Practising Law Institute (PLI) will be holding its Patent Fundamentals Bootcamp 2018: An Introduction to Patent Drafting, Prosecution, and Litigation on May 8-10, 2018 in Chicago, IL, on June 13-15, 2018 in New York, NY, and on July 18-20, 2018 in San Francisco, CA. The three-day program, which is directed to patent prosecuting and litigating attorneys and patent agents with or without a Patent Office registration number or little patent experience, will focus on teaching the basics of claim drafting, patent application preparation and prosecution, as well as a review of recent developments in the law. A litigator's perspective is also presented to show how drafting and prosecution can influence the development, and often the outcome, of subsequent patent litigation. The seminar will feature lectures in the morning followed by small clinic sessions in the afternoon, with day 1 focusing on invention disclosures and patent preparation, day 2 on prosecution and issuance, and day 3 on litigation/claim analysis. Lectures will explain:
• Learn how to prepare a patent application that satisfies the statutory requirements for patentability and distinctly claims the subject matter which the applicant regards as the invention with an eye towards successful prosecution and enforcement
• Understand how to prosecute an application to obtain allowance of an enforceable patent
• Find out how to interview an Examiner
• Discover effective uses of reissues, reexamination supplemental examinations, inter partes review, post-grant review and other post-issuance proceedings
• Determine best practices to anticipate patent litigation issues during the patent prosecution process
• Get helpful approaches on patent opinion drafting
• Learn how to prepare infringement/invalidity claim charts for litigation
PLI faculty will offer presentations on the following topics:
• Initial Steps of a Patent Invention Disclosure
• An Overview of Claim Drafting and Preparation of a Patent Application
• The Basics of Patent Claim Drafting
• Review of Patent Model Claims
• An Overview of Patent Prosecution
• Conducting the Examiner Interview
• Patent Prosecutor Ethics
• Patent Litigation Issues
• Patent Claim Chart Review
A program schedule and list of speakers for each of the locations can be found here. Patent Docs authors Kevin Noonan (Chicago co-chair) and Donald Zuhn will be presenting on day 1 at the Chicago seminar.
The registration fee for the conference is $2,195. Those interested in registering for the conference can do so at the PLI website.
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