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Intellectual Property Section,State Bar of GeorgiaAnnual ReportPage 18 of 67As soon as possible after the event, the attendee list and a single check for the totalamount of MCLE fees for all attendees should be sent to me at I.C.L.E. by you or yourrepresentative, and we will take care of entering each individual’s credits in his or her fileat the Bar and remitting the collected fees to the Bar.This will be done by I.C.L.E. as a service to the GA Bar Sections and at no cost.We have agreed to a unique arrangement for the IP Section, i.e., that the section does nomore than six. one-hour CLE events of this type during the year. Also, we ask youmention that I.C.L.E. is an event co-sponsor in all of your program marketing andannouncements. My e-mail address is sharper@iclega.org and my phone number is 706-389-7715.In return, to help ICLE with its revenue model, the Section offered to host moremulti-hour meetings that it had in the past. To this end, it offered to host its Boot Camp,participate in the Mid-Year meeting, and again participate in its off-shore Institute.RENEWED PARTICIPATION IN THE BAR’S MIDYEAR MEETING:The Section has not participated in either the Mid-Year Meeting or the AnnualMeeting of the Georgia Bar in several years. This disappointed me for multiple reasons:first, I think the Section, as part of the larger bar, has a duty to participate in at least someof the Bar’s semi-annual events. Second, doing so would allow the Section to help ICLEwith its revenue model. Third, and most importantly, I had received numerous requestsfrom senior intellectual property attorneys asking if there were ways to connect theintellectual property bar with the larger bar.With this in mind, on January 11, 2013, the Section hosted a 3-hour CLE entitled“How to Litigate a Patent Infringement Case” at the Georgia Bar’s mid-year meeting atthe St. Regis Atlanta. Patrick L. Coyne (Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett &Dunner, LLP, Washington, D.C.) presented an interesting and informative class to astanding room only crowd of attorneys with a variety of different backgrounds. Coyneprovided practical advice for handling patent cases from pre-discovery through appeal.He also provided checklists and tips for settlement and management of your case andclient.244