Patent Law Practice Center

Patent Law Institute Live Blog: PTO Doings – Rules & Regs That Are/Are Not Changing for 2012

Welcome back to the Patent Law Institute live blog! Our next panel is entitled, “PTO Doings: Rules & Regs That Are/Are Not Changing for 2012”, and focuses on what to know and what to expect for 2012, as well as the importance of the changes in the rules for patent practitioners. This panel includes John M. White as our moderator, and features Brian Hanlon and Robert J. Spar as panelists. Their views differ as their positions as patent practitioner and PTO official would reasonably generate. Here are some of the highlights:  (more…)

Patent Law Institute Live Blog: Recent Cases

Our Patent Law Institute live blog continues with the panel entitled, “Recent Cases”. The panel features Robert Neuner, Senior Counsel at Hoffman & Baron, LLP, where he has extensive experience and success in the pretrial, trail, and appeal of patent, copyright, trademark, and trade dress cases. This panel focuses on Microsoft v. i4i, Global-Tech Appliances v. SEB S.A., and Therasense, among others. Here are a few of the highlights from this panel: (more…)

Patent Law Institute Live Blog: PTO Keynote with Robert Stoll

Good morning and welcome to the 6th Annual Patent Law Institute live blog! We will be live blogging from the majority of the Institute’s panels, which will also be accompanied by live tweeting (@plipatentlaw, #PatentLawInstitute). This morning begins with the keynote address from Robert L. Stoll. Robert has had a long career with the USPTO, serving as Commissioner for Patents, Dean of Training and Education, and director of the Office of Enforcement for the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Robert is currently at Drinker, Biddle, & Reath LLP. Here are the highlights from Robert’s update on the PTO: (more…)

The Best of the Post-Grant USPTO Proceedings Seminar

In case you missed it, PLI hosted a seminar entitled Post-Grant USPTO Proceedings 2012- The New Patent Litigation and the topics discussed by the day’s panelists proved to serve as both a refresher on the language of the new law as well as an enlightening course on what the developments in practice have and will become. If there was a trend throughout the day, it would be that patent professionals need to become familiarized with the changes in patent law in order to streamline their time and resources into more efficient patent applications and to facilitate  the litigation process. Requirements that had become common place in patent law are no longer on the books, but a patent practitioner would not know this unless they studied the America Invents Act provision by provision – or unless they attended PLI’s seminar.

To show you the range of topics that were discussed, here are some of the highlights from each panel of the seminar. The course handbook is still available, and the video recording of the entire seminar will be made available soon for On Demand viewing on the PLI website. (more…)

Post-Grant USPTO Proceedings Seminar Live Blog: A View from the Bench on Concurrent PTO Proceedings

Welcome back to the last Post-Grant USPTO Proceedings Seminar live blog of the day! The last panel of the afternoon is entitled Judges’ Panel: A View from the Bench on Concurrent PTO Proceedings. Our featured judicial panelists are  Hon. Garrett E. Brown, Jr., Chief Judge, United States District Court, District of New Jersey; Hon. Theodore R. Essex, Administrative Law Judge, United States International Trade Commission; and Hon. Gerald Bruce Lee, District Judge, United States District Court, Eastern District of Virginia. Below are some the highlights:

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