Category: Conferences & CLE’s

American Conference Institute (ACI) will be holding its Paragraph IV on Trial conference on November 19-20, 2008 in New York.  At this conference, patent litigators experienced in representing both generic and brand name drug manufacturers will work through a mock trial based on a real world ANDA filing.  The mock trial, Yankee Branded Pharmaceuticals v.…

C5 (UK) will be holding its Biotech Patenting conference on September 23-24, 2008 in London, England.  The conference will allow attendees to: • Analyze the practical impact of recent changes at the UK-IPO, EPO, and USPTO;• Increase knowledge of developments in follow-on biologics and antibody technologies in the patent area;• Manage the challenges posed by…

July 24-25, 2008 – Advanced Patent Prosecution Workshop 2008: Claim Drafting & Amendment Writing (Practising Law Institute) – New York, NY August 11-12, 2008 – Advanced Patent Prosecution Workshop 2008: Claim Drafting & Amendment Writing (Practising Law Institute) – San Francisco, CA August 10-15, 2008 – Advanced Courses (Patent Resources Group) – Washington, DC September…

C5 (UK) will be holding its Pharma/Biotech IP Due Diligence conference on October 28-29, 2008 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.  The conference will offer presentations on the following topics: • Current trends in patent reform and how they impact your due diligence;• Assessing the level of due diligence required and special considerations for complex multi-jurisdictional and multi-party…

July 16, 2008 – Patent Claim Construction Workshop (Law Seminars International) – Seattle, WA July 24-25, 2008 – Advanced Patent Prosecution Workshop 2008: Claim Drafting & Amendment Writing (Practising Law Institute) – New York, NY August 11-12, 2008 – Advanced Patent Prosecution Workshop 2008: Claim Drafting & Amendment Writing (Practising Law Institute) – San Francisco,…

American Conference Institute (ACI) will be holding its Global Patent Litigation conference on October 7-8 in New York.  The conference will allow attendees to: • Develop a strategic plan for where to file patents based on existing jurisdictional factors;• Ensure that patent rights will be enforced through a clear assessment of patent filing requirements in…

July 7, 2008 – Life After Quanta v. LGE: What Every Patent Lawyer Needs to Know (Practising Law Institute) – 1:00-2:00 PM (EDT) webcast July 9, 2008 – Quanta v. LG: What You Should Know (ALI-ABA) – 12:00-1:00 PM (EST) webcast July 9-11, 2008 – Fundamentals of Patent Prosecution 2008: A Boot Camp for Claim Drafting…

Practising Law Institute (PLI) will be offering an audio webcast entitled: "Life After Quanta v. LGE: What Every Patent Lawyer Needs to Know" on July 7, 2008 from 1:00-2:00 PM (EDT).  J. Scott Ballenger of Latham & Watkins LLP and Jeffrey T. Green of Sidley Austin LLP will address the following issues: • Can you structure…

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will be holding its 2008 Annual Meeting on September 21-23, 2008 in San Diego.  The meeting will have concurrent patent and trademark sessions.  Among the presentations being offered in the patent sessions are: • Overview of Recent Patent Case Law• Indefiniteness Before and After Datamize• The Patent Exhaustion Landscape: …

On June 20th, the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) concluded its 2008 International Convention.  More than 20,000 attendees from over 2,100 biotech companies, organizations, and institutions — including Patent Docs authors (and MBHB attorneys) Donald Zuhn, Sherri Oslick, and Kevin Noonan (below) — were in attendance at this year’s International Convention in San Diego. In addition…