Upcoming CLE Programs My partner, Stephen Kunin is the former Deputy Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy at the USPTO. He will be speaking at a few CLE events of potential interest to the post-grant community in the coming weeks. On March 21-22, PLI’s 5th Annual Patent Law Institute will make its way to San Francisco. Steve will provide an update on patent reform status/progress. Details on the program (here). This program seems ideally timed with the respect to the expected legislative push of the coming weeks. On April 20, 2011, Steve will present at the AIPLA Webinar entitled “KSR and the Ripple Effect: Examining the Broad and Increasing Impact of KSR on Patent Litigation and Practice.” The program will examine substantive obviousness issues since KSR and the continuing disputes in the lower courts, and will further examine the prohibition against the use of “hindsight bias” or ex parte reasoning in resolving the obviousness question, and provide best practices for responding to these arguments. In this regard, Steve will explore the potential use of ex parte patent reexamination by Patent Owne

My partner, Stephen Kunin is the former Deputy Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy at the USPTO. He will be speaking at a few CLE events of potential interest to the post-grant community in the coming weeks. On March 21-22, PLI’s 5th Annual Patent Law Institute will make its way to San Francisco. Steve will provide an update on patent reform status/progress. Details on the program (here). This program seems ideally timed with the respect to the expected legislative push of the coming weeks. On April 20, 2011, Steve will present at the AIPLA Webinar entitled “KSR and the Ripple Effect: Examining the Broad and Increasing Impact of KSR on Patent Litigation and Practice.” The program will examine substantive obviousness issues since KSR and the continuing disputes in the lower courts, and will further examine the prohibition against the use of “hindsight bias” or ex parte reasoning in resolving the obviousness question, and provide best practices for responding to these arguments. In this regard, Steve will explore the potential use of ex parte patent reexamination by Patent Owners.