Patent Law Practice Center

Disbarment Ordered for Client Trust Misappropriation and Practicing Law Without a License

Early next year, I will be speaking at PLI’s 7th Annual Patent Law Institute.  The event, like in previous years, will be bi-coastal. We will be live from New York City on February 4-5, 2013, and live from San Francisco, CA on March 4-5, 2013, with the San Francisco location also being webcast. My topic will be ethics, which will provide the all-important and highly sought after ethics CLE credit.

I will be discussing ethical issues raised by the America Invents Act, such as the new statute of limitations and avoiding catastrophic malpractice issues with the shift to first to file. I will also be providing a summary of the actions taken by OED over the previous 12 months to give insight into the problems OED sees, what their enforcement agenda is, and to try to learn lessons from our brothers and sisters in the bar who have gotten into one form of trouble or another.  The last time I did this was several years ago.  See Patent Office Disciplinary Actions and Lack Thereof.

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