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Friday, 19 February 2010: Hot Issues in Intellectual Property Law A Commercial Law Association half-day seminar 9.15am to 12.30pm, Dixson Room, NSW State Library. CLA members $285; non-members $335 Register at www.cla.org.au

Speakers: Anthony Franklin SC, 4 St James Hall Chambers (chair) Carmen Champion, 4 St James Hall Chambers Jane Rawlings, 4 St James Hall Chambers Andrew Wiseman, Partner, Allens Arthur Robinson

Gain an insight into:

• Ensuring that intellectual property by employees and contractors belongs to the employer/commissioning party

• Losing IP rights: loose lips sink patens (and more)

• The latest and greatest on copyright

• Recent cases: Larrikin-Kookaburra sits on the old oat tree.iiNet

• A free ride for online consumers? Monetising content and liberating artists in a digital world

Friday, 19 February 2010: Common Pitfalls in Pleading a Section 52 Case A Commercial Law Association lunchtime seminar 12.30 to 2.00pm, Dixson Room, NSW State Library. CLA members $59; non-members $99 Register at www.cla.org.au

Speaker:

Ian Tonking SC, 7 Selborne Chambers

It has long been common practice to plead s52 as an alternative cause of action in cases involving tort or contract claims, as well as in cases involving breaches of statutory or fiduciary duty and in many other areas. There may often be remedial, procedural, evidentiary or jurisdictional benefits in so doing. All too often however some of the elements or other prerequisites of a successful s52 claim are overlooked. These may be fatal, or at least difficult to cure, and may cause unnecessary distraction, cost and delay.� It is worth having a checklist which would include the elementary as well as the more arcane items that may need to be addressed. � Friday, 26 February 2010: _PPS: An Introduction to the _Personal Property Securities Act 2009 A Commercial Law Association halfday seminar 9.15am to 12.15pm, Friday, 26 February, Dixson Room, NSW State Library. CLA members $285; non-members $335 Register at www.cla.org.au

Speakers:

Bruce Whittaker, Partner, Blake Dawson (Chair) Diccon Loxton, Partner, Allens Arthur Robinson Patrick Lowden, Partner, Freehills Professor John Stumbles, University of Sydney

Gain an insight into:

• History and rationale of the PPS Act 2009

• The nature of security interest under the Act and the new concepts of investment entitlement, investment instrument, chattel paper and purchase money security interest

• The new PPS priority and extinguishment rules and their impact on existing security structures

• The new PPS Register: transitional arrangements, enforcement of securities and impact of insolvency

Friday, 26 February 2010: Mistake in Contract Formation and Performance. Remedial Options Under Australian Law. A Commercial Law Association lunchtime seminar 12.30 to 2.00pm, Dixson Room, NSW State Library. CLA members $59; non-members $99 Register at www.cla.org.au

Speaker:

Jeffrey Goldberger, Special Counsel, Blake Dawson

Gain an insight into:

• Common mistake at law

• Common mistake in equity

• Unilateral mistake – equitable relief

• Rectification of contracts for common mistake

• Mistaken assumptions and estoppel by convention – the modern law

• Recovery of money paid under a mistake of law or fact – the scope of the restitutionary remedy

Friday, 12 March 2010: The Challenging Pace of Australian Competition and Consumer Law. A Commercial Law Association lunchtime seminar 12.30 to 2.00pm, Dixson Room, NSW State Library. CLA members $59; non-members $99 Register at www.cla.org.au

Speaker: Russell Miller AO, Partner, Minter Ellison

Gain an insight into:

• ACCC enforcement priorities

• Upgrading consumer laws

18 February 2010