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From the program: Prior Art, Obviousness, and the America Invents Act in 2012

Released on: Aug. 6, 2012

Patent reform has arrived: what will be its impact on those touchstones of patentability, prior art and obviousness?  102 was already a complicated concept for patent practitioners, having undergone evolving interpretations in the PTO and CAFC.  How will the AIA now complicate matters further?  How does the concept of “prior art” and circumstance collide in the 21st century? How does prior art on the web impact the practice? ...

Recorded on: Jun. 7, 2012

Taken from the Web Program Fundamentals of Patent Litigation 2012 Recorded June, 2012 in San Francisco The ITC and Other Forum, Venue and Remedy Issues [00:59:36] Why patent reform does not impact ITC cases Why might the ITC may be a more attractive forum than District Court litigation? What kinds of cases can be brought under Section 337? Procedures and filing a complaint pursuant to Section 337 at the ITC Unique Section ...

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: 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. 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: Jun. 7, 2012

IAN N. FEINBERG: It's now 11:45. I note the trains are still running on time. This session will go for an hour, not an hour and 15, like the last. And we'll will be breaking for lunch at 12:45. This program is the Markman Process and Hearing. Our speaker is Madison Jellins. Madison Jellins is a founding partner of HelixIP, a firm specializing in patent litigation, strategic counseling, and prosecution. Her practice focus is on patent litigation and ...

Recorded on: Jun. 7, 2012

GARY M. HNATH: So how many people have heard of litigating Section 337 cases of the ITC. Just a show of hands. That's more than half, that's almost everybody. That's very impressive. If I'd asked that question five years ago, I probably would have gotten maybe one or two people in the audience, so a lot more people know about Section 337. I don't know your depth of knowledge, but my goal is at the end of the hour to tell you enough about Section 337, ...

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 ...

From the program: Understanding Patent Law 2012

Released on: Jul. 13, 2012

As patents and other intellectual property become more and more valuable to companies, it is essential that general practitioners and business counselors have a firm grasp of the basic principles of patent law so they can better advise their clients.  This program is designed with the non-patent practitioner in mind, and it will cover all types of patent issues that might arise in the context of every day practice and business management.  ...

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. 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 ...

Released on: Jul. 11, 2012

Taken from the briefing Buying Patents by the Pound: Today's Patent-Acquisition Boom and Tomorrow's Antitrust Consequences recorded June, 2012. The market for patents is hotter than it has ever been, particularly in technology fields such as cellular telephony and internet searching.  Recently Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Motorola and other major companies have been involved in multi-billion dollar patent portfolio transactions.  ...

Course Handbook from the program Advanced Patent Prosecution Workshop 2012: Claim Drafting & Amendment Writing, held July, 2012.

Recorded on: Jul. 24, 2012

JOHN M. WHITE: OK. Good afternoon. It's 1:30. It's time for us to resume our program this afternoon. We begin with a discussion of 102(f) and (g). And then we segue without interruption. We do another seamless transition up here not directly into 103 and the CAFC with specific focus on cases that are collected at the CAFC from district court cases. Earlier in the day we talked about 103 and its gestation at the patent office through guidelines and ...

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 WHITE: With that, let me introduce our first speaker. We're going to be talking about Section 102 as it exists now and the MPEP and the CAFC. And our first speaker will be Patrick Jewik. He's from Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton. He's right here in San Francisco. And you can read Patrick's bio in your material. Before he became an examiner, he was in chip manufacturing at IBM, wore a bunny suit and that sort of thing. And he was an examiner ...

Recorded on: Jul. 24, 2012

JOHN M WHITE: OK. It's 11:15. Welcome back. And to all those of you out there in web land, welcome back. This is our next segment of the program, Prior Art and Obviousness, and at this point we jump into the future. Our speaker will be Len Svensson. He comes to us from Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch. He is with their office in San Diego, but once upon a time he was back East with the rest of the firm and came out to sunny California, what 15 years ...

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 ...

Published: August 2012

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 ...

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 ...

Published: September 2012

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: Sep. 28, 2012

SPEAKER 1: And I'm sure that we're ready to write the future when it comes to these new procedures, and part of that future is going to include our next speaker as well. We have a program on parallel patent reexaminations coming up with none other than Rob Sterne. I've known Rob for more years than I care to admit, and they say that-- oh, gosh. What's his name is the hardest working man in show business? AUDIENCE: James Brown? SPEAKER 1: Yeah, James ...

Recorded on: Sep. 28, 2012

PAUL TRIPODI II: OK, well welcome back, everyone. We've got one more presentation before the lunch break. I'm looking around. I see fewer faces, but you look a lot happier than you did at 9 o'clock this morning, so good. The next talk is entitled Two Years After Bilski-- The Patentability of Business Methods. Maybe it should be entitled The Unpatentability of Business Methods. We're going to find out from our speaker Stephen Durant. Stephen has the ...