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LAIPLA Dinner Meeting, Tuesday, April 17, 2007 March 30, 2007

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FLYER: 4-17-07 Event Flyer & Registration

The Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association is pleased to announce our next dinner event which will be held on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 beginning at 6:00 p.m. at The California Club, 538 South Flower Street, Los Angeles, CA

Join us as we hear from Mr. John Malcolm, Executive Vice President & Director of the Worldwide Anti-Piracy Operations for the Motion Picture Association of America.  This presentation will give us a behind the scene peek illustrating where counterfeited goods are made, technicalities of the actual seizure process, some legal difficulties, and some of the political difficulties and challenges on the global market.

This presentation is hands-on for illustrating the actual enforcement process, including actual pictures of some real seizure scenes and manufacturing sites of counterfeited products. Mr. Malcolm formerly held the position of Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice, where his responsibilities included overseeing the Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section, the Domestic Security Section, the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section and the Office of Special Investigations.

Mr. Malcolm is an honors graduate from Columbia College and Harvard Law School.  For seven years, Mr. Malcolm was an assistant U.S. Attorney in Atlanta, in the fraud and public corruption section.  He also served as an Associate Independent Counsel in Washington, D.C. investigating fraud and abuse at HUD.  Before rejoining the Department of Justice in 2001, Mr. Malcolm was a partner at the Atlanta law firm of Malcolm & Schroeder, L.L.P.  Please reply YES to this email or use the attached registration form to let us know you will be joining us.  We encourage you to invite your colleagues and friends to attend. 

This event is business attire (coat and tie for men.) 

Box (www.box.net) March 27, 2007

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This seems like a neat idea: www.box.net

Let me know what you think of it.

-Athar.

Welcome to the Tungle March 25, 2007

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Came across Tungle (www.tungle.com) which is a peer-to-peer meeting/scheduling plugin for Outlook and works across various systems. Currently, it supports Outook (with or without Exchange,) Lotus Notes and Google Calendar. I am sure they will build other apps as well.

I can definitely see value in being able to share one’s availability with others. However, I think Tungle’s success will be hampered by the fact that it has to be downloaded and installed. Most people are weary of installing plugins — especially those that share information with others over the internet.

My take on Tungle is: Good idea. But I don’t think it will fly with most people.