On January 8th, Mel Garner spoke at Practicing Law Institute’s IP Issues in Business Transactions program for 2018. He appeared on a panel titled “Designing, Creating, and Pruning an IP Portfolio,” that discussed various topics including identifying a business case and creating an IP value chain, mining IP as a strategic asset, how to acquire and sell IP, obtaining rights, confidentiality issues, and more. Program details can be found at

https://www.pli.edu/Content/Seminar/IP_Issues_in_Business_Transactions_2018/_/N-4kZ1z102aa?Ns=sort_date%7c1&ID=318900.