The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will be holding its 2011 Annual Meeting on September 11-13, 2011 in Los Angeles, CA.  Among the presentations being offered at the annual meeting are:

• Recent case law developments;
• A look at patent landscaping and analysis;
• Legal issues surrounding genetic information research and development — Patent Docs author Dr. Kevin Noonan of McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP will be a panelist on the first of this session's two panels;
• Damages;
• Current state of the ITC;
• Patentability issues;
• Recent developments in patent offices around the world; and
• Ethical questions arising from en banc review of Therasense v. Becton Dickinson — Paul Berghoff of McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP will moderate this panel.

In addition, James Pooley, Deputy Director General for Patents for the World Intellectual Property Organization, will present the luncheon keynote on September 13.

A program for the meeting, including an agenda, descriptions of the scheduled sessions, and list of speakers, can be obtained here, and a brochure for the meeting can be obtained here.

The registration fee for the meeting is $950 for IPO members or $1,450 for attendees who are not IPO members.  Those interested in registering for the meeting can do so here.