Category: Conferences & CLE’s

January 19, 2021 – "Top Patent Law Stories of 2021" (McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP) – 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CT) January 19, 2022 – "Challenging the Validity of Patent Rights in Australia: Options and Strategies" (Spruson & Ferguson) – 4:00 pm (ET) January 25, 2022 – "User Interfaces — What Can You…

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP will be offering a live webinar on the "Top Patent Law Stories of 2021" on January 19, 2022 from 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CT).  Since 2007, the Patent Docs weblog has presented an annual, end-of-the-year review of the top stories in patent law.  In this presentation, Patent Docs co-authors…

Spruson & Ferguson will be offering a webinar entitled "Challenging the Validity of Patent Rights in Australia: Options and Strategies" on January 19, 2022 at 4:00 pm (ET).  Mike Zammit and Doug Horton of Spruson & Ferguson will discuss: • The life cycle of a standard Australian patent;• Pre-grant challenges: (a) third party observations, (b)…

J A Kemp will be offering a webinar entitled "User Interfaces — What Can You Patent?" on January 25, 2022 from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm (GMT).  Dominic Forsthye and Callum Docherty of J A Kemp will look at the EPO's approach to excluded matter as applied to user interfaces, using examples from case law…

December 14, 2021 – 15th Annual USPTO IP Attaché Roundtable (U.S. Chamber of Commerce Global Innovation Policy Center) – 8:30 am to 10:30 am (ET) December 14, 2021 – "PTAB Trial Proceedings: Best Practices and Emerging Trends" (Intellectual Property Owners Association) – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm (ET)

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "PTAB Trial Proceedings: Best Practices and Emerging Trends" on December 14, 2021 from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm (ET).  Hon. Alyssa Finamore, Administrative Patent Judge, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; Alyssa Holtslander of Unified Patents; Hon. Eric Jeschke, Administrative Patent Judge, U.S. Patent…

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) will be offering its 15th Annual USPTO IP Attaché Roundtable with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's IP Attachés on December 14, 2021 from 8:30 am to 10:30 am (ET).  The program provides a unique opportunity to engage with the assembled IP Attachés for a…

December 6, 2021 – "UPC Crash Course" (Hoffmann Eitle) – 12:00 pm (EST) December 8, 2021 – "Getting Ready for the New European Patent System" (Hoffmann Eitle) – 9:00 am to 12:00 pm (CET) December 8, 2021 – "A 15-Year Future of China IP System – Implications of the New China IP Policy Roadmap (2021-2035)"…

Hoffmann Eitle will be offering two online seminars regarding the Agreement on the Unified Patent Court (UPCA). The first online seminar, entitled "UPC Crash Course," will be held on December 6, 2021 at 12:00 pm (EST).  C. Thomas Becher, Morten Garberg, and Niels Hölder will discuss the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court, including…

GEN Law Firm will be offering a webinar entitled "A 15-Year Future of China IP System – Implications of the New China IP Policy Roadmap (2021-2035)" on December 8, 2021 at 8:00 am ET.  Ma Yide, Professor, Member of China National People's Congress, China Intellectual Property Law Society; David Kappos of Cravath Swaine & Moore;…