Category: Conferences & CLE’s

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP will be offering a live webinar entitled "Patent-Eligibility in 2018: Current Status and Best Practices" on February 20, 2018 from 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CT).  In this presentation, Patent Docs author and MBHB attorney Michael Borella will discuss the state of software and business method patent-eligibility in 2018…

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Exhaustion Tamed? Early Reports and New Ideas after Lexmark" on February 8, 2018 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET).  Jorge Goldstein of Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, PLLC; Brian Kacedon of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP; and William Krovatin of Merck…

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will be offering the next webinar in its Patent Quality Chat webinar series from 12:00 to 1:00 pm (ET) on February 13, 2018.  The latest webinar, entitled "eMod Update: Patent Center and Structured Text" will be hosted by Richard Fernandez, eMod Project Manager, and Lisa Tran, Communications Manager for eCommerce,…

The Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (IPLAC) Young Members Committee will be presenting a panel discussion entitled "There Will Be Blood (and Beer): A Brief Panel Discussion on Oil States Services LLC v. Greene's Energy Group, LLC" on February 8, 2018 from 5:30 to 8:00 pm (CT) at the offices of Foley & Lardner…

January 23, 2018 – "Drafting Software Patents to Survive Section 101 and AIA Challenges — Anticipating and Minimizing the Risk of 101, 103 Rejections, Recent Court Guidance" (Strafford) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST) January 25, 2018 – "IP Year in Review And Look Ahead" — Patent Prosecution (LexisNexis) – 2:00 pm (ET) January 29,…

Strafford will be offering a webinar entitled "Patent Drafting for Machine Learning: Structural Claim Limitations, Avoiding §101 or §112 Rejections" on February 13, 2018 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST).  Gregory Rabin of Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner and Michael D. Stein of Baker & Hostetler will provide guidance to patent practitioners on overcoming the challenges…

The John Marshall Law School Center for Intellectual Property, Information & Privacy Law will be hosting Richard S. Gruner, former Director, Center for Intellectual Property Law, John Marshall Law School, who will be giving a presentation entitled "Classes without Quizzes – Invention, Imagination & Patent Incentives" from 4:00 to 5:30 pm (CST) on February 2,…

Strafford will be offering a webinar entitled "Sect. 112 Indefiniteness in Chemical and Biotech Patent Claims — Drafting and Prosecuting Patent Claims That Will Hold Up Under Any Definiteness Standard" on February 14, 2018 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST).  Thomas L. Irving and Amanda K. Murphy of Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner, and…

January 17, 2018 – "Top Patent Law Stories of 2017" (McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP) – 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CT) January 17, 2018 – Customer Partnership Meeting of Technology Center 2600 (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) – 8:30 am to 4:00 pm (ET) January 18, 2018 – "PTAB — A Year in…

American Conference Institute (ACI) will be holding its 16th Advanced Summit on Life Sciences Patents on February 21-22, 2018 in New York, NY.  ACI faculty will offer sessions on: • Exploring recent developments in case law related to IPRs, especially as they relate to the life sciences • Strategies for obtaining patent protection for the…