Practising Law Institute (PLI) will be holding five sessions of its Patent Litigation 2009 seminar this fall in San Francisco (September 21-22), McLean, VA (October 5-6), Chicago (October 15-16), Atlanta (November 9-10), and New York (November 16-17).  Each session of the Patent Litigation 2009 seminar will offer presentations on the following topics:

• Recent developments in patent law and their impact on patent litigation;
• Managing patent litigation, part 1:  Successful results at reasonable cost;
• Managing patent litigation, part 2:  Effective settlement;
• Discovery issues;
• Injunctions;
• Parallel patent reexaminations;
• In the aftermath of In re Bilski;
• Opinion letters;
• Entire market value, apportionment, Quanta, and use damages;
• Dealing with experts;
• Expert direct/cross demonstration on Section 112 defenses; and
• Ethical issues in patent litigation.

A full program for the Patent Litigation 2008 seminar can be found at one of the following links:  San Francisco, McLean, VA, Chicago, Atlanta, and New York.  The registration fee for the seminar is $1,495. Those interested in registering for the conference can do at one of the following links:  San Francisco, McLean, VA, Chicago, Atlanta, and New York.