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Upcoming Carr & Ferrell Seminars

Speaking Engagements

• June 25, 2008 - Associate, Joi White, will be presenting "Searching Trademarks in Foreign Countries and Developing an International Trademark Protection Strategy", hosted by Half Moon Seminars. Further information to follow shortly.
• June 11, 2008 - Partner, John Ferrell, will be participating on a panel discussion at Public Law Institute's Advanced Patent Licensing seminar. For further information, please visit : http://www.pli.edu
• March 18, 2008 - Partner, John Ferrell, gave a presentation on Strategic Intellectual Property to an entrepreneurship class at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.
• March 13, 2008 - Of Counsel, Michael Momboisse was a featured speaker to an entrepreneurship class at Santa Clara University.
• March 4, 2008 - Partner, Jill Fishbein, gave a presentation "Negotiating Venture Capital Term Sheets" to an entrepreneurship class at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.

Past Events

• April 16, 2008 - On behalf of the International Trademark Association, Carr & Ferrell hosted a roundtable "Internet Domain Names: A Trademark Practitioner's Point of View."
• Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - On behalf of the Wharton Club of Northern California, Carr & Ferrell hosted "Creatively Destroying Banking As We Know It", featuring the President of Kiva.org, Premal Shah.
• January 24, 2008 - Partner, John Ferrell, participated in a panel discussion "IP Due Diligence for Semiconductor Venture Investments", hosted by the VC Taskforce.
• Thursday, January 24, 2008 - Carr & Ferrell LLP was pleased to host the International Trademark Association's Roundtable discussion: "Trademarks in Business Transactions."
• Wednesday, December 5, 2007 - The Innovator's Engine presented "Ads2Go: What's Working, Where and Why with Mobile 2.0?" As the fastest growing advertising channel and highly effective communication tool between a brand and a consumer, mobile advertising is clearly an industry on the rise. Carr & Ferrell's Innovator's Engine breakfast program, focused on the issues and developments in mobile advertising featuring insights from Ted Maidenberg from U.S. Venture Partners, Zaw Thet from 4Info and Mike Rowehl of AdMob.
• Friday, November 16, 2007 - On behalf of Social Power Advisors, Carr & Ferrell was pleased to host the workshop "Business Remix: Amplifying Your Business on Social Networks".
• September 24 - 26, 2007 - Carr & Ferrell LLP was pleased to serve as exclusive legal sponsor of DEMOfall 07 held in San Diego, CA.
• September 19, 2007 - The Innovators Engine Breakfast Seminar: "Future Web Trends: A discussion about the rising trend of fast-track seed fund programs for the next generation of entrepreneurs."
• September 6, 2007 - On behalf of the Wharton Club of Northern California, Carr & Ferrell hosted a fireside chat with Benchmark Capital's legendary co-founder and Wharton alum, Andy Rachleff.
• July 26 2007 - International Trademark Association: Carr & Ferrell hosted a lunch roundtable discussion.
• July 12, 2007 - The Wharton Club of Northern California hosted an event in Carr & Ferrell's conference center:  Nobel Laureate, Andrew Fire, presented "Revolutionizing Modern Medicine."
• June 25, 2007 - GreenVest 2007, San Francisco: Carr & Ferrell hosted the pre-conference full day workshop. Our mixed panel of presenters included Carr & Ferrell Corporate partner, Jill Fishbein and Intellectual Property associate, Peter Holland: Winston Fu, partner from USVP: Tim Walsh, Senior Relationship Manager at Silicon Valley Bank: and Colin McKay, Vice President and member of the Alternative Energy Investment Banking practice at Piper Jaffray & Co.
• June 28, 2007 - The Wharton Club of Northern California hosted an event in Carr & Ferrell's conference center:  Joe Ruck, President and CEO of Boardvantage, presented "The Future of Software as a Service: A Practicing CEO's Perspective."
• May 23, 2007 - The Innovators Engine Breakfast Seminar: "Capitalizing on Clean Technology: How to create value in the hot economy for clean technology".
• June 28-29, 2006 - Venture Forum Conference, San Jose Convention Center.  Carr & Ferrell is sponsoring this event for more information visit www.theventureforum.com.
• September 29, 2005 - Carr & Ferrell Event; "Building Your Ship Instead of Waiting for It to Come In"; The nuts and bolts of the corporate life of start-ups.
• May 25, 2005 - Financial Women's Association; Cocktail Seminar; Industry Leadership Series on "Inside The Wine Business: The Romance vs. Reality". Visit www.fwasf.org
• May 18, 2005 - Nanobioconvergence Dinner Seminar; Consumer & Industrial Applications of Nanobiotechnology. Visit www.nanobioconvergence.org