12-Hour Program

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Overview

Why you should attend

The Institute is designed to be of ultimate practice value to all three subgroups in the patent law community: patent prosecutors, patent litigators, and strategic/transactional lawyers. The two-day schedule includes seven plenary sessions of interest to all patent lawyers and five breakout sessions in each of the three subgroups.

You design the two-day schedule that best meets your professional needs.

Do not miss this unique opportunity to sharpen your practice skills and network with federal judges, USPTO officials, in-house counsel and outside patent lawyers.

What you will learn

Plenary sessions include:

  • Featured Speaker: Former USPTO Director David J. Kappos
  • A dialogue with prominent members of the bench and bar, including Federal Circuit Judge S. Jay Plager
  • Key buyers, sellers and brokers of patent assets divulge inner workings of the patent marketplace
  • Federal judges provide insight on patent law and litigation
  • The practice impact of the America Invents Act, and recent Supreme Court and Federal Circuit decisions
  • Corporate counsel discuss critical issues that keep them awake at night

Plus customize your Institute by choosing from 15 breakout sessions!

Prosecution Breakout Track: Three sessions focused on the fallout from all of the USPTO rules and tweaks implementing the America Invents Act (AIA),
New PTO Ethics, Treaty Revisions, and other PTO rule action; and two sessions focused on the AIA and its unique strategic spillover into the chemical and
biotechnical patent prosecution field. Since 2011, the USPTO has been all about AIA implementation; now comes the real world that is manifest from those rules. You can expect many on-the-fly adjustments as workarounds are devised by clever applicants; this is your chance to be current across the board.

Litigation Breakout Track: Containing patent litigation costs; developments in pharma and biotech patent litigation; advice from the bench; litigating software-related disputes; and developments in patent damages.

Strategic/Transactional Breakout Track
: Hear about key issues concerning inter partes review and post-grant review strategies; patent-eligible subject matter in view of recent Supreme Court and Federal Circuit decisions; and hot licensing topics affecting your practice.

Special Features

  • Perspectives from both sides of the aisle on litigation involving non-practicing entities
  • Earn one hour of Ethics credit!

Who should attend

Patent litigators, patent prosecutors and patent transactional lawyers, both in-house and outside counsel.

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