The Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Associations will be holding their 27th Annual Joint Patent Practice Seminar on April 27, 2011 in New York, NY.  The seminar will consist of five panels:  USPTO Practice, Pharmaceuticals/Life Sciences, Licensing/Foreign Practice, Ethics, and Litigation with each panel addressing a series of cases and topics.  In particular, the panels will focus on the following cases and topics:

Panel I — USPTO Practice (9:30 to 10:30 am)

• Hyatt v. Kappos (Fed. Cir. 2010) (en banc)
• Bringing the fight to the patentee: Ex parte and inter partes reexamination
• Encyclopedia Britannica v. Alpine Electronics of America Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2010)
• 2010 KSR guidelines update (September 1, 2010): Updated PTO guidelines on obviousness determinations in a post-KSR world
• Q&A — 15minutes

Panel II — Pharmaceuticals/Life Sciences (10:45 to 11:35 am)

• King Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Eon Labs Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2010)
• Prometheus Labs Inc. v. Mayo Collaborative Services and Classen Immunotherapies, Inc. v. Biogen
• Association for Molecular Pathology v. USPTO ("Myriad")
• Daiichi Sankyo Co. v. Matrix Laboratories Ltd. (Fed. Cir. 2010)
• Q&A — 10minutes

Panel III — Licensing/Foreign Practice (11:35 am to 12:35 pm)

• Global Tech v. SEB
• Stanford v. Roche
• Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research v. Cochlear Corp.
• Costco v. Omega (2010)
• Abraxis Bioscience, Inc. v. Navinta LLC (Fed. Cir. 2010) and Spine Solutions v. Medtronic (Fed. Cir. 2010)
• Q&A — 10minutes

Panel IV — Ethics (1:50 to 3:15 pm)

• TheraSense Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson & Co.
• TIVO v. EchoStar
• Princo Corp. v. International Trade Commission (Fed. Cir. 2010)
• Ring Plus Inc. v. Cingular Wireless Corp. (Fed. Cir. 2010)
• Media Queue v. Netflix
• Lockwood v. Sheppard Mullin
• Ethical Considerations under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure as Amended as of December 2010
• Q&A–15minutes

Panel V — Litigation (3:30 to 5:00 pm)

• False patent marking cases
• Wyers v. Masterlock (Fed. Cir. 2010)
• Hewlett-Packard Co. v. Acceleron LLC (Fed. Cir. 2009)
• Fujitsu Ltd. v. Netgear Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2010)
• Microsoft v. i4i
• Goeddel v. Sugano (Fed. Cir. 2010)
• Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling Inc. v. Maersk Contractors USA Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2010)
• Uniloc USA v. Microsoft
• Q&A –-10minutes

A featured morning address will be given between 8:45 – 9:35 am by Director David Kappos of the U.S. Patent and Trademark office.  The lunch keynote speaker will by Circuit Judge Arthur J. Gajarsa of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

A preliminary program preview for the seminar can be found here.

The seminar will be held at the Hilton New York, 1335 Avenue of the Americas.  The registration fee for the conference is $440 (for those registering by April 14, 2011) or $470 (for those registering after April 14, 2011).  Those interested in registering for the conference can do so by submitting a reservation form that can be obtained here.