Upcoming Patent Law Seminars

The Chisum Patent Academy will hold its next Advanced Patent Law Seminars in Seattle (July/August 2013) and New York City (Spring 2014).

Each three-day seminar is limited to ten (10) attendees. Our seminars are conducted in interactive, round-table style to maximize opportunities for discussion, questioning, and sharing best practices. All sessions are co-taught by Donald Chisum and Janice Mueller.

We update the syllabus for every seminar to include the latest and most significant Federal Circuit and Supreme Court patent law developments. Topics addressed in our February 2013 seminar in New York City included the USPTO’s final rules and examination guidelines for the first-inventor-to-file provisions of the America Invents Act of 2011; Claims as the Name of the Game: Lessons on Drafting and Interpretation from Recent Federal Circuit Cases; Preliminary Injunctions, Design Patents, and the Smartphone Wars (Apple v. Samsung); Active Inducement, Method and System Claims, and Joint/Distributed Infringement; and Inequitable Conduct after Therasense.

Topics ftom our July/August 2012 seminars included Supreme Court Review (October Term 2011) including Mayo v. Prometheus and Kappos v. Hyatt; Patent Claim Interpretation–The Ongoing Schism; Nonobviousness: Recent Developments; America Invents Act of 2011–Inter Partes Review and Post-Grant Review; Anatomy of a Patent Case (Marine Polymer v. Hemcon (Fed. Cir. 2012) (en banc)); and Distributed Direct Infringement.

Topics covered in our July/August 2011 seminars included post-Bilski patent-eligible subject matter; nonobviousness in the post-KSR world; a detailed “anatomy of a patent case” based on i4i v. Microsoft; disclosure standards and the evolution of the written description requirement as affirmed in the Federal Circuit’s en banc decision in Ariad; inequitable conduct standards in view of the Federal Circuit’s en banc decision in Therasense; indirect infringement liability including the intent standard developed in the Supreme Court’s Global-Tech decision; the ownership and assignment intricacies of Stanford v. Roche, and the evolving Federal Circuit case law on joint direct infringement of system and method claims (a/k/a “the multiple actor problem”). Complete syllabi from our 2012, 2011, 2010, and 2009 syllabi are available here.

The Chisum Patent Academy will apply for 18 hours of CLE accreditation per seminar in those states where we conduct seminars. Where state bars require, we submit attendees’ names as they are listed on the sign-in sheet. If you are seeking CLE credit for a state other than where that seminar is being held, please apply directly to the appropriate state bar. More information about CLE accreditation.

Additional details about our New York City seminar (Spring 2014; exact dates TBD).

Additional details about our Seattle seminars (July 31-August 2, 2013, and August 5-7, 2013).