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#CLE Preview: "Patent Challenges before the USPTO: Lessons Learned Since their Inception under the AIA"

By Lydea Irwin (@PatentlyLydea)

The America Invents Act, or AIA, was signed into law in September of 2011. The AIA made a number of changes to the U.S. patent system, including two new ways to challenge patents before the USPTO, inter partes review and post grant review, which took effect in September 2012. Inter partes review allows parties to challenge a patent on the basis of prior art, while post grant reviews look at the patentability of one or more claims in a patent.

 This CLE, moderated by Jon Grossman, of Dickstein Shapiro, will focus on these two new proceedings. The speakers include Denise DeFranco, a patent litigator and partner at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner; Greg Morris, a patent litigator with Paul Hastings; Todd Walters, an inter partes specialist at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney; and Hon. Michael Tierney, a judge at the USPTO. The group will discuss how the AIA has affected the practice of patent law, and how to be successful in these proceedings.

 “Patent Challenges before the USPTO: Lessons Learned Since their Inception under the AIA” will be held from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm on Thursday, August 7, 2014 at the ABA Annual Meeting in Boston, MA.

If you can’t make it to IP Central at the 2014 ABA Annual Meeting this year, you can still follow all the action by following the tweets and blog entries of the ABA-IPL’s Law Student Reporters, who will be covering all the events of the Conference on Twitter.  You do not have to sign up for Twitter to follow the Law Student Reports.  Just bookmark the #IPCentral Twitter page and revisit the link from August 7-8, 2014 to follow all the action.

Lydea Irwin, a third year JD/MBA student at the University of New Hampshire School of Law, will report on this CLE.

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#CLE Preview: The End of the Electronic Wars?: A New Era of Creative Patent Licensing

By: Lydea Irwin (@PatentlyLydea)

Recently, Samsung and Google entered into a broad cross-licensing agreement, covering some existing and future patents. Microsoft and Canon also have a new cross-licensing agreement.

These cross-licensing agreements allow all parties involved to benefit from any and all of the patents involved in the agreement.

 This CLE will focus on the business, intellectual property, and antitrust issues involved with cross-licenses. One topic will be how two competitors or two members of a supply chain would approach cross-licensing.

 “With Samsung and Apple and others entering into broad cross-licenses in the past year, we believe this topic is very timely.  Some in the press have forecasted that agreements like this may mean the end of the smartphone wars and other large, industry-wide patent litigations.  We will explore that topic, as well.” – Moderator Kim Parke.

Kim Parke will be leading the CLE “The End of the Electronic Wars?: A New Era of Creative Patent Licensing.” The program will feature Eric Grannon of White & Case, Jon Grossman of Dickstein Shapiro, and Changehae Park from Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.

If you are interested in learning the ramifications and benefits from cross-licensing then this CLE, which will be held from 8:30 to 10:00 am on Friday, August 8th, 2014 at the ABA annual meeting in Boston, MA, is your opportunity.

Lydea Irwin, a third year JD/MBA student at the University of New Hampshire School of Law, will report on this CLE.

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#CLE Preview: Professional Skills: ABA-IPL Skills Academy: Fitting Business Development into Your IP Practice

By:  Dana L. Broughton, Ph.D.

How do I get clients if I start my own firm?  How do I bring in more business to my firm once I make partner?  How do I replace the “big” client that I just lost?  These are all frequently asked questions of law practitioners and these questions spark a much needed conversation on law practice business development.

At this year’s ABA-IPL 29th Annual Intellectual Property Conference in Arlington, VA a professional skills/ business development will take place on Wednesday, April 2nd.  Richard Goldstein states, “A session on business development at an IP conference is extremely rare, and practically unheard of.  And yet, to may practitioners it is one of the most important skills they would hope to learn.” 

Goldstein along with top notch marketing experts, Carol Greenwald, Ph.D.  and Jeri Quinn, will spearhead a much needed conversation on business development in the Intellectual Property World. 

Quinn states, “If the client isn’t satisfied with his/her experience, it will end badly and there will be no referrals which then increases the cost of client acquisition. . . . Emotional intelligence, empathy, great communication, and real authentic caring are the keys for growing a following of clients with extraordinary lifetime value and building a sustainable expanding firm.” 

This professional skills workshop will cover a plethora of guidelines including: 

How to create a carefully focused Marketing Action Plan [MAP]

The six critical conversations necessary to create relationships

Creating “touch points” that will provide an outstanding customer experience.

Goldstein will touch upon networking techniques, Greenwald will touch upon marketing techniques, and Quinn will touch upon designing an excellent client experience. 

Goldstein is the Vice Chair of the AIPLA Law Practice Management section and serves on the editorial board of Law Practice Magazine and the Law Practice Today webzine.  Greenwald is a member of the Women Rainmakers Board, Legal Marketing Association, and the past president of the Legal Marketing Association.  Quinn is the president of Driving Improved Results and is the author of “The Customer Loyalty Playbook:  12 Game Strategies to Drive Improved Results in Your Business.”

Speakers

Richard Goldstein, Goldstein Patent Law, New York, NY

Carol Greenwald, Marketing Partners, Inc., New York, NY

Jeri Quinn, Driving Improved Results, New York, NY  

If you can’t make it to the 29th Annual ABA Intellectual Property Law Section Spring Conference this year, you can still follow all the action by following the tweets and blog entries of the ABA-IPL’s Law Student Reporters, who will be covering all the events of the Conference on Twitter.  You do not have to sign up for Twitter to follow the Law Student Reports. Just bookmark this site and revisit the link from April 2-4, 2014 to follow all the action.

Image Credit:  Dana L. Broughton