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 six plenary sessions of interest to all patent lawyers and six 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:

  • Updated! Key buyers, sellers and brokers of patent assets divulge inner workings of the patent marketplace
  • Updated! Federal judges from key patent venues of Delaware, Texas and California provide insights on patent litigation
  • Updated! The practice impact of the America Invents Act, and recent Supreme Court and Federal Circuit decisions
  • Updated! Corporate counsel discuss critical issues that keep them awake at night
  • New! Practitioners and PTAB judges provide guidance on PTAB trial proceedings and parallel litigation

Breakout sessions include:
Prosecution Breakout Track: Three sessions focused on the ongoing USPTO rules and tweaks implementing the New PTO Ethics (modelled on the ABA Rules), Patent Law Treaty Revisions for Designs, and other PTO rule action; and two sessions focused on PTAB and CAFC decisions and their unique strategic spillover into the chemical and biotechnical patent prosecution field. Is it all, by now, naturally occurring and thus ineligible?

The USPTO has been all about AIA implementation; but the Supreme Court has been increasing its patent system oversight with considerable change at the USPTO being the outcome. Are software-implemented methods all abstract? Are the Guidelines fixed and do they accurately reflect the law? Come to our PTO intensive breakouts and find out!

Litigation Breakout Track: How the PTAB has impacted patent litigation; insights from sitting judges in key patent venues; will patent reform change the face of patent litigation forever?; perspectives on litigation involving non-practicing entities; in house views on managing patent litigation; and developments in patent damages.

Strategic/Transactional Breakout Track: Hear about key issues concerning patent-eligible subject matter in view of recent Supreme Court and Federal Circuit decisions; and views from in-house counsel regarding patent quality and other issues.

Special Features

  • Earn one hour of Ethics credit
  • Customize your Institute by choosing from 18 breakout sessions!

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