Seattle Seminars: July/August, 2012

The Chisum Patent Academy’s next Seattle seminars will be held on July 30-August 1, 2012 (open to all) and August 6-8, 2012 (open only to pre-approved Microsoft employees).

Location:

Our Seattle seminars are held at the offices of Chisum.com, located in Columbia City, a charming and vibrant commercial/residential neighborhood just south of downtown Seattle. Our office address is 3827-D South Edmunds Street, Seattle, Washington, 98118. For a map or directions, click here.

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:

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.

MCLE Credit:

The Chisum Patent Academy will apply to Washington State for 18.0 hours credit (including 1.0 ethics).

Refreshments:

Coffee and pastries will be provided each morning. Lunch is on your own. The Columbia City neighborhood features several excellent restaurants within 1-2 blocks of the Offices of Chisum.com, including Empire Espresso, Geraldine’s Counter, Columbia City Bakery, Columbia City Ale House, El Sombrero, Jones’ Barbeque, and Tutta Bella Neopolitan Pizzeria. Starbucks and Subway are also within walking distance.

Parking:

On-street or in pay lots near the Offices of Chisum.com. The Columbia City neighborhood is accessible by bus (Route MT 7) or light rail (the Central Link, including the Columbia City Station, is now in service).

Hotels:

We are happy to recommend convenient overnight accommodations for attendees traveling to Seattle. Please contact us at info@chisum.com for details.