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The Bay Area Law
School Technology Conference was made possible through the
generous contributions of the following:
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Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP is one
of the world's largest law firms. With more than 1,550
lawyers and 14 offices in North America, Europe and
Asia, we provide a broad range of services to meet the
needs of large and small businesses across a multitude
of industries, financial institutions, governments and
individuals. Our network of offices is able to provide
integrated multi-jurisdictional and cross-jurisdictional
legal services. Sidley's Intellectual Property lawyers
provide a full range of asset development and management,
counseling, dispute resolution, licensing, litigation
and prosecution services in all aspects of intellectual
property and technology. We provide clients with the
accumulated knowledge and experience of more than 80
intellectual property lawyers, as well as the institutional
resources of a full-service, multinational law firm.
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Kirkland & Ellis is an international law
firm that serves global clients, with offices in San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Washington,
D.C., London and Munich. Today, Kirkland & Ellis continues
to work with a long standing base of clients engaged
in industries as varied as manufacturing, transportation,
telecommunications, private equity/venture capital,
pharmaceutical, technology, energy, health care, real
estate, chemicals, food products, finance, insurance,
e commerce, advertising, sales and marketing, and accounting.
In the Intellectual Property practice area, our lawyers
excel in their ability to understand the value, nature
and importance of all forms of intellectual property
rights and how those rights impact the businesses of
our clients. In the fourth annual IP Law & Business
survey, "Go Fish," Kirkland & Ellis ranked as one of
the top three firms in the number of patent cases handled
in 2003. In 2003, The American Lawyer selected Kirkland
& Ellis as one of the top four finalists in the survey
"IP Litigation Department of the Year." |
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Cooley Godward LLP is an established provider
of strategic litigation and business transaction services
and a recognized leader in the representation of high-growth
private and public companies, financial institutions,
venture capital firms and nonprofit organizations. Our
singular focus on providing the highest quality legal
services has enabled our clients to achieve their strategic
business objectives and garnered for Cooley recognition
as one of the country's leading law firms. Cooley's
Intellectual Property attorneys counsel clients on the
best way to design and build valuable intellectual property
portfolios as well as how to pursue and defend their
intellectual property rights. In the 2004 American Lawyer
Associates Survey best places to work category, Cooley
ranked #2 amongst Am Law 100/Global 100 Firms. Headquartered
in Palo Alto, California, Cooley has approximately 450
attorneys nationwide with affiliates throughout Europe
and Asia. For additional information: www.cooley.com. |
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Socialtext Incorporated is enterprise social software for collaboration. Socialtext captures the best features of web-native
tools called "wikis" and "weblogs" and brings them inside
your enterprise to create a collaboration and knowledge tool
that works the way people do. |
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