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Software piracy experts from the leading U.S. piracy business intelligence : cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fvil .. and software protection : cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fvil .. solutions provider, V.i. Laboratories, Inc. (“ V.i.

Labs : cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww .. ”), will host a webinar on November 17 on the legal aspects of recovering revenue from unlicensed software users. V.i. Labs will be joined by international law firm Simmons & Simmons : cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww .. to specifically address the China software market, whose 80 percent piracy rate is among the highest in the world.

Victor DeMarines, vice president of products for V.i. Labs, and Lewis Ho, intellectual property consultant for Simmons & Simmons, will illustrate how to create actionable leads for legal and sales teams to

act upon and share best practices for recovering license revenue from businesses illegally using software.

Webinar attendees will learn.

- Practical issues for recovering revenue in China
- Strategies to maximize the chance of recovering revenue in China
- How software vendors have evolved their anti-piracy approaches to recover revenue

Webinar Registration Link:

Tuesday, November 17 at 11:00 a.m. EST / 8:00 a.m. PST – Click here to register : cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fww ..



About the presenters:



Lewis HoSimmons & Simmons


Ho is a consultant in the intellectual property practice based in the Shanghai office. He specializes in patent and other intellectual property litigation and has a broad range of experience in commercial intellectual property across various industries, including life sciences and TMT sectors.

He is the Vice-Chairman of the IP Working Group (Shanghai) of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China and has actively participated in lobbying the PRC Government on laws and regulations relevant to IP owners. He is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars on IP and competition issues. He has also contributed articles to the Journal of Intellectual Property, Bloomberg Asia Pacific Law Journal and other trade journals.


Victor DeMarinesV.i. Labs

DeMarines brings extensive security product management and marketing experience to V.i. Labs, where he is responsible for product strategy and direction. He is a frequent speaker and author on topics including piracy, reverse engineering and the protection of intellectual property.

He has held senior product management positions at RSA Security, Authentica (now EMC), AXENT Technologies (now Symantec) and Progress Software.



About V.i. Laboratories (V.i. Labs)

V.i. Labs is the first company to offer Piracy Business Intelligence and Software Protection solutions that enable companies to recover revenue and protect their software intellectual property by detecting, reporting, and preventing the misuse of their applications. Its patented CodeArmor® platform allows software vendors and enterprise organizations to harden their applications against theft and tampering, and to gain business intelligence on the unlicensed use of their software to uncover new revenue streams. V.i. Labs is privately held and is headquartered in Waltham, Mass. For more information, please visit www.vilabs.com : cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww .. .

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