Category: Conferences & CLE’s

  • McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP will be offering a live webinar entitled "Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International: General Purpose Computers Cannot Save Inventions Directed to Abstract Ideas" on August 19, 2014 from 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CT).  MBHB attorney Rory P. Shea and Patent Docs contributor and MBHB attorney Michael S. Borella,…

  • The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Alice v. CLS Bank: How Far Has the Needle Moved?" on July 15, 2014 beginning at 2:00 pm (ET).  A panel consisting of Scott Bornstein of Greenberg Traurig LLP, Michael Chernoff of MDB Capital Group LLC, and Robert Sachs of Fenwick & West…

  • Bloomberg BNA Hosts Panel on Subject Matter Eligibility By Kevin E. Noonan — Last month at the BIO convention, Randy Kubetin, Managing Editor of Bloomberg BNA's Life Sciences Law & Industry Report moderated a panel entitled "Patent Eligibility from the Trenches: Practical Implications of the Supreme Court's Mayo and Myriad Decisions."  The panel provided a…

  • July 9, 2014 – "Nautilus and Limelight: The Supreme Court Keeps Chipping Away at Patentees" (McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP) – 10:00 to 11:15 am (CT) July 9-11, 2014 – Fundamentals of Patent Prosecution 2014: A Boot Camp for Claim Drafting & Amendment Writing (Practising Law Institute) – San Francisco, CA July 20-22, 2014…

  • Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Protecting IP Rights After Limelight Networks v. Akamai: Implications for Divided Patent Infringement and Inducement — Prosecuting and Litigating Patent Claims Following the New Supreme Court Decision" on July 24, 2014 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT).  Sona De and Gene W. Lee of Ropes & Gray will…

  • Commercial Law WebAdvisorwill be offering a webinar entitled "America Invents Act: Patent Strategies and Reforms Counsel Needs to Know" on July 22, 2014 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (Eastern).  Aaron D. Charfoos of Dykema Gossett PLLC will examine the changes to the patent system introduced by the AIA, as well as strategies in-house counsel and…

  • The American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Intellectual Property Law will be offering a live webinar entitled "Ask the Office: New Guidance on Functional Claiming" on July 30, 2014 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (ET).  Christopher Alan Bullard of Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P. will moderate a panel consisting of Nathan James Prepelka…

  • Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank: Patent Eligibility of Software-Related Inventions" on July 30, 2014 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT).  Michael L. Kiklis and Stephen G. Kunin of Oblon Spivak McClelland Maier & Neustadt will examine the Supreme Court's Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int'l decision and its…

  • Judge Randall Rader Says Goodbye at BIO By Kevin E. Noonan — Last week, Judge Randall R. Rader, until recently Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, opened a day-long session on Intellectual Property Law by saying farewell.  In a speech at varying times passionate and wistful, the Judge (who is…

  • By Kevin E. Noonan — Sounding an appropriately alarmist note, Bloomberg BNA has issued the results of a study on how the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is administering its March 4, 2014 Guidance on subject matter patent eligibility developed in view of the Supreme Court's decisions in Mayo v. Prometheus and AMP v. Myriad…