Category: Conferences & CLE’s

Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Objective Evidence in IPRs: Demonstrating Sufficient Nexus — Linking Evidence and Merits of Claimed Invention, Leveraging Prosecution Declarations" on November 5, 2015 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST).  Michael J. Flibbert and Thomas L. Irving of Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner will provide guidance to patent counsel…

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Patent Prosecution After Akamai: Exploring the Contours of 'Control and Direction'" on October 29, 2015 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET).  Stephen Durant of Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner; Ken Hobday, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, Fiserv; and Michelle Holoubek of Sterne Kessler…

October 20, 2015 – "Trust Everybody, but Cut the Cards" (McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP) – 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CT) October 20, 2015 – "Will My Patent Make Cents? How Courts and the USPTO Affect Patent Portfolio Value" (American Bar Association (ABA) Center for Professional Development and Section of Intellectual Property Law)…

October 12, 2015 – "Hedge Fund IPR Challenges to Pharma Patents: Latest Developments and Strategies to Strengthen Patents — Lessons From PTAB Denial of Acorda Therapeutics IPR, Celgene's Sanctions Motion, and More" (Strafford) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT) October 13, 2015 – Post-Grant Practice Roundtable Discussion (George Washington Law School) – George Washington University…

The American Bar Association (ABA) Center for Professional Development and Section of Intellectual Property Law will be offering a live webinar entitled "Will My Patent Make Cents? How Courts and the USPTO Affect Patent Portfolio Value" on October 20, 2015 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (ET).  Joseph T Miotke (moderator), Alton Lee Hare, Brian O'Shaughnessy,…

Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Demonstrating Patent Eligibility Post-Alice Corp. Decision — Navigating the Nuances and Leveraging Guidance From Federal Circuit and PTAB Opinion" on October 22, 2015 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT).  Michael L. Kiklis and Stephen G. Kunin of Oblon McClelland Maier & Neustadt will examine recent decisions applying the…

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will be offering the next webinar in its Patent Quality Chat webinar series on October 13, 2015 from 12:00 to 1:00 pm (EDT).  The latest webinar, which will be hosted by Assistant Deputy Commissioner for Patent Operations Robert Oberleitner and Director of the Ombudsman Program Dale Shaw, will address…

October 5, 2015 – "Amgen v. Sandoz: Federal Circuit Interprets 'Patent Dance' Provisions of BPCIA to Permit Biosimilar Applicant to Refuse to Disclose Application and Manufacturing Information" (Practising Law Institute) – 1:00 to 2:00 pm (Eastern) October 6, 2015 – "USPTO's Proposed Changes to PTAB Practice: A Primer on the Recently Proposed Amendments to the…

Practising Law Institute (PLI) will be offering a one-hour webcast entitled "Amgen v. Sandoz: Federal Circuit Interprets 'Patent Dance' Provisions of BPCIA to Permit Biosimilar Applicant to Refuse to Disclose Application and Manufacturing Information" on October 5, 2015 from 1:00 to 2:00 pm (Eastern).  Patent Docs author Kevin E. Noonan, Ph.D. of McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert…

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Definite Change: Nautilus Gets Some Traction" on October 7, 2015 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET).  Robert Kramer of Dentons US LLP, Chris Mammen of Hogan Lovells, and Bryan Zielinski of Pfizer Inc. will analyze several recent Federal Circuit opinions that cite Nautilus…