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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.