Category: Conferences & CLE’s

  • The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will be offering the next webinar in its Patent Quality Chat webinar series on February 9, 2016 from 12:00 to 1:00 pm (ET).  The latest webinar, which will be hosted by Kathleen Fonda of the Office of Patent Legal Administration (OPLA), and Tom Hughes of the Office of Patent…

  • The American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) will be offering a webinar entitled "Putting the Fun in Functional Claiming: §112(f) and Related Indefiniteness Considerations after Williamson v. Citrix and Nautilus v. BioSig" on February 10, 2016 from 12:30 – 2:00 pm (Eastern).  Nicholas Mattingly of Mattingly & Malur, PC and Bryan Wheelock of Harness Dickey…

  • Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Section 112(a) Enablement and Written Description: Leveraging CCPA and Early Federal Circuit Decisions — Capitalizing on Past Precedent to Withstand 112(a) Rejections and Attacks on Patent Validity and Patentability" on February 17, 2016 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST).  Dr. Li Feng, Thomas L. Irving, and Dr. Amanda…

  • Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Overcoming 101 Rejections for Computer and Electronics Related Patents — Leveraging USPTO Guidance and Recent Decisions to Meet 101 Patent Eligibility Requirements" on February 11, 2016 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST).  Charles Bieneman of Bejin Bieneman and Richard J. Holzer, Jr. of HolzerIPLaw will provide guidance for…

  • By Kevin E. Noonan, Michael Borella & Donald Zuhn — Earlier today, we presented a live webinar on the "Top Patent Law Stories of 2015."  The webinar covered seven of the twenty stories that made it onto Patent Docs ninth annual list of top patent stories.  Posts on our top twenty stories can be found…

  • January 20, 2016 – "Patent Eligibility Post-Alice: Practical Advice for Navigating the Current 35 USC § 101 Regime" (American Intellectual Property Law Association) – 12:30 – 2:00 pm (Eastern) January 20, 2016 – "Insider Threat: Employee Mobility and Trade Secrets" (Intellectual Property Owners Association) – 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET) January 21, 2016 – "Top…

  • McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP will be offering a live webinar on "Patentable Subject Matter after Alice: Best Practices for Addressing 35 U.S.C. § 101" on February 24, 2016 from 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CT).  In this presentation, Patent Docs contributor and MBHB attorney Michael S. Borella, Ph.D. will review the case law,…

  • The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Insider Threat: Employee Mobility and Trade Secrets" on January 20, 2016 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET).  Clifford Atlas of Jackson Lewis, Buckmaster De Wolf of General Electric Co., and Randall Kay of Jones Day will discuss best practices for safeguarding trade secret…

  • The fourth annual Naples Patent Experts Conference will be held on February 8-9, 2016 at the Naples Beach Hotel & Golf Club in Naples, FL.  The conference, which is presented by the University of Akron School of Law, will feature presentations on current significant topics by leading jurists, scholars, and practitioners from the United States…

  • The Chisum Patent Academy will be offering its next Advanced Patent Law Seminar on March 10-11, 2016 in Cincinnati, OH.  The seminar is co-taught by Donald Chisum, author of the treatise Chisum on Patents (LexisNexis), and Janice Mueller, who was a tenured full Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law from 2004-2011.  The…