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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 02:17:23 -0400
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From: Robert Hettinga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DCSB: Warren Agin; Bankruptcy and Internet Commerce Assets
Cc: Warren Agin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rodney Thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Muni Savyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Elias Israel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Suzan Dionne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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The Digital Commerce Society of Boston
Presents
Warren Agin
Founder,
Swiggart & Agin, LLC
From Tulips to Technology:
Treatment of Electronic Commerce Structures
When the Bubble Bursts.
Tuesday, November 2nd, 1999
12 - 2 PM
The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston
One Federal Street, Boston, MA
Even as the new economy grows, some companies, like Digicash and
Websecure, miss a beat. They find themselves in financial trouble and
sometimes bankrupt. When this happens, the most significant remaining
asset is the company's patent rights. The bankruptcy process provides
opportunities, both for the financially troubled companies and their
competitors, to restructure patent portfolios and licenses. It also
contains risks. The bankruptcy process can allow technology licensors
to force a termination of a patent license and at least one court has
held that a company passing through bankruptcy will lose its rights
under patent licenses.
Managing a patent portfolio requires knowledge of the bankruptcy
process and the special issues concerning technology companies.
Warren Agin will address how the bankruptcy process treats technology
companies and the various licensing and technology structures they
use. He will review treatment of patent and software licenses,
copyrights, and deal structures like partnering and web-linking
agreements. In addition to reviewing the new law being developed in
these areas, the talk will focus on the practical aspects of how
companies in bankruptcy, or those doing business with a bankrupt
company, can use the bankruptcy process to rebuild their business
structures and relationships.
Warren E. Agin is a founding member of Swiggart & Agin, LLC, a
software and Internet boutique in Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Agin's
practice focuses in the areas of bankruptcy and insolvency law,
corporate law, and computer and Internet law. Representative
technology clients include new and established software companies,
Internet portals, hardware designers, web site design firms, and
system integrators. In the bankruptcy field, Mr. Agin represents both
debtors and creditors in a variety of consumer and commercial
bankruptcy matters, including technology related bankruptcy matters.
Mr. Agin authored BANKRUPTCY AND SECURED LENDING IN CYBERSPACE (Bowne
& Co., Inc. 1999), the first treatise to discuss how the Internet is
changing bankruptcy law and practice. A contributing editor on
intellectual property and technology issues to the Norton Bankruptcy
Law and Practice, 2d legal treatise, Mr. Agin has written and
lectured extensively on the topics of bankruptcy and technology law,
including presentations for the American Bar Association, National
Business Institute, Boston Bar Association, and Massachusetts
Continuing Legal Education. Mr. Agin currently serves as Chair of the
American Bar Association's Business Law Section's Electronic
Transactions in Bankruptcy Subcommittee (within the Business
Bankruptcy Committee) and Vice-Chair of the ABA's Joint Subcommittee
on Electronic Financial Services. Locally, he is Chair of the Boston
Bar Association's Technology Committee for the Solo & Small Firm
Practice Section.
This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held
on Tuesday, November 2, 1999, from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of
the Harvard Club of Boston, on One Federal Street. The price for
lunch is $35.00. This price includes lunch, room rental, various A/V
hardware, and the speakers' lunch. The Harvard Club *does* have
dress code: jackets and ties for men (and no sneakers or jeans), and
"appropriate business attire" (whatever that means), for women. Fair
warning: since we purchase these luncheons in advance, we will be
unable to refund the price of your lunch if the Club finds you in
violation of the dress code.
We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or, if we
*really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of
Boston", by Saturday, October 30th, or you won't be on the list for
lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston
will have to be sent back.
Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston,
Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The
Harvard Club of Boston", in the amount of $35.00. Please include your
e-mail address so that we can send you a confirmation
If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements
(We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for
instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can
work something out.
Upcoming speakers for DCSB are:
December Rodney Thayer Cryptographic Transnationality
January Elias Israel The Libertarians and Digital Commerce
February Suzan Dionne The Law of Digital Cash
We are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston
on the first Tuesday of the month, and you are a principal in digital
commerce, and would like to make a presentation to the Society,
please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Committee, care of Robert
Hettinga, <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
For more information about the Digital Commerce Society of Boston,
send "info dcsb" in the body of a message to <mailto:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . If you want to subscribe to the DCSB e-mail
list, send "subscribe dcsb" in the body of a message to <mailto:
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We look forward to seeing you there!
Cheers,
Robert Hettinga
Moderator,
The Digital Commerce Society of Boston
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"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
