Past Events
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AIPLA Virtual Water Cooler - October Meetup
October 19, 2022 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
AIPLA’s Committee on the Profession is inviting you to join us around the virtual water cooler for a quick break. Drop in and catch up with colleagues old and new at this informal networking meetup. All are welcome. -
AIPLA CLE Webinar: Written Description & Enablement: How They Might Change
October 13, 2022 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM | 90 Minutes of CLE
Most patent litigation cases do not hinge on questions of whether the patents-in-suit meet written description and/or enablement requirements. As a result, these issues do not often reach the Supreme Court of the United States. That may soon change. Companies in three unrelated cases are asking the Supreme Court to weigh in on various issues involving written description and/or enablement. This presentation explores the written description and enablement requirements and how they could change. -
CPM Webinar Series: Creating and Running an Ethical IP Law Firm: A Survival Guide For Patent & Trademark Practitioners - Part 1
October 6, 2022 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM | No CLE
Introduction and Overview of Legal and Ethical Duties IP Practitioners Owe to Clients, the Public, and the USPTO. This first part of AIPLA’s six-part webinar series lays the foundation for creating and running an ethical IP firm. During this inaugural session, explore who you may be working with, employing, and partnering with when designing and running an IP law firm and how each of these roles and positions can impact your practice and practice areas. -
AIPLA CLE Webinar: Drafting and Prosecution in China: Special Features in the Chemical Arts
September 27, 2022 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM | 90 Minutes of CLE
China is an important jurisdiction that patent protection should be considered, particularly for chemical and pharmaceutical inventions. With more than 30 years of development, China has some unique aspects with respect to patent, which are advisable to be known by patent practitioners to avoid pitfalls when prosecuting in China. This webinar is going to discuss aspects to help patent practitioners to do so, preferably at drafting. -
AIPLA Virtual Water Cooler - September Meetup
September 21, 2022 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
AIPLA’s Committee on the Profession is inviting you to join us around the virtual water cooler for a quick break. Drop in and catch up with colleagues old and new at this informal networking meetup. All are welcome. -
AIPLA CLE Webinar: Heading North? What you need to know about patents in Canada, eh!
September 21, 2022 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM | 90 Minutes of CLE
Canada looks a lot like the US in the many ways, and US businesses are familiar with selling their goods and services north of the border. When it comes to patent law and patent prosecution, however, there are new and notable distinctions that U.S. applicants and parties will want to keep in mind. New Canadian Patent Rules are coming into force in October 2022, which will materially impact patent strategies. -
AIPPI World Congress
September 10 to 13, 2022 | CLE available, total minutes TBD
The US Division of AIPPI and AIPPI International are please to be hosting the AIPPI World Congress this year in San Francisco! We will be coming together in person again to take part in the making of AIPPI's resolutions. Experts from different countries and regions will be sharing and exchanging insights on various areas of IP. CLE will be offered. -
Where Are We Now?: Understanding Minerva and Assignor Estoppel for Patent Assignments
August 25, 2022 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM | 90 minutes of CLE
An in-depth look at the impact of last year’s Supreme Court decision on assignor estoppel, Minerva Surgical, Inc. v. Hologic, Inc. (2021). That case opened a veritable Pandora’s box of new possibilities when drafting assignments and other contracts affecting ownership of patent rights, complicating how such agreements are negotiated and how attorneys advise clients about such matters. Join us to explore how best to navigate the traps for the unwary that can arise post-Minerva. -
2022 AIPLA PTAB Bench + Bar
August 23, 2022 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Unfortunately, this event has been cancelled. The PTAB Trial Committee is working to integrate this great content into a number of programs coming up this Fall and in Spring 2023. -
AIPLA Virtual Water Cooler - August Meetup
August 17, 2022 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
AIPLA’s Committee on the Profession is inviting you to join us around the virtual water cooler for a quick break. Drop in and catch up with colleagues old and new at this informal networking meetup. All are welcome. -
AIPLA CLE Webinar: Balancing Trademark and Free Speech Rights in Trademark Registration and Enforcement Laws
August 16, 2022 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM | 90 Minutes of CLE
One question after Tam and Brunetti is whether other trademark registration and enforcement laws might conflict with the right to freedom of expression. The first part of this webinar explores the issue of whether the free speech right in the First Amendment requires the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to refuse to register certain words, names, symbols, or other subject matter to protect free expression and fair competition in the marketplace. The second part of this webinar reviews the current status of defensive doctrines in trademark infringement and dilution law that purport to balance trademark and free speech rights. -
AIPLA Virtual Water Cooler - July Meetup
July 20, 2022 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
AIPLA’s Committee on the Profession is inviting you to join us around the virtual water cooler for a quick break. Drop in and catch up with colleagues old and new at this informal networking meetup. All are welcome. -
AIPLA Ethics Webinar: Trending Ethical Issues for Virtual (and Remote) Practitioners: Where You Can Practice and What You Should Consider
July 19, 2022 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM | 90 Minutes Ethics
A spinoff of the a live program at the recent AIPLA 2022 Spring Meeting, this program discusses the UPL issues related to remote practice (including the status of the rules nationwide) as well as the ethical considerations when working remotely. Hear from both the practitioner perspective and the academic perspective from two presenters who were both formerly attorney regulators. They will discuss your obligations when “working from home” and how best to comply with them. -
AIPLA CLE Webinar: Daubert-Proofing Your Survey: Best Practices for Survey Evidence in Trademark Infringement and False Advertising Litigation
July 14, 2022 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM | 90 Minutes of CLE
This webinar will focus on the best practices for surveys in trademark infringement and false advertising litigation. We will review the court-approved methodologies for the various types of surveys often used in trademark infringement and false advertising litigation. We will then present the recent case law discussing survey evidence, the pitfalls that often lead to a survey being excluded or accorded little weight, and the best practices for increasing the likelihood that surveys will be admitted and used persuasively to help prove your case. This webinar is a must not just for trademark litigators but also in-house counsel who want to make sure that the expense of a survey is well justified. -
AIPLA Rapid Response Webinar: USPTO Sequence Listing Rules
June 29 to 30, 2022 | No CLE
Join us for a Rapid Response webinar focused on the new USPTO Sequence Listing rules. Learn about the new process BEFORE it goes into effect July 1. We will be joined by speakers from the USPTO and WIPO, as well as experienced practitioners to provide guidance on how to submit a compliant sequence listing in U.S. patent applications and Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications -
AIPLA Diversity in IP Law Webinar: OGs of IP - The Sequel
June 9, 2022 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM | No CLE
Please join us for another installment of our OGs of IP forum. This practical program is designed to provide candid, concrete advice for younger attorneys to follow in the footsteps of our OGs*, all of whom are esteemed diverse attorneys who have achieved uncommon levels of success and defied the odds. -
AIPLA Ethics Webinar: USPTO Response to Improper Behavior and Attorney Misconduct
June 8, 2022 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM | 1.0 Ethics Credits Available in most states. Virginia Ethics may not be approved.
The USPTO is seeing high levels of improper behavior, including from attorneys representing applicants before the USPTO in trademark matters. Hear how the USPTO has responded to such behavior through the Trademarks Organization’s Administrative Sanctions Program as well as through the USPTO’s Office of Enrollment and Discipline investigation and disciplinary actions taken against U.S.-licensed counsel violating USPTO Rules of Practice, rules on signatures and certification, and Rules of Professional Conduct. -
2022 Spring Meeting On-Demand Recordings
May 17 to 19, 2022
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FCHS 2022 Spring Lecture
May 10, 2022 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Federal CIrcuit Historical Society Online Lecture Series, next installment May 10, 2022 -
AIPLA CLE Webinar: Overcoming Challenges for Obtaining Effective Antibody Patent Protection
May 4, 2022 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM | 1.5 CLE Credits Available
Antibodies are one of the main workhorses of biotechnology. They can be used diagnostically, therapeutically, and analytically. However, despite their widespread use, they are one of the most difficult of all inventions to effectively patent. The interplay of the written description and enablement requirements, combined with the unpredictability of this art, tends to restrict inventors to narrow claims. This webinar will discuss the obstacles to broadly claiming antibodies, ways to avoid such obstacles, international claiming strategies, data collection concerns, and the roll of prior art searches in patenting antibodies.