American Conference Institute (ACI) will be holding its 17th Advanced Summit on Life Sciences Patents conference on May 16-17, 2019 in New York, NY.
The conference will offer presentations on the following topics:
• Patenting strategies for U.S. and Europe
• What's new at the PTAB?
• The "new" § 101 landscape in the PTO and District Courts
• Obviousness-type double patenting
• Printed publication standards at the PTAB
• FTO and avoiding future infringement
• Prolonging patent lifecycles in US, EP, and JP
• Revisiting the Doctrine of Equivalence
• Antibody patent review: global perspectives
• Applying the written description requirement to antibody claims
• Europe post-Brexit and the Unitary Patent Regime
• The intersection between high-tech, data mining, discovery and patent protection
• Ethics in life sciences patent prosecution
In addition, two pre-conference workshops will be offered on May 15, 2019. The first, entitled "Patents Around the World Working Group" will be offered from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm, and the second, entitled "Antibody Claims Drafting Master Class" will be offered from 1:30 to 5:00 pm.
The agenda for the Paragraph IV Disputes conference can be found here. More information regarding the workshops can be found here and here. A complete brochure for this conference, including an agenda, detailed descriptions of conference sessions, list of speakers, and registration form can be obtained here.
The registration fee for the conference alone is $2,095 (by April 5th) or $2,295 (by May 14th). The workshops carry an additional fee of $600 apiece. Patent Docs readers are entitled to a 10% discount off of registration using discount code P10-999-PTD19. Those interested in registering for the conference can do so here, by e-mailing [email protected], or by calling 1-888-224-2480.
Patent Docs is a media partner of ACI's 17th Advanced Summit on Life Sciences Patents Conference.
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