Category: Conferences & CLE’s

September 30, 2014 – 2014 Intellectual Property Continuing Legal Education Seminar (DuPont and Widener University School of Law) – Wilmington, DE September 30, 2014 – First Inventor to File America Invents Act Roadshow (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) – Dallas, TX September 30 – October 1, 2014 – Paragraph IV Disputes Master Symposium (American Conference…

September 23, 2014 – First Inventor to File America Invents Act Roadshow (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) – Alexandria, VA (webcast) September 24, 2014 – "Trade Secrets in the Life Sciences" (Intellectual Property Owners Association) – 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET) September 25, 2014 – "Charting New Territory: Prosecution and Diligence Strategies in the Wake…

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar on "Trade Secrets in the Life Sciences" on September 24, 2014 beginning at 2:00 pm (ET).  Dianna DeVore of Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, LLP; Matthew Pugmire of Pfizer, Inc.; and Michael Samardzija of Dentons US LLP examine the alternative of using trade…

Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Patent Reissue: Strategic Use for Pre- and Post-AIA — Correcting Errors in Patents, Determining Whether and When to Pursue a Reissue Application, and Mastering the Recapture Rule" on October 21, 2014 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT).  Erika H. Arner, Thomas L. Irving, and Deborah M. Herzfeld of…

Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Patent Licensing: Advanced Tactics for Licensees Post-AIA — Structuring Contractual Protections and Responding When Licensed Patents Are Challenged in Post-Grant Proceedings" on October 16, 2014 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT).  William C. Coppola, Senior Patent Counsel, Sanofi-Aventis; and April Weisbruch Goodwin Procter and Eleanor M. Yost of…

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP will be offering a live webinar entitled "Recent Judicial Decisions Impacting Technology Licensing " on October 21, 2014 from 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CT).  MBHB attorney Patrick Gattari give participants an overview of the recent judicial decisions and trends in technology licensing agreement through a review of current…

September 16, 2014 – "Section 103 and Obviousness: Capitalizing on CCPA and Early Federal Circuit Precedent — Strategies for Withstanding Obviousness Rejections and Attacks on Patent Validity and Patentability" (Strafford) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT) September 16, 2014 – First Inventor to File America Invents Act Roadshow (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) – Concord,…

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will be holding its next biotechnology/chemical/pharmaceutical (BCP) customer partnership meeting on Wednesday, September 17, 2014.  The latest BCP meeting will be the Office's first Bicoastal BCP (BCBCP) event, with the meeting being held simultaneously in the Madison Auditorium on the USPTO Alexandria Campus (East Coast) and Engineering Building Conference…

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will be hosting seven roadshow events between September 16 and October 9 to increase understanding of the First Inventor to File (FITF) provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA).  At each roadshow, panelists will discuss FITF statistics to date, the applicability of the FITF provisions on patent applications…

The University of California-Irvine School of Law will be holding a conference entitled "The Meaning of Myriad" from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on September 12, 2014 at the University of California, Irvine.  The conference schedule is as follows: • Panel 1: The New, New Subject Matter    - Mark Janis, IU Bloomington — Expressive Eligibility    - Amelia…