Category: Conferences & CLE’s

December 3, 2013 – "Post-AIA Preissuance Prior Art Submissions at the USPTO — Best Practices for Third-Party Challenges to Patent Applications and for Monitoring Competition" (Strafford) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST) December 4, 2013 – Congress on Biotech & Pharma Patenting*** (C5 (UK)) – London, UK December 5, 2013 – Forum on Biosimilars*** (C5…

American Conference Institute (ACI) will be offering its 3rd Comprehensive Guide to Patent Reform from January 22-23, 2014 in New York, NY.  The conference will cover practice pitfalls and new procedural advantages by participating in discussions on such topics as: • Adapting to the first-to-file system and developing advanced techniques to ensure issuance of robust…

Law Education Institute, Inc. (LEI) will be holding the 31st Annual National CLE Conference on January 8-12, 2014 in Vail, Colorado.  The Intellectual Property program of the conference will offer presentations on a number of topics, including: • Patent Markets: The Buying, Selling and Brokering of Patent Assets• The Ongoing Saga of Induced Infringement• Damages…

December 3, 2013 – "Post-AIA Preissuance Prior Art Submissions at the USPTO — Best Practices for Third-Party Challenges to Patent Applications and for Monitoring Competition" (Strafford) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST) December 4, 2013 – Congress on Biotech & Pharma Patenting*** (C5 (UK)) – London, UK December 5, 2013 – Forum on Biosimilars*** (C5…

Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Patent Exhaustion and Licensing Strategies — Leveraging Recent Decisions for Structuring Patent Licenses and Resolving Litigation" on December 12, 2013 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST).  Iona Kaiser of McDermott Will & Emery, and Patent Docs co-author Kevin E. Noonan, Ph.D. of McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff will…

Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Means-Plus-Function Patent Claims After the AIA — Assessing Benefits and Risks, Surviving AIA's PGRs, IPRs and Reissue" on December 16, 2013 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST).  Thomas L. Irving, John Mulcahy, and Dr. Amanda Murphy of Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner will provide patent counsel with…

November 17-20, 2013 – Creating and Leveraging Intellectual Property in Developing Countries: A Power Tool for Social and Economic Growth*** (Companies and IP Commission and National IP Management Office of South Africa) – Durban, South Africa November 19, 2013 – PTAB or the District Court: Which Is the Better Option When Challenging Patent Validity? (McDonnell…

IBC Legal Conferences will be holding its 5th annual International Patent Litigation conference on December 10-11, 2013 in London.  IBC Legal faculty will offer presentations on the following topics: • The Unified Patent Court — progress and implications — How patent litigation behaviour may change as the unitary system becomes a reality;• Future of UK…

Technology Transfer Tactics will be offering a webinar entitled "Using Competitive Technical Intelligence Techniques to Assess University Patents" on December 12, 2013 from 1:00 – 2:00 pm (Eastern).  Alan Porter, Professor Emeritus of Industrial & Systems Engineering, and of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology; Barry Brager, Founder and Managing Partner of Perception Partners®; and…

November 12, 2013 – "IPR Proceedings at the USPTO — Strategic Approaches to the New Patent Proceedings" (Law Seminars International) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (Eastern) November 13, 2013 – "How University TTOs Can Slash Patent Expenses While Improving Patent Quality" (Technology Transfer Tactics) – 1:00 to 2:00 pm (Eastern) November 13, 2013 – Unitary…