The John Marshall Law School Center for Intellectual Property Law will be holding its 55th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference on February 25, 2011 in Chicago, IL.  The conference will consist of the following sessions:

• Recent Developments in Intellectual Property Law
• The Honorable James F. Holderman, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois will present a luncheon keynote on "The Future Challenges of IP Litigation: A Judge's Perspective"

The conference's afternoon patent track will consist of sessions on:

• In re Bilski and what to do about it
• Apportionment issues in IP damages cases
• False patent marking
• Patenting items derived from nature — to be presented by Patent Docs author Dr. Kevin Noonan of McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Additional information about the conference, including a schedule, list of speakers, and registration form can be found here.  Those interested in registering for the conference online can do so here; the registration fee is $195 (general rate), $95 (government, judicial, and academic rate), or free (JMLS students).