Month: September 2011

  • The South African Department of Science and Technology is sponsoring a conference on Accelerating IP and Innovation in South Africa on September 18-20, 2011 in Cape Town, South Africa.  The event is being organized by co-chairs Sherry Knowles of Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies (and former Chief Patent Counsel at GlaxoSmithKline); Jonathan Youngleson, Chief Director of…

  • The Association of Intellectual Property Firms (AIPF) will be offering a webinar entitled "A Discussion with Robert Stoll of the USPTO" on October 26, 2011 from 1:00 – 2:00 PM (EDT).  The webinar features USPTO Commissioner for Patents Robert L. Stoll and Stuart S. Levy of Sughrue Mion, PLLC.  Those interested in attending the webinar…

  • Managing Intellectual Property will be offering a webinar entitled "Patent reform: prepare for the new post grant system" on September 15, 2011 from 12:00 – 1:30 PM (EDT).  Eileen McDermott, Americas editor for Managing IP will moderate a panel consisting of Laura Johnson, vice president of IP for DexCom, and Peng Chen and Mehran Arjomand…

  • Judges from both the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Tokyo Intellectual Property High Court will be participating in a Joint Judicial Conference on October 26-27, 2011 in Tokyo, Japan.  The conference will include sessions and breakout panels on the following topics: • En Banc Session of the Courts• Breakout Panel…

  • By Donald Zuhn — USPTO Planning to Review Existing Rules In a notice published in the Federal Register (76 Fed. Reg. 39797) earlier this summer, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office indicated that it has prepared a preliminary plan to review its existing regulations in response to Executive Order 13563.  That Order, which was issued…