Thursday & Friday, December 9 & 10, 2021
At Stanford
14.25 total hours of CLE credit will be offered for this event.
Thursday, December 9
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| Presiding officers: Bijal Vakil (Allen & Overy) and Marta Beckwith (TechSea Law) | ||
| 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. |
Breakfast |
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| 9:00 – 9:50 a.m. |
Designing the Future of Innovation: What should be next for the US? |
Andrei Iancu, Irell & Manella Dave Kappos, Cravath, Swaine & Moore Laura Peter, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and USPTO Deputy Director (Moderator) |
| 9:55 – 10:45 a.m. |
Patent metrics: what decisions do they support? |
Michael Farn, Fenwick & West Christine Foo, Facebook Steve Koziol, USPTO Acting Western Region Director Erin Mehta, Hulu/Disney |
| 10:45 – 11:00 a.m. |
Break |
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| 11:00 – 11:45 a.m. |
Prosecution uncertainty: Thoughts about planning for the long game |
Lora Green, Wilson Sonsini Brian Hickman, Hickman Becker William James, Van Pelt, Yi & James Gilbert Wong, Facebook |
| 11:50 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. |
112 enablement and written description: The future of genus claims and functional claiming
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Jonathan Lamberson, White & Case Bhanu Sadasivan, McDermott Will & Emery Jill Schmidt, Genentech Gargi Talukder, Orrick |
| 12:30 – 1:45 p.m. |
LUNCH (al fresco): Designing the Future: An in-house perspective on what should be next for the USPTO |
Cara Coburn, Genentech Laurie Hill, NewCo Dan Lang, Cisco Abby Rives, Engine Wayne Stacy, BCLT/Berkeley Law |
| 1:45 – 2:25 p.m. |
101: Where are we and what can we expect next? |
Christopher Bonny, Ropes & Gray Rich Hung, Morrison Foerster Deanna Kwong, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Sarah Guske, Baker Botts |
| 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. |
The business of patent litigation: ethical issues in funding, holding companies, and litigation strategies |
Karen Boyd, Turner Boyd Matt Powers, Tensegrity Ed Reines, Weil Gotshal Ragesh Tangri, Durie Tangri |
| 3:30 – 3:45 p.m. |
Break |
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| 3:45 – 4:15 p.m. |
Assignor estoppel: Limits and contractual options |
Winslow Taub, Covington Mauricio Uribe, Knobbe Martens |
| 4:20 – 5:35 p.m. |
Interplay of District Courts and the PTAB: Navigating an uncertain path |
Steve Carlson, Robins Kaplan Lisa Nguyen, Latham & Watkins Joseph Palys, Paul Hastings Jeanifer Parsigian, Winston & Strawn |
| 5:35 – 7:00 p.m. |
Grand Reception (al fresco) |
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Friday, December 10
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Presiding officers: Michael Headley (Fish & Richardson) and Irene Yang (Sidley Austin) |
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8:00 – 8:30 a.m. |
Registration |
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8:30 – 9:15 a.m. |
Patent year in review |
Mark Lemley, Stanford Law/Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology |
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9:20 – 10:00 a.m. |
SEPs: Anticipating worldwide impact |
Steven Baldwin, Kirkland & Ellis Tom Chia, Via Licensing Yuan Hao, BCLT Chris Mammen, Womble Bond Dickinson |
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10:00 – 10:15 a.m. |
Break |
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10:15 – 10:45 a.m. |
Arthrex: The future of director review and corresponding litigation strategy |
Joe Matal, Haynes and Boone Brent Yamashita, DLA Piper |
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10:50 – 11:30 a.m. |
Venue strategies and the sunset of the patent pilot program |
Hon. Beth Freeman, District Judge, N.D. Cal. Hon. Maryellen Noreika, District Judge, D. Del. Jim Brogan, King & Spalding |
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11:35 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. |
Ethical considerations in fee shifting: anticipating conflict between attorney and client |
Amy Bomse, Rogers Joseph O’Donnell Jim DeCarlo, Greenberg Traurig Hon. Elizabeth D. Laporte, JAMS & former Magistrate Judge, N.D. Cal. Matthias Kamber, Paul Hastings |
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12:20 – 1:10 p.m. |
Lunch (al fresco) and Networking |
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1:10 – 2:15 p.m. |
Designing the future outside counsel team: studies in DEI programs |
Danielle Coleman, VMware & ChIPs Marie Ma, Gap Christophe Mosby, HP Lucky Vidmar, Microsoft Vivia Chen, Bloomberg Law (Moderator) |
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2:15 – 2:30 p.m. |
Break | |
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2:30 – 3:20 p.m. |
Managing international patent prosecution |
Ken Korea, Colev Law Holly Logue, Holmusk Mark Mathison, Kilpatrick Townsend Allison Schmitt, BCLT (Moderator) |
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3:25 – 4:10 p.m. |
Cybersecurity and ethical requirements: bracing for data losses |
Lothar Determann, Baker McKenzie Cynthia Frey, Assistant United States Attorney John Steele, UC Hastings |