Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Drafting and Prosecuting Patent Applications to Withstand PTAB Scrutiny -- Building Reasonable Claim Construction to Avoid Unpatentability and Using Declarations to Survive Post Grant Proceedings" on March 5, 2015 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST). Anthony M. Gutowski, Thomas L. Irving, John Mulcahy of Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner will provide guidance to patent counsel for drafting and prosecuting U.S. patent applications to achieve the broadest claim interpretation and avoid unpatentability and yet still be able to prove infringement, and offer best practices to solidify novelty, non-obviousness, enablement, and written description positions. The webinar will review the following questions:
• How can practitioners draft and prosecute patent applications and claims to minimize the threat and/or efficacy of a third-party’s post-grant challenges?
• How can patent owners obtain broad claims to keep competitors at bay while countering attempts to render those broad claims unpatentable under the broadest reasonable interpretation standards before the PTAB?
• How can practitioners introduce strong grounds for patentability under §§ 102, 103, and 112, in the specification and prosecution history so that IPRs and PGRs are either denied or otherwise ineffective against the challenged instituted claims?
The registration fee for the webinar is $297 ($362 for registration and CLE processing). Those interested in registering for the webinar, can do so here.
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