IEEE-USA Intellectual Property Professionals Initiative Presents First Seminar:
The New Patent Law and What it
Means to You
An exposition
of the largest change in patent law since 1870
with an emphasis towards helping inventors and
engineering managers mitigate risks, protect
their inventions, and adapt their R&D and
business practices to this new law.
The IEEE-USA IP Professionals
initiative is a program to educate engineer-inventors and attorney/agent
practitioners on evolving IP issues. Recent implementation of the America Invents Act (AIA) has driven
IEEE-USA to help educate attorney-members and engineers on patent law changes so
they can better align their business practices. Through a combination of IEEE Section outreach and partnership with other
organizations, IEEE-USA is providing education on patent law changes, publication of
educational/scholarly works, and forums for collaborating on patent law
issues.The following recent
Section event at George Mason University was captured at the request of members
who recognized the caliber of our speakers, but could not attend the event.
Please share this event with your colleagues. Our selection of speakers was based
on their participation in public policy discussions over the past five years
as the AIA maturated through Congress — and their presentations reflect concerns, as
well as benefits of the legislation. This makes these presentations
doubly valuable to IEEE's members chartered with implementing structural changes within
their organizations in response to enactment of AIA.
— Keith Grzelak,
Co-Chair, IEEE-USA IP Professionals
Initiative
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Video |
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Effects on Emerging Technologies of the Weak Grace Period
David Boundy
Cantor Fitzgerald |
Derivation
law, Prior User Rights and Related
Implications
Charles Gholz
Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier &
Neustadt, L.L.P.
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Post Grant Review, Reexamination &
Supplemental Examination
Robert G. Sterne
Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. |
Patent Office Procedures, Appropriations, User
Fees & Prioritized Examination
Harold Wegner
Foley & Lardner, L.L.P. |
USPTO Implementation of the America
Invents Act
Janet Gongola
Patent Reform Coordinator, USPTO |
Impact of U.S. Patent Reform on
Patent Litigation
Michael
Flibbert
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P. |
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Agenda |
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Introduction
and Overview of America Invents Act
Keith
Grzelak, Wells St. John P.S.;
Co-Chair, IEEE Intellectual Property
Professionals Initiative and Past Chair,
IEEE-USA Intellectual Property Policy
Committee
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Impact of
Pre-Issuance Changes |
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First
Inventor To File, Diminished Grace
Period and Prior Art Issues
David Boundy,
Cantor Fitzgerald
Power Point slides:
1) Leahy-Smith Patent Act: Effects on Emerging Technologies of the Weak Grace Period |
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Derivation
law, Prior User Rights and Related
Implications
Charles Gholz,
Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier &
Neustadt, L.L.P.
Power Point slides:
1) Prior User Rights
2) Derivation Law & Derivation Proceedings |
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Patent
Office Procedures, Appropriations, User
Fees & Prioritized
Examination – Adapting prosecution
strategies to the AIA
Harold Wegner,
Foley & Lardner, L.L.P.
Power Point slides:
1) Patent Practice Transitions |
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The Post Issuance
Conundrum and Patent Challenges During
Prosecution |
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Post Grant
Review, Reexamination & Supplemental
Examination
Robert G. Sterne,
Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.
Power Point slides:
1)
Leahy-Smith America Invents Act – Overview: Post Grant Review, Reexamination & Supplemental Examination |
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USPTO
Regulatory Agenda
Janet
Gongola, Patent Reform
Coordinator, USPTO
Power Point slides:
1) Patent Reform Implementation
Additional Info from the USPTO: USPTO America Invents Act Implementation Webpage |
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Impact of U.S. Patent Reform on
Patent Litigation
Michael
Flibbert, Finnegan, Henderson,
Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P.
Power Point slides:
1) Impact of U.S. Patent Reform on Patent Litigation |
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Putting It All
Together |
Company
Perspectives, Procedures and Best
Practices
TBD |
Panel
Discussion and Q&A
ALL |
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Closing |
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THANK YOUs
IEEE-USA would to thank IEEE members Ron Katznelson for identifying and arranging the participation of these excellent speakers, and Dan Fisher for facilitating the venue logistics. We would also like to thank BC Productions for producing the videos and for answering our last minute call for help in capturing this event for those of you who could not attend in person. Many many thanks for their dedication and tireless efforts.
Last Update:
02 November 2011
Contact: IEEE-USA,
ieeeusa@ieee.org |
