The
Chisum Patent Academy will offer its second annual Intensive Patent Law
Training Workshop on on July 29-31, 2010 in Seattle, WA.  The workshop will focus on substantive
patent law (patentability and enforcement) through analysis of critical Federal
Circuit and Supreme Court decisions. 
The 2009 syllabus can be viewed here; new material for the 2010
workshop will likely include business method patentability post-Bilski, written description requirement
compliance post-Ariad, and the
evolving landscape of inequitable conduct as reflected by the Federal Circuit’s
recent grant of rehearing en banc in Therasense.

The
workshop is team-taught in seminar style by Donald Chisum (at right),
author of the treatise Chisum on Patents
(LexisNexis), and Professor Janice Mueller (at left),
author of Patent Law, 3d Edition
(Aspen 2009).  The workshop's
coverage is geared for junior patent attorneys, summer associates, engineers,
scientists, paralegals, information specialists, and attorneys experienced in
non-patent fields who desire an intensive introduction to patent law.

The
registration fee for the workshop is $2,000; registration will be limited to a
maximum of ten students.  A mail-in
registration form for the workshop can be obtained here.  Additional information regarding the
workshop can be found here.