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After Cuozzo:
Litigation at the PTAB, District Court, and
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 Willfulness and
Enhanced Damages
After Halo
Readying a Patent Portfolio
for Sale

Internet of Things:
Standards, Licensing,
or Litigation?
New EU Trade Secrets Directive
Nuts & Bolts of
Registering Copyright on Software
 
Copyright on Software:
What's Covered
and What's Not?
Federal Trade Secret Law: 
Getting It Right Early  

Redundant Grounds in Post-Grant Proceedings
 
New PTAB Trial Rules
   
First Response to Trade Secret Theft
 
Lexmark: Licensing After the En Banc Decision

Extraterritorial Damages
After Carnegie Mellon
 Conflicts of Interest in
Patent Prosecution After
Maling v. Finnegan

 Insider Threat:  
Employee Mobility & 
Trade Secrets
  
High Tech, Double Patenting, and Ex Parte Reexam
 
  Patent Prosecution with
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Safeguarding GUIs:
Best Practices
Using Multiple Layers of IP
   
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SECTION 101: THE WAY AHEAD

Software
Wednesday Aug 10  2PM ET

Life Science
Thursday August 11  2PM ET
   
The Supreme Court's recent decision not to grant certiorari in
Ariosa v. Sequenom was a sharp disappointment to many inventors and patent owners who had hoped the Court would revisit and clarify its views on patent eligibility after its decisions in  Mayo and Alice. But that was not to be. As a result, the two industries most wounded by  Mayo and  Alice -- life sciences and computer software -- must look for paths ahead without any reprieve from the Justices. Recent Section 101 cases from the Federal Circuit and ex parte PTAB decisions can serve as signposts for both the life sciences and software industries. Each of our industry-specific panels is made up of a technically-savvy in-house counsel and two top law firm patent prosecutors. They will discuss cases such as:
  • Rapid Litigation v. CellzDirect, where in early July, the Federal Circuit panel reversed a district court's holding that claims to a method of isolating and preserving liver cells were patent-ineligible. The appellate court held that the claims did not encompass a judicial exception (step one of the Mayo/Alice analysis). The same kind of analysis helped save patents involving self-referential software databases in Enfish v. Microsoft this spring.  
  • Bascom v. AT&T, where in June the Federal Circuit reversed a district court's finding that Bascom's patent for filtering internet content failed step two of the Mayo/Alice test. The Federal Circuit stated that "the inventive concept inquiry requires more than recognizing that each claim element, by itself, was known in the art. . . an inventive concept can be found in the non-conventional and non-generic arrangement of known, conventional pieces." Life science experts believe this finding can also help life science patents.
Our panelists will give specific tips for drafting and prosecuting patents in their industries to avoid Section 101 rejections, resulting in patents that will withstand patent-eligibility attacks in litigation. The life science webinar will include discussion of both therapeutics and diagnostics, and the software webinar will include discussion of several recent useful ex parte PTAB decisions that overturned examiners Section 101 rejections.
Panelists 
August 10
 
Michelle Macartney i s a Senior IP Attorney in both the Prosecution and Acquisitions groups at Intellectual Ventures. Michelle's technical expertise is in the software and wireless/telecom areas. She has handled over 20 post-grant matters in front of the PTAB. 
Durant
Stephen Durant is a shareholder at Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner. Steve is a patent prosecutor and IP strategist in technologies including Internet and database software and wired and wireless telecommunications. He is Co-Editor of
Electronics and Software Patents: Law and Practice (Third Edition 2012), published by BNA.
Amir Penn is a shareholder of Brinks Gilson Lione. He has substantial experience prosecuting patents, drafting opinions, and managing IP rights in the fields of software-related technology, printer technology, image processing, and wireless communications.
 
August 11

Deborah Martin  is Assistant General Counsel at Pfizer.  She leads a team of patent attorneys in the US and Europe responsible for the patent portfolios and IP strategy for biotherapeutics in the research units of ImmunoOncology, Inflammation, Rare Diseases, Neuroscience, and CVMET as well as diligence support for licensing, acquisitions, and R&D collaborations.  She holds a PhD in physiological sciences.
Christopher Jeffers  is a member of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo. Chris helps life science clients with IP counsel involving technologies such as campanion diagnostics, next generation sequencing, arrays, cell therapy, and plant mutation. Chris is the former General Counsel of Alba Therapeutics, and serves as outside Chief Patent Counsel to a number of small and mid-sized life science companies. He holds a PhD in biochemistry and biophysics.
Warren Woessner is a founding partner and chair of the biopharma group at Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner. Warren works on solutions for complex prosecution problems. He holds a Ph.D. in organic chemistry and is the author of the blog Patents4Life.  
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