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Web Conference on Patent Reform

Stoll, Robert Foley & Lardner will be offering a web conference entitled "This Time It's Real — New U.S. Patent Reform Law Within Sight" on September 14, 2011 from 1:30 – 2:30 PM (ET).  The web conference features USPTO Commissioner for Patents Robert L. Stoll (at right), and former USPTO Deputy Director Sharon R. Barner and Harold C. Wegner of Foley & Lardner LLP.  The panel will address the House version of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (H.R. 1249), which was passed by the Senate on Thursday, and decipher practical implications of key provisions, various retroactive and prospective deadlines, and recommended steps to address the legislation.  In particular, the panelists will address the following questions and topics:

• How will the United States implement "first-to-file"?
• What prior art issues will change, and how will the Federal Circuit interpret them?
• Cutting the backlog, will it happen?
• Quality control: Major changes being implemented;
• Post-grant review;
• Inter partes review;
• Weeding out invalid patents post- and pre-grant;
• "Best mode" violation penalty eliminated;
• Qui tam false marking suits abolished; and
• Limiting inequitable conduct claims.

Those interested in attending the webinar can register here.

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    “patent reform”
    Just because they call it “reform” doesn’t mean it is.
    The patent bill is nothing less than another monumental federal giveaway for banks, huge multinationals, and China and an off shoring job killing nightmare for America. Even the leading patent expert in China has stated the bill will help them steal our inventions. Who are the supporters of this bill working for??
    Patent reform is a fraud on America. This bill will not do what they claim it will. What it will do is help large multinational corporations maintain their monopolies by robbing and killing their small entity and startup competitors (so it will do exactly what the large multinationals paid for) and with them the jobs they would have created. The bill will make it harder and more expensive for small firms to get and enforce their patents. Without patents we cant get funded. Yet small entities create the lion’s share of new jobs. According to recent studies by the Kauffman Foundation and economists at the U.S. Census Bureau, “startups aren’t everything when it comes to job growth. They’re the only thing.” This bill is a wholesale slaughter of US jobs. Those wishing to help fight this bill should contact us as below.
    Small entities and inventors have been given far too little voice on this bill when one considers that they rely far more heavily on the patent system than do large firms who can control their markets by their size alone. The smaller the firm, the more they rely on patents -especially startups and individual inventors. Congress tinkering with patent law while gagging inventors is like a surgeon operating before examining the patient.
    Please see http://truereform.piausa.org/default.html for a different/opposing view on patent reform.
    http://docs.piausa.org/

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