Category: Conferences & CLE’s

August 8, 2017 – Patent Quality Chat webinar series (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) – 12:00 to 1:00 pm (ET) on August 10-11, 2017 – Advanced Patent Law Seminar (Chisum Patent Academy) – Seattle, WA August 11-12, 2017 – Invention-Con 2017 (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) – Alexandria, VA August 14-15, 2017 – Advanced Patent…

Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Section 112(a) Enablement and Written Description: Leveraging CCPA and Early Federal Circuit Decisions — Capitalizing on Precedent to Withstand 112(a) Rejections and Attacks on Patent Validity and Patentability" on August 24, 2017 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT).  Thomas L. Irving of Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner;…

Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Navigating the Patent Prosecution Highway and Other Accelerated Filing Options — Evaluating the Different Options, Weighing the Benefits and Risks, Obtaining Patent Protection" on August 31, 2017 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT).  Ralph G. Fischer and Duane A. Stewart, III of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney will provide…

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP will be offering a live webinar entitled "The Evolving 5 W's of Global IP Enforcement: The Strategic Implications of Recent Global IP Law Developments" on August 29, 2017 from 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CT).  In this presentation, MBHB attorney S. Richard Carden will review some recent developments in…

July 31, 2017 – "Improve the Quality of Invention Disclosures through Researcher Outreach and Education" (Technology Transfer Tactics) – 1:00 to 2:00 pm (Eastern) August 2, 2017 – Biotechnology/chemical/pharmaceutical (BCP) customer partnership meeting (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) – USPTO Alexandria Campus & Silicon Valley U.S. Patent and Trademark August 3, 2017 – "Patents and…

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 August 8, 2017.  Charles Kim, Director, Office of Petitions, and Namrata Boveja, Acting Deputy Director, Office of Petitions will introduce attendees to the Office of Petitions, highlight how petitions…

The American Law Institute (ALI) will be offering a telephone seminar/audio webcast entitled "After Lexmark: Patent Exhaustion Is Not Optional" on August 3, 2017 from 12:30 – 1:30 pm (EDT).  Ira Blumberg of Lenovo; Neer Gupta of Verizon; and Elizabeth S. Weiswasser of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP will discuss the implications for protecting product…

Technology Transfer Tactics will be offering a webinar entitled "Opportunities and Pitfalls in Joint Development and Patent Licensing under the AIA" on August 3, 2017 from 1:00 to 2:00 pm (Eastern).  Andrew Baluch and Chris Paschall, Director of Licensing – Life Sciences, Ohio State University will clarify the risks and benefits facing universities and their…

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will be hosting Invention-Con 2017, the Office's Independent Inventors Conference, on August 11-12, 2017 on the USPTO campus in Alexandria, VA.  During the free conference, attendees can attend plenary talks, participate in topic specific small-group breakout sessions, and hear from USPTO officials and experts who will present information on…

July 24-25, 2017 – TTS North America summit*** (TTS Ltd.) – Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, NY July 25-26, 2017 – "Advanced Patent Prosecution Workshop 2017: Claim Drafting & Amendment Writing" (Practising Law Institute) – New York, NY July 27, 2017 – "Drafting Patent Counsel Engagement and Disengagement Letters — Structuring Scope of Engagement,…