ITCan Annual IP Update

October 28, 2011 Barry Sookman 0 Comments

I had the pleasure of attending ITCan’s 15th Annual Conference yesterday. I moderated the Annual IP Update. I also gave the upate on copyright, pitch hitting for Casey Chisick who had to go to court. My slides are below

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