Category: Conferences & CLE’s

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will be offering the next webinar in its Patent Quality Chat webinar series from 12:00 to 1:00 pm (ET) on July 10, 2018.  In the latest webinar, entitled "Improving Access to Global Patent Data," Nelson Yang, Acting Director of International Patent Business Solutions in the Office of International Patent Cooperation…

The Rocky Mountain Regional Office and Technology Center (TC) 2600 will be holding a combined Customer Partnership Meeting from 8:15 am to 3:00 pm (MT) on July 17, 2018 at the Rocky Mountain Regional Office in Denver, CO.  TC 2600 examination for patent applications including Communications. The event is free, open to the public, and…

American Conference Institute (ACI) will be holding is 4th Annual Post-Grant PTO Proceedings Conference on July 17-18, 2018 in Washington, D.C.  ACI faculty will help attendees: • Analyze has the recent Supreme Court decision will alter the future of PTAB practice;• Review cases that are held concurrently in both the PTAB and District Court, and…

American Conference Institute (ACI) will be holding the 5th annual Women Leaders in Life Sciences Law conference on July 25-27, 2018 in Boston, MA.  ACI faculty will help attendees: • Get legal updates across all practice areas in the life sciences;• Devise practical strategies for guiding your company through the latest business trends;• Develop tactics…

Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC will be offering a webinar on "Biotech/pharma subject-matter — Patentability at the EPO and how to avoid pitfalls for US based applicants" on July 17, 2018 from 7:30 to 9:30 am (Mountain Time).  Sandra Pohlman of df-mp (Munich, Germany) and Klaus-Peter Döpfer, Director Biotechnology, EPO will look at the patentability…

Strafford will be offering a webinar entitled "Labeling and Induced Infringement in Pharma Patent Litigation and Protecting IP Rights" on July 19, 2018 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT).  Thomas L. Irving, Shana K. Cyr, and Barbara R. Rudolph of Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner will guide patent counsel on the implications of recent…

June 25-27, 2018 – Summit on Biosimilars (American Conference Institute) – New York, NY June 26, 2018 – "Means-Plus-Function Patent Claims: Treatment in Prosecution, Litigation and Post-Grant Proceedings" (Strafford) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT) June 26, 2018 – "Willfulness Since Halo" (Intellectual Property Owners Association) – 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET) June 28, 2018…

Practising Law Institute (PLI) will be holding its "Advanced Patent Prosecution Workshop 2018: Claim Drafting & Amendment Writing" on July 11-12, 2018 in New York, NY, on August 16-17, 2018 in San Francisco, CA, and on September 27-28, 2018 in Chicago, IL.  Patent Docs author Donald Zuhn will chair and Patent Docs author Kevin Noonan…

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Willfulness Since Halo" on June 26, 2018 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET).  Prof. Thomas Cotter of the University of Minnesota, Richard Megley of Lee Sheikh Megley & Haan LLC, and Kathi Vidal of Winston & Strawn LLP will analyze recent case law…

Strafford will be offering a webinar entitled "Drafting and Defending Software Patents to Survive Section 101 and AIA Challenges — Anticipating and Minimizing the Risk of 101, 103 Rejections, Recent Court Guidance" on July 17, 2018 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT).  Michael L. Kiklis and Stephen G. Kunin of Oblon McClelland Maier & Neustadt…