The American
Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) will be holding its 2012 annual
meeting on October 25-27, 2012 in Washington, DC. Among the sessions being offered during the
annual meeting will be:
Plenary Session -- The Impact of the AIA Rules
Concurrent Track -- Patent Litigation Under the AIA -- including presentations on:
• AIA Effects on
Litigation, Operating Under PGR/IPR and Getting Best Effect/Results
• Discovery
Procedures Under AIA
• Best Practices
for Corporate e-Discovery Under AIA
• Joint
Infringement—Akamai/McKesson Aftermath and Strategies Under AIA
Concurrent Track -- Emerging IP Issues in Emerging Markets -- including presentations on:
• If You Can’t Beat 'Em, Can You Join 'Em? Trying to Use Recent Changes in Israel Patent Law to Get
an Early Look Inside Your Competitor's Head
• Tips, Tricks and
Pitfalls in the Brazilian Patent Prosecution System
• South Africa --
An Overview of Important Prosecution and Enforcement Issues in South Africa and
Other African Countries
• Important Aspects
of IP Practice in Russia for Foreign Patent Practitioners
• Strategies for
Foreign Filing
• Export Control
Issues
Concurrent Track -- What In-House Lawyers Need to Know About the AIA and Whether It Will Change Corporate Practice -- including presentations on:
• What In-House
Lawyers Need to Know About the AIA -- Focus on Post Grant Reviews
• Third Party
Interactions and the AIA
• Implications and
Considerations for In-House Counsel in the Implementation of AIA First Inventor
to File Provision
Committee Educational Session -- IP Issues in Novel Venture Financing of Biopharmaceutical Development -- including presentations on:
• Overview of Novel
Venture Structures and Financing Arrangements
• Venture Capital
Company Approaches Investing in Clinical Development and Generation of IP
• Big Pharma
Partnerships with Small Biotech/Pharma
• Partnerships with
Government to Commercialize New Technologies
Committee Educational Session -- Declarations and Assignments and Effective Filing Date of Claims Under the AIA
Concurrent Track -- What’s the Big Diff? -- Patent Prosecution Under the AIA -- including presentations on:
• USPTO Perspective
and Developments -- Policy, Rules, and Examination Guidelines -- to be
presented by USPTO Deputy Director Teresa Stanek Rea
• In-House
Perspectives on the AIA: Strategies for Successful Corporate Outcomes
• International
Perspectives and Developments: One Off, Harmonizing, Progress?
• Changes at the
OED: What Corporations and Practitioners Need to Know and When You Need to Know
It -- to be presented by William R. Covey, USPTO Office of Enrollment and
Discipline
• Strategies, Tips,
and Potholes
• Patent System RX:
Pre-issuance Submissions
Concurrent Track -- AIA -- Will the New System Work? -- Panel discussion to be moderated by AIPLA Executive Director Q. Todd Dickinson and including Chief Judge Randall Rader of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; USPTO Director David Kappos; Robert A. Armitage of Eli Lilly & Company; Aaron Cooper, Senior Counsel, IP and Antitrust, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary; and W. Todd Baker of Oblon Spivak McClelland Maier & Neustadt, LLP
Committee Educational Session -- Antibody Patents and Patenting Antibodies -- US and EP Perspectives -- including presentations on:
I. Patenting Antibodies -- A European
Perspective:
• Antibodies and
the EPO
• International
Antibody Patenting Strategy
• Patenting
Antibodies in Europe
II. Antibody Patents -- Written Description
• Written
Description and Predictability -- One Corporate View
• Written
Description: Not Required for Antibodies -- An Academic View
• Understanding the
Patent Office's "Antibody Exception" to the Requirement for Written Description
On October 26, the luncheon keynotes will be given by the Hon. Kathleen O’Malley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
A brochure for the meeting, which includes an agenda, list of speakers, and registration information can be downloaded here.
The registration fee for the AIPLA annual meeting is $825 (AIPLA members), $1,280 (non-members), $55 (AIPLA student members), or $70 (government employees or AIPLA academic/government members). AIPLA members or non-members registering by September 27, 2010 will receive a $100 discount off the registration fee. Those interested in registering for the conference can obtain a registration form here.
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