Category: Conferences & CLE’s

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a two-hour seminar entitled "Current Developments in Trilateral Offices" on Thursday, November 18, 2010 from 12:30 to 2:30 PM (ET) at the Capital Hilton, 1001 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC.  The seminar will bring together the heads of the European Patent Office, Japan Patent Office, and U.S.…

Tech Transfer Summit Ltd. will be holding the North American and European portions of its Tech Transfer Summit on November 22-23, 2010 in Toronto, Canada and on December 13-14, 2010 in Strasbourg, France.  The Summit focuses on dialogue, partnering, licensing and technology transfer between public sector research technology transfer offices and senior industry licensing and…

November 8, 2010 – Advanced Patent Licensing 2010: Current Developments and Best Practices (Practising Law Institute) – New York, NY (Groupcasts to be held in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Mechanicsburg, PA) November 8-9, 2010 – Patent Litigation 2010 (Practising Law Institute) – Atlanta, GA November 9, 2010 – "The Ethical Ramofications of Therasense" (Catholic University…

The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law and Federal Circuit Bar Association Charitable and Educational Fund will be holding a panel discussion entitled "The Ethical Ramofications of Therasense" from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm (EST) on November 9, 2010.  A panel of experts will discuss the Therasense case shortly after the Federal Circuit…

November 3, 2010 – "Whole-Genome Sequencing v. Gene Patents: The Coming Showdown" (Intellectual Property Owners Association) – 2:00 PM (ET) November 8, 2010 – Advanced Patent Licensing 2010: Current Developments and Best Practices (Practising Law Institute) – New York, NY (Groupcasts to be held in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Mechanicsburg, PA) November 8-9, 2010 –…

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will be co-sponsoring the 21st Annual Conference on USPTO Law and Practice (PTO Day) on December 6, 2010 in Washington, D.C. The PTO Day program includes patent general sessions on the following topics: • PTO Year in Review, Update on PTO Operations and…

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Whole-Genome Sequencing v. Gene Patents: The Coming Showdown" on Wednesday, November 3, 2010 beginning at 2:00 PM (ET).  The IPO webinar will address the question:  when sequencing all or a portion of an individual's genome, are individual gene patents infringed upon by either…

International Quality & Productivity Center (IQPC) has made a podcast on polymorph patents available on its website.  The podcast, which answers the question of how can polymorph patents increase cost efficiency, is an interview with Mandar Kodgule, Head of Intellectual Property and Strategic Planning at Wockhardt.  In addition to answering this question, the podcast offers…

October 25, 2010 – Advanced Patent Licensing 2010: Current Developments and Best Practices (Practising Law Institute) – San Francisco, CA November 8, 2010 – Advanced Patent Licensing 2010: Current Developments and Best Practices (Practising Law Institute) – New York, NY (Groupcasts to be held in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Mechanicsburg, PA) November 8-9, 2010 –…

American Conference Institute (ACI) will be holding a West Coast edition of its Paragraph IV Disputes conference on December 8-9, 2010 in San Francisco, CA.  The conference will allow attendees to: • Identify patents for small molecules and small proteins that may be ripe for a Paragraph IV challenge;• Recognize an ANDA applicant's initial obligations…