Practising Law Institute (PLI) will be holding a conference entitled: "Fundamentals of Patent Prosecution 2008: A Boot Camp for Claim Drafting & Amendment Writing" on June 18-20, 2008 in New York, NY and on July 9-11, 2008 in San Francisco, CA. The three-day program will consist of morning lectures followed by small clinic sessions in the afternoon. The conference will offer presentations on the following topics:
• Taking invention disclosures
• Overview of claim drafting and preparation of patent application
• Claim drafting
• Review of model claims
• Patent prosecution
• Conducting the examiner interview
• Review of model amendment
• Litigation issues
A full program for the Fundamentals of Patent Prosecution conference can be found here (New York) and here (San Francisco). The registration fee for the conference is $1,395. Those interested in registering for the conference can do so here (New York) or here (San Francisco).
I attended this conference a few years ago in New York. What a waste of time and money.
I notice that you don't advertise PRG courses, which I've found to be much better organized and informative, or AIPLA meetings, which generally have very informative sessions. Is there a reason for these omissions?
Posted by: Federally Circuitous | April 26, 2008 at 04:09 PM
Federally Circuitous:
We have covered PRG courses in the past, and most recently had their April 3-5 Advanced Courses on our weekly Conference & CLE's calendar. We have also discussed AIPLA events in the past. However, we will try to make a more concerted effort to add relevant events from these groups to our calendar. Thank you for the comment and for reading Patent Docs.
Don
Posted by: Donald Zuhn | April 26, 2008 at 04:22 PM