Category: Conferences & CLE’s

American Conference Institute (ACI) will be holding its 9th Annual Paragraph IV Disputes conference on April 27-28, 2015 in New York, NY.  ACI faculty will provide insights into: • Teva v. Sandoz and the Impact of a New Claim Construction Standard of Review• Personal and General Jurisdiction Challenges Under Daimler and Mylan• Myriad 101 Rejections…

The American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Intellectual Property Law and Young Lawyers Division will be offering a live webinar entitled "Interim Guidance on Patent Subject Matter Eligibility" on April 30, 2015 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (ET).  Leslie McDonell (moderator) of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, Dr. Amelia Feulner Baur of McNeill Baur…

Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Patent Prosecution: Leveraging Declarations to Strengthen Patents Against Post-Grant Proceedings" on May 12, 2015 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT).  Thomas L. Irving, Deborah M. Herzfeld, and Jonathan R.K. Stroud of Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner will provide guidance to patent counsel for preparing and submitting declarations…

The Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Associations will be holding their 31st Annual Joint Patent Practice Seminar on May 12, 2015 in New York, NY.  The seminar will consist of five panels:  USPTO Practice, Pharmaceuticals/Life Sciences, High Tech, Litigation, and Supreme Court with each panel addressing a series of cases…

April 7, 2015 – Biotechnology/chemical/pharmaceutical (BCP) customer partnership meeting (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) – 11:00 am to 5:00 pm (EDT) April 9, 2015 – "Conducting and Analyzing Patent Searches — Strategies for Validity, Patentability, Infringement, FTO and State-of-the-Art Searches" (Strafford) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT) April 9, 2015 – "Issue Preclusion: Impact of…

The John Marshall Law School Center for Intellectual Property, Information & Privacy Law will be holding its 7th Annual Program on Ethics in the Practice of Intellectual Property Law on April 24, 2015 in Chicago, IL.  The conference will consist of the following sessions: • What IP Lawyers Should Know About ARDC Proceedings and Client…

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP will be offering a live webinar on "Key Trade Secret Developments in 2015" on April 23, 2015 from 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CT).  In this presentation, Patent Docs contributor and MBHB attorney Joshua R. Rich will cover recent developments in the attempts to mitigate theft of U.S. trade secrets.  Topics…

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Issue Preclusion: Impact of B&B Hardware v. Hargis on Patent Law" on April 9, 2015 beginning at 2:00 pm (ET).  Erika Arner, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP; Andrew Pincus, Mayer Brown LLP; and Thomas Saunders, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr,…

March 30-31, 2015 – Post-Grant Patent Challenges at the PTAB*** (Momentum) – San Jose, CA March 31, 2015 – "Overcoming Sect. 101 Rejections Post-Alice Corp. — Leveraging USPTO Guidance and Recent Decisions to Meet Sect. 101 Patent Eligibility Requirements" (Strafford) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT) March 31, 2015 – "Trade Secret or Patent Protection?…

American Conference Institute (ACI) will be holding a conference on U.S. Biosimilars on April 21, 2015 in Munich, Germany.  ACI faculty will offer presentations on the following topics: • Minimizing the Uncertainty Surrounding the Pathway: Insights Into USFDA’s Current Initiatives Regarding the First Wave of Biosimilars Applications• Evaluating the Risk and Commercial Opportunity in the…