Sponsored by Drexel University Center for Graduate Studies

What Innovators Need to Know about Patent Law Reform

When:

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Time:

8:45 am - 11:30 am
Registration, breakfast and networking from 8:45-9:00 a.m.

Location:

Drexel University, One Capitol Mall, Suite 260, Sacramento, CA 95814

Course Description:

Companies will need to reevaluate their patent application filing strategies and their policies regarding public disclosures of their inventions in view of the shift to first-to-file and the changes to what is considered prior art. Strategies for dealing with competitors’ patent estates will also have to evolve, as will litigation strategies and defenses. In the wake of the Act, the use of reexamination and the new post-grant review procedures may relocate patent battles from the courtrooms of Eastern Texas to the halls of the PTO.

This seminar will focus on practical advice for dealing with the new Act, including:

• Impact of moving to first-to-file on your U.S. patent portfolio, including the enlarged scope of prior art
• Effective use of the post-grant review system, including the availability of stays of litigation for pending post-grant reviews
• Replacement of inter partes reexamination with inter partes review and its impact
• Timetable for transition and effective dates
• Fees and other key changes in patent practice and structure
• Elimination of the best mode defense in litigation
• Significant narrowing of false marking causes of action

Presenters:

Rachel Krevans, Partner, Morrison Foerster, San Francisco
Otis Littlefield, Partner, Morrison Foerster, San Francisco

Cost:

General Admission: $40; SARTA Members: $25

Price includes free parking for 4 hours at the One Capitol Mall Valet Garage on 2nd Street (valued at $8) and a continental breakfast.

If you are a SARTA member, please email members@sarta.org for member discount code.

Register

For member discount code, please email members@sarta.org and place Leadership Series Member Registration in the subject field.

SARTA is committed to engaging members and the regional tech community in quality educational programming. This series of seminars is designed to provide local technology, non technology companies and emerging entrepreneurs with strategic workforce development training. Each session is approximately 3 hours in length and is held at our partner locations across the region. SARTA recruits speakers and panelists from the private sector who have many years of expertise in subject of each seminar.

Drexel University sponsors the Leadership Series because the eleven doctoral and master’s programs it offers at its new Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento are designed to advance the development of the region’s next generation of leaders, and for the working professional who sees the coming opportunities to step up in their careers.