The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) will be holding its 2025 IP Conference on November 17-19, 2025 in Palm Springs, CA.

The conference will offer presentations on the following topics:

• Navigating the Road of Joint Inventorship
• Public Disclosures and Patent Risks: US vs EP Perspectives
• Antibody Inventions: The Life and Times of the Genus Claim
• BPCIA Litigation Update: Key Cases, Trends, and Takeaways from 2024–2025
• Using AI In Patent Practice: Practical and Ethical Issues
• How to Talk to Policymakers about Biopharma Patent Portfolios: A Conversation Under Chatham House Rules

Patent Docs author Dr. Donald Zuhn of McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP and Patent Docs contributor Joshua Rich of Lippes Mathias LLP will be participating as panelists on the session on “Using AI In Patent Practice: Practical and Ethical Issues”.  If you are a patent practitioner who uses AI tools in your practice and would be interested in attending the BIO IP Conference and participating on the above panel, please contact Dr. Zuhn at zuhn@mbhb.com.

In addition to the above sessions, there will be a welcome reception from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm on November 17, and a dinner reception from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm on November 18.  A program agenda for this conference can be found here.

Registration information can be found here.