Wavefront Presents WaveGuide™ Seminar:
Legal Issues for Wireless Social Networking Apps & Services

 

EVENT DETAILS

Date: Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Time: 8:45 AM - 12:00 PM (PST)
Location: 1055 West Hastings Street (conference center lower level), Vancouver, BC [MAP]
Cost: Free. Pre-registration is required, as seating is limited. 

 

SUMMARY

Attend this seminar to receive an introduction to legal issues affecting your wireless social networking applications and services. Topics include ownership and use of user-generated content, third party IP infringement issues, protection of children, criminal conduct by users, and subpoenas from law enforcement agencies. The basic Canadian and US legal issues relating to privacy, personal information and data protection will be reviewed including key terms to include in user agreements for your protection.

Understanding the legal ecosystem is key to protecting your rights and avoiding lawsuits. Addressing these issues properly projects maturity and credibility to your users, investors and business partners. It will be an interactive forum where participants can discuss the real and immediate legal problems they are facing in their wireless companies today with lawyers of Fasken Martineau.

When you register, you will be asked to describe your wireless app and to identify any legal issues you would like to see addressed. The seminar content will be tailored to your products and issues. Bring your questions!

 

AGENDA

• 08:45 AM – 09:15 AM         Registration, Continental Breakfast and Networking
• 09:15 AM – 11:15 AM         Presentation/Forum Discussion Topics
• Social Networking Sites and Services (Ownership of user generated content, rights of use, third party IP infringement issues, protection of children, criminal conduct, subpoenas, etc)
• Personal Information and Data Protection (Canadian and US privacy regulations)
• User Agreements (key terms to include for your protection)
• 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM         Questions/Answers and Networking
  

 

 

ABOUT FASKEN MARTINEAU

Fasken Martineau, which ranks among the four largest law firms in Canada (LEXPERT's 2007 Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada), is a leading Canadian business and litigation law firm. With over 650 lawyers, the firm has offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, Montréal and Québec City, as well as London and Johannesburg. Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP is a limited liability partnership under the laws of Ontario, and is registered as such for the purposes of its professional activities in Québec.

 

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Bruce Tattrie, partner, is a member of the Securities and Technology Business Unit and the Technology and Intellectual Property Practice Group of Fasken Martineau. Bruce practices corporate / commercial law, with an emphasis on information technology (IT) transactions and other commercial transactions involving technology companies.

Recognized by Best Lawyers as one of Vancouver's leading IT lawyers, Bruce has worked closely with clients in preparing and negotiating various technology-related transactions, including outsourcing, licensing, distribution, technology transfer, strategic alliance and ecommerce related transactions.

Bruce also has extensive experience representing clients on transactions involving telecommunications infrastructure and capacity, the acquisition, construction and disposition of fiber optic networks, grants of irrevocable rights of use and capacity, the acquisition of underlying rights for telecommunications networks, and structures to achieve compliance with Canadian ownership and control rules.

Bruce is on the steering committee of the firm's national Technology and Intellectual Property practice group, and is the manager of the Vancouver office's Securities and Technology Business Unit.

 

David Ford is an associate in the Securities and Technology Group pf Fasken Martineau. His corporate practice is focused on assisting clients in achieving their business goals in the technology sector.

David provides private technology companies with tactical and innovative legal advice. His growing practice is centered on technology mergers and acquisitions including share and asset acquisitions, divestitures and purchase and sale transactions involving discrete intellectual property, and early-stage technology financing transactions involving both venture capital and Angel capital. David manages complex IT transactions such as licensing, distribution, managed services and alliance agreements; IT and BPO outsourcing arrangements; technology consulting; and professional services agreements.

Having practiced in both the US and Canada, David brings competitive knowledge to Canadian technology companies looking to commercialize their products in the US marketplace and to US counsel exploring Canadian opportunities for their American clients. David is well-versed with and provides strategic advice regarding US and international technology-related regulations, particularly relating to privacy and data protection, such as under HIPAA, the Financial Services (Gramm-Leach-Bailey) Act, COPPA, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and the EU Directives on data protection and electronic commerce.