Thursday & Friday, December 5 & 6, 2024
at Stanford Law School
Thursday, December 5
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| Presiding Officer: Mary Fuller, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) | ||
| 8:30 – 8:50 AM | Breakfast & Registration | |
| 8:50 – 9:00 AM | Introduction | Mary Fuller, USPTO |
| 9:00 – 9:45 AM | Patent Law Year (and Quarter-Century) in Review | Mark Lemley, Stanford Law School |
| 10:00 – 10:50 AM |
A Legitimate Alternative? The Rise of Amazon Enforcement Actions |
Will Melehani, Orrick |
| 11:00 – 11:50 AM |
What’s Next for Patent Law in a Post-Chevron World? |
Robert Gerrity, Tensegrity Law Group |
| 12:00 – 12:45 PM |
Global Patent Remedies: Current State of Monetary Damages and Injunctive Relief |
Karen Boyd, Turner Boyd Seraphine Kelly Hunsaker, Winston & Strawn Brett Sandford, Latham & Watkins Kimberly Schmitt, Intel Corporation |
| 12:45 – 1:45 PM | Networking Lunch | |
| 1:45 – 2:35 PM |
AI and the Impact on Substantive Patent Law |
Colleen Chien, Berkeley Law |
| 2:45 – 3:35 PM |
Evolving Double Patenting and Impacts on Patent Practice |
Lisa Ouellette, Stanford Law School |
| 3:45 – 4:35 PM | Key Trends in Patent Law: A View from the Bench |
Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler, United States District Court for the Northern District of California |
| 4:40 – 5:40 PM |
Civility in IP Practice Special CLE Credit: Civility |
Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler, United States District Court for the Northern District of California |
| 5:30 – 7:00 PM | Networking Reception | |
Friday, December 6
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Litigation TrackPresiding Officer: Joseph Drayton, Proskauer |
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| 8:15 – 8:45 AM | Breakfast & Registration | |
| 8:45 – 9:00 AM | Introduction | |
| 9:00 – 9:30 AM | Emerging Defense Tactics: Prosecution Laches, Unclean Hands, and Inequitable Conduct | Sharif Jacob, Keker, Van Nest & Peters Olivia Nguyen, Fish & Richardson |
| 9:45 – 10:30 AM | Complex Discovery Issues Arising in Today’s Patent Litigations |
David S. Bloch, Greenberg Traurig |
| 10:45 – 11:30 AM | PTAB Trends: Institutions and Estoppel |
Joe Matal, Clear IP |
| 11:45 – 12:30 PM | Evolving Venue Selection Considerations: A Global Perspective | Yar Chaikovsky, White & Case Chris de Mauny, Bird & Bird Jeannine Sano, Axinn Philipp Widera, Vossius & Partner |
| 12:30 – 1:30 PM | Networking Lunch | |
| 1:30 – 2:15 PM |
A Deep Dive Into Global Injunction Realities |
Matthias Kamber, Paul Hastings |
| 2:30 – 3:15 PM | Advanced Invalidity Strategies: IPRs, Re-exams, and Litigation Venues |
April Isaacson, Kilpatrick |
| 3:30 – 4:15 PM | Global Trends in SEP Disputes |
Marta Beckwith, TechSea Law |
Prosecution TrackPresiding Officer: David Sanker, SankerIP |
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| 8:15 – 8:45 AM | Breakfast & Registration | |
| 8:45 – 9:00 AM | Introduction | |
| 9:00 – 9:30 AM | Enablement Doctrine: Current Law and Best Practices | Erik Milch, Proskauer Rose Allison Schmitt, Berkeley Law |
| 9:45 – 10:30 AM | Advanced Global Patent Prosecution: UPC Strategies | Mike Gilbert, Marks & Clerk Rebecca Charnas Grant, Genentech Robert Hilton, Knobbe Martens Ryann Muir, Gilead Sciences |
| 10:45 – 11:30 AM | Patent Prosecution Year in Review |
Timothy Hsieh, Oklahoma City University School of Law |
| 11:45 AM – 12:30 PM | Changing Continuation Practice: Best Practices and Preparing for the Future |
Matthew Avery, Baker Botts |
| 12:30 – 1:30 PM | Networking Lunch | |
| 1:30 – 2:15 PM | Subject-Matter Eligibility and Advanced Patent-Prosecution Techniques |
Christina MacDougall, Morgan Lewis |
| 2:30 – 3:15 PM | Modern Design Patent Practice: A New Era |
Tracy-Gene Durkin, Sterne Kessler |
| 3:30 – 4:30 PM |
Ethics and Enforcement in the USPTO Special CLE Credit: Legal ethics |
Will Covey, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) |