprises

Alain Coblence, Coblence & Associates

Francis Hadfield, Associate, Grunfeld, Desiderio, Lebowitz, Silverman & Klestadt LLP

Olivera Medenica, Partner, Wahab & Medenica LLC

Susan Scafidi, Visiting Professor of Law, Fordam Law School

Program Co-Sponsor:
eMIPS Section of NYCLA