A special Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratory conference on "Genes & Diagnostics: A Myriad
of Issues in Biotech IP" will be held on March 10-13, 2013.  The conference will offer the following
sessions:

• Keynote address
— "Reexamining the promise and perils of personalized medicine: Patents
and beyond" — to be presented by Timothy Caulfield, Faculty of Law,
University of Alberta
• Patenting Genes
& Diagnostics: The Judiciary's View
• A Global
Perspective on Patentable Subject Matter, Patentability, Validity, and
Enforceability
• Patenting &
Biotechnology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
• Are Gene &
Diagnostic Patents a Help or Hindrance to Industry?
• The Impact of
Prometheus on Personalized Medicine
• Patenting Genes
& Diagnostics: Policy and Ethics

Optional
pre-conference workshops on "IP 101" and "Biotechnology
101" will be offered on March 10.

The registration
fee for the conference is $1,250 (no housing package) or $1,300 (no housing and
one workshop).  Those interested in
registering for the conference can do so here.