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Intellectual Property Section,State Bar of GeorgiaAnnual ReportPage 16 of 67The Institute of Continuing Legal Education, which is a great friend of the Sectionand is our provider of CLE credit, does not typically host 1-hour events due to their shortduration. In past years, ICLE allowed the Section to provide four Lunch and Learns peryear. This was later increased to six. However, given that intellectual property is uniquein that it spans diverse disciplines of copyright, patent, trademark, licensing, andlitigation, we did not have enough Lunch and Learn credits for even our base committeesto receive one each. Accordingly, what would happen would be Committee Chairspreparing Lunch and Learn events that were worthy of CLE credit, but which were notallowed to give it. This led to Committee Chairs becoming frustrated.At the same time, the Section readily understands that ICLE receives money tofund its operations from the events that it provides. More importantly, receipts from wellattended events, as many Section events tend to be, is used to fund lesser-attended events,such as those held outside Atlanta.At the start of the fiscal year, I began discussions with Steve Harper trying toreach a compromise between these two (sometimes conflicting) missions. The result wasan unprecedented agreement between ICLE and the Section. To my knowledge, theIntellectual Property Section is the only Section of the Bar to receive the benefit of thisagreement. Moreover, this is the first year the agreement has been in place.In short, the Section and ICLE agreed that the Section would be permitted to doup to 12 Lunch and Learn events, each offering 1 hour of CLE credit. The first sixwould be under our traditional arrangement, with each constituting a self-study hour ofcredit. The additional six, however, would be live hours of credit and would be subjectto the rules set forth in the following correspondence from Steve Harper at ICLE:From: Stephen J Harper Date: Friday, May 11, 2012 2:01 PMTo: Philip Burrus , Derrick Stanley Cc: Lawrence F Jones , Douglas G Ashworth Subject: Summary of May 10th MeetingIn recognition of the three distinct practice areas represented by the IP Sectionmembership, i.e., trademark, patent and copyright, ICLE agrees to a unique procedureallowing the section to present one, one-hour lunchtime type CLE event per month, for a242