This program offers 1 participatory MCLE credit. You must register in advance to participate.

Presented by the Trademark Interest Group

The speaker will discuss the best ways to introduce and improve the probative value of trial evidence. Tips will be shared on specific types of evidence, including discovery responses, discovery depositions, Internet materials, official records and third-party uses. The utility of evidentiary objections and best ways to prove fame will also be addressed.

Michael B. Adlin is an Administrative Trademark Judge with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB). He previously served as an interlocutory attorney with the TTAB, and before that was an attorney-advisor with the USPTO Office of Enforcement, part of the Office of External Affairs. Prior to joining the USPTO, Judge Adlin was in private practice as an associate, of counsel, and partner with the national law firms Arter & Hadden, Piper Rudnick and Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, respectively. He earned his juris doctor from Boston University School of Law, and a B.A. in Political Science and Public Policy from Duke University.

Moderator: Robert Payne