Category: Conferences & CLE’s

Practising Law Institute (PLI) will be holding its "Advanced Patent Prosecution Workshop 2017: Claim Drafting & Amendment Writing" on July 25-26, 2017 in New York, NY, on August 17-18, 2017 in San Francisco, CA, and on September 12-13, 2017 in Chicago, IL.  Patent Docs author Donald Zuhn will chair and Patent Docs author Kevin Noonan…

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will be holding its next biotechnology/chemical/pharmaceutical (BCP) customer partnership meeting on Wednesday, August 2, 2017.  The upcoming BCP meeting will also be a Bicoastal BCP (BCBCP) event, with the meeting being held simultaneously in the Madison Auditorium on the USPTO Alexandria Campus (East Coast) and the California Training Room…

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Inevitable Disclosure, the DTSA, and Avoiding Contamination" on July 27, 2017 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET).  Bret Cohen of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris; Ken Corsello of IBM Corp.; and James Pooley of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP will discuss the future of…

Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Patents and Export Control Compliance: Managing Risk and Avoiding Unintentional Violations — Minimizing Export Control Liability in Patent Application Preparation, Development and Analysis of Innovation, and Licensing" on August 3, 2017 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT).  David G. Henry of Gray Reed & McGraw and Edward J.…

Technology Transfer Tactics will be offering a webinar entitled "Improve the Quality of Invention Disclosures through Researcher Outreach and Education" on July 31, 2017 from 1:00 to 2:00 pm (Eastern).  Rebecca Stoughton of Fuentek, LLC will discuss the following topics: • What factors deem a disclosure "high quality"? – it's not one-size-fits-all• How to evaluate…

July 20, 2017 – "Structuring Freedom-to-Operate Opinions: Reducing Risk of Patent Infringement — Combating Troubling FTO Results, Overcoming Potential Roadblocks, Addressing Impact of Post-Grant Process on FTO Opinions" (Strafford) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT) July 20, 2017 – "Winning Attorney Fees: What Works, What Doesn't" (Intellectual Property Owners Association) – 2:00 to 3:00 pm…

The National Association of Patent Practitioners (NAPP) will be holding its Annual Meeting & Conference on July 27-29, 2017 at the Silicon Valley U.S. Patent & Trademark Office in San Jose, CA.  Topics to be discussed during the conference will include: July 27• 20,000-foot Overview of Current Challenges and USPTO Plans/Programs• Examiner Panel• Panel of…

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Winning Attorney Fees: What Works, What Doesn't" on July 20, 2017 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET).  D. Clay Holloway of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP; Lionel Lavenue of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP; and Robert Palmersheim of Honigman Miller Schwartz…

Technology Transfer Tactics will be offering a webinar entitled "Bayh-Dole Compliance Check-up: Effectively Address the Challenge of Complacency" on July 27, 2017 from 1:00 to 2:00 pm (Eastern).  Tyson B. Benson of Harness, Dickey and Pierce, PLC will address the following topics: • TTO and university responsibilities under the Bayh-Dole Act• Review of federal funding…

July 11, 2017 – "Promises, Promises" (Bereskin & Parr) – 1:00 to 2:00 pm (EDT) July 11, 2017 – "Latest Updates in USPTO's Work Sharing Efforts" (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) – 12:00 to 1:00 pm (ET) July 12, 2017 – "Who Will 'Dance' Now? Biosimilars After Amgen v. Sandoz" (Intellectual Property Owners Association) –…