Category: Conferences & CLE’s

Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "After-Final Practice: Navigating Expanding PTO Options to Compact Patent Prosecution — Utilizing Post-Prosecution Pilot Program (P3), After-Final Consideration Pilot 2.0, Pre-Appeal Conference and More" on November 22, 2016 from 1:00 to 3:00 pm (EST).  Andrew T. Harry and Scott A. McKeown of Oblon McClelland Maier & Neustadt will…

November 8, 2016 – "Clarity of the Record Pilot: A Discussion of Findings" (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) – 12:00 to 1:00 pm (ET) on  November 9, 2016 – "Evolution of Patent Litigation: Interface of Judicial and Administrative Patent Proceedings" (Federal Circuit Bar Association) – Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, MA November 10, 2016…

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Ethics in AIA Post-Grant Proceedings at the PTAB" on November 10, 2016 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET).  Hon. Thomas Giannetti, Lead Administrative Patent Judge, Patent Trial and Appeal Board, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will review the ethical obligations of participants in…

The Federal Circuit Bar Association (FCBA) will be offering a webcast entitled "That's a Fact! The Role of Factual Disputes in PTAB Institution Decisions in the Life Sciences" on November 15, 2016 from 1:00 to 2:00 pm (ET).  David Frazier of Latham & Watkins will moderate a panel consisting of Adam Perlman of Williams &…

Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Patent Prosecution and Defeating Abstractness: Minimizing the Risk of Sect. 101 Rejection — Lessons From Recent Federal Circuit Court Decisions" on November 10, 2016 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT).  Joseph M. Casino of Wiggin and Dana, Stephen A. Marshall of Fish & Richardson, and James L. Reed…

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 November 8, 2016.  Robin Evans, Director of Technology Center 2800, and Marty Rater, Acting Director of the Office of Patent Quality Assurance, will discuss the "Clarity of the Record…

November 1, 2016 – "Patent Prosecution and Defeating Abstractness: Minimizing the Risk of Sect. 101 Rejection — Lessons From Recent Federal Circuit Court Decisions" (Strafford) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT) November 1, 2016 – "Drug Substance Patents: Leveraging New FDA Guidance, Protecting Composition of Matter Patents, Drafting Solid Form Claims" (Strafford) – 1:00 to…

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Obviousness After Apple v. Samsung" on November 2, 2016 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET).  Robert Asher of Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers, Kenneth Corsello of IBM Corp., and Justin Hasford of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP will discuss the likely…

The Federal Circuit Bar Association (FCBA) will be offering a program entitled "Evolution of Patent Litigation: Interface of Judicial and Administrative Patent Proceedings" on November 9, 2016 from 4:00 to 7:15 pm (EDT) at the Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, MA.  Erik Belt of McCarter & English will moderate a panel consisting of…

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP will be offering a live webinar entitled "Covered Business Method (CBM) Patent Review: Another Way to Kill Software Patents?" on November 15, 2016 from 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CT).  In this presentation, MBHB attorney and Patent Docs author Joseph Herndon will provide a review of CBMs and PTAB…