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

Paul Hastings LLP

Palo Alto, CA, USA

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

San Jose, CA, USA

Faculty

U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas

Waco, TX, USA

TechSea Law

San Jose, CA, USA

U.S. District Court, Southern District of California

San Diego, CA, USA

FTI Consulting, Inc.

Houston, TX, USA

Trial Behavior Consulting, Inc.

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Stris & Maher LLP

Tallahassee, FL, USA

Kirkland & Ellis

New York, NY, USA

Goodwin Procter LLP

Redwood City, CA, USA

Paul Hastings LLP

New York, NY, USA

U.S. District Court, Northern District of California

San Francisco, CA, USA

U.S. International Trade Commission

Washington, DC, USA

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

New York, NY, USA

Berman Fink Van Horn P.C.

Atlanta, GA, USA

Arnold & Porter

Menlo Park, CA, USA

U.S. District Court, Northern District of California

San Jose, CA, USA

Coinbase

San Francisco, CA, USA

Tensegrity Law Group LLP

McLean, VA, USA

Hochberg ADR LLC

New York, NY, USA

Reed Smith LLP

Wilmington, DE, USA

Shaw Keller LLP

Wilmington, DE, USA

Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP

Washington, DC, USA

U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas

Dallas, TX, USA

WilmerHale

Boston, MA, USA

Hennepin County Fourth Judicial District

Minneapolis, MN, USA

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann, LLP

Dallas, TX, USA

DLA Piper

New York, NY, USA

Pelletier Law, LLC

Chicago, IL, USA

O’Melveny & Myers LLP

New York, NY, USA

Tensegrity Law Group LLP

San Francisco, CA, USA

Finnegan

Washington, DC, USA

JAMS

San Francisco, CA, USA

The Sedona Conference

Phoenix, AZ, USA

Morrison Foerster

Washington, DC, USA

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