Join Troutman Pepper Locke Partners Greg Len and Charles Baker for a concise, practitioner-focused conversation on how intellectual property issues play out across the oil and gas value chain. Drawing on real litigation experience — including a wellhead assembly dispute that sparked both defensive and offensive IP strategies — they explore where patent and trade secret conflicts most often arise (upstream) and how downstream operators prioritize brand protection.

Sections

  • A Pivotal Wellhead Patent Case: Technology, Strategy, and Outcome
  • Upstream, Midstream, Downstream: Where IP Disputes Really Happen
  • The Landscape of Trademark and Unfair Competition Enforcement
  • Petrochemical and Chemical Engineering IP Capabilities