The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Defining the PTAB: Click to Call and Windy City" on May 7, 2020 at 1:00 pm (CDT). Gregory Castanias of Jones Day, Dennis Crouch of the University of Missouri School of Law, and Scott McKeown of Ropes & Gray LLP will untangle the complexities involving all the players including the PTAB, the Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and the Federal Circuit, and assess who emerges as a winner and in what way. The panel will also give an analysis of how practice could change, including:
• What other PTAB determinations will be found to be "final and nonappealable" in addition to time bar determinations?
• What happens to appeals that have been decided or are pending at the Federal Circuit on matters that now are no longer appealable?
• What is the impact on proceedings involving state sovereign immunity?
• What are the implications of the PTAB having enlarged unchecked power?
• What is the role of the USPTO's Precedential Opinion Panel (POP)?
The registration fee for the webinar is $135 (IPO member) or $150 (non-member) (government and academic rates are available upon request). Those interested in registering for the webinar can do so here.
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