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Month: January 2021
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American Conference Institute (ACI) will be holding its Inaugural Summit on Women Leaders in IP Law on March 9, 2021 as a VIRTUAL conference from 8:45 am to 5:15 pm EST. ACI faculty will give presentations on: • Honoring the Top Accomplishments of Women in IP/2019, featuring Deputy Chief Administrative Patent Judge Jacqueline Wright Bonilla;•…
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The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "PTAB: Year in Review – 2020" on February 4, 2021 from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm (ET). Chris Comiskey of Collins Aerospace, Michael R. Houston of Foley & Lardner LLP, and Shaun Snader of United Therapeutics will discuss 2020's major developments at the…
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will offer a webinar entitled "China IP Basics, Part 1: Protecting your patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and copyrights" on February 4, 2021 from 9:00 to 10:50 am (ET). The webinar is designed to address the needs of small and medium-sized businesses looking to protect their IP in China, and…
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J A Kemp will be offering a webinar entitled "SPCs — Update on Recent Political and Legal Developments" on February 2, 2021 from 2:30 to 3:30 pm GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). Ravi Srinivasan and Graham Lewis of J A Kemp will use case studies to illustrate tips for preparing a patent portfolio to take maximum…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) entered an Order on Tuesday regarding the motion by Junior Party the University of California/Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, "CVC") in Interference No. 106,115, for leave to subpoena discovery from Luciano Marraffini and Shuailiang Lin, neither of whom is…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The COVID-19 pandemic has spread throughout the globe, infecting more than 90 million people and causing almost two million deaths (see "Tracking coronavirus' global spread"). SARS-CoV-2 infection is the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic; this virus is recognized as the latest viral infection in humans of zoonotic origins, in this case…
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By Donald Zuhn –- Last month, the Federal Circuit affirmed the final determination by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board affirming the Examiner's rejection of certain claims in U.S. Patent Application No. 12/789,280 as obvious. The rejected claims of the '280 application are directed to methods of making a low-carbohydrate…
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January 26, 2021 – "Second Medical Use Patents — Verifying Validity" (Gowling WLG) – 9:00 to 10:00 am EST January 27, 2021 – "Videoconferencing at the EPO" (Intellectual Property Owners Association) – 11:00 am to 12:00 pm (ET) January 27, 2021 – "Means Plus Function Claim Construction in Patent Prosecution and Litigation" (Fitch Even) –…
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The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Videoconferencing at the EPO" on January 27, 2021 from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm (ET). Mike Jennings of AA Thornton, James Pickford of Procter & Gamble, and Gwilym Roberts of Kilburn & Strode will provide an overview of how videoconferencing is being relied…
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The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "How Allyship Advances Diversity & Inclusion in the IP Legal Profession: Part 1 – Personal Experiences" on January 28, 2021 from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm (ET). Eldora Ellison of Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, PLLC; Natalie Gonzales of Baker Botts L.L.P.; Aamir…
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