New Cautionary Tales From The E-Discovery Underworld
Presenters:
Bob Sloss, Partner, Farella Braun + Martel
Tony Schoenberg, Partner, Farella Braun + Martel

Garden Court Hotel
Palo Alto, CA

Robert Sloss, Speaker, "Who's A Shot Across the Bow ? The Process Behind the Making and Responding to Demands to License Patented Technology"

Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, MA

Robert Sloss, Speaker: "Practical Approaches for Identifying Risky Departures; Monitoring Misappropriation"

Grand Hyatt, San Francisco, CA  

Recent Trends in Patent Damages

Presenter: Bob Sloss, Partner, Farella Braun + Martel LLP
Garden Court Hotel, Palo Alto, CA

A True Symbiosis: Patent Prosecutors And Litigators Working Together

Presenter: Bob Sloss
Garden Court Hotel, Palo Alto 

Delivering the Message: How to Communicate Technical Issues to a Non-Technical Audience

Presenter: Bob Sloss
Garden Court Hotel, Palo Alto

ABA Litigation Section Intellectual Property Committee
September 2009 IP Roundtable - Silicon Valley
"Hot Topics: A Summary of the Summer's Sizzling Patent Happenings"
Moderators: Bob Sloss and James Morando
Garden Court Hotel, Palo Alto, CA

ABA Litigation Section Intellectual Property Committee
September 2009 IP Roundtable - San Francisco
"Hot Topics: A Summary of the Summer's Sizzling Patent Happenings"
Moderators: Bob Sloss and James Morando
Farella Braun + Martel, San Francisco, CA

Silicon Valley Breakfast Program
Avoiding Land Mines in the Development of New Technologies:
Freedom to Operate Analyses in a World Inundated with Patents 
Co-Hosted By: Farella Braun + Martel LLP & Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner PA
Garden Court Hotel, Palo Alto, CA

Bob Sloss & Brian Keating, presenters, Silicon Valley IP Breakfast Program, "Patent Litigation in a Changing Word".
Garden Court Hotel, Palo Alto

ABA Litigation Section Intellectual Property Committee
March 2009 IP Roundtable - San Francisco
"Patent Holdup, Patent Remedies and Antitrust Responses: The Role of Patent Remedies and Antitrust Law in Dealing with "Patent Holdup's""

Moderators: Bob Sloss & Julie Wahlstrand
Farella Braun + Martel, San Francisco

Bob Sloss, Partner, Farella Braun + Martel's IP & Technology Department & Fred Hadidi, Partner, Chao Hadidi Stark & Barker LLP, present on the topic "Taking A Strategic Approach To Patent Litigation"

Garden Court Hotel, 520 Cowper Ave., Palo Alto
Registration - 8:30 am, Presentation - 9:00 am, Q&A - 10:00 am

Program Highlights:
- Thinking strategically in the early stages of patent litigation
- Understanding how recent developments in patent law can impact both plaintiffs and defendant

Bob Sloss, presenter, American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) 2008 Spring Meeting, "Preparing Cases to Win: Strategic Discovery Thinking"
Houston, TX

Today's Issues For Next Year's Business
Key Insurance And IP Issues That Affect You

Program highlights:
- The Aerojet ruling that significantly impacts coverage for litigation settlements.
- Potential coverage for patent infringements - what is best for you?
- The controversy and impact of the changes to Patent Local Rules of the Northern District of California.

Garden Court Hotel, 520 Cowper Street, Palo Alto, CA

"The Attorney-Client Privilege: Navigating Recent Decisions and How They Affect Your Technology Company"
ABA Litigation Section Intellectual Property Committee
March 2008 IP Roundtable
Moderators:
Bob Sloss & Helen Dutton
Farella Braun + Martel's San Francisco office

Upheaval In Patent Law, What Does The Future Hold?

Presenters:
Robert Sloss, Intellectual Property Partner, Farella Braun + Martel LLP and Michael Lynch, Shareholder, Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

Garden Court Hotel, Palo Alto, CA

Bob Sloss, panelist, eCommerce/Privacy Committee Q2 Meeting: Chief Privacy Officer Roundtable
Garden Court Hotel, Palo Alto, CA

Bob Sloss, speaker, AIPLA 2007 Spring Meeting, "Idertification and Selection of Experts for a Patent Case"
Boston, MA

Bob Sloss, co-presenter with Deloitte FAS LLP, IP Breakfast Program - "The Courts Meet the Electronic Age: Keeping Up With The Changes In Electronic Discovery".
Garden Court Hotel, Palo Alto, CA

Farella Braun + Martel LLP and Stanford Law School's Program in Law, Science & Technology are  co-hosting an IP Breakfast Program on "Understanding the Supreme Court's Recent Patent Decisions: How those decisions may impact technology companies."

Presenters:
Robert Sloss, Intellectual Property partner with Farella Braun + Martel and
Mark Lemley (William H. Neukom Professor of Law; Director, Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology; Of Counsel, Keker & Van Nest LLP).
Stanford Law School Moot Court Room

Farella Braun + Martel will host an IP Breakfast Program in cooperation with Stanford's Law Science and Technology Program at the Garden Court Hotel in Palo Alto.  Presenting the program will be FBM IP Partner Robert Sloss and In-House Legal Consultant Joshua Lipp. 

Bob Sloss, Moderator, "On the Ownership of Data - Copyright, Public domain or Open Source?"
Boalt Hall, Berkeley, CA

IP partner Bob Sloss will  be a panel member at the session titled "Claim Construction and Scope - Hot topics in Biotech" at the ACI’s 6th Advanced Forum on Biotech Patents Conference being held at the Crown Plaza Union Square, San Francisco, CA.

Intellectual Property Partner Bob Sloss and Business Litigation Associate James Mann will lead a seminar on the subject "Needle in a Haystack: What You Need To Know About Electronic Discovery" at the Garden Court Hotel in Palo Alto, CA.

IP partner Robert Sloss will lead a workshop titled "Patents Covering the Downloading of Songs and Video - and Other Traps" at the AIPLA Annual Meeting in Washington DC.

Farella Braun + Martel Intellectual Property partner Robert Sloss and co-sponsor Analysis Group, Inc.'s Managing Principal Bruce Deal will discuss the economic issues that surround patent cases.

Partners Robert Sloss and Dean Gloster will lead a seminar titled "When IP-Driven Companies Drive Off the Road: Technology Company Re-Starts, Salvage, or Asset Collection" at the Garden Court Hotel in Palo Alto.

Partner Robert Sloss spoke on the subject of "Managing the Business Risks of Open Source Software" at the Garden Court Hotel in Palo Alto, CA. 

Farella Braun + Martel partners Robert Sloss and Dean Gloster and IPotential CEO Ron Epstein will speak on how to use intellectual property to protect, grow and add value to a business, strategies and key issues in patent (and other IP) licensing, and patent litigation as a component of IP strategy. Garden Court Hotel in Palo Alto from 9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. To register contact rsvp@fbm.com.

Farella Braun + Martel will host an ABA IP Roundtable on the topic, "Five Years Under the DMCA: Examining the Ongoing Conflict Between Access and Protection." Intellectual Property Litigation attorneys Robert Sloss and Darrell Fruth will moderate the discussion.

October 30, 2003, Robert Sloss & Darrell Fruth, "File Sharing and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act," 3:30 p.m. (Eastern Time) , AIPLA Annual Meeting, Grand Hyatt Hotel, Washington, D.C.