November 12, 2013 – "IPR Proceedings at the USPTO — Strategic Approaches to the New Patent
Proceedings" (Law
Seminars International) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (Eastern)

November 13,
2013 – "How University TTOs
Can Slash Patent Expenses While Improving Patent Quality" (Technology
Transfer Tactics) – 1:00 to 2:00 pm (Eastern)

November 13, 2013 – Unitary Patent (UP)
and Unified Patent Court (UPC) (D
Young & Co) – 4:00 am, 7:00 am, 12:00 pm (EST)

November 14, 2013 – Obviousness Standard After the AIA:
Leveraging Latest PTO and Court Guidance — Overcoming Challenges of
Obviousness and Attacks on Patent Validity (Strafford) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST)

November
14, 2013 – "The
Nuts & Bolts of Patents and the Drug Approval Process" (American Bar
Association Section of Intellectual Property Law, Young Lawyers Action
Division, Young Lawyers Division, and Center for Professional Development) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (Eastern)

November 15, 2013 – "Cracking the
Code: Ongoing § 101 Patentability Concerns in Biotechnology and Computer
Software" (George
Washington Law Review) – George Washington University Law School

November 17-20, 2013 – Creating and Leveraging Intellectual Property in Developing Countries: A Power Tool for Social and
Economic Growth*** (Companies and IP Commission and National
IP Management Office of South Africa) – Durban, South Africa

November
19, 2013 – PTAB or the District Court: Which
Is the Better Option When Challenging Patent Validity? (McDonnell
Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP) – 10:00 to 11:15 am (CT)

November
19, 2013 – Patenting Biotech Inventions (California
Healthcare Institute (CHI) and D Young & Co) – San Diego, CA

November 20, 2013 – Patenting Biotech Inventions (California
Healthcare Institute (CHI) and D Young & Co) – San Francisco, CA

November 21, 2013 – "Leveraging the AIA's Expanded Prior Use
Defense for Patent Infringement Claims" (Strafford) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST)

November 22, 2013 – "Global
Utility Requirements For Pharmaceutical and Biological Inventions" (American Bar
Association (ABA) Section of Intellectual Property Law, Young Lawyers Action
Group, Young Lawyers Division, and Center for Professional Development) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (Eastern)

December 3, 2013 – "Post-AIA Preissuance Prior Art Submissions at
the USPTO — Best Practices for Third-Party Challenges to Patent Applications
and for Monitoring Competition" (Strafford) – 1:00 to
2:30 pm (EST)

December 4, 2013 – Congress on Biotech & Pharma Patenting*** (C5 (UK)) – London, UK

December 5, 2013 – Forum on Biosimilars*** (C5 (UK)) – London, UK

December 9-10, 2013 – Patent Infringement Litigation Summit (Legal iQ (IQPC)) – San Francisco, CA

December 10-11, 2013 – Advanced
Forum on Patent Litigation*** (American Conference
Institute) – New York, NY

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