On November 29, Intellectual Property partner Alan Tenenbaum will be a featured speaker at the New York City Bar Association’s event on Blockchain IP: Innovation and the Distributed Ledger Revolution. The roundtable-style program, geared toward in-house and outside counsel, as well as non-attorneys, will address schemes to protect blockchain innovations, options for enforcement and the ways that distributed ledger technology may be used to enhance or protect intellectual property assets.

The panel will address the following:

• The basics of blockchain technology
• An overview of the ways intellectual property rights in blockchain innovations can be protected
• Challenges for protecting blockchain technology with patents
• Using blockchain to protect and augment intellectual property for brick-and-mortar technologies
• Enforcement of blockchain IP rights