Category: Conferences & CLE’s

Law Education Institute, Inc. (LEI) will be holding the 30th Annual National CLE Conference on January 2-5, 2013 in Snowmass, Colorado.  The Intellectual Property program of the conference will offer presentations on a number of topics, including: • Keynote Address: Adjudicating Intellectual Property Disputes in the Digital Age — Honorable Margaret McKeown, U.S. Court of…

December 11, 2012 – Preissuance Prior Art Submissions at the USPTO — Best Practices for Third-Party Challenges to Patent Applications and Monitoring Competition (Strafford) – 1:00 – 2:30 pm (EST) December 12, 2012 – Saving the Best for Last: Top 10 Things In-House Counsel Need to Do to Prepare for the AIA's March 2013 Deadline…

December 3-5, 2012 – Drug and Medical Device Litigation*** (American Conference Institute) – New York, NY December 4-5, 2012 – Paragraph IV Disputes*** (American Conference Institute) – San Francisco, CA December 11, 2012 – Preissuance Prior Art Submissions at the USPTO — Best Practices for Third-Party Challenges to Patent Applications and Monitoring Competition (Strafford) –…

November 27, 2012 – Patents and the Written Description Requirement: Navigating Section 112 Disclosure Obligations and Withstanding Invalidity Challenges (Strafford) – 1:00 – 2:30 pm (EST) November 28-29, 2012 – Biotech Patents*** (American Conference Institute) – Boston, MA November 28-29, 2012 – Orphan Drugs and Rare Diseases*** (American Conference Institute) – Boston, MA December 3-5,…

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will be holding a combined customer partnership meeting of Technology Center 3700 (medical devices) and Technology Center 1600 (biotechnology) on January 29, 2013.  The agenda for the meeting is as follows: • Sign-in — 8:30 – 9:00 am• Introduction — 9:00 – 9:30 am• CPC (Cooperative Patent Classification) —…

November 27, 2012 – Patents and the Written Description Requirement: Navigating Section 112 Disclosure Obligations and Withstanding Invalidity Challenges (Strafford) – 1:00 – 2:30 pm (EST) November 28-29, 2012 – Biotech Patents*** (American Conference Institute) – Boston, MA November 28-29, 2012 – Orphan Drugs and Rare Diseases*** (American Conference Institute) – Boston, MA December 3-5,…

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP will be offering a live webinar entitled "Saving the Best for Last: Top 10 Things In-House Counsel Need to Do to Prepare for the AIA's March 2013 Deadline" on December 12, 2012 from 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CT).  Grantland Drutchas and Patent Docs author Dr. Donald Zuhn will…

The Chisum Patent Academy will be offering its next Intensive Patent Law Seminar from February 20-22, 2013 in New York City (Midtown Manhattan).  The three-day seminar will focus in great depth on two timely and controversial patent law topics:  patent claim interpretation and active inducement (particularly in the context of multi-actor method claims).  The seminar…

November 12-14, 2012 – Fall Intellectual Property Counsels Committee (IPCC) Conference (Biotechnology Industry Organization) – Charleston, SC November 14, 2012 – Patents and the Public Good (Greater Washington, DC Chapter of the Licensing Executives Society) – Washington, DC November 15, 2012 – Successful Strategies for Overcoming Obviousness Rejections in the Patent Application Process (McDonnell Boehnen…

Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Preissuance Prior Art Submissions at the USPTO — Best Practices for Third-Party Challenges to Patent Applications and Monitoring Competition" on December 11, 2012 from 1:00 – 2:30 pm (EST).  Clifton E. McCann and Thomas M. Haas of Thompson Hine will provide guidance to patent counsel on the new…