The American Bar
Association (ABA) Section of Intellectual Property Law will be holding its 28th
Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference on April 3-5, 2013 in Arlington,
VA.  Among the topics that will be
covered at the conference are:

• Working at the
Edge of Settlement/ADR: What You Can and Cannot Dos

• Hot Topics in
Patent Damages: Deconstructing Apple v.
Motorola, Should The Federal Circuit Revisit Its Precedents on Past
Damages?

• Pay-For-Delay
Settlement Agreements: Are Pharma Companies Playing by a Different Set of
Rules? — panel includes Patent Docs
author Kevin Noonan

• New Patent World
Post AIA: What Has Changed?

• Patentability
Trials of the AIA — The First 120 Days — panel includes Teresa Stanek Rea,
Acting Director, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and Hon. Michael Tierney,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

• New Infringement
Case Law — Staying Ahead of the Curve

• Patent
Procurement in the Age of Harmonization: Strategies for Building a Solid Global
Patent Portfolio

• When Should Patent Owners Be Required to Reduce the Number of Asserted Claims
and Select Claims for Trial?

• Patent Examiner
Interviewing: Strategies and Skills

• Fraud on the US Patent and Trademark Office: Has the Plague of Inequitable
Conduct Been Eradicated?

• Aggrandizing
"Petty Innovation": The Growing Use of Utility Models

The program
schedule for the conference can be found here.

The registration
fee is $295 (law students), $345 (corporate counsel and government, public
interest, and academic rate), $695 (ABA-IPL section members and members of
co-sponsoring section), $770 (ABA members), or $845 (non-ABA members).  Those registering before March 15, 2013 will
receive a $50 discount (or a $100 discount off the non-ABA member rate).  Detailed registration information can be
found here.