September 6, 2016 - Policy Roundtable on Written Description Requirement (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) – 1:00 to 4:30 pm (EDT)

September 7, 2016 – "USPTO's Subject Matter Eligibility: A 2016 Update" (The Knowledge Group) – 12:00 to 2:00 pm (EST)

September 7, 2016 – "What is Patent Eligible: The Ever-evolving Section 101 Standard" (Dilworth IP) – 1:00 to 2:00 pm (EDT)

September 8, 2016 – "After-Final Practice: Navigating Expanding PTO Options to Compact Patent Prosecution — Utilizing Post-Prosecution Pilot Program (P3), After-Final Consideration Pilot 2.0, Pre-Appeal Conference and More" (Strafford) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT)

September 8, 2016 – "Europe's Unified Patent Court and Patents with Unitary Effect: Status, Perspectives and Impact of Brexit" (Practising Law Institute) – 1:00 to 2:00 pm (Eastern)

September 11-13, 2016 - 44th Annual Meeting (Intellectual Property Owners Association) – New York, NY

September 13, 2016 – Patent Quality Chat webinar on "Future Information Disclosure Practice in a Global Dossier Environment" (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) – 12:00 to 1:00 pm (ET) on 

September 14-15, 2016 - Advanced Patent Prosecution Workshop 2016: Claim Drafting & Amendment Writing (Practising Law Institute) – Chicago, IL

September 15, 2016 – "On Sale and Public Use Bars to Patentability: Leveraging Recent Developments — Minimizing Risk of Patent Ineligibility or Invalidation" (Strafford) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT)

September 20, 2016 – "The Shifting Landscape of Bio/Pharma Litigation: The Influence of PTAB Proceedings" (McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP) – 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CT)

September 20, 2016 – "Defending Patents in IPR Proceedings: Best Practices to Mitigate Risks of Claim Cancellation — Leveraging Preliminary Responses, Using Experts, Filing Motions to Amend and Substitute Claims, Evaluating Secondary Considerations" (Strafford) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT)

September 21, 2016 – "Structuring Freedom-to-Operate Opinions: Reducing Risk of Patent Infringement — Combating Troubling FTO Results, Overcoming Potential Roadblocks, Addressing Impact of Post-Grant Process on FTO Opinions" (Strafford) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT)

September 22-23, 2016 - Seminar on European Patent Law (Grünecker) – Munich, Germany

September 23, 2016 - Current State of the Law under 35 U.S.C. 101? & Use of Fact and Expert Witnesses at the PTAB: Costs, Strategies, and Pitfalls (Patent Litigation Committee and Patent Trial and Appeal Board/Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Committees of the Federal Circuit Bar Association (FCBA) & Virginia Bar Association) – 12:00 to 2:30 pm (ET)

September 29, 2016 - IP & Diagnostics Symposium (Biotechnology Innovation Organization) – Alexandria, VA

September 29-30, 2016 – Advanced Patent Law Seminar (Chisum Patent Academy) – Washington, DC

October 3-4, 2016 – Advanced Patent Law Seminar (Chisum Patent Academy) – Washington, DC

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