One-Day Patent CLE Seminar

This registration includes breakfast, refreshments, lunch and course materials.

EARN 7.0 PROFESSIONAL CLE CREDITS INCL. 2.0 ETHICS
FOR BOTH NEWLY ADMITTED & EXPERIENCED ATTORNEYS

One-Day Patent CLE Seminar
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Princeton Club, 15 West 43rd Street, New York, NY, 10036

COURSE MATERIALS BOOK

AGENDA

8:15 AM - 9:00 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast will be served

9:00 AM - 9:05 AM Welcoming Remarks

9:05 AM - 10:25 AM Panel 1 - TC Heartland: Returning to Life under Section 1400(b) Venue

PANEL 1 MATERIALS

• Kenneth Adamo, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP

• Jeffrey Lewis, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP

• Joshua Raskin, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig LLP

• Moderator Thomas Vetter, Of Counsel, Lucas & Mercanti LLP

10:25 AM - 10:40 AM Refreshment Break

10:40 AM - 12:00 PM Panel 2 - Section 101 - Three Years of Uncertainty

PANEL 2 MATERIALS

• Serena Farquharson-Torres, Senior Patent Counsel, Bristol-Myers Squibb

• Cindy Huang, Counsel - IP Law & Strategy, American Express

• Laura Sheridan, Patent Counsel, Google Inc.

• Moderator Jonathan Berschadsky, Partner, Merchant & Gould PC

12:00PM - 12:45 PM Lunch

12:45 PM - 1:15 PM Keynote Speaker: Honorable Stanley R. Chesler, Senior District Judge, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey

1:15 PM - 2:05 PM Interactive Ethics CLE: Shifting Between IP Lawyer and Lobbyist

INTERACTIVE ETHICS MATERIALS

• Dorothy Auth, Partner, Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP

• Jeffrey Butler, Senior Counsel, Global IP, Lonza Inc.

• Moderator Colman Ragan, Associate General Counsel - U.S. IP Litigation, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries LTD 

2:05 PM - 3:00 PM Panel 3 - Recent Updates to Ethical Duties of a Practitioner Before the USPTO

PANEL 3 MATERIALS

• William Covey, Deputy General Counsel & Director of OED, United States Patent & Trademark Office

• Moderator Mark Bloomberg, Partner, Zuber Lawler & Del Duca LLP
  

3:00 PM - 3:15 PM Refreshment Break

3:15 PM - 4:05 PM Panel 4 - Patent Rights: Public or Private; Whose Thoughts and Ideas Are They Anyway?

PANEL 4 MATERIALS

• Robert Rando, Founder, The Rando Law Firm P.C.

• Melvin Garner, Partner, Leason Ellis LLP

• Moderator Anthony Lo Cicero, Partner, Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP 

4:05 PM - 5:00 PM Panel 5 - Licensing Strategies in View of Lexmark and Promega

PANEL 5 MATERIALS

• Eugene Chang, Partner, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

• Robert Isackson, Partner, Venable LLP

• Moderator Diana Santos, Associate, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 

5:00 PM - 5:05 PM Closing Remarks