Practising Law Institute (PLI) will be offering a one-hour webcast on "The Evolving Patent Eligibility of Life Sciences Method Claims" on September 9, 2019 beginning at 11:00 am (EDT). Patent Docs author Donald L. Zuhn, Jr. of McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP will moderate a panel consisting of Brian A. Cocca of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; June E. Cohan of the Office of Patent Legal Administration at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; and Sarah E. Fendrick of McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP. The panel will discuss:
• Recent Federal Circuit decisions regarding the patent eligibility of diagnostic method claims and method of treatment claims;
• What can be distilled from these decisions to better draft patent eligible life sciences method claims;
• How these decisions are impacting the examination of life sciences method claims at the USPTO;
• And what may lay ahead in view of the petition for certiorari in Vanda Pharmaceuticals v. West-Ward Pharmaceuticals.
The registration fee for this webcast is $299. Those interested in registering for the webcast, can do so here.
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