March 10-13, 2013 – Genes & Diagnostics: A Myriad
of Issues in Biotech IP (Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratory) – Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratory

March 13, 2013 – First to File: Final
Rules and Guidance — Navigating Significant Changes to Derivation Practice,
What Constitutes Prior Art and More (Strafford) – 1:00 –
2:30 pm (EDT)

March
14, 2013 – 2013 Intellectual Property Institute (USC Gould
School of Law) – Beverly Hills, CA

March 18-19, 2013 – 7th Annual Patent Law Institute (Practising
Law Institute) – San Francisco, CA

March 19-20, 2013 – FDA Boot Camp*** (American Conference
Institute) – New York, NY

March 20, 2013 – Improving the Success of Appeals to the
Patent Trial and Appeal Board (McDonnell
Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP) – 10:00 – 11:15 am (CT)

March 20, 2013 – Patent Claim Drafting
and Construction in 2013: Crafting Claims to Withstand Scrutiny and Avoiding
Claim Limitation Attack (Strafford) – 1:00 – 2:30 pm
(EST)

March 25-27, 2013 – 2013 Spring Intellectual
Property Counsels Committee (IPCC) Conference (Biotechnology
Industry Organization) – San
Diego, CA

April 3-5, 2013 – 28th
Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference (American Bar
Association (ABA) Section of Intellectual Property Law) – Arlington,
VA

April 4,
2013 – Double Patenting:
Defeating Rejections and Avoiding Terminal Disclaimers (Strafford) – 1:00 – 2:30 pm (EDT)

April 15-16, 2013 – China IP Counsel Forum (American Conference Institute) – Shanghai,
China

April 16, 2013 – 29th
Annual Joint Patent Practice Seminar (Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and
Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Associations) – New York, NY

April 16, 2013 – Optimizing the Discovery Process:
Home and Abroad (McDonnell
Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP) – 10:00 to 11:15 am (CT)

April
22-25, 2013 – 2013 BIO International Convention (Biotechnology Industry
Organization) – Chicago, IL

May
7-8, 2013 – Paragraph IV Disputes (American Conference
Institute) – New York, NY

***Patent Docs is a media partner of this conference or CLE