Category: Conferences & CLE’s

December 15, 2014 – "Evolving PTAB Trial Practice: Navigating Complex Procedural Rules — Strategically Using Routine and Additional Discovery, Requests for Joinder, and Motions to Amend" (Strafford) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST) December 16, 2014 – "Strategic Considerations Before Kick-Starting an IPR" (American Bar Association (ABA) Center for Professional Development and Section of Intellectual…

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP will be offering a live webinar on the "Top Patent Law Stories of 2014" on January 20, 2014 from 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CT).  For the past seven years, the Patent Docs weblog has presented an annual, end-of-the-year review of the top stories in patent law.  In this presentation, Patent Docs co-authors…

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Estoppel and Privity in Post-grant Proceedings and Parallel Litigation" on December 18, 2014 beginning at 2:00 pm (ET).  Nicholas Groombridge of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP; Mark Matuschak of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP; and Jon Wright of Sterne,…

December 8, 2014 – "Demonstrating Patent Eligibility Post-Alice Corp. Decision — Navigating the Nuances and Leveraging Guidance From Federal Circuit and PTAB Opinions" (Strafford) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST) December 10, 2014 – European Patent Reform Forum (Managing Intellectual Property) – San Jose, CA December 11, 2014 – "Is Inequitable Conduct Making Its Comeback?"…

American Conference Institute (ACI) will be holding an Advanced Summit on Life Sciences Patents on January 13-14, 2015 in New York, NY.  ACI faculty will offer sessions on: • Protecting patents in light of increasingly strict § 101 patentability standards post-Myriad and USPTO patent eligibility guidelines• Demystifying the doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting and analyzing…

Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Evolving PTAB Trial Practice: Navigating Complex Procedural Rules — Strategically Using Routine and Additional Discovery, Requests for Joinder, and Motions to Amend" on December 15, 2014 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST).  Greg H. Gardella and Scott A. McKeown of Oblon Spivak McClelland Maier & Neustadt will provide…

The American Bar Association (ABA) Center for Professional Development and Section of Intellectual Property Law will be offering a live webinar entitled "Strategic Considerations Before Kick-Starting an IPR" on December 16, 2014 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (ET).  Jennifer Lee Bailey, Kim E. Choate, Margaret McInerney Welsh, and Thomas Victor Miller discuss factors that a…

The Federal Circuit Bar Association (FCBA) will be holding a panel discussion webinar entitled " Appealing to the Federal Circuit From PTAB Decisions in AIA Review Proceedings" on December 11, 2014 from noon to 1:00 pm (EST).  Scott Weidenfeller of the USPTO Office of the Solicitor, John Dragseth of Fish & Richardson P.C., and Timothy…

December 2, 2014 – "China's New IP Courts: What U.S. Companies Need to Know" (Intellectual Property Owners Association) – 12:00 to 1:00 pm (ET) December 3, 2014 – "Europe's Unified Patent Court: A Lot to Like?" (Intellectual Property Owners Association) – 12:00 to 1:00 pm (ET) December 3, 2014 – "Alice, Where Are You Going?"…

The American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) will be offering a webinar entitled "Is Inequitable Conduct Making Its Comeback?" on December 11, 2014 from 12:30 – 2:00 pm (Eastern).  Matthew Blackburn of Locke Lord, and Keith McWha of McCarter & English will address recent post-Therasense Federal Circuit decisions relating to inequitable conduct, including the Federal…