Practising Law Institute (PLI) will be holding its "Advanced Patent Prosecution Workshop 2016: Claim Drafting & Amendment Writing" on July 14-15, 2016 in New York, NY, on August 18-19, 2016 in San Francisco, CA, and on September 14-15, 2016 in Chicago, IL. Patent Docs author Donald Zuhn will chair and Patent Docs author Kevin Noonan will be presenting at the Chicago workshop.
At the New York and Chicago seminars, PLI's faculty will offer presentations on the following topics:
• Ethics in the PTO
• Concurrent Sessions I: Advanced Specification Drafting Issues -- all concurrent sessions and workshops will provide lectures specific to four different technologies: biotechnology, chemical/pharmaceutical, electromechanical, and electronics/computers
• Concurrent Sessions II: Advanced Claim Drafting Issues
• Concurrent Workshops I: Advanced Claim Drafting
• Patent Eligible Subject Matter After Mayo, Myriad, and Alice
• Lessons Learned from Three Years of Post-Grant Proceedings
• Concurrent Sessions III: Advanced Patent Prosecution Issues
• Concurrent Workshops II: Advanced Amendment Drafting
• Roundtable Discussions in Advanced Patent Prosecution Issues and Wrap-Up
At the San Francisco seminar, presentations will be offered on the following topics:
• Ethics for Patent Prosecutors
• The New 35 U.S.C. § 102
• Advanced Claim Drafting Issues -- class to split into technology groups, including Electromechanical/Mechanical, Electronics/Computers, and Life Sciences (Biotechnology, Chemical/Pharmaceutical)
• Patentable Subject Matter
• Claim Drafting Workshops -- class to split into technology groups
• Advanced Issues for Written Description -- class to split into technology groups
• Countering the Obviousness Rejection -- class to split into technology groups
• Post Issuance Proceedings Prosecution
• The Litigation Perspective on Patent Prosecution
• Amendment Workshops -- class to split into technology groups
A complete program schedule, including descriptions of the presentations and a list of speakers for each seminar can be found here.
The registration fee for each conference is $1,795. Those interested in registering for the conference can do so here.
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