Upcoming Seminars

The Chisum Patent Academy will hold its next Intensive Patent Law Seminars in New York City (February 2012) and Seattle (July/August 2012).

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

Syllabi for our 2012 seminars are currently under development, but topics will likely include the American Invents Act of 2011, post-KSR nonobviousness decisions, Therasense and the future of inequitable conduct, and the Federal Circuit’s ongoing schism over patent claim construction. We update the syllabus for every seminar to include the latest and most significant Federal Circuit and Supreme Court patent law developments.

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 2011, 2010, and 2009 are available here.

Additional details about our New York City seminar (February 22-24, 2012).

Additional details about our Seattle seminar (July 30-August 1, 2012).