The Law Bulletin Publishing Company will be holding its annual Corporate Intellectual Property Law Conference on February 8, 2011 in Chicago, IL.  The conference will address the following topics:

General Sessions

• The State of the USPTO — "Strategic Perspectives on Intellectual Property: Inside and Out (of the USPTO)" — Sharon Barner, former Deputy Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Protecting Trade Secrets

Patent Track Sessions

• Patent Mismarking: 2010 and Beyond
• The Scope of Patentability

An agenda for the conference can be found here, and additional information about the conference can be found here.  The registration fee for the conference is $109.  Those interested in registering for the conference can do so here.