Webinar on Patent Challenges before the PTAB

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP will be offering a live webinar entitled "PTAB or the District Court: Which Is the Better Option When Challenging Patent Validity?" on November 19, 2013 from 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CT).  MBHB attorneys Alison J. Baldwin and Dr. Sarah E. Fendrick will provide strategies to help guide participants in choosing the best invalidity proceeding option for their clients.  The webinar will also address the following questions:

• What are the similarities and differences between the various PTAB invalidity proceedings?
• What are the risks and benefits of the different PTAB proceedings?
• Are PTAB proceedings a better option than the district courts?

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, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, and Virginia.

Comments

[Paul F. Morgan]

Will they provide estimates for the key question? Namely, the odds of success for infringement suit defendants in an IPR [which can be based on existing inter partes reexamination statistics] versus the odds of a Fed. Cir. sustained jury trial decision of invalidity. [Where, of course, both are based on just prior patents or publications. My impression is that the odds for the former are vastly higher than the latter, but the latter has strangely yet to be published, as far as I am aware?