One-Day Patent CLE Seminar
- 11/16/2017 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Please arrive early for registration
- The Princeton Club
15 West 43rd Street
New York, New York 10036
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
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
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Kenneth Adamo, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
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Jeffrey Lewis, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
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Joshua Raskin, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig LLP
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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
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Serena Farquharson-Torres, Senior Patent Counsel, Bristol-Myers Squibb
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Cindy Huang, Counsel - IP Law & Strategy, American Express
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Laura Sheridan, Patent Counsel, Google Inc.
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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
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Dorothy Auth, Partner, Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP
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Jeffrey Butler, Senior Counsel, Global IP, Lonza Inc.
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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
- 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?
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Robert Rando, Founder, The Rando Law Firm P.C.
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Melvin Garner, Partner, Leason Ellis LLP
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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
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Eugene Chang, Partner, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
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Robert Isackson, Partner, Venable LLP
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Moderator Diana Santos, Associate, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
5:00 PM - 5:05 PM Closing Remarks