New York City Seminar: February 2012

The Chisum Patent Academy’s next New York City seminar will be held on February 22 – 24, 2012.

Location:

American Elm conference room (Suite 503), Helmsley Park Lane Hotel, 36 Central Park South, New York, NY 10019.

Schedule:

Our three-day Intensive Patent Law Seminars run from 9 am to 12 noon and 1 pm to 4 pm each day, for a total of 18 seminar hours.

Our seminars are limited to ten (10) attendees. To maximize opportunities for discussion and questioning, we conduct the seminars in interactive, round-table style. All sessions are co-taught by Donald Chisum and Janice Mueller.

Seminar Coverage:

Topics for our February 2012 NYC seminar will include the American Invents Act of 2011, post-KSR nonobviousness decisions, Therasense and the future of inequitable conduct, new case law developments concerning section 101 patent-eligible subject matter, 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.

MCLE Credit:

Updated 2/9/12: The Chisum Patent Academy’s NYC seminar has been approved by the New York State CLE Board for twenty (20.0) “Areas of Professional Practice” CLE credit hours, including 1.0 “Ethics and Professionalism” CLE credit hour.

Refreshments:

Continental breakfast will be provided each morning, plus afternoon snacks. Lunch is on your own.