Advanced IP Workshop — Maximizing Your Success in Post-Issuance Procedures in the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Finnegan’s Shanghai Office cordially invites you to attend the next event of its exclusive Advanced Intellectual Property Seminar Program series. This program features Finnegan attorneys E. Robert Yoches, Joshua L. Goldberg, Stephen E. Kabakoff, Ningling Wang, and Shaobin Zhu discussing how to maximize your success in post-issuance procedures.

We now have nearly four years of experience with the post-issuance procedures that the America Invents Act introduced, and we have received more than 1,050 inter partes review (IPR) decisions, and more than 130 covered business method patent decisions from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. We also have Federal Circuit and Supreme Court review of some of those decisions. This is a perfect time for a review, since all involved are becoming comfortable with these procedures.

The speakers have been collectively involved in more than 120 of these procedures, and Joshua Goldberg is an author of The Practitioner’s Guide to Trials Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, published by the ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law. They will share their experience, focusing on IPRs, and offer advice on strategies that have proven to be successful and those that have not.

This is not an introductory seminar, so the speakers will assume the audience has a basic understanding of post-issuance procedures. They recommend attendees review https://www.uspto.gov/patent/laws-and-regulations/america-invents-act-aia/inter-partes-disputes or http://www.aiablog.com/to-do-list-filing-an-ipr/ to refresh themselves on the fundamentals of these procedures. The speakers will concentrate on providing practical suggestions based on their experience and study.

Moderator:

Ningling Wang

Speakers:

Stephen E. Kabakoff
E. Robert Yoches
Joshua L. Goldberg

Date:

Monday, 12 September 2016

Agenda:

13:00 - 13:30 Registration
13:30 - 13:40 Welcome Remarks
13:40 - 14:50 Strategies for Filing and Opposing Petitions
14:50 - 15:10 Coffee Break
15:10 - 16:10 Paying Attention to Details in Prior-Art Arguments
16:10 - 17:00 Coordinating Post-Issuance Procedures with Litigation
17:00 - 17:30 Questions and Answers

RSVP:

Please RSVP by 9 September. This event is by invitation only and free of charge.

Venue:

Wisdom Room, 4th Floor
Lia Charlton Hotel
No. 13 Gaoxin South 4th Road, Hi-tech park
Nanshan district, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China