Category: Conferences & CLE’s

Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Structuring Collaborative Agreements in Life Sciences — Drafting Terms to Expand Product Lines, Reduce Costs and Risks, and Leverage and Protect Assets" on February 21, 2017 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST).  Judith A. Hasko of Latham & Watkins and Amy L. Toro of Covington & Burling will…

Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Functional Claiming for Software Patents: Leveraging Recent Court Treatment — Surviving 112(f) and Disclosing Functional Basis for Software to Meet Heightened Standard of Review" on February 23, 2017 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST).  James J. DeCarlo of Greenberg Traurig and Doris Johnson Hines of Finnegan Henderson Farabow…

Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Responding to Patent Demand Letters: Leveraging State Laws on Bad Faith Assertion of Patents — Determining What to Include or Exclude in Response, Minimizing Risk of Litigation" on March 2, 2017 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST).  Sharon A. Israel of Mayer Brown, Brian R. Iverson of Bass…

February 7, 2017 – "Two Years of Federal Circuit Review of PTAB Proceedings: What We Know and Still Don't Know" (Federal Circuit Bar Association) – 1:00 to 2:00 pm (EST) February 14, 2017 – "Post-Grant Proceedings: Practical Tips and Strategies in 2017" (Knowledge Group) – 3:00 to 4:00 pm (EST) February 14, 2017 – "Understanding…

The Federal Circuit Bar Association (FCBA) will be offering a webcast entitled "Two Years of Federal Circuit Review of PTAB Proceedings: What We Know and Still Don't Know" on February 7, 2017 from 1:00 to 2:00 pm (EST) at the FCBA Conference Room in Washington, DC.  Christopher A. Suarez of Williams & Connolly LLP will…

The Knowledge Group will offer a live webcast entitled "Post-Grant Proceedings: Practical Tips and Strategies in 2017" on February 14, 2017 from 3:00 to 4:00 pm (EST).  Jonathan R. Bowser of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, and Vivek Ganti of Hill, Kertscher & Wharton, LLP will provide attendees with practice tips for post-grant validity proceedings. …

Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Trade Secrets and Patents: A Comprehensive Approach to Protecting Intellectual Property — Evaluating the Protection Options, Weighing the Benefits and Risks" on February 16, 2017 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST).  Steven M. Cohen, Senior Intellectual Property Counsel, Open Text; R. Mark Halligan of FisherBroyles; and Pejman F.…

The Knowledge Group will offer a live webcast entitled "Identifying the Effects of Brexit on the Protection and Enforcement of IP Rights" on February 15, 2017 from 10:00 to 11:00 am (EST).  Steven Baldwin of Allen & Overy LLP, and Dr. Sean Jauss of Mewburn Ellis LLP will provide attendees with an in-depth analysis of…

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 14, 2017.  Sandie Spyrou, Supervisor, Office of Patent Quality Assurance, and Mary Beth Jones, Supervisor, Office of Patent Quality Assurance, will discuss "Understanding the ADS: Little Things Make…

January 31, 2017 – "Patent Mistakes in the Administrative State" (John Marshall Law School Center for Intellectual Property, Information & Privacy Law) – 12:00 to 1:30 pm, Chicago, IL January 31, 2017 – "Proving and Avoiding Inequitable Conduct in Patent Prosecution and Litigation — Leveraging Court Treatment Post-Therasense and the AIA's Answer to Inequitable Conduct…