PLI’s 5th Annual Patent Law Institute is on February 17-18 in New York (and via web) and on March 21-22 in San Francisco. If you’re not joining us live in NYC or on the web, you
can come here on Thursday February 17th at 9:15am to see a live stream of former USPTO Deputy Director Sharon Barner’s keynote address to kick off the Insitute.
The Institute will cover the practice impact of recent developments on all three sub-groups in the patent law community: patent prosecutors, patent litigators, and strategic &transactional lawyers. The two-day schedule includes six one-hour plenary sessions of broad interest to patent lawyers and a separate breakout track for prosecution, litigationandstrategic & transactional practices. Each track features six one-hour breakout sessions focused on each of the three patent practice sub-groups.
Plenary sessions include:
- USPTO Keynote Address by USPTO Deputy Director Sharon R. Barner
- Understand the practice impact of recent Supreme Court and Federal Circuit decisions
- Learn the latest on the lower court’s reactions to the Supreme Court’s Bilski decision from a panel of experts
- Master the changes at the USPTO and how to manage client expectations
- Corporate counsel divulge the patent issues that keep them awake at night
- A distinguished panel of federal judges share their perspective on critical patent litigation issues
- Earn one hour of ethics credit
Tags: Bilski, Patent Law Institute, Patent Litigation, Patent Prosecution, PLI, Sharon Barner, USPTO
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