Category: Conferences & CLE’s

June 4-7, 2018 – BIO International Convention (Biotechnology Innovation Organization) – Boston, MA June 5, 2018 – "Functional Claiming for Software Patents: Leveraging Recent Court Treatment — Surviving 112(f) and Disclosing Functional Basis for Software to Meet Heightened Standard of Review" (Strafford) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT) June 7, 2018 – "Views on Patent…

May 29, 2018 – "The Impact of Oil States and SAS Institute on Your PTAB Strategy" (IAM) – 4:00 (BST) May 31, 2018 – "Oil States and SAS: Implications of the Supreme Court's Decisions for Patent Practice" (Strafford) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT) May 31, 2018 – "The Defend Trade Secrets Act Turns Two:…

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "A New PTAB Landscape: The Impact of SAS, Recent Federal Circuit Decisions, and the Proposed Change to the BRI Standard" on May 31, 2018 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET).  Hon. David Ruschke, Chief Judge of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of…

IAM will be offering a free webinar on "The Impact of Oil States and SAS Institute on Your PTAB Strategy" on May 29, 2018 starting at 4:00 (BST).  IAM North America editor Richard Lloyd will moderate a roundtable discussion of attorneys from Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt; Knobbe Martens; and Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett &…

The Federal Circuit Bar Association, Virginia Bar Association IP Department, Maryland State Bar Association IP Department, and Bar Association of the District of Colombia IP Department will be hosting a program entitled "Views on Patent Cases from the Chambers — PTAB, VA, and MD" on June 7, 2018 at Eastern District of Virginia courthouse in…

Strafford will be offering a webinar entitled "Secondary Considerations at the PTAB: Combating Obviousness Challenges, Establishing Nexus" on June 14, 2018 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT).  Matthew L. Fedowitz, Philip L. Hirschhorn, and Christopher M. Cherry of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney will guide patent counsel on the use of secondary considerations at the Patent…

Strafford will be offering a webinar entitled "Protecting Software as a Medical Device: Patents, Design Patents and Trade Secrets" on June 19, 2018 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT).  Cory C. Bell, Elizabeth D. Ferrill, and Susan Y. Tull of Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner will guide counsel for companies in the medical device…

May 22, 2018 – "Sovereign Immunity and Patents at the PTAB and District Courts" (McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP) – 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CT) May 22, 2018 – "Last Party Standing: Who Has Standing to Appeal Administrative Decisions to the Federal Circuit?" (Federal Circuit Bar Association) – 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm…

LexisNexis will be offering a webinar on "The Defend Trade Secrets Act Turns Two: New Perspectives and Analysis on the Current State of the Law" on May 31, 2018 from 1:30 to 2:00 pm (ET).  Jyotin Hamid and Tricia Sherno of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP will discuss the influence of the Defend Trade Secrets Act…

Strafford will be offering a webinar entitled "Functional Claiming for Software Patents: Leveraging Recent Court Treatment — Surviving 112(f) and Disclosing Functional Basis for Software to Meet Heightened Standard of Review" on June 5, 2018 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT).  Cory C. Bell and Doris Johnson Hines of Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner…