The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Patent Prosecution After Akamai: Exploring the Contours of 'Control and Direction'" on October 29, 2015 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET). Stephen Durant of Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner; Ken Hobday, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, Fiserv; and Michelle Holoubek of Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox will investigate the new environment for patent prosecution in software, Internet, and IT technologies in the aftermath of this summer’s Federal Circuit decision in Akamai v. Limelight. The webinar will review the following questions:
• Which inventions call for taking advantage of the new more liberal standard under which multiple defendants can together practice all the claims of a patent and be found guilty of direct infringement? Or should patent prosecutors stick to a conservative approach and continue to draft claims so that a single actor can perform all steps?
• Will including more implementation details in a patent application, such as system protocols, potentially ensnare infringers that would otherwise be seen as separate parties? How will that interact with Alice issues?
• How to approach opinion work -- and design around advice regarding non-infringement -- when there is no developed case law on the new standard?
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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