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Golf & Body NYC  883 Avenue of the Americas (Corner of 33rd St. & 6th Ave.)   View a map of the location Date: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 Event Time 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. To RSVP please email  nyrsvp@luxurycouncil.com Speakers: David Kappos Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLC Steve Miholovich Senior Vice President Marketing, Safenames LTD Roger Thompson  President, North America & Europe Etail-Eye Kindly Hosted By:  With THANKS! to Davler Media & Promenade for the Venue

Counterfeiting and Trademark Protection: An Exploration of Brand Dilution, Trademark Infringement, E-Trademark Piracy and the Growing Gray Market - Increasing Threats to Luxury Brands  If you saw the front page article on Borghese v. Borghese in the June 16 Sunday New York Times and you are a luxury marketer, no matter what side of the equation you fall on, the painful fact of a venerable family in contention for ownership of its own name gives us all pause. And given the speed of the web, the ability to capture and duplicate style-way of men’s and women’s fashions and other luxury products, make it increasingly difficult to discern the real from the fake, the original from the copy.  Not to mention the abundant sources of meticulous knock-off production for the right price.  Add to the mix the impact that blogging, tweeting and – rightly or wrongly, correctly or incorrectly – besmirching the hard won reputations of iconic brands in an instant on line and the need to monitor and respond.  And it is easy to see why the issue of counterfeiting and trademark protection is not of shrinking but of rapidly growing concern for luxury marketers and luxury brands. What luxury brands are doing to prevent counterfeiting of their products and how they compete with the quality of "knock offs" available on the market.  About David Kappos David J. Kappos is a partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.  He is a leader in the field of intellectual property, including IP management and strategy, the development of global IP norms, laws and practices as well as commercialization and enforcement of innovation-based assets.  From 2009 to 2013, Dave served as Under Secretary of Commerce and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).  In that role, he advised the President, Secretary of Commerce and the Administration on IP policy matters.  Dave led the Agency in dramatically reengineering its entire management and operational systems and its engagement with the global innovation community.  He was instrumental in achieving the greatest legislative reform of the U.S. patent system in generations through passage and implementation of the 2011 Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. Prior to leading the USPTO, Dave served as IBM's chief intellectual property lawyer from 2003 to 2009.  In that capacity, he managed all global IP activities for IBM.  During his more than 25 years at IBM, he also served in a variety of other roles including litigation counsel and Asia Pacific IP counsel, where he led all aspects of IP protection, including licensing, transactions support and M&A activity for the Asia/Pacific region. About Steve Miholovich Steve Miholovich, is the Senior Vice President of marketing at Safenames LTD (www.safenames.net) and the General Manager of US operations. Steve has been with Safenames since 2009.  Safenames is a leading provider of global domain name registration services and online brand protection.  Safenames provides domain name consulting and online brand enforcement for some of the world’s largest companies. Steve was formerly the Senior Director of Product Management for Network Solutions and served at the company from 2002 to 2008.  He was responsible for managing its domain name business line, advanced domain services, secondary domain market products, and SSL Certificates. He launched products such as the patented Certified Offer Service, Network Solutions SSL Certificates and was the co-founder of NameJet, one of the world’s largest domain name auction services. Steve has worked on Internet related products for over seventeen years and has been active in the Registrar Constituency within ICANN for the past nine years. Prior to joining Network Solutions Steve spent eleven years atMCI Telecommunications in a number of marketing management positions including audio and Internet conferencing senior product manager.  Steve also launched MCI’s first consumer Internet service, MCI Internet in 1996. Steve received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a minor is History from Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA. About Roger Thompson  Roger Thompson is the President of Etail-Eye: a tailored intelligence service for luxury brands to protect against counterfeiting.  Roger was a highly successful British Military Officer through a 26-year military career.  The first part of his military career was with UK Special Forces – both collecting and taking action against high-grade and sensitive intelligence.  The second part of his military career was as a strategist for UK Army and Defense Board members (including a spell on General Petraeus’s CENTCOM Assessment Team), involving the presentation of critical information and intelligence to Board members for decisions.  A UK Army Board Member said of him: “Roger Thompson is specifically charged with thinking the un-thinkable...has superb analytical skills, finally tuned instincts and...thrives in complexity...Tireless with problems and ingenious with solutions”. Roger has combined with a small, select team of strategic intelligence and analysis professionals to form Etail-eye, a service that fuses market-leading on-line intelligence provision with cutting-edge analytical capabilities. Etail-eye protects luxury brands against counterfeiting, with access to reliable, real-time intelligence in their market.  This enables brands to take appropriate and timely action through “intelligence-led operations” to protect their brands’ value, reputation and profitability. Working with select high-end organizations Roger and his colleagues use the highest-grade intelligence, and analyses to enable decisive action to be taken to enhance a brand’s high-end status, to allow the right price to be maintained, and the appropriate distribution networks to be actively controlled. Roger is UK based, having regularly worked internationally, particularly in the US. and M&A activity for the Asia/Pacific region. About Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP Cravath is widely recognized as one of the preeminent law firms in the world.  Our goal is to be the firm of choice with respect to our clients’ most challenging legal issues, most significant business transactions and most critical disputes.  For decades, those transactions and disputes have often centered on intellectual property and, accordingly, intellectual property is one of the pillars of Cravath’s corporate and litigation practices and reputation.   Cravath lawyers advise clients on intellectual property issues in many corporate contexts, including mergers and acquisitions, financing, corporate structure, and portfolio development and exploitation.  The Firm also handles high-stakes intellectual property disputes involving patents, trademarks, trade secrets and copyrights, as well as antitrust litigation relating to intellectual property.  Our intellectual property transactions and cases are often of immense strategic and financial importance to our clients and frequently involve complex technologies and products.  The Firm’s expertise covers the entire innovation marketplace, spanning the life sciences, information technology, consumer products and industrial and chemicals industries, among others. Cravath was founded in 1819 and maintains offices in New York and London. About Safenames LTD Safenames is a leading global domain name registration company that specializes in corporate domain portfolio management and online trademark infringement protection services.  The company was founded in 1997 and became ICANN accredited in 1999.  It is headquartered in Milton Keynes, England with regional offices in Leesburg, Virginia, Los Angeles, CA and Brisbane, Australia.  Safenames combines highly experienced and knowledgeable account support along with a comprehensive suite of customizable web-based products and services to make the task of registering and managing domains in over 240 countries and territories easy and efficient. Safenames’ Mark Protect service is designed to enable companies to identify, prioritize and group infringing domain names and counterfeit sites to protect a company’s online brand identity around the world.  This portal contains a fully managed global search tool that identifies domains with your brand name and/or trademark and counterfeit goods.  Mark Protect provides prioritization of the most harmful domains infringing on your brand.  The Mark Protect portal tracks results, highlights infringement patterns which aids in the recovery of domain names and website take downs.  The Safenames' legal team consists of domain recovery experts who build a case, collect and store discovery material, draft cease and desist letters and/or submit formal arbitration complaints. About Etail Eye  Etail-eye is your strategic partner of choice for Brand and Market Protection. Etail-eye has a depth of understanding of, and passion for, innovative Brand and Market Protection solutions that is unsurpassed. What Does Etail-eye Do? Etail-eye enables you to take proactive control of your marketplace, protecting your brand value, corporate reputation and profitability. Our real-time monitoring of the marketplace provides you with intelligence, enabling you to act decisively to protect and increase market share. Etail-eye provides the capability to: monitor your online marketplace; control your distribution network; and respond with a wide range of solutions to give your brand the competitive advantage. The uniqueness of Etail-eye is defined by: The provision of real-time, actionable intelligence about your brand’s position in the market place The presentation of this intelligence in a way that enables decision makers to take informed decisions and react effectively and promptly with appropriate, innovative response solutions to protect your brand, your corporate reputation and your profit. About Promenade Promenade magazine, acquired by Davler Media in 2007, is a luxury publication that focuses on the finest that New York has to offer – chic fashion must-haves, one-of-kind jewelry that dazzles, Manhattan’s best restaurants, most exclusive real estate properties, the city’s unparalleled cultural life and updated guides to shopping.Promenade reaches 3 million readers per issue, in four-and-five-star hotel rooms, private clubs and upscale residential buildings- readers who are highly educated, well-traveled and cultured, with means to significantly increase your business. Promenade puts your brand in front of New York’s luxury audience. Recently, Davler acquired another luxury publication, New York Spaces – The Home Design Magazine of Metropolitan New York.    If you'd like additional information about Promenade or New York Spaces, please contact us. About Golf & Body NYC Golf & Body NYC, the new midtown Manhattan facility, is creating an exclusive experience for golfers seeking the highest level of golf training and entertainment at its one-of-a-kind urban country club.On site are top golf teaching professionals and tour-level physical trainers to enable members to train with the same standards held by the world’s most reknowned golf pros. The Golf & Body Experience offers PGA golf instruction, fitness, physical therapy and other wellness services, all at a golf-centric venue where members can meet, dine, and entertain. The Golf & Body Experience provides the synergy of the highest quality golf training and fitness that up until now has been available only to high-level tour players, including: • Professional-level golf instruction staffed by PGA professional  Darrell Kestner, selected by Golf Digest and Golf Magazine as one of the Top 50 and Top 100 Instructors in the nation • Golf-specific athletic training programs developed and run by Ben Shear, top pro athletic trainer to numerous leading PGA Tour golfers including Luke Donald, Jason Day, Webb Simpson and Bo Van Pelt, among others • Leading physical therapy and injury screening overseen by top TPI certified physical therapist, Steven Login MS, PT Membership at Golf & Body includes: • PGA golf instruction for all levels • Tour-level golf fitness programs as well as other sports-related programs • One-on-one manual physical therapy and other wellness services including massage therapy, acupuncture and golf stretching • Seven of the most advanced golf simulators with video and diagnostic analysis • Three putting and chipping greens spanning over 1,800 feet • High-end fitness gym including Redcord, Keiser and Cybex fitness equipment, free weights, Core Fitness and Yoga • Urban golf club lounge with full bar, dining and catering services • Corporate and private event venue with packages available for groups as small as 4 people and larger New York’s finest social club, high-end fitness facility and professional-level golf training are all under one roof. Golf & Body NYC’s elite, private club has annual country club membership prices. To discuss becoming a founding member at Golf & Body NYC, please call 212-244-2626 or e-mail Jeannine Harrington, General Manager at jeannine@golfbodynyc.com. All tours and meetings are by appointment only.  Please, no walk ins.  Golf & Body NYC’s membership office is open Monday through Friday from 10 AM through 7 PM. About The Luxury Marketing Council   Founded in 1994, The Luxury Marketing Council Worldwide is an exclusive, “by invitation only” collaborative organization of more than 5,000 top CEOs and CMOs who represent more than 1,000 major luxury goods and services companies in 41 cities worldwide. The Council serves primarily as a catalyst in bringing the smartest, most imaginative marketers of luxury products and services together to explore best practices and critical issues, and share intelligence on best customers and market trends. In addition, through the “incubation” of innovative marketing alliances and partnerships, the Council helps its members to grow revenue, expand share of wallet, and cultivate referrals from and loyalty of best customers—the 3.4 million individuals (in the US) with liquid portfolios of USD $1,000,000 or more. About The Young Luxury Marketers' Council The Young Luxury Marketers’ Council, an organization created in June 2011 is designed to galvanize the community of fast-track, young luxury marketers, ages 25 to 39. Before they were teenagers Gen Y (those born after 1977) had computers and technology in their lives. They grew up finding comfort and ease in integrating technology into their work and social lives: mobile applications, social networks, iPads and Galaxy tablets, GPS, Skype/video conferencing, webinars and smart phones. All part of this generation’s common language. For top management today, Gen Y is now one of the most important sources of intelligence on the rapidly changing shape of marketing. Our vision is to provide young luxury marketers with a business and social network of like-minded, future leaders having similar intellectual and professional backgrounds; cultivate long-lasting relationships; provide a forum for a vibrant exchange of ideas and a platform for profit-generating collaborations and partnerships.

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