Practising Law Institute (PLI) will be holding its Patent Fundamentals Bootcamp 2019: An Introduction to Patent Drafting, Prosecution, and Litigation on May 7-9, 2019 in Chicago, IL, on June 12-14, 2019 in New York, NY, and on July 17-19, 2019 in San Francisco, CA. The three-day program features lectures each morning followed by clinic sessions in the afternoon where classroom problems and solutions will be furnished. Both the lectures and clinics follow the patent application process -- from invention disclosure and patent preparation (Day 1), through prosecution, issuance and beyond (Day 2) to litigation/claim analysis (Day 3). Attendees will:
• Learn how to prepare a patent application that satisfies the statutory requirements for patentability and distinctly claims the subject matter that 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;
• Learn how to interview an Examiner;
• Discover effective uses of reissues, supplemental examination procedures, reexamination, 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; and
• Learn how to prepare infringement/invalidity claim charts for litigation.
PLI faculty will offer presentations on the following topics:
• Taking a Patent Invention Disclosure
• Preparation of a Patent Application
• The Basics of Patent Claim Drafting
• Clinic I: Patent Claim Drafting
• Review of Patent Model Claims
• An Overview of Patent Prosecution
• Conducting the Examiner Interview
• Clinic II: Patent Amendment Writing
• Patent Prosecutor Ethics
• Patent Litigation Issues
• Clinic III: Preparing a Patent Claim Chart
• Patent Claim Chart Review
A program schedule and list of speakers for each of the locations can be found here. Patent Docs author Kevin Noonan will be serving as Chicago co-chair and Patent Docs author 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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