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Recent Releases Update and Future Development Plans
Learn about FoundationIP's major releases for 2008 and how our customers participate in the process of developing a robust product that’s responsive to your needs.

• Influence FoundationIP's development plans
• Find out the main themes for future releases

Law Update Service
Join us for a review of the 1st quarter 2008 Law Update and hear about release plans for the rest of the year.

• What deadlines can you expect to find in the Law Update Service?
• What work is under way to further build the Law Update Service?

Best Practices: Centralizing or Decentralizing Your IP Docketing?
Why are some IP departments centralized and others decentralized? Two large corporate practices, Sun Microsystems, Inc. and United Technologies Corporation, share their opposing views in this panel discussion and how they manage docketing in each situation.

• Factors in the decision to centralize or decentralize
• The pros and cons of each viewpoint

Best Practices: FoundationIP for the Solo Practitioner or Small Office
Controlling IP management costs is critical for the solo practitioner or small office. Geron Corporation shares how you can use FoundationIP to accomplish more work in less time.

• Features that offer the most "bang for the buck"
• How easy it is to use these features

Best Practices: Invention Disclosures Management
An intuitive and efficient invention disclosure process is essential for inventors, patent review committees and attorneys. Hear how eBay, Inc. is supporting its innovators and attorneys alike.

• How well-designed submission forms and templates guide the Invention Disclosure
• Ideas for training inventors

Roundtable Discussion: Managing Trademarks in FoundationIP
How does FoundationIP help you in your practice? What new features would be valuable to you? Join us to discuss the needs of trademark practitioners.

• New features most desired by your peers
• Current features that users find most useful

Best Practices: Effective Collaboration Between Law Firms and Corporations
Keep the corporation and its agents in sync. Wagner Blecher LLP explains how to increase online collaboration with its clients by using automatic notifiers, FoundationIP’s email system, document access and scheduled reports, among other features.

• How FoundationIP lowers costs of collaboration
• Enabling self service

Best Practices: Managing Portfolio Transfers
Learn how to quickly and accurately manage the file transfer process. Kilpatrick Stockton LLP shares best practices and shows you how FoundationIP supports this process both in software and in services.

• Tips and tricks for managing file transfers
• Available support services

Best Practices: IDS Management in FoundationIP
Conventional management of prior art and citing references can be time consuming and risky. Learn how Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A. reduces both effort and risk using the IDS Manager and related features.

• FoundationIP automatically prompts you to file an IDS or Supplemental IDS
• The IDS Manager ensures consistency in citations across applications

Training: Beyond the Basics
If you’ve done our basic training and you use FoundationIP regularly, join this session to get insight into some of the more advanced features that will make
your job easier.

• Improve your efficiency
• Learn how FoundationIP is more than just docketing

Training: Custom Templates
Are you taking advantage of the flexibility and efficiency of custom activities in the system? Learn how to build a custom tailored work flow and enhance system templates (country law).

• Automating a custom work flow saves time and builds docketing consistency
• Copying and modifying templates is a quick way to build a work flow

Training: Roles/Access/Security
Learn how to create accounts for different user types and guarantee confidentiality for your vital IP data. If your clients/agents log into your system, then you need to keep a tab on your security.

• Create secure accounts
• Keep your data confidential

Training: Basic Reporting
Inexperienced user? Or simply forgotten a few of the first steps in report writing? Get a handle on basic report writing by concentrating on report planning, block selection, sorting and filtering reports.

• Design your first report based on your specifications
• Learn techniques to find information faster

Training: Advanced Document Reports
You know how to create a basic document report, so what’s next? Learn how to create Word reports with special commands and custom interview screens.

• Create personalized interview screens
• Design your own file

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