US Patent Reform Forum 2012

Managing Intellectual Property will be holding the US Patent Reform Forum 2012 on March 27, 2012 in Washington, DC.  The conference will offer presentations on:

• Roundtable: AIA rulemaking overview;
• An industry perspective: We lobbied the cause; the act was passed -- where did we land?
• Key considerations: The joinder provision; ITC proceedings and the new rules on false marking;
• In focus: Post grant review and litigation strategies under AIA;
• First-to-file system: Implications of a significant change in the law; and
• AIA and NPEs: Impact or more of the same?

In addition, keynote addresses will be given by Robert Armitage, senior vice president and general counsel for Eli Lilly and Company; U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director David Kappos; and former USPTO Commissioner of Patents Bob Stoll.

A complete brochure for this conference, including a programme, detailed descriptions of forum sessions, list of speakers, and registration form can be obtained here.

The registration fee for the conference is $1,295 (private practice rate).  There is no fee for in-house counsel, academics, and attendees from research institutes.  Those interested in registering for the conference can do so by calling 1-212-224-3570, by faxing a registration form to +44 20 7779 8279, or by e-mailing [email protected].

Comments

[staff]

"The registration fee for the conference is $1,295 (private practice rate). There is no fee for in-house counsel, academics, and attendees from research institutes."

And of course no inventors will be present. Kappos and the invention thieves who promoted this death knell of a bill for inventors will see to that.

“America Invents Act”

“This is not a patent reform bill” Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) complained, despite other democrats praising the overhaul. “This is a big corporation patent giveaway that tramples on the right of small inventors.”

Senator Cantwell is right. Just because they call it “reform” doesn’t mean it is. The agents of banks, huge multinationals, and China are at it again trying to brain wash and bankrupt America.

They should have called the bill the America STOPS Inventing Act or ASIA, because that’s where it is sending all our jobs.

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 and 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. In this way large firms are able to play king of the hill and keep their small competitors from reaching their full potential as large firms have. 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.

Those wishing to help fight big business giveaways should contact us as below and join the fight as we are building a network of inventors and other stakeholders to lobby Congress to restore property rights for all patent owners -large and small.

Please see http://truereform.piausa.org/default.html for a different/opposing view on patent reform.
http://docs.piausa.org/

[Roger]

I found it bizarre that in-house counsel was give free access. So an attorney at a large multinational is given free access while inventors and independent firms are required to fork up a tidy sum?

I can only conclude that this meeting is exclusionary and certainly does paint the USPTO and AIA in a bad light.

Why not restrict granting patents to corporations with more than 1000 employees?

[Roger Mckinley]

thanks for that info on toronto patent law firms. I want to hear more from you. More posts to come!