Practising Law Institute (PLI) will be offering a one-hour webcast on "Patent Application Preparation in View of Recent Court Decisions: Updates and Strategies" on January 17, 2019 beginning at 3:00 pm (Eastern). Jeffrey G. Sheldon of Cislo & Thomas LLP will provide an update on patent preparation strategies based on new developments in the law, including a discussion of the following topics:
• Best strategies in writing applications in view of possible abstract idea and product of nature rejections
• How to make provisional applications prior art as to third parties
• Functional language versus product by process language – what is it?
• Broad claims and the enablement challenge
• Should the background portion of a patent application be skinny?
• The potential trap of multiple embodiments in a design application
• How many drawings in a design patent application?
• Challenging inventorship
• Using "and" and "or"
• Priority claims
The registration fee for this webcast is $299. Those interested in registering for the webcast, can do so here.
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