Program

After a long hiatus from in-person events, we kick-off IPWatchdog LIVE with a conversation on the monetization landscape. We will start with perspectives from leading IP strategists who will provide... Read More

The United States Supreme Court has issued its long anticipated decision in United States v. Arthrex, Inc., the case that challenged whether Administrative Patent Judges (APJs) of the Patent Trial and... Read More

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Global IP index is a comprehensive ranking of 53 economies around the world based on intellectual property climate. Despite the pandemic, the overall global... Read More

The proposal by India and South Africa to suspend the TRIPS Agreement to help them produce vaccines to fight COVID-19 has obscured some critical truths. In spite of the rallying... Read More

In April 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that Google’s copying of Oracle’s code was fair use, although the Court skipped over the question of whether the code itself was... Read More

The fight over damages at the conclusion of a patent infringement trial is always contested, and one issue lost can easily skew the math dramatically. Factor in compounding pre-judgment and... Read More

This panel will take the attendees through the due diligence process through the eyes of a small to medium-sized pharmaceutical company interested in making a transaction with its intellectual property.

In March 2021, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) published the agency’s findings following its two-year investigation into SK Innovation’s unfair trade practices, concluding that it misappropriated 22 of LG... Read More

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies has some obvious and important implications in the trademark context, particularly surrounding the likelihood of confusion. Insofar as examination of trademarks is concerned,... Read More

Topics will include: challenging petitions on discretionary matters under 314(a); 325(d); preliminary response evidence; petition preparation; joint defense dynamics; development of declaration testimony; briefing matters of significance, not wasting money on distractions, direct testimony, cross-examination, and the Amendment Pilot program.

Gloria Steinem wrote Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking Boundaries of Gender in 1994. Steinem was an iconic figure in a movement that began several decades earlier and... Read More

Intangible assets, comprised mostly of IP, represent 85% or more of the value of S&P 500 companies. Still, IP typically escapes the balance sheet. How can IP be so valuable... Read More

In a year when artists could not perform live, non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, exploded in popularity. Right now, it is difficult to predict whether NFTs are a pandemic-era fad, or... Read More

The World Intellectual Property Organization estimates that more than a third of the value of manufactured products sold around the world comes from “intangible capital”, such as branding, design and... Read More

Have breakfast and hear about the latest cases of importance from the Federal Circuit. More information soon.

Have breakfast and hear about the latest trademark cases of importance. More information soon.

Have breakfast and hear about the latest issues of importance relating to the USPTO. More information soon.

In addition to a litany of inventions that have fallen as patent ineligible under the Supreme Court’s Alice-Mayo framework, the Federal Circuit recently ruled — over a strong dissent by Judge Newman... Read More

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The pace of finding cures or treatments from molecular biology is accelerating. Gene therapy, after years of promise, is now a reality. Monoclonal antibody pharmaceuticals are on the rise. Nonetheless,... Read More

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Topics to be covered include: (1) Overview of principal IP laws in China; (2) Enforcing your IP rights in China; and (3) Experiences with IP protection and technology collaboration with China.... Read More

As the result of the 2020 elections in the United States a new party is in charge of the Department of Justice, which could well signal changes ahead for the... Read More

This session will cover ethics for both patent attorneys, patent agents and trademark attorneys. More information coming soon.