The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Estoppel and Privity in Post-grant Proceedings and Parallel Litigation" on December 18, 2014 beginning at 2:00 pm (ET). Nicholas Groombridge of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP; Mark Matuschak of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP; and Jon Wright of Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, PLLC will review the estoppel provisions in the AIA law and the PTAB Trial Rules and Practice Guide, and consider PTAB decisions that already touch on estoppel and privity, and discuss the many important questions that remain open. These questions include:
• When a petition is filed against a patent owner by a lawsuit-protection entity, who is estopped?
• Only that entity or also its members?
• Could a PTAB petition filed by one member of a joint defense group open the group to discovery by the patent owner?
• Does estoppel apply to all the issues "raised" or "reasonably could have been raised" by the petitioner, or just grounds on which the PTAB proceeds?
The registration fee for the webinar is $130 (government and academic rates are available upon request). Those interested in registering for the webinar can do so here.
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