Thursday, December 12, 2013
Time | Description | CLE Credit |
7:30 a.m. | Registration Opens | |
8:15 a.m. | Welcoming Remarks | 0.25 Hour |
8:30 a.m. |
Claim Construction and This session will discuss the pending Federal Circuit en banc review in Lighting Ballast Control v. Philips Electronics, empirical research on appellate review of claim construction decisions, and ramifications for patent case management.
|
0.75 Hour |
9:15 a.m. |
Post-Grant Proceedings in the USPTO: Developments, Issues and Strategies Much can be learned from the first year of patent challenge
|
0.75 Hour (0.25 Ethics) |
10:00 a.m. | Break | – |
10:15 a.m. |
Patentable Subject Matter Myriad, CLS Bank, Ultramercial, Guidewire: Moderator:
Panelists:
|
1.00 Hour |
11:15 a.m. |
Remedies: Developments in Damages and Injunctive Relief Is injunctive relief appropriate in your case? Lost profits
Panelists:
|
1.00 Hour |
12:15 p.m. | Break to pick up lunch | – |
12:30 p.m. |
Luncheon Presentation: Lunch sponsored by: Hickman Palermo Truong Becker Bingham Wong Michelle Lee, Silicon Valley Director of the United States
Panel Resources: |
0.75 Hour |
1:15 p.m. | Break | – |
1:30 p.m. |
Standard Essential Patents: Recent Developments and Key Issues The past year has seen several developments regarding the
|
0.75 Hour |
2:15 p.m. |
Recent Decisions in Patent Exhaustion: Bowman, Kirtsaeng and Other Developments Impacting the Exhaustion Doctrine In Bowman v. Monsanto, the Supreme Court ruled that
|
0.50 Hour |
2:45 p.m. |
Coordinating Litigation The panel will review the impact of the America Invents Act on Moderator:
|
0.75 Hour |
3:30 p.m. | Break | – |
3:45 p.m. |
The Right to a Jury Trial on Validity Is there a Seventh Amendment right to have juries decide if
|
0.50 Hour |
4:15 p.m. |
Judges Panel: Efficiently Managing Patent Litigation in a Time of Flux Patent law is in a state of flux on fundamental issues ranging
Panelists:
Panel Resources: |
1.00 Hour (0.50 Ethics) |
5:15 p.m. | Closing Remarks | – |
Friday, December 13, 2013
Time | Description | CLE Credit |
8:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast | – |
8:30 a.m. |
Indirect and Divided Infringement An indirect infringer must know of, or be willfully blind to, its
|
0.75 Hour |
9:15 a.m. | Break | – |
9:30 a.m. |
Best Patent Prosecution Practices for Damages and Licensing Purposes When evaluating an invitation to license a patent or a patent
|
0.50 Hour |
10:00 a.m. |
Functional Claiming This session will discuss strategies for drafting broad claims and how to deal with the issue of functional claiming.
|
0.50 Hour |
10:30 a.m. |
Safeguarding Confidential and Privileged Information in Complex Litigation The
|
0.50 Hour |
11:00 a.m. | Break | – |
11:15 a.m. |
Pharmaceutical “Reverse Payment” Patent Settlements After fifteen years of government and private litigation
|
0.50 Hour |
11:45 a.m. |
Obviousness: The Rise, Fall and Return of Objective Evidence Recent Federal Circuit decisions have indicated a renewed
|
0.50 Hour |
12:15 p.m. | Break to pick up lunch | – |
12:30 p.m. |
Lunch Presentation: Despite the recent passage of the America Invents Act after years
|
1.00 Hour |
1:30 p.m. | Break | – |
1:45 p.m. |
New PTO Conduct Rules Changes were made in the new PTO ethics rules, effective May 2013. What do patent lawyers need to know about these changes?
|
0.50 Ethics |
2:15 p.m. |
Life under the New Novelty Regime: Interpreting Section 102—Prior Art, Exceptions, and More The transition this year to “First Inventor to File” represents a
|
0.50 Hour |
2:45 p.m. |
The Patent Marketplace: Trends and Perspectives – An Interactive Discussion Among Seasoned Domain Experts This panel will discuss the state of the patent marketplace, the Moderator:
Panelists:
|
0.75 Hour |
3:30 p.m. | Closing Remarks | – |