Understanding U.S. Patent Reform and What It Means to Your Business and Practice: First-Inventor-to-File (Finally!) and So Much More

Name: Understanding U.S. Patent Reform and What It Means to Your Business and Practice: First-Inventor-to-File (Finally!) and So Much More
Start: 2011-09-22T00:00:00Z
End: 2011-09-22T00:00:00Z

September 22, 2011

Basel, Switzerland

Finnegan is hosting a series of seminars throughout Europe this fall in an effort to assist you in understanding the new legislation, and planning for its implementation in your practice.

Please join our panelists as they discuss:

• The “first-inventor-to-file” system and how it differs from the European first to file system;

• New filing strategies in a post-Hilmer doctrine era;

• The new grace period and how to apply the new definition of prior art;

• Post-grant review (Opposition);

• Inter partes reexamination v. inter partes review;

• Supplemental examination; and

• Possible strategies for ex parte reexamination, inter partes review, post-grant review, and their interplay with concurrent

litigation.

Attendees will also learn how best to position their business to make the most of the changes.