McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP will be offering a live webinar on the "Impact of the America Invents Act on Patent Litigation Strategy" on February 23, 2012 from 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CT). Grantland Drutchas and Patrick Gattari will provide an overview of the impact of the new patent law on litigation, and in particular, will address the following questions and topics:
What's already hit and what effect has it had?
• Preclusion of most false marking suits;
• Preclusion of joinder of unrelated defendants; and
• Preclusion against using failure to get opinions of counsel as evidence.
What is to come?
• How will the new categories of prior art affect validity in litigation?
• What will be the effect of expansion of prior user rights?
• What changes are coming regarding inequitable conduct?
• How are the new PTO post-issuance review proceedings going to impact patent litigation?
• What lessons can we learn from Europe on these new proceedings?
• What is the impact on Hatch-Waxman litigation?
While there is no fee to participate, attendees must register in advance. Those wishing to register can do so here. CLE credit is pending for the states of California, Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York and Virginia.
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