On January 7, 2019, Mel Garner will speak at Practicing Law Institute’s “IP Issues in Business Transactions” program for 2019. Mel will appear on a panel titled “Designing, Creating, and Pruning an IP Portfolio,” that will address various topics including identifying a business case and creating an IP value chain, mining IP as a strategic asset, special considerations for handling non-core assets, how to acquire and sell IP and more. The panel is part of a two-day program aimed at attorneys who confront intellectual property issues in the context of a variety of corporate, commercial and other business transactions. See

http://www.pli.edu/re.aspx?mpk=10689&t=LDF9_9ADIS for further details.