The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will be holding its 2008 Annual Meeting on September 21-23, 2008 in San Diego.  The meeting will have concurrent patent and trademark sessions.  Among the presentations being offered in the patent sessions are:

• Overview of Recent Patent Case Law
• Indefiniteness Before and After Datamize
• The Patent Exhaustion Landscape:  Quanta, McFarling, and More
• Licensing and Litigation in the Wake of Medimmune and Quanta Computer
• Patent Searching:  Types, Scope, and Definitions of Searches
• The State and Future of Patentability Under §101
• Inequitable Conduct:  Which Standard?  What Evidence?
• The Real World:  Insight on In-house IP Strategy
• Patent Quality:  Defining It, Managing It

In addition, Invitrogen Corp. CEO Gregory T. Lucier will present the luncheon keynote on September 22, and Chief Judge Paul R. Michel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit will present the luncheon keynote on September 23.

A complete brochure for the meeting, including an agenda, list of speakers, and registration form can be downloaded here.

The registration fee for the meeting is $950 for IPO members or $1,450 for attendees who are not IPO members (attendees registering before July 31 will receive a $100 discount).  Those interested in registering for the meeting can do so here.