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Recorded on: Jul. 10, 2012

MARTA E. GROSS: Changed our panel again. And before we get started with the final panel of the day, I'd like to remind everyone to complete the evaluations, if you would, that are on your iPads in front of you. And also, remind you that there's information, the detailed information, on the PowerPoints, and the bios, and other information about this program. So our final panel of the afternoon, we've got two gentlemen here on my right who are going ...

Recorded on: May. 20, 2013

Taken from the briefing Patent Litigation Before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation and in MDL Proceedings recorded May, 2013.Patentees continue to file multiple suits asserting the same or overlapping patents that the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) consolidates for pretrial proceedings. This trend may increase with the changes to the joinder requirements made by the America Invents Act.Elaine Herrmann Blais ...

Recorded on: Mar. 20, 2013

SPEAKER 1: OK, we're going to go ahead and get restarted. Welcome back, everyone. We are here at the Patent Markets panel. A lot has been happening, as most of you know, with relation to patents, and buying and selling and brokering of them, as of late. We're fortunate to have several people here today, very knowledgeable this area, to talk to us about some of these issues. To my immediate right, your left, is Kevin Barhydt, who is Vice President ...

Recorded on: Apr. 17, 2013

JOSE ESTEVES: OK. We're going to get started here. We've got our second to last panel. And for this panel, we're going to be discussing patent monetization and the current environment. And we're lucky to have three panelists here with us. First, we have, in alphabetical order, we've got Abha Divine. Abha is Managing Director and Founder of Techquity Capital Management. Abha's career demonstrates proven results in the successful planning and launch ...

Recorded on: Jul. 2, 2013

MARTA: And that's it. I took a smidge longer than I wanted. But I'm going to turn it over to our two panelists. Jane Gunnison is a partner from Ropes and Gray in New York. She's been practicing patent law in the areas I already mentioned in the biotech life sciences space for about 20 years now. And she's had a lot of experience in all different areas of technology and will be bringing that viewpoint. Sitting next to her is Chris Tobin, who's a partner ...

Recorded on: Jul. 20, 2011

CHRISTOPHER M. TOBIN: We have is a number of different sections here, and we'd like to cover about half of them in the first session and the other half in the second section. And Jane and I will alternate between the basic sections. But we'll jump in periodically, because as Marta had mentioned there are certain situations where the life sciences practice will vary greatly from the tax side or other areas just because of the realities of the situation: ...

Recorded on: Jul. 20, 2011

MARTA GROSS: Thank you. So we had a question during the break from one of the people on the webcast. And the question had to do with the named inventor. And if you'll notice the last bullet point that Jane had just talked about right before the break was based on the claim. So the question is, is it possible that an originally named inventor may have to be removed from the application during the prosecution if some claims are withdrawn? JANE GUNNISON: ...

Recorded on: Jun. 7, 2012

IAN N. FEINBERG: Our next speaker is Sanjeet Dutta. He's a partner at King & Spalding in what I would call the greater Silicon Valley. He's in the Redwood Shores office of King & Spalding. He's an intellectual property litigator and a patent prosecutor. So he knows from where he speaks, and he will be talking to us on patent prosecution for litigators. Sanjeet? SANJEET K. DUTTA: Great. Thank you very much, Ian. Morning, everybody. It's good ...

Recorded on: Jun. 13, 2011

IAN: We're actually a couple minutes ahead of schedule. Sasha is a partner at Ropes & Gray in Palo Alto. She is one of the folks who came over to Ropes & Gray when it merged with Fish & Neave. Fish & Neave, for those of you who've been in the patent prosecution and litigation arena is one of the most hallowed names in patent law. New York firm, it was one of the early great IP boutiques. Sasha represents diverse companies with complex ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2013

IAN FEINBERG: So our first two programs today are "Patent Prosecution for Litigators" and "Elements and Burdens in a Patent Infringement Case and the Defendant's Response." Our first speaker on patent prosecution for litigators is Sanjeet Dutta. Sanjeet is a partner in King & Spalding's Silicon Valley office. His practice focuses on patent litigation, patent prosecution, license agreements, and IP diligence and audits. He's ...

Recorded on: Jul. 10, 2012

MARTA E. GROSS: I was giving the background of what we were going to cover. This panel is going to deal with what I'll call patent analysis, and teeing up or setting up the various situations in which you may discover that you want to do licensing or transactional business work with acquiring patents, selling patents, acquiring companies, acquiring technology. And so that's how we will deal with this next panel. The three people that are up here ...

Recorded on: Jul. 20, 2011

MARTA E. GROSS: Welcome back, everyone. We're ready to start the afternoon session. And as I mentioned this morning, the afternoon session is going to start out-- I'm going to be speaking to you for roughly a half an hour on a little bit of what I've now called patent analysis. And I'll explain why I've changed the title of the presentation. And then the two gentlemen that you see to my right will be speaking on licensing and transactions, patents ...

Recorded on: Apr. 3, 2013

ROB STERNE: And we're very, very fortunate to have Dave Kappos, who recently stepped down from being our director at the PTO. I was at the PTO yesterday for a reexam interview with Deborah Jones and Art Unit 3991, and mentioned that Dave was going to be on our program today. And everyone in the room at the PTO, as well as the people at the guard desks and everywhere else, have only the nicest things to say about our speaker. Dave, you should know ...

Recorded on: Apr. 2, 2013

DAVID BARR: Good afternoon everyone. Welcome back for the afternoon session of our conference. And I'm pleased to introduce Joe Drayton from Cooley, who's going to be speaking about the American Invents Act, post-grant procedures under the AIA. Joe Drayton is a partner in Cooley's litigation department. And he's a member of their intellectual property litigation practice group. He joined Cooley in 2012. And he's a resident in Cooley's New York office. ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2013

IAN FEINBERG: OK. I'm going to assume-- oh. We go. OK. Welcome back those of you who are still here. Our next speaker is Joseph Lavelle. He is a patent lawyer focusing primarily on the preparation and trial of patent infringement cases. By the way, he also has a reg number, meaning he's also license under the PTO. He's handled a number of appeals to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He's an author, teacher, and lecturer regarding antitrust ...

Recorded on: Apr. 3, 2013

SCOTT A. MCKEOWN: So continuing on. And Dave's a tough act to follow, but again we're very happy to have him here. I think we got the benefit of both the PTO slides and Dave's insight, which is great. So tough act to follow. So what I want to do in this next hour is a little bit just try to pull everything together in terms of the mechanics of these procedures. And I'm not going to get into the mechanics too much other than at a very high level, ...

Recorded on: Jul. 23, 2013

JOHN WHITE: All right. With that, I get to introduce our speakers. So our first speaker this morning is Len Svensson. He comes to us from the San Diego office of Birch, Stewart, Kolasch, and Birch. Len has been speaking for PLI for the better part of a decade at this point. He has a degree in biochemistry from University of Maryland and then a law degree from George Mason University. And he came out to California as part of the gold rush, I guess, ...

Recorded on: Apr. 3, 2013

SCOTT MCKEOWN: Welcome back, everybody. We're ready to kick off the afternoon session. But before we do, we did have one question that came in late. And that question was, must an IPR petition be accompanied by an expert declaration? For example, the questioner wants to know if you have clear disclosures in the prior art, maybe you can just come in without the declaration. The short answer is of course there's no requirement that you file a declaration. ...

Recorded on: Feb. 9, 2012

SCOTT MCKEOWN: All right. Welcome back to the afternoon session. We've got a couple interesting topics to discuss. In contrast to what we went over this morning, I'm going to start off talking about some strategic uses of not only the new AIA proceedings, but patent reexamination as it exists today, and as it's used today, especially as it relates to litigation. After my presentation we'll have discussion of ethics, the interplay with ethics considerations ...

Recorded on: Jan. 11, 2011

LEONARD RICHARD SVENSSON: Good afternoon. Welcome back. Thanks for coming back after lunch. This afternoon, I'm moderating. And we have three sessions this afternoon. Three one hour sessions. One on strategy. Then we have a judges panel. And then we have one hour on ethics. And that'll run sort of the same. Judges are not here yet. They're enjoying some touring of San Francisco. But they'll be here shortly. Scott's been up here a couple times already, ...

Recorded on: Oct. 9, 2012

SCOTT OFFER: Good Morning everyone. My name is Scott Offer, I'm General Counsel for Motorola. Motorola was acquired this year by Google. So I'm very pleased to be able to talk to you about the patent warfare that's been going on. And talk specifically about some of the factors to consider when entering into that domain. And also some of the pitfalls and things to look out for. Very pleased today to have an illustrious crew with me. I have three high ...

Recorded on: Feb. 24, 2011

JOHN M. WHITE: Welcome back to our 3 o'clock beginning. We will carry on with the patent office particular stuff. Brian Hanlon will wrap up with respect to his initial set of slides, and give us some stats on how the patent office is doing, maybe some metrics. And then we'll hear from Bob Spar and his additional materials with respect to patent office things. And then at 4 o'clock, we're going to transition to an hour on patent law reform. I will ...

Recorded on: Mar. 20, 2013

JOHN WHITE: Hello, welcome back. It's time for our last hour together. That's right, we're here. I know, sadness, because it's almost over. And there's nothing like two days of patent fun bringing us all together. So I have a few things. Number one, thank you all for coming. And the thing we want back from you are your evaluations. This can be accomplished on those iPads in front of you. And there are two tabs, one for faculty and one for content. ...

Recorded on: Mar. 5, 2012

SCOTT M. ALTER: OK. Thank you, John. It is now my pleasure to introduce our keynote speaker today, Robert Stoll. Bob was sworn in as Commissioner for Patents on October 5, 2009 and prior to that he was Dean of Training and Education at the patent office. In that capacity he directed efforts to train foreign officials and the public on all aspects of intellectual property. Before his appointment as dean in 2007, he served as director of the Office ...

Recorded on: Feb. 24, 2011

HON. SHARON R. BARNER: Thank you, John. And welcome to everyone, both in our audience and who are participating by webcast. I appreciate the opportunity to speak with you, as the former director of the US Patent and Trademark Office, on our operations, programs, and initiatives. Most of my time will be spent talking about those initiatives, of which, as John has commented, there are many. One of the things that the director, Director Kappos, and ...