Fish
& Richardson and the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology will be
holding the Bay Area Pharma and Life Sciences IP Summit in San Mateo, CA on
February 4, 2010.  Registration for
the event opens at 11:30 am (PT), and at noon, Suzanne Michel, Deputy Director
for the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, will give a
keynote luncheon presentation entitled: 
"Impact of Healthcare Legislation on Pharmaceutical Patent
Litigation Settlements and Follow-on Biologics."  Following the keynote, a series of panel discussions will
address the following topics:

•
Hot Topics in Bio/Pharma Litigation
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Product Life Cycle Management
•
Early Stage IP Strategies

Panelists
will include:

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Debra Condino, Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel,
Allergan, Inc.
•
Frank Grassler, Vice President – Intellectual Property, Gilead Sciences, Inc.
•
Kurtis MacFerrin, Lead IP Counsel – Litigation, Life Technologies
•
Gerald Suh, Chief Patent Counsel, Metabolex, Inc.
•
D. Jeffery Grimes, General Counsel, Aradigm Corp.

A
cocktail reception will follow the panel discussions at 5:00 pm.  While there is no registration fee,
those interested in attending the Summit should e-mail Roxanne Smith by January
28, 2010 at rks@fr.com.  Additional information regarding the
Summit can be obtained here.