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THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO MARCH 2020, NEW YORK.

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Companies worldwide increasingly are dependent on intangible assets to support their growth.

Whether it be proprietary data, software programs or industrial designs, businesses are becoming more concerned about guarding their intellectual property rights as they rely less on physical plant and property and more on innovative ideas to build their revenues.

Patent and copywrite protection have long been concerns, but as organizations compete across borders and through cyberspace they face new challenges in guarding their intellectual property. And litigation over alleged patent infringements is rising in the United States and globally.

When financial losses occur, traditional insurance may not respond adequately. Exclusions and policy limits may limit or rule out coverage for intellectual property claims and companies can be left bearing the costs themselves.

Insurers and brokers are responding with specialty intellectual property insurance policies and significant capacity is available, but it remains an evolving market.

To explore in-depth a business exposure that is hitting numerous organizations, Business Insurance is sponsoring a new one-day conference to examine intellectual property risk.

Legal, insurance and other intellectual property experts will discuss risk management and insurance strategies to protect intellectual property assets and examine what’s available from established and new insurance protections when things go wrong.

ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS
Dan Auslander, director of marketing and development at Ambridge Partners LLC in New York
Nick Chmielewski, chief broking officer, intellectual property solutions at Aon PLC in Chicago 
Robert Fletcher, president and chief executive officer of Intellectual Property Insurance Services Corporation (IPISC) in Louisville, Kentucky
Robert Kingsley, senior vice president of insurance operations for RPX Corp. in Sacramento, California
Kimberly Klein Cauthorn, intellectual property leader at Willis Towers Watson PLC in Austin, Texas
Matthew Hogg, vice president and underwriting manager with Liberty Specialty Markets, a unit of Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. in London
Gavin Souter, editor of Business Insurance in Chicago
Salvatore P. Tamburo, partner, Blank Rome LLP in Washington
Liz Walker, director, enterprise risk & global insurance at Groupon Inc. in Chicago