<img src="/site/files/oldnewsfiles/DuPontIPCLE235px.jpg" width="235" height="200" class="FloatRight" alt="DuPontIPCLE235px">Widener Law and DuPont Legal have announced plans for the daylong conference they co-sponsor each fall that focuses on developments in intellectual property law.<br><br>The conference will be held Tuesday, Sept. 30 at the DuPont Country Club in Wilmington and will feature speakers who are among the nation’s premier authorities on various intellectual property law topics. The event attracted more than 200 attendees in 2013 and this year’s program will feature discussions on due diligence in intellectual property cases, online enforcement and changing strategies for trademark infringement, updates to nontraditional intellectual property law involving things like 3D printing and scent marks, and more.<br><br>Among this year’s featured speakers are:<ul>
<li>Chief Judge Leonard P. Stark of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware and U.S. District Judge Leonard Davis of the Eastern District of Texas, who, along with moderator Richard Horwitz of Potter Anderson, will serve as the event’s opening panel.</li>
<li>Andrew Byrnes, chief of staff of the U.S. Patent &amp; Trademark Office.</li>
<li>Intellectual property ethics expert Professor David Hricik of Mercer University School of Law in Georgia.</li>
</ul>Attorneys from Pennsylvania and Delaware who attend the conference will be eligible for seven continuing legal education credits, including one ethics credit. Other states will be announced. Cost for the event is $625 and includes course materials, continental breakfast, lunch and refreshment breaks. To register, or to see a conference brochure, see <a href="http://www.dupontlegalmodel.com/news/events/intellectual-property-continuing-legal-education-seminar/">law.widener.edu/dupont2014</a>. <br><br>Continental breakfast and registration check-in will begin at 7 a.m. <a href="/Academics/Faculty/ProfilesDe/DalyErin.aspx">Erin Daly</a>, interim dean of Widener Law Delaware will begin the program at 8 a.m. The seminar runs through 5 p.m. and will be followed by a reception hosted by DuPont executive legal leadership. <a href="http://www.dupont.com/corporate-functions/our-company/leadership/functional-leaders/articles/walker.html">Michael Walker</a>, DuPont vice president and chief intellectual property counsel, and a member of the Widener Law Board of Overseers, will attend.