The Elevate Your Prosecution 2021 conference on patent prosecution will be held in the Murano room of the Grand America in Salt Lake City from Friday, September 24 to Saturday, September 25.
Expected and pending are 14 hours of Utah CLE. The roster of speakers includes Dennis Crouch, John Duffy, David Hricik, and John White. The full agenda follows below, and more details can be found here.
Participants can register here for the in-person event (about 40 spaces remaining), the speakers dinner Friday night (about 8 spaces remaining), or the webcast.
The agenda:
Friday, September 24, 2021:
1.1 Michael Spector and Julie Burke (Petition.ai LLC): Deep Dive into Strategies for Successful Petitions at the USPTO
1.2. Dan Tucker (Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP): Realities of Succeeding in PTAB Trials 1
1.3. Mike Bohn (VLP Law Group LLP): Surviving, Pivoting, and Thriving in the Changing Global IP Marketplace
1.4. Dan Tanner (Tanner IP PLLC): The Ethics of Educating Clients about Patent Vulnerabilities - a Litigator's Perspective
1.5. James Long (Li & Cai IP Group, PTAB.US: A Memory Palace Approach to PTAB Case Citations and Holding Statistics
1.6. Andrew Godsey (Global Technology Transfer Group) and Clarke Nelson (InFact Experts LLC): Comprehensive Overview of Modern Patent Valuation
1.7. Margaret Polson (Polson Intellectual Property Law PC): Overview of Design Patents for Software-Related Inventions
1.8. Travis Banta (former USPTO) and Kip Werking (FisherBroyles, LLP): Using Persuasion and the USPTO Count System for Successful Examiner Interviews - an Examiner's Perspective
Saturday, September 25, 2021:
2.1. Scott McKeown (Ropes & Gray LLP): Realities of Succeeding in PTAB Trials 2: Prosecuting for the PTAB
2.2. David Hricik (Mercer Law School): Academic Perspective on Patent Valuation 1: Recent Legal and Technological Changes Reducing Patent Value
2.3. John Duffy (University of Virginia School of Law): Academic Perspective on Patent Valuation 2: Historical Overview of File Wrappers for Famous Patents
2.4. Adam Mossoff (George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School): Academic Perspective on Patent Valuation 3: Implications of the New Paradigm of Patents as Public Rights in the Administrative State
2.5 Ron Katznelson (President at Bi-Level Technologies): Pecuniary Interests of PTAB Judges - Empirical Analysis Relating Bonus Awards to Decisions in AIA Trials
2.6. Robert Greenspoon (Flachsbart & Greenspoon, LLC): Past and Future Constitutional Challenges in Patent Law
2.7. John White (CEO & Managing Director at PCT Learning Center): Overview of the Benefits Today of Relying More Heavily on the PCT
2.8. Dennis Crouch (University of Missouri School of Law): To Be Determined
The speakers for this event exhibit a troubling lack of diversity.
Posted by: Laura | August 08, 2021 at 07:15 PM
Thank you Laura for your virtue signaling.
Now please put your activist privilege in check.
Posted by: skeptical | August 09, 2021 at 07:57 AM
"The speakers for this event exhibit a troubling lack of diversity."
Really? Please elaborate. Are there an insufficient number of incompetent practitioners among the speakers? Because having both competent and incompetent practitioners would surely be a manifestation of diversity.
I see quite a few people from academia and quite a few from outside academia. Among the latter, it appears that all are from private law firms, with none being in-house counsel. Is that the "lack of diversity" of which you speak? Those firms, however, seem to be diverse in terms of size, clientele, and degree of specialization.
Also, in addition to explaining what you mean by "diversity" in the present context, please explain why "diversity" per se is a necessary condition for a quality CLE program.
I ask because, when I attend a CLE meeting, I want good value for my money. I'd like to know how "diversity", in the sense in which you use that term, guarantees me such value.
Posted by: Atari Man | August 09, 2021 at 01:44 PM
They are good speakers or shall I rephrase, humans having interesting opinions. There is only one woman in the bunch. I do not know about the heritage of each of the speakers to know without a doubt the diversity of the panel. I do get discouraged, knowing the great female practitioners in the field to see only one woman on the panel.
Why is gender/racial diversity necessary? - for role models, feelings of community/affinity, safety, mentoring. For comfort. I frequently watch men not walk into a room filled with women, but I frequently am the only woman in the room and sometimes the only white woman. I will add that racial and gender diversity also contribute to intellectual diversity as they have gathered different datasets in a similar a manner if we bring together people from different parts of the country, different ages, and different educational backgrounds, we have different data sets.
Posted by: Mercedes Meyer | August 12, 2021 at 02:15 PM