April 7, 2015 – Biotechnology/chemical/pharmaceutical (BCP) customer partnership meeting (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) – 11:00 am to 5:00 pm (EDT)

April 9, 2015 – "Conducting and Analyzing Patent Searches — Strategies for Validity, Patentability, Infringement, FTO and State-of-the-Art Searches" (Strafford) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT)

April 9, 2015 – "Issue Preclusion: Impact of B&B Hardware v. Hargis on Patent Law" (Intellectual Property Owners Association) – 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET)

April 15-17, 2015 – 2015 Spring Intellectual Property Counsels Committee (IPCC) Conference (Biotechnology Industry Organization) – St. Louis, MO

April 16, 2015 – "Patent Subject Matter Eligibility: Navigating the New USPTO Guidance — Analyzing Subject Matter and Avoiding Rejection Under the USPTO's Detailed Framework" (Strafford) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT)

April 21, 2015 – U.S. Biosimilars (American Conference Institute) – Munich, Germany

April 23, 2015 – "Key Trade Secret Developments in 2015" (McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP) – 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CT)

April 24, 2015 – Ethics in the Practice of Intellectual Property Law (The John Marshall Law School Center for Intellectual Property, Information & Privacy Law) – Chicago, IL

April 27-29, 2015 – M&A and Strategic Alliances in the Life Sciences Industries*** (American Conference Institute) – New York, NY

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