The Connecticut,
New Jersey, New York, and Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Associations
will be holding their 26th Annual Joint Patent Practice Seminar on April 29,
2010 in New York, NY.  The seminar
will consist of five panels: 
Litigation, Pharmaceuticals/Life Sciences, Ethics, Licensing/Foreign
Practice/ITC, and the USPTO, with each panel addressing a series of cases and
topics.  In particular, the panels
will focus on the following cases and topics:

Panel I —
Litigation (8:45 to 10:05 am)

• Gemtron Corp. v. Saint-Gobain Corp.
(Fed. Cir. 2009)
• Forest Group Inc. v. Bon Tool Co. (Fed.
Cir. 2009)
• Tyco Healthcare Group LP v. Ethicon
Endo-Surgery, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2009)
• Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. v. St. Jude
Medical, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2009)
• Lucent Technologies, Inc. v. Gateway, Inc.
(Fed. Cir. 2009) and Cornell University
v. Hewlett-Packard Co. (N.D.N.Y.)
• In re Lister (Fed. Cir. 2009)
• Titan Tire Corp. v. Case New Holland, Inc.
(Fed. Cir. 2009)

Panel II —
Pharmaceuticals/Life Sciences (10:05 to 11:15 am)

• Bayer Schering Pharma AG v. Barr
Laboratories, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2009)
• Ischemia Research and Education Foundation
v. Pfizer (Santa Clara County Superior Court 2009)
• Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Eli Lilly and
Company (Fed. Cir. 2009)
• Amgen Inc. v. F. Hoffmann-LaRoche Ltd.
(Fed. Cir. 2009)
• Abbott Labs. v. Sandoz, Inc. (Fed. Cir.
2009) (en banc)
• University of Pittsburgh v. Hedrick
(Fed. Cir. 2009)

Panel III — Ethics
(11:30 am to 12:40 pm)

• In re Bose Corp. (Fed. Cir. 2009)
• Is Civility Dead?
— Professor Paula Franzese of the Seton Hall University School of Law
• Ethical issues
relating to Mergers/Acquisitions
• Exergen Corp. v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
(Fed. Cir. 2009)
• Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford
Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2009)
• NY – State Rules
Revised: Attorney as a Witness

Panel IV —
Licensing/Foreign Practice/ITC (1:55 to 3:35 pm)

• Epistar v. International Trade Commission
and Philips Lumileds Lighting (Fed. Cir. 2009)
• AsymmetRx, Inc. v. Biocare Med. LLC
(Fed. Cir. 2009)
• Euclid Chemical Co. v. Vector Corrosion
Technologies, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2009)
• Current status of
Princo Corp. v. International Trade
Commission (Fed. Cir. 2009)
• Synthes v. G.M. Dos Reis Jr. Ind. Com. De
Equip. Medico (Fed. Cir. 2009)
• Inventor
Remuneration – UK, France, Germany and Japan – Is the Inventor King?
• License Drafting
– Trademarks and Patents
• Corebrace v. Star Seismatic (Fed Cir
2009)
• The International
Trade Commission and Design Patents

Panel V — USPTO
(3:50 to 5:00 pm)

• USPTO –
Enrollment and Discipline presentation
• Current status of
In re Bilski (Fed. Cir. 2008)
• Hindsight Bias
• Larson Mfg Co. of South Dakota, Inc. v.
Aluminart Products Ltd. (Fed. Cir. 2009)
• Best Practices on
Inventorship – What is a contributor and how to evaluate
• Wyeth v. Kappos (Fed. Cir. 2010)

The lunch keynote
speaker will by Circuit Judge Pauline Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Federal Circuit.

A preliminary
program preview for the seminar can be found here.

The conference will
be held at the Hilton New York, 1335 Avenue of the Americas.  The registration fee for the conference
is $420 (for those registering by April 16, 2010) or $450 (for those
registering after April 16, 2010). 
Those interested in registering for the conference can do so here or by submitting a reservation form that can be
obtained here.