West LEGALworks® will be rebroadcasting its webcast entitled: "KSR International Co. v. Teleflex, Inc.:
Discover How the High Court's Ruling Will Alter the Patent Landscape"
on May 31, 2007 from 1:00-2:30 PM (EST). Speakers Thomas C. Goldstein of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
(counsel of record for Teleflex), Robert Greene Sterne and Kenneth
C. Bass, III of Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.
(co-counsel for Teleflex), and moderator Jeffrey K. Sherwood of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP will discuss how the KSR decision
could alter the patent law landscape and make it harder for applicants
to get new patents and defend existing ones, as well as how the
decision fine-tunes the manner in which prior-art can be combined to
render a claimed invention obvious. According to Thomson-West, the
speakers will provide a balanced perspective on what the Supreme Court
ruling means for patent holders, patent applicants, and licensees, and
cover such issues as:
- What does the decision mean?
- What does the decision mean for the relationship between the Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court?
- What impact will the Court's decision have on inventors, businesses, corporations and innovation in the U.S.?
- What questions has the Supreme Court left unanswered?
- What can we expect from the USPTO during its transition period?
- What impact will the KSR decision have on generic drug makers?
- What are the implications of KSR on technology companies?
- Will the number of patents filed drop off drastically?
- Will KSR decision stifle innovation?
- What kind of testimony will sway patent examiners?
The registration fee for this webcast is $175. Those interested in registering for the webcast, can do so here. The webcast was originally presented on May 8, 2007.
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