Category: Conferences & CLE’s

Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Patent Infringement: Structuring Opinions of Counsel: Leveraging Opinion Letters to Reduce the Risks of Liability and Enhanced Damages" on May 22, 2014 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT).  Thomas J. Scott, Jr., Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Personalized Media Communications; and Eleanor M. Yost of Goodwin Procter…

April 16, 2014 – "Patent Subject Matter Eligibility: Navigating the New "Myriad" Guidelines — Analyzing Subject Matter and Avoiding Rejection Under the USPTO's Detailed Framework" (Strafford) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT) April 16, 2014 – Biotechnology/Chemical/Pharmaceutical (BCP) Customer Partnership Meeting (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) – 9:00 am to 4:00 pm April 22, 2014…

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will be holding its next biotechnology/chemical/pharmaceutical (BCP) customer partnership meeting on Wednesday, April 16, 2014.  The agenda for the meeting is as follows: Morning Session • Welcoming Remarks (9:00 – 9:10 am ET) — Andy Faile, Deputy Commissioner for Patent Operations • Opening Remarks/Overview of TC/Collecting Feedback from Participants…

American Conference Institute (ACI) will be holding a conference on Biosimilars on June 4-6, 2014 in New York, NY.  ACI faculty will help attendees: • Understand the battles over naming and substitution on the federal and state levels and exploring the implications on competition including the FTC's current perspective;• Analyzing the arguments in the first…

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP will be offering a live webinar entitled "International Trade Secret Misappropriation Update 2014" on April 22, 2014 from 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CT).  MBHB attorney Joshua R. Rich will address the steps that have been taken (and those recently undertaken) to combat international trade secret misappropriation.  The webinar…

April 16, 2014 – "Patent Subject Matter Eligibility: Navigating the New "Myriad" Guidelines — Analyzing Subject Matter and Avoiding Rejection Under the USPTO's Detailed Framework" (Strafford) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT) April 22, 2014 – China Pharmaceutical Regulatory Law Boot Camp (American Conference Institute) – New York, NY April 23, 2014 – European biotech…

Informa Life Sciences will be holding its 23rd Annual EU Pharmaceutical Law Forum on May 14-15, 2014 in Brussels, Belgium.  The conference will offer presentations on the following topics: • Feedback from the EU Commission on competition law (keynote presentation) — to be presented by a representative from DG Competition, European Commission;• Reverse payment patent…

Practising Law Institute (PLI) will be holding its Fundamentals of Patent Prosecution 2014: A Boot Camp for Claim Drafting & Amendment Writing seminar on May 13-15, 2014 in Chicago, IL, on June 11-13, 2014 in New York, NY, and on July 9-11, 2014 in San Francisco, CA.  The three-day program, which is directed to patent…

The George Washington University Law School (with Mayer Brown and Pillsbury) will be holding its annual GW Law Symposium on Intellectual Property on May 6, 2014 at The George Washington University Law School, 2000 H Street NW, Washington, DC.  The Symposium will offer presentations on the following topics: • Keynote Address — Nathan Kelley, Deputy…

Technology Transfer Tactics will be offering a webinar entitled "The Supreme Court’s Medtronic Ruling: Practical Guidance for Protecting University IP" on April 24, 2014 from 1:00 – 2:00 pm (Eastern).  Brian D. Gildea, Executive Director, IP & Licensing, Boston University Technology Development, and Charles R. Macedo of Amster, Rothstein and Ebenstein, LLP will dissect the…