Year: 2020

  • LexisNexis and IPWatchdog will be offering a webinar entitled "How to Develop and Maintain a World Class Patent Portfolio" on May 28, 2020 at 12:00 pm (ET).  Gene Quinn of IPWatchdog, Prof. James Gerard Conley of Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Prof. Holger Ernst of WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Jens…

  • KPMG and Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner will be offering a webinar entitled "Innovating Our Way Through the Coronavirus Pandemic" on May 27, 2020 from 1:00 to 2:00 pm (CT).  Amol Gavankar of KPMG, Piers Blewett of Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, Jim Sulciner of Sulciner Group, and François deVilliers of Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner will discuss…

  • The Federal Circuit Bar Association (FCBA) will be offering a remote program entitled "Innovation and Incentive Systems" on May 26, 2020 from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm (EST).  Laura Masurovsky of Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP will moderate a panel consisting of  Eb Bright of the Alliance of U.S. Startups & Inventors for Jobs…

  • Lexology Webinars, iam, and Potter Clarkson will be offering a free webinar entitled "Licensing and Collaborations: Common Pitfalls and Best Practice" on May 26, 2020 from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm (EDT).  Intellectual property licensing experts Oliver Laing and Mark Snelgrove will explore deal-making best practice and common pitfalls to avoid, focusing on protecting and…

  • Derwent and IPWatchdog will be offering a webinar entitled "Modern Patent Research: Capitalizing on Information Across Your Organization" on May 26, 2020 at 12:00 pm (EDT).  Gene Quinn of IPWatchdog, Vashe Kanesarajah of Clarivate Analytics, Debra Banville of Dupont, and Benoit Sollie of Cargill will discuss lessons about patent research learned from top-performing companies and…

  • The Federal Bar Association and MyLawCLE will be offering a video CLE webinar entitled "Trade Secret Litigation 101: What All Attorneys Should Know as Employees Work from Home and Jobless Claims Continue to Rise" on May 26, 2020 from 3:00 to 4:00 pm (ET).  Michael T. Renaud and Nicholas W. Armington will provide an overview…

  • IPBC Talking Heads and iam will be offering a free webinar entitled "Key findings from the IAM Benchmarking Survey 2020" on May 27, 2020 from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm (EDT).  With an exclusive reveal of the IAM Benchmarking Survey of hundreds of senior corporate and private practice IP decision makers, this webinar will explore…

  • By Kevin E. Noonan — Gregor Mendel's great good fortune (or extraordinary prescience) was that he chose for the traits he used to illustrate the genetic control of inheritance (despite having no inkling of its mechanism) traits in his pea plants that were controlled by discrete genes (yellow v green, wrinkled v smooth, tall v…

  • By Kevin E. Noonan — On Monday, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) heard oral argument (remotely) from Senior Party the Broad Institute (and its partners as Senior Party, Harvard University and MIT) and Junior Party the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Vienna; and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, "CVC") on the substantive motions…

  • By Donald Zuhn — Earlier this month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it would be implementing a COVID-19 Prioritized Examination Pilot Program, in which applicants that qualify for small or micro entity status will be allowed to request prioritized examination without paying the fees typically associated with such prioritized examination.  Under the…