Category: Conferences & CLE’s

December 8-9, 2008 – Pharmaceutical and Biotech Patent Opinion Writing*** (American Conference Institute) – Atlanta, GA January 3-7, 2009 – 26th Annual National CLE Conference (Law Education Institute) – Vail, CO January 12-13, 2009 – Pharmaceutical and Biotech Patent Opinion Writing*** (American Conference Institute) – San Diego, CA January 20-21, 2009 – Bio/Pharmaceutical Summit on…

Law Seminars International (LSI) will be holding its Fourth Annual Conference on Best Practices in Patent Monetization conference on January 29-30, 2009 in San Francisco, CA.  During the conference, LSI's faculty will offer presentations on the following topics: • How do you get useful patents?• Creating and implementing decision rules for patent portfolio mining and…

C5 (UK) will be holding its Pharma/Biotech Patent Litigation conference on February 17-18, 2009 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.  At this conference, C5 faculty will offer presentations on the following topics: • Review of 2008 European case law developments;• Assessing the likely ramifications of the German olanzapine decision;• Inventive step post Angiotech:  Has UK patent law returned…

December 1, 2008 – 19th Annual Conference on U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Law and Practice (PTO Day) (Intellectual Property Owners Association) – Washington, DC December 2, 2008 – Patent Interferences Rules & Practice (Intellectual Property Owners Association) – Washington, DC December 3, 2008 – Biotechnology, Chemical, and Pharmaceuticals (BCP) Customer Partnership Meeting (U.S. Patent…

The biotechnology, chemical, and pharmaceuticals (BCP) technology groups at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will hold their next quarterly customer partnership meeting on December 3, 2008. The schedule of topics for discussion include (all times Eastern): Morning Session • Greetings and Overvie (9:00 – 9:15 AM):  John LeGuyader, George Elliot, and Remy Yucel, Directors,…

December 1, 2008 – 19th Annual Conference on U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Law and Practice (PTO Day) (Intellectual Property Owners Association) – Washington, DC December 2, 2008 – Patent Interferences Rules & Practice (Intellectual Property Owners Association) – Washington, DC December 3, 3008 – Parallel Patent Reexamination and Litigation 2008: The Latest Developments and…

November 17-18, 2008 – Pharmaceutical and Biotech Patent Opinion Writing*** (American Conference Institute) – Boston, MA November 17-18, 2008 – Patent Litigation 2008 (Practising Law Institute) – New York, NY November 19-20, 2008 – Paragraph IV on Trial*** (American Conference Institute) – New York, NY December 1, 2008 – 19th Annual Conference on U.S. Patent…

Practising Law Institute (PLI) will be holding a live seminar entitled "Parallel Patent Reexamination and Litigation 2008:  The Latest Developments and Their Impact" on December 3, 2008 in San Francisco.  The conference will offer presentations on the following topics: • Understanding Patent Reexamination Procedure and the Impact of the Process • Overview of the ex…

C5 (UK) will be holding its Structuring and Negotiating Pharma & Biotech Collaborative Agreements conference on January 26-27, 2009 in London, England.  The conference will allow attendees to: • Factor takeaways from recent deals and trends into collaborations;• Determine when to introduce M&A considerations into collaboration strategy;• Ensure that collaboration agreements meet competition law guidelines;•…

    By Christopher P. Singer — Professor Douglas Lichtman (at right) from the UCLA School of Law contacted Patent Docs to let us know about a free audio podcast regarding the recent Federal Circuit decision in In re Bilski, which is available for download at the Intellectual Property Colloquium.  The one hour program includes commentary on…