Evolving Patent Strategies: Recent PTAB Trends, AI Challenges, and Biotech Innovations

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Finnegan is pleased to announce that we will be hosting an in-person seminar in Tokyo on May 22, 2025. This seminar explores the forefront of patent strategy, providing the latest insights to help professionals navigate the rapidly evolving intellectual property landscape. Discussion will include the latest developments at the USPTO Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), the impact of AI advancements and global networks on patent claiming practice, and optimized claiming strategies in biotechnology and pharmaceutical fields.

Topics will include:

• Major Changes at the PTAB: New Discretionary Denial Procedures, PTAB Workload Measures, Evolving Strategy for Related Litigations 
• Claiming Strategies in View of Network Exterritoriality and AI
• Genus Claiming (including Means-Plus-Function Claiming) in the Biotechnology and Pharma Fields – Strategies in View of Post-Amgen Decisions

Presenters:
Erika Arner
Chiaki Kobayashi
Naoki Yoshida

Schedule: 
Registration: 13:15 - 13:30 
Seminar: 13:30 - 16:40 
Reception: 17:00 – 18:30