The
Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled
"Licensing
Self-Replicating Technologies after Monsanto" on August 20,
2013 beginning at 2:00 pm (ET). A panel
consisting of Christopher Jeffers of Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, LLP;
Konstantina Katcheves of the Lonza
Group; and Erich Veitenheimer of Cooley
LLP will explore the tension between the U.S. Supreme Court's Quanta
decision, which bolstered the exhaustion doctrine, and Federal Circuit
jurisprudence since Mallinckrodt, which has authorized complex licenses
that allow patentees to accomplish their business objectives without exhausting
their patent rights. The panel will also
discuss the relevant case law, including Monsanto
v. Bowman, and explore how patent owners of self-replicating biological
inventions can legitimately craft their license provisions to draw a line
between authorized and infringing activity.
The
registration fee for the webinar is $120 (government and academic rates are
available upon request). Those
interested in registering for the webinar can do so here.
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