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Recorded on: Jul. 24, 2012

JOHN WHITE: Good afternoon. It's 3:45, and now we begin our push towards 5 o'clock and the end of our program. And so I will be delivering that part of our talk. But before I begin, I'll introduce myself, because that's what I do, you see, as moderator. So I'm standing in today for Bob Spar. Bob Spar did the slides that we're going to look at. He was the former director at the PTO in charge of the Office of Patent Legal Administration. And Bob knows ...

Recorded on: Jul. 24, 2012

JOHN M. WHITE: Ben, we will now make a seamless transition to 103, and this is obviousness in the context of, for the most part, the CAFC dealing with district court decisions. And what becomes of those decisions and I'll let Rebecca take it from there. And she'll run us through to the next break, which is 3:30. REBECCA GOLDMAN RUDICH: OK. Everybody awake? JOHN M. WHITE: Yep! REBECCA GOLDMAN RUDICH: OK because I'm going to give you the spelling ...

From the program: Advanced Patent Licensing 2012: Current Developments and Best Practices

Released on: Nov. 5, 2012

In the current economy, more and more companies are seeking to monetize their patent portfolios. Thus, understanding patent transactions has never been more important. Experts in patent licensing will cover recent legal developments; techniques for drafting agreements for patent licensing, purchases and sales; and practical advice on negotiation and enforcement considerations. Lecture Topics  [Total time 06:15:55] Segments with an asterisk ...

Recorded on: Oct. 4, 2012

Taken from the briefing Akamai-McKesson: The En Banc Federal Circuit Takes on "Divided Infringement" recorded October, 2012. Who can be liable for patent infringement, when only the combined actions of multiple entities (but none of them individually) perform the steps required by the patent? In recent years, such a question of so-called “divided” patent infringement has created complexities for ...

Recorded on: Oct. 23, 2012

MARK S. HOLMES: Thank you, John, and welcome back. To me this is the most enjoyable parts of the whole program. And I want to thank our panelists we're going to introduce now for appearing. On my far left is Winston Henderson. He's a vice president and general counsel at NanoTerra, a Boston-based nanotechnology company with life science and non-life science divisions. Before that, he was at Surface Logix, which is a biopharmaceutical and drug development ...

Recorded on: Jun. 7, 2012

GARY HNATH: OK. Welcome back. Thank you for coming back. Thank you for joining the afternoon session. My name is Gary Hnath. And I'll be speaking later on this afternoon about litigation of patent cases at the ITC. But right now, I'd like to introduce the next speaker, who needs no introduction because he's already been introduced. But you're going to be treated to having what I consider to be the best speaker on patent law on this planet and also ...

Recorded on: Aug. 16, 2012

Taken from the briefing Are You Ready to Enter the U.S. Biosimilars Pathway? recorded August, 2012. The U.S. Biosimilars legislation was signed into law in March 2010.  The FDA published draft Guidance documents to implement Biosimilars in the Spring of 2012.  With many biologic drugs poised to come off patent in the next few years, Biotech and Biosimilars companies are preparing to test the U.S. Biosimilars system.  Several ...

Recorded on: Sep. 28, 2012

P. TRIPODI: Well, we've reached that part of the day. I'm pleased to announce our final speaker for the day, Mark Flagel, from the Los Angeles office of Latham & Watkins. Mark is going to talk to you today about what gets to trial in a patent case. And as you can see, we will be layering the complexities of district court litigation on all the topics having to do with patent office procedures that you've heard about today. Mark has a BA from ...

From the program: Patent Litigation 2012

Released on: Oct. 12, 2012

Rapid changes in patent law make it necessary that, whether you are plaintiff’s or defendant’s counsel, you are up-to-date on the current state of the law and can quickly develop successful litigation strategies and tactics. This program is taught by a faculty of both outside and in-house lawyers who have earned national reputations in patent litigation by trying and managing a wide variety of bench and jury patent trials, and provides ...

Recorded on: Mar. 5, 2012

SCOTT: With our next panel, Patent Quality and Cost Effectiveness, we used from in-house, and we're very fortunate to have three excellent speakers from in-house to talk to us about their thoughts on the topic. To my immediate right is Serena Farquharson-Torres, who is the global head currently, and patent support for consumer health care, for Sanofi. She's responsible for developing and coordinating implementation of Sanofi's patent strategy for ...

Recorded on: Oct. 16, 2012

SPEAKER 1: OK, we're back. If you're looking for the patent session, you're in the right place. We've been laboring for the past year under a new statute and here to give us some observations about it is Jennifer Sklenar, who's a partner at Arnold and Porter, where she's in the intellectual property group. Jennifer? JENNIFER SKLENAR: Thank you. Well, it's great to be here and especially to see some familiar faces that I have not seen for a while. ...

From the program: Intellectual Property Law Institute 2012

Released on: Oct. 30, 2012

PLI’s Intellectual Property Law Institute is a “must” program for IP lawyers. This program provides a complete analysis of key events in all areas of IP, including updates on cases, legislation and government agency developments that IP lawyers need to know. A highlight of the program will be a panel of in-house IP counsel from prominent companies discussing the many facets of dealing with IP and related issues in a global context ...

Recorded on: Oct. 23, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: Thanks, Mark. Can everybody hear me in the back? Great. OK. Sometimes I would sit in the back, and I couldn't hear the speaker, and it was just one of the most frustrating things. So I want to spend the next hour sharing with you some thoughts about structuring patent transactions. And I put it that way-- "patent transactions"-- because I want to talk not only about licensing, but other forms of transactions. And even within ...

Recorded on: Jan. 9, 2012

RICHARD RAYSMAN: --she has a problem, as well. So we have three segments of the program today. And the first segment is going to be the causes of license disputes. So Chris is speaking. We actually have another speaker on her way, and I'll introduce her when she gets here. But the first segment is going to be from Chris Palestro, and I will let him take the podium. CHRISTOPHER PALESTRO: So good morning, and thank you for joining the discussion today. ...

Recorded on: Sep. 28, 2012

SPEAKER 1: Well, good afternoon, everyone. We're back, and we're going to start the afternoon with a program entitled Changes in Patent Office Practice. Our speaker this afternoon is Darren Donnelly of the Fenwick & West Firm. He is a litigation partner in their Mountain View office, and let me tell you a little bit about Darren. Now, you remember this morning I mentioned the guaranteed full employment degree combination of BS doubly and a JD. I ...

From the program: Corporate Counsel Institute 2012

Recorded on: Oct. 9, 2012

Taken from the Web Program Corporate Counsel Institute 2012 recorded October, 2012 in New York. Lecture Topics  [01:00:20] Preparing for Patent Warfare, Trolls and Other IP Issues  [01:00:20] Preparing to bring/defend big cases, including choice of forum issues Defending against NPEs Recent developments in patent law Activity in Germany and EU issues Impact on in-house lawyers The purchase price of ...

Recorded on: Jun. 7, 2012

GARY M. HNATH: OK, our last final and very important speaker is Brandon Baum. Brandon has tried nearly 100 cases over three decades of trial practice, which in our field is very, very impressive. Brandon has handled disputes involving diverse technologies such as telecommunications, thin films, computer methods and software, microprocessors, smart cards, business methods, medical devices, chromatography, and GPS devices. Brandon currently works for ...

Recorded on: Apr. 13, 2012

JOSE A. ESTEVES: All right, folks. We're going to get started with the afternoon program. So for the next hour, we're going to be talking about current developments in the IP monetization marketplace. And the goal of this hour is to bring together a lot of what we've learned through the day so far and tie it into the current state of the marketplace for the different types of monetization techniques. And the way that we've structured it is that Clarke ...

Recorded on: Sep. 28, 2012

EDWARD G. POPLAWSKI: Our next topic is dealing with experts, including Rule 26-- employee experts. And here we will be navigating uncharted waters, at least semi-uncharted waters. And our speaker on this topic is a substitute speaker for David Gindler who could not make it. And that speaker is my partner Paul Tripodi. And I think that you were introduced to Paul yesterday. So without further ado, I'm going to turn over the program to Paul. Thank you. PAUL ...

Recorded on: Apr. 9, 2012

DAVID K. BARR: Good afternoon, everyone. We're going to beginning the afternoon session right now. Hello, once again I'm David Barr. I'm the co-chair with Dan Reisner for today's program and just want to give you a brief overview of what we're going to be doing this afternoon before I get into my talk. I'm going to be talking about some recent developments that I'm sure you're all aware of in Section 101, patentable subject matter, including decisions ...

Recorded on: Jun. 7, 2012

IAN N. FEINBERG: I'm going to begin by introducing the first two speakers, one of them is not yet on the dias here. But he will come in at 10:00. I'm going to do it this way, because there isn't actually a break between the first two sessions. We go right from the first to the second. The break follows the second. The first speaker, who will talk to us on elements and burdens in a patent infringement case, is my partner, Elizabeth Day. Elizabeth ...

Recorded on: Feb. 9, 2012

GERALD M. MURPHY, JR.: OK, you hesitated, you lost. The next speaker is Barbara Mullin, and she's a partner in the Philadelphia office of Akin Gump. In terms of her background, she tries cases regularly in federal courts and arbitration panels and has argued before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Her cases have involved diverse technological fields such as recombinant antibodies, medical devices and methods, pharmaceuticals, and semiconductor ...

Recorded on: Sep. 28, 2012

SPEAKER 1: That is ethical issues in patent litigation. And our presenter today is John Steele, who is a returning presenter to us. John is a real man of steel because he always presents at 4 o'clock on the second day, which is the last presentation, and he does an excellent job. John's practice emphasizes legal ethics, the law of lawyering, and risk management, and he offers counseling opinion letters in expert witness engagements. He's taught approximately ...

Recorded on: Mar. 5, 2012

SPEAKER 1: And I suspect that the person that normally introduces our next panelist is not here, so perhaps I need to do that. This is the ethics panel, and I am quite pleased to be introducing Ken Brothers, who was a classmate of mine from GW Law School. Currently, Ken is a partner in the IP practice of Dickstein Shapiro in the Washington, D.C. office, and focuses his practice on IP trial and appellate litigation. KENNETH BROTHERS: This is the last ...

Recorded on: Sep. 28, 2012

EDWARD POPLAWSKI: Our next topic will be a mock expert direct and cross examination, and we have three participants. And in addition, I will serve as the preeminent jurist in this mock exercise. So to my right, first of all, is Andrea Weiss Jeffries. Andrea is a partner in Wilmer Hale's Los Angeles office with it's Litigation Controversy Department, and she's a member of the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group. She specializes primarily ...