Today the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in both the Oil States and SAS Institute appeals. Both cases have the potential to have a significant impact on proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and, potentially, the entire U.S. patent system. (Follow me on Twitter @PatentPostGrant for
On Monday, November 27th, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in both the Oil States and SAS Institute appeals. Both cases have the potential to have a significant impact on proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and, potentially, the entire U.S. patent system.
The day after, November
A reminder that an exciting PTAB related CLE program is a week away. Don’t miss the Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Power of the PTAB: The New Authority in Patent Law on Friday October 20th. (agenda below)
Reasonable Error Correction or Death Squads — Is the PTAB’s Invalidation Rate Too High or Just Right?
Moderator: Paul Henkelmann (Fitch Even)
Speakers: Alison Baldwin (McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP), David Killough (Microsoft); Jay Knobloch (Trading Technologies); Daniel Ravicher (Miami); David Schwartz (Northwestern)
PTAB Repetition — Multiple, Duplicative, and Sequential PTAB Challenges
Moderator: Erick Palmer (Mayer Brown)
Speakers: Christen Dubois (Facebook); Joshua Goldberg (Finnegan); Judge William Saindon (PTAB); Mark Stewart (Eli Lilly); Jonathan Stroud (Unified Patents)
Coffee break
Interlude: Presentation by the Chicago-Kent Patent Hub
Convincing the PTAB — Developing and Presenting Evidence in PTAB Proceedings
Moderator: Steven Jedlinski (Holland & Knight)
Speakers: Judge Chris Kaiser (PTAB); Scott McKeown (Ropes & Gray); Judge William Saindon (PTAB); Melissa Wasserman (Texas)
Announcement of the Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property as the official publication of the PTAB Bar Association.
Continue Reading The Power of the PTAB Next Friday
This month’s edition of the PatentsPostGrant.com free webinar series will be held on Thursday September 28th @12:30 (EST). The September webinar is entitled: The Evolution of PTAB Trial Practice (speakers: Scott McKeown & Gaby Higgins). As the title suggests, the webinar will cover the
For those seeking PTAB related CLE/education the fall, there are a number of great programs on the immediate horizon.
This September, the most widely attended PTAB CLE program returns, the Practicing Law Institute’s USPTO Post-Grant Patent Trials 2017. (register here)
Sept. 25, 2017, New York, NY (webcast available)
Oct. 25th 2017, San Francisco, CA (webcast available)
I am pleased to return as chair of this program along with Rob Greene Sterne of Stern Kessler Goldstein & Fox. This day-long CLE event will be offered in both New York and San Francisco (also webcast). New for this year, the New York program will include a segment entitled Northeast Corridor: Bio/Pharma at the PTAB. Also new this year, San Francisco will include a special 2-hour segment entitled: Patent Monetization in Silicon Valley: Licensing Blues & Navigating PTAB Roadblocks. These programs are always the highlight of the CLE year.
Some additional events this fall with offer more academic/policy based insight to the PTAB and beyond.
Continue Reading Upcoming PTAB & Patent Policy CLE (Fall ’17)
As the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) has previously announced, it will host a half-day Judicial Conference on June 29, 2017 from 1-5PM. The conference will be held in the Madison Auditorium. The program will be directed toward both AIA trial proceedings and ex parte appeal practices. The detailed agenda and webcast link are found below:
Continue Reading PTAB Conference 6/29 @ USPTO
As the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) has previously announced, it will host a half-day Judicial Conference on June 29, 2017 from 1-5PM. The conference will be held in the Madison Auditorium. While an agenda is yet to be released, the agency describes the planned conference
Tomorrow, May 25, 2017, I will present a webinar for Strafford Legal on: Evolving PTAB Trial Practice: Navigating Complex Procedural Rules (live webinar: 1:00PM-2:30PM EDT)
The program will cover a number of important topics, not the least of which is the expected impact of pending
May 16, 2017:
The chatter around the USPTO’s Alexandria campus is the ongoing efforts of the Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, to select a new USPTO Director. With interviews progressing, some of the bigger names have seemingly fallen out of the picture. The focus appears to have shifted to attorneys in