Day 1, Panel 1:
Federal Circuit Patent Law Year in Review: Written Description, Defenses Eviscerated, and Damages Doctrine Tightened |December 4, 2025
Instructor(s)
Mark Lemley,Stanford Law School
Day 1, Panel 2:
PTAB Shutdown, Federal Circuit Damages Ceilings, and Litigation Finance Disclosure in a Reshaped Patent Enforcement Landscape | December 4, 2025
Instructor(s)
Ryan Dykal, Boies Schiller
Courtney Quish, Fortress
Leslie Spencer, Desmarais
Steve Carlson, Robins Kaplan
Day 1, Panel 3:
Trade Secret Law in the AI Era: How Bot-Based Scraping, DTSA Pleading Standards, and Unjust Enrichment Are Reshaping the Doctrine | December 4, 2025
Instructor(s)
Camilla Hrdy, Rutgers Law School
Rajiv Patel, Fenwick
Thomas Sprankling, WilmerHale
Yar Chaikovsky, White & Case
Day 1, Panel 4:
Patent Defense Strategy After PTAB’s Collapse: Ex Parte Reexamination, Special Verdict Forms, and Extraterritorial Royalty Bases | December 4, 2025
Instructor(s)
Sarah Guske, Morgan Lewis
Matthias Kamber, Paul Hastings
Mike Powell, Quinn Emanuel
Bijal Vakil, Skadden
Day 1, Panel 5:
Global FRAND Rate Setting, Anti-Anti-Suit Injunctions, and the Licensing Negotiation Group Debate After Unwired Planet | December 4, 2025
Instructor(s)
Jane Bu, Via Licensing Alliance
Kai Rüting, Vossius
Yang Ye, VeriSilicon
Rajvinder Jagdev, Powell Gilbert
Day 1, Panel 6
Post-Grant Review After the Director’s Black-Box Denials: Deinstitution, Settled Expectations, and the NPRM’s Mega-Sotera Stipulation | December 4, 2025
Instructor(s)
Jessica Kaiser, Perkins Coie
Thomas Broughan, Sidley
Tim Saulsbury, Morrison Foerster
Debbie McComas, Haynes Boone
Day 1, Panel 7
Global Patent Injunction Campaigns: How Forum Selection, Property-Right Defaults, and Portfolio Architecture Drive Multi-Jurisdictional Enforcement | December 4, 2025
Instructor(s)
Rob Rodrigues, RNA Law
Ellisen Turner, Kirkland & Ellis
Philipp Widera, Vossius
Saina Shamilov, Fenwick
Day 1, Panel 8
Andrei Iancu on the AIA’s Structural Flaw, the PREVAIL–PERA–RESTORE Legislative Agenda, and the Innovation Risk of US Patent Unenforceability | December 4, 2025
Instructor(s)
Andrei Iancu, former Director of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
Wayne Stacy, BCLT
Day 2, Litigation, Panel 1:
Equitable Defenses in Patent Litigation: Why Inequitable Conduct Rarely Survives to Trial | December 5, 2026
Instructor(s)
Bhanu Sadasivan, McDermott
David Bloch, Greenberg Traurig
Clem Roberts, Orrick
Greg Sobolski, Cleary
Day 2, Litigation, Panel 2:
How LKQ, Qualcomm, and the Stewart Memo Remade Prior Art Practice in Patent Litigation | December 5, 2025
Instructor(s)
Neel Chatterjee, King & Spalding
Bethany Bengfort, Turner Boyd
Jonathan Sanders, Simpson Thacher
Chris Kao, Pillsbury
Day 2, Litigation, Panel 3:
Patent Damages After EcoFactor and Rex v. Intuitive Surgical: What Apportionment Now Requires | December 5, 2025
Instructor(s)
Karen Boyd, Turner Boyd
Mike Hendershot, Jones Day
Brian Napper, Ocean Tomo
Matthew Powers, Tensegrity Law Group
Patricia Young, Latham & Watkins
Day 2, Litigation, Panel 4:
How BSH v. Electrolux and the UPC Are Reshaping Global Patent Enforcement Strategy | December 5, 2025
Instructor(s)
Tess Waldron, Powell Gilbert
Chris de Mauny, Bird & Bird
Julia Schönbohm, Linklaters
Eric Whitaker, 10x Genomics
Day 2, Litigation, Panel 5:
Generative AI in Patent Litigation: Use Cases, Hallucination Risk, and the Ethics of Adoption | December 5, 2025
Instructor(s)
Chris Mammen, Womble Bond Dickinson
Sharif Jacob, Keker, Van Nest & Peters
Eric Lin, Patlytics
David Lisson, Davis Polk
Sasha Rao, Nixon Peabody
Day 2, Litigation, Panel 6:
AI Hallucinations, Candor Obligations, and Pretexting: Legal Ethics Doctrine in the Generative AI Era | December 5, 2025
Instructor(s)
Azra Hadzimehnedovic, Tensegrity
Ragesh Tangri, Morrison Foerster
Day 2, Prosecution, Panel 1:
Section 112 Enablement and Written Description After Amgen: Federal Circuit Doctrine Reshaping Patent Prosecution Practice | December 5, 2025
Instructor(s)
Miku Mehta, Procopio
Matthew Avery, Baker Botts
Anna Hyatt, Dren Bio
Kanda Ishihara, Lyft
Day 2, Prosecution, Panel 2:
USPTO Director Squires’s 101 Reforms and the Growing Federal Circuit Divergence on AI Patent Eligibility | December 5, 2025
Instructor(s)
Jane Qu, Van Pelt, Yi & James
Nikola Datzov, University of North Dakota
Emily Roberts, Morrison Foerster
Harnik Shukla, Knobbe Martens
Day 2, Prosecution, Panel 3:
Building a Valuable Patent Portfolio: Strategy, Prosecution Practice, and Global Considerations Across Technology Sectors | December 5, 2025
Instructor(s)
David Sanker, Sanker IP
Joy Nemirow, Sheppard Mullin
Jeff Schox, Schox Patent Group
Mike Schwartz, Adeia
Day 2, Prosecution, Panel 4:
AI-Assisted Invention, Thaler v. Vidal, and the Return of Conception Documentation as a Post-Grant Defense | December 5, 2025
Instructor(s)
Rachel Herder, Mammoth Biosciences
Alex Nie, Sheppard Mullin
Manita Rawat, Morgan Lewis
Sara Patak, Wilson Sonsini
Day 2, Prosecution, Panel 5:
Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly: How the Trump Administration’s USPTO Personnel, Examination, and IPR Policies Are Degrading Patent Quality and Access | December 5, 2025
Instructor(s)
Molly Kocialski, Holland & Hart, former USPTO Regional Director
Mark Lemley, Stanford Law School
Day 2, Prosecution, Panel 6:
Generative and Agentic AI in Patent Prosecution: Efficiency Gains, Fee Compression, and the Governance Gap Between Usage and Disclosure | December 5, 2025
Instructor(s)
Steve Gong, Google
Michelle Lee,Obsidian Strategies
Ayan Roy-Chowdhury, Fish & Richardson
Ian Schick, Paximal