Category: Conferences & CLE’s

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "IP5 Global Dossier: A New Era in Global Patent Prosecution?" on April 2, 2015 beginning at 2:00 pm (ET).  Don Levin of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Samson Helfgott of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, and John Treangen of Dow Chemical will discuss…

March 24, 2015 – "Leveraging Inter Partes Review Petition Denials — Lessons From PTAB Full or Partial Denials to Avoid Institution of an IPR or Avoid a Denial" (Strafford) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT) March 25-26, 2015 – Post-Grant PTO Proceedings*** (American Conference Institute) – New York, NY March 25, 2015 – "Commercial Success…

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will be holding its next biotechnology/chemical/pharmaceutical (BCP) customer partnership meeting on Tuesday, April 7, 2015.  The meeting will be simultaneously available at the USPTO Headquarters (Alexandria, VA) and the Rocky Mountain Regional Office (Denver Satellite Office).  During the BCP meeting, participants will be able to interact with Office personnel…

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Commercial Success at the PTAB" on March 25, 2015 beginning at 2:00 pm (ET).  Pradeep Chintagunta, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business; Michael Flibbert of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP; and John Jarosz, Analysis Group will focus on how…

The American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) Law School Online Programming Subcommittee will be offering an online program on "PCT Filing and International Patent Prosecution" on April 1, 2015.  Samson Helfgott of Katten Muchin Rosenman, LLP will focus on the why, when, how, what and where to foreign file a patent application, including providing strategies…

March 18, 2015 – "Professionalism, Privilege, and Duty of Candor before the USPTO" (American Intellectual Property Law Association) – 12:30 – 2:15 pm (ET) March 19, 2015 – "Abstract Ideas after Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int'l: The USPTO Issues Interim Guidance and Examples" (McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP) – 10:00 am to 11:15…

The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) will be holding its 2015 Spring Intellectual Property Counsels Committee (IPCC) Conference on April 15-17, 2015 in St. Louis, MO. The conference will offer presentations on the following topics: Wednesday, April 15: • Can Congress Fix the Patent Law Mess? (Pre-Conference Workshop) — Patent Docs author Donald Zuhn of McDonnell…

Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Patent Subject Matter Eligibility: Navigating the New USPTO Guidance — Analyzing Subject Matter and Avoiding Rejection Under the USPTO's Detailed Framework" on April 16, 2015 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT).  Amelia Feulner Baur, Ph.D of McNeill Baur, Leslie McDonell of Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner, and …

Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Conducting and Analyzing Patent Searches — Strategies for Validity, Patentability, Infringement, FTO and State-of-the-Art Searches" on April 9, 2015 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT).  Thomas L. Irving and Cory C. Bell of Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner will provide guidance to patent counsel on structuring and…

March 10, 2015 – 25th Annual Conference on USPTO Law and Practice (PTO Day) (Intellectual Property Owners Association & U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) – Washington, D.C. March 10-11, 2015 – FDA Boot Camp*** (American Conference Institute) – New York, NY March 11, 2015 – "Key Developments in Biosimilar Litigation" (Momentum) – 1:00 to 2:00…