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AI 360 + Ethics and Privacy: AI - The Boundaries of Use for the Latest Tool In An Inventor’s Toolbox
October 19th, 2023
2023 Annual Meeting
(1) AI - The Boundaries of Use for the Latest Tool In An Inventor’s Toolbox; and (2) Information Technology as Empowered by AI.
- Moderator — Ceyda Maisami, HP Inc., Washington, DC
- The Boundaries of Use for the Latest Tool in an Inventor’s Toolbox — Sikander Khan, Flagship Patents, Palo Alto, CA (Paper)
- Information Technology as Empowered by AI — Sean Collin, Elastic, Florence, AL
Patent Litigation, Funding, and Insurance
October 19th, 2023
2023 Annual Meeting
(1) Continuing Impact of Private Litigation Funding on the Types and Risks of Patent Litigation; and (2) Patent Judgment Insurance and Its Impact on Patent Litigation Funding. Hosted by the Patent Litigation Committee.
- Moderator — David Ruder, VALE Insurance Partners, New York, NY
- Continuing Impact of Private Litigation Funding on the Types and Risks of Patent Litigation — Michelle Eber, West U Capital, Houston, TX (Paper)
- Patent Judgment Insurance and its Impact on Patent Litigation Funding — Stephen Kyriacou, Jr., Aon Litigation Risk and Special Opportunities Groups, New York, NY (Paper)
Trademark Law
October 19th, 2023
2023 Annual Meeting
(1) Extraterritoriality and the Lanham Act; and (2) How Many Shades of Grey: An Analysis of Grey Goods.
Ethical Legal Practice in a Hybrid Work Environment
October 19th, 2023
2023 Annual Meeting
(1) Remote, Hybrid, and Decentralized Legal Practice Management in Private Practice; and (2) Remote, Hybrid, and Decentralized Legal Practice Management in Corporate In-House Teams.
- Moderator — Kim Van Voorhis, Nike, Beaverton, OR
- Remote, Hybrid, and Decentralized Legal Practice Management in Private Practice — Jenae Gureff, Cantor Colburn LLP, Alexandria, VA (Paper)
- Remote, Hybrid, and Decentralized Legal Practice Management in Corporate In-House Teams — Eric Silverman, BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc., San Rafael, CA (Paper)
Standard Essential Patents (SEP) Licensing and Anti-Suit Injunctions
October 19th, 2023
2023 Annual Meeting
(1) SEP Licensing and Related Lawsuits: Will We See a Trend Towards Internet of Things (IoT) Devices and Other Newer Technologies That Incorporate Standards?; and (2) China’s Anti-Suit Injunctions for SEPs - Recent History and the EU’s Response at the WTO. Hosted by the Standards and Open Source Committee.
- Moderator — Per Larsen, Holland & Hart, Boulder, CO
- SEP Licensing and Related Lawsuits: Will We See a Trend Towards Internet of Things (IoT) Devices and Other Newer Technologies that Incorporate Standards? — Christopher Bezak, Continental, Auburn Hills, MI (Paper)
- China’s Anti-Suit Injunctions for SEPs - Recent History and the EU’s Response at the WTO — Peter Koch, Taliens, Munich, Germany (Paper)
AI 360 + Ethics and Privacy: Ethical Implications of Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Research and Development
October 19th, 2023
2023 Annual Meeting
(1) To Disclose or Not To Disclose: Ethical Implications of Using AI in Research and Development and USPTO Disclosure Requirements; and (2) To Upload or Not To Upload: The Perils of Disclosing Information to AI Engines.
- To Disclose or Not To Disclose: Ethical Implications Of Using AI in Research and Development and USPTO Disclosure Requirements — Aakash Parekh, Spark Cognition, Austin, TX (Paper)
- To Upload or Not To Upload: The Perils of Disclosing Information to AI Engines — Allison Gaul, Boston Consulting Group - GAMMA, Bethesda, MD
- Moderator — Ceyda Maisami, HP Inc., Washington, DC
Trademark Litigation
October 19th, 2023
2023 Annual Meeting
(1) Trademarks and the First Amendment; and (2) Trademarks and Parody Products: Bad Spaniels Make Bad Law. Hosted by the Trademark Litigation Committee.
- Moderator — Sean Garrison, Bacal & Garrison, Scottsdale, AZ
- Trademarks and the First Amendment — Lisa Ramsey, University of San Diego School of Law, San Diego, CA
- Trademarks and Parody Products: Bad Spaniels Make Bad Law — Christine Haight Farley, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C.
Opening Plenary Session
October 19th, 2023
2023 Annual Meeting
(1) Welcome Remarks; and Q&A Session with Vaishali Udupa, USPTO Commissioner for Patents.
- AIPLA President — Brian H. Batzli, President, AIPLA, Partner & Chairman Emeritus, Merchant & Gould, Minneapolis, MN
- Keynote Speaker — Vaishali Udupa, USPTO Commissioner for Patents, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Washington, DC
Luncheon Keynote: Gauri M. Dhavan, VP, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel, ZOLL Medical Corporation
October 19th, 2023
2023 Annual Meeting
Diversity & Invention: (1) Where Are We Today?; (2) Diversity in Invention; (3) An Infrastructure for Invention Diversity; (4) Creating an Infrastructure for IP Diversity; and (5) Inspire Diversity in Innovation.
- Keynote Speaker — Gauri M. Dhavan, VP, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel, ZOLL Medical Corporation, Boston, MA
Five Months Into the UPC: Numbers, Cases and Trends
October 19th, 2023
2023 Annual Meeting
IP Practice in Europe Committee and Representatives to the US Bar-EPO Liaison Counsel.
- Moderator — Patrick Coyne, Finnegan, Washington, DC
- Panel
- Andrea Scilletta, IP Sextant s.r.l., Rome, Italy
- Sabine Agé, Hoyng Rokh Monegier, Paris, France ( Paper)
Afternoon Plenary: PTAB and TTAB Challenges
October 19th, 2023
2023 Annual Meeting
Judges panel on best practices and hot topics for trials before the PTAB and TTAB. Hosted by the PTAB, Patent-Relations with the USPTO, and Trademark-Relations with the USPTO Committees.
- Moderator — Salvador Bezos, Sterne Kessler, Washington, DC, Sheldon Klein, Lathrop GPM, Washington, DC
- PTAB — Miriam Latorre Quinn, Acting Senior Lead Administrative Patent Judge, Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the USPTO, Dallas, TX, James A. Worth, Acting Vice Chief Administrative Patent Judge, Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the USPTO, Washington, DC
- TTAB — Jonathan Hudis, Administrative Trademark Judge, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the USPTO, Washington, DC, Cynthia C. Lynch, Administrative Trademark Judge, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the USPTO, Washington, DC
Unique Issues in Trademarks and Designs – Perspectives from the EU and China
October 20th, 2023
2023 Annual Meeting
(1) Are Non-Traditional Trademarks Viable? Taking the Pulse in the EU; and (2) Is a Picture Worth 1000 Words? How to Interpret Designs in Europe and China. Hosted by the Trademark Law and Design Rights Committees.
- Moderator — Camille Ciesliga, MaxCyte, Inc., Rockville, MD
- Are Non-Traditional Trademarks Viable? Taking the Pulse in the EU — Maria Cristina Baldini, Studio Torta, Turin, Italy (Paper)
- Is a Picture Worth 1000 Words? How to Interpret Designs in Europe and China
[Morning Plenary - Ethics] Five Things You Should Know to Run a Successful and Ethical Law Practice
October 20th, 2023
2023 Annual Meeting
(1) Entity Selection; (2) Conflicts of Interest; (3) Risk Management; (4) Hiring & Supervising a Team; (5) Law Firm Technology Management; (6) Data Analytics; (7) Law Firm Marketing; and (8) Alternative Business Structure. Hosted by the Law Practice Management and Patent Agents Committees.
- Moderator — Elise Selinger, Caterpillar Inc., Dallas, TX
- Panel
- Jared Correia, Red Cave Law Firm Consulting, Boston, MA
- Emil Ali, McCabe Ali LLP, Cerritos, CA
International Biotechnology and Chemical Practice Challenges
October 20th, 2023
2023 Annual Meeting
(1) How OUS Jurisdictions Handle AI and Inventorship and The State of AI in Chemical and Biology US Patents; and (2) Patentability of Agricultural Biotechnology in Europe and Latin America. Hosted by the Chemical Practice, IP Practice in Latin America, and IP Practice in Israel Committees.
- Moderator — Tim Meigs, AgBiome, Research Triangle Park, NC
- How OUS Jurisdictions Handle AI and Inventorship/The State of AI in Chemical and Biology US Patents — Vincent Shier, Haynes Boone, Washington, DC (Paper)
- Patentability of Agricultural Biotechnology in Europe, and Latin America — Gonzalo Rovira, Bayer Group, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Paper)
How to Maximize Your Patent Term - Mechanics and Strategies for Acquiring the Longest-Lived Patents
October 20th, 2023
2023 Annual Meeting
(1) Patent Term Adjustment (PTA); (2) Patent Term Extension (PTE); (3) Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs); (4) What are your strategies for maximizing patent term?; (5) What can you do during patent prosecution?; (6) What about at the drafting stage for SPCs?; (7) Patent Term Extension (PTE): Visual Examples; (8) How does Obviousness-Type Double Patenting (ODP) impact PTE and PTA?; (9) What are some strategies for challenging patent term?; (10) How has the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court affected SPCs?; and (11) How is a “Product” defined for purposes of determining PTE? Hosted by the Patent Law and Food and Drug Committees.
Cybersecurity, Privacy and Surveillance: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You!
October 20th, 2023
2023 Annual Meeting
(1) The Do’s and Don’ts of Monitoring and Surveillance: Balancing the Protection of an Employer’s Trade Secrets with the Privacy of Employees; and (2) Data and Online Assets in IP Transactions in the US and Abroad. Hosted by the Privacy and Data Security, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Trade Secret Law Committees.
- Moderator — Tanya Madison, Aristocrat Technologies
- The Do’s and Don’ts of Monitoring and Surveillance: Balancing the Protection of an Employer’s Trade Secrets with the Privacy of Employees — Marci Rozen, ZwillGen, Washington, DC (Paper)
- Data and Online Assets in IP Transactions in the US and Abroad — Dave Kappos, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York, NY
Section 101 Updates and Tools to Help Your IP Strategy
October 20th, 2023
2023 Annual Meeting
(1) The Persisting Fog of Section 101: Updates From the Supreme Court, Congress, and the USPTO, with Examples From Recent Cases; and (2) Intellectual Property Opinions and Freedom-to-Operate: An Invaluable Tool For Your IP Strategy.
- Moderator — Brian Genco, Rheem Manufacturing, Atlanta, GA
- The Persisting Fog of Section 101: Updates from the Supreme Court, Congress, and the PTO, with Examples from Recent Cases — Phil Harris, Holland & Hart, Denver, CO (Paper)
- Intellectual Property Opinions and Freedom-to-Operate: An Invaluable Tool for your IP Strategy — Gunjan Agarwal, Fox Rothschild, LLP, Pittsburgh, PA
NFT Trademark Issues and Copyright Reversion
October 20th, 2023
2023 Annual Meeting
(1) Trademarks & NFTs: Metabirkin, Jack Daniels, and the Future of the Rogers v Grimaldi Test; and (2) Reversion and Termination Rights Under the Copyright Act.
- Moderator — Nick Camillo, Volkswagen Group of America, Washington, DC
- Trademarks & NFTs: Metabirkin, Jack Daniels and the Future of the Rogers v Grimaldi Test — Nancy Mertzel, Mertzel Law PLLC, New York, NY
- Reversion and Termination Rights Under Copyright Act — Loren Mulraine, Belmont University School of Law, Nashville, TN (Paper)
Hot Topics in Copyright Law
October 20th, 2023
2023 Annual Meeting
(1) Transformative Fair Use After Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith; and (2) Copyright Implications of Generative AI.
- Moderator — Nick Camillo, Volkswagen Group of America, Washington, DC
- Transformative Fair Use after Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith — Michael Graif, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, PC, New York, NY (Paper)
- Copyright Implications of Generative AI — Sam Eichner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP, New York, NY
Patent Prosecution
October 20th, 2023
2023 Annual Meeting
Enabling Enablement of Your Invention In View of Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi.
- Moderator — Brian Trotter, Bishop Rock, Austin, TX
- Enabling Enablement of Your Invention In View of Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi — Jim Crowne, Legal Affairs Consultant, AIPLA, Bowie, MD, Erick Palmer, Mayer Brown, Chicago, IL (Paper)
Luncheon Keynote: The Honorable Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property Law and Director
October 20th, 2023
2023 Annual Meeting
Keynote Speech and Q&A with Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property Law and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office.
- Keynote Speaker — Hon. Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property Law and Director, US Patent & Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA
Closing Plenary: Year in Review
October 21st, 2023
2023 Annual Meeting
(1) Patents; and (2) Trademarks.
Ethics Plenary: Code of Professional Responsibility - Satisfying Your Responsibility as a Practitioner
October 21st, 2023
2023 Annual Meeting
Improving the Administration of Justice and Adding to the Pursuit of Justice.
- Moderator — Vincent Smolczynski, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Charlotte, NC
- Panel — Myra McCormack, Johnson & Johnson (Retired), New Hope, PA, Amadou Diaw, Goodwin Procter, LLP, Washington, DC