Businesses and other organizations looking into cloud computing must choose the appropriate service and deployment models. That means understanding the business models, developing an appropriate legal team, studying the available providers and their service agreements, and knowing their liabilities limitations. Businesses as well should understand what and why they need to protect their inventions, best practices, and the process toward patent and trademark protection.

Nelson Mullins will host simultaneous sessions of a CLE event in its Columbia and Greenville offices Feb. 13, 2019 beginning at 2 p.m. to discuss these issues in conjunction with the South Carolina Chapter – Association of Corporate Counsel. The presentation is entitled Practice Tips:  From Cloud Computing to Harvesting the Value of IP.

Speaking in Columbia will be partners Craig Killen and Mason Hogue. Joining them will be Steve Champion, vice president of Information Technology at Novolex. In Greenville, partner Daniel Lumm and of counsel Nichole Hayden will speak. Joining them will be Marcia Tuten, corporate IP attorney and president of Sonoco Development, Inc. 

Hogue co-heads the Firm’s technology and procurement industry practice group, and Killen focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation, portfolio management, and strategic counseling. Lumm practices in the area of corporate law, contracts, technology law, Internet, and privacy law. Hayden is a registered patent attorney, practicing with the intellectual property group.

The sessions consist of two 90-minute segments followed by refreshments.