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Post-Grant AIA Procedures and the Litigation Impact – May 2013 Meeeting
Date: Tuesday May 14, 2013 from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EDT
Location: Cincinnatian Hotel
The America Invents Act (H.R. 1249) promises to bring substantial changes to the U.S. patent system, including new mechanisms for challenging patents at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. One of the new mechanisms is a post-grant review proceeding (PGR), which will provide patent challengers expanded bases on which to attack patents. Post-grant review, however, will only be available to challenge patents that issue under the AIA’s new first-to-file regime. Of more immediate concern, the AIA also provides for a new inter partes review (“IPR”) procedure that will be available to challenge any
enforceable patent, including those issued before enactment of the AIA.
Ryan Willis will discuss the basics of each of these new procedures. He will also discuss litigation considerations, including when the use of these procedures in addition to or in place of litigation may be appropriate, and how the use of these procedures may affect a client’s choice to litigate following their use.
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CincyBio 2013 Registration Now Open
CincyIP is proud to bring back CincyBIO for 2013, Cincinnati’s premier conference on bioscience and technology, for the third straight year on Tuesday, April 30, 2013.
CincyBIO 2013 will be held Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at the Phoenix in downtown Cincinnati. The conference will feature speakers including Tom Irving (Finnegan), Sam Han (McClure, Qualey & Rodack, LLP), Carin Miller (Blue Ribbon Patents), Jeff Weedman (Cintrifuse), James Zimmerman (Taft), David Willbrand (ThompsonHine), Vance VanDrake (Ulmer & Berne), Ralph Hall (University of Minnesota Law School and Faegre Baker Daniels), Dave Bassett (WilmerHale), Pat Lane (Dinsmore), Matt Willenbrink (University of Dayton), Nick Nikolaides (The Procter & Gamble Company), Marie Kerbeshian (Indiana University), Geoffrey Pinski (Office of Entrepreneurial Affairs & Technology, University of Cincinnati), and Chris Fick (Office of Technology Transfer, University of Louisville).
This activity has been approved by the Supreme Court of Ohio Commission on Continuing Legal Education for 6.25 total CLE hour(s) instruction.
6.25 CLE hours have also been applied for in Kentucky and Indiana.
Schedule of Events CincyBio 2013 Final Schedule
7:45 – 8:15 Registration and Coffee
8:15 – 8:30 Welcome and Introductions
8:30 – 9:30 “Exelixis and Novartis – Biopharm Patent Term Adjustment Based on (B) Delay” – Tom Irving
9:30 – 10:30 “New FDA Regulations and Their Effect on Existing and Emerging Technologies” – Ralph Hall
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 11:45 “Cintrifuse: Working With Technology Startups and Developing Cincinnati’s Innovation Ecoystem” – Jeff Weedman, James Zimmerman, David Willbrand, and Vance VanDrake
11:45 – 1:00 Lunch and Networking
1:00 – 2:15 “University Intellectual Property: The Tech Transfer Perspective” – Geoffrey Pinski (UC), Matt Willenbrink (UD), Marie Kerbeshian (IU) and Chris Fick (Louisville) with Nick Nikolaides (P&G) as moderator
2:15 – 2:30 Break
2:30 – 3:30 “The Exhaustingly Self-Replicating Seeds: Monsanto v. Bowman” – Dave Bassett and Pat Lane
3:30-4:30 “Gene: The New Four Letter Word” – Sam Han and Carin Miller
4:30 CLE and Closing
Prices thru April 15:
• CincyIP Member – $100
• Non-member with CLE – $125
• Non-member without CLE – $75
• Students – $25
Prices after April 15:
• CincyIP Member – $125
• Non-member with CLE – $150
• Non-member without CLE – $100
• Students – $25
To register:
http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=qq79j4lab&oeidk=a07e77yzn5r4802e853
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Contests and Sweepstakes: Spotting IP Risks and Other Legal Issues – March 2013 Meeting
You’re invited to our next monthly luncheon and CLE seminar. Lori Krafte, partner at Wood, Herron & Evans will be presenting on the topic of Contests and Sweepstakes.
Date: March 12th
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Location: Cincinnatian Hotel
With advertising budgets squeezed, more companies than ever are turning to relatively inexpensive contests and sweepstakes to generate buzz about their products and services. But, if you aren’t careful, your client’s promotion can easily become an illegal lottery, or expose the company to a copyright infringement or false advertising action, or run afoul of the many quirky laws regulating this area.
And it isn’t enough just to comply with state and federal law. If you run your promotion on a social media platform such as Twitter, Pinterest, or Facebook, you have an additional layer of requirements because each has its own rules for these. It isn’t difficult to comply with all the obligations – if you pay attention to detail and give yourself plenty of time to plan.
Please remember: registration closes at noon on Wednesday, March 6!
PRICES (including lunch):
• $20 for Members (includes 1.0 Hr Ohio CLE)
• $30 Non-Member with CLE
• $20 Non-Member without CLE
• $15 Students and Full-Time Academics
CincyBio 2013 seeking Sponsorships
CincyBIO 2013 is seeking sponsorships
CincyBIO 2013 will be held Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at the Phoenix in downtown Cincinnati. The conference will feature speakers including Tom Irving (Finnegan), Sam Han (McClure, Qualey & Rodack, LLP), Carin Miller, Marla Phillips (Med-XU, Xavier University), Jeff Weedman (Cintrifuse), James Zimmerman (Taft), Dave Bassett (WilmerHale), Pat Lane (Dinsmore), Matt Willenbrink (University of Dayton), Nick Nikolaides (The Procter & Gamble Company), Marie Kerbeshian (Indiana University), Geoffrey Pinski (Office of Entrepreneurial Affairs & Technology, University of Cincinnati), and Chris Fick (Office of Technology Transfer, University of Louisville).
CincyIP invites you to enter a bid to sponsor CincyBIO during the sponsorship period from February 7, 2013 at 10:00am until February 28, 2013 at 4:00pm. Sponsorships will only be accepted through the form on our website. Sponsorships will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis and will be confirmed by a member of CincyIP’s CincyBIO Steering Committee. Each sponsorship level includes exhibition space at the event and other benefits relative to the sponsorship level.
For details on sponsorships and to bid for a sponsorship, please visit http://cincyip.org/?page_id=518.
Questions should be directed to president@cincyip.org.
All sponsors must confirm their sponsorship through the website during the sponsorship period and submit their sponsorship commitments via check by March 30.
Thank you for your consideration and support of CincyIP!
PCT Damage Control: Procedures That Can Help When Things Go Wrong – February 2013 Meeting
CincyIP Presents:
PCT Damage Control:
Procedures That Can Help When Things Go Wrong
Featuring
T. David Reed
US Consultant on the PCT, WIPO
February 12, 2013
12:00pm– 1:30pm
Location: The Cincinnatian Hotel
This program has been approved for 1.0 hours of CLE in Ohio
The presentation will discuss the primary procedural safeguards available under the PCT that are
available to help an applicant overcome a variety of problems and mistakes that may be made during the filing of patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty. The safeguard procedures include:
• Incorporation by reference of matter contained any claimed priority filing to allow matter
inadvertently left out of the international (PCT) application to be incorporated into the international application without loss of the original filing date, provided the matter is completely contained in the priority document.
• Restoration of priority which may allow recapture of a priority claim in an application
filed more than 12 months after the desired priority filing.
• Correction or addition of a priority claim after the filing of an application.
• Protections relating to payment of fees.
• Protections relating to filing in a non-competent office.
• Procedures related to making changes/corrections/additions to applicants, inventors,
agents and bibliographic data relating to them.
• Procedure for correcting obvious mistakes made in the international application.
Each of these procedures will be discussed in detail including when they are applicable, conditions for use and how to use them.
Speaker Information
During the last half of T. David Reed’s 40 year career at The Procter & Gamble Company in Cincinnati, Ohio, he managed P&G’s international patent filing and prosecution function. During this time he transitioned P&G’s international patent filing practice from direct national filings to filing under the PCT. Under his leadership Procter & Gamble’s practice under the PCT quickly grew to the point where P&G was the largest single PCT applicant in the world.
Based on his practical experience in international patent filing and the PCT, he has been privileged to speak on P&G’s foreign patent practice and their use of the PCT for a variety of organizations around the world.
Following his retirement from P&G in 2006, David became a consultant on the PCT for WIPO in North America. In this capacity he conducts training seminars on the PCT and operates one of the two WIPO PCT help desks in the US, answering questions on the PCT from patent practitioners and administrators.
PRICES (including lunch):
• $20 for Members (includes 1.0 Hr Ohio CLE)
• $30 Non-Member with CLE
• $20 Non-Member without CLE
• $15 Students and Full-Time Academics
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