Past Events
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World IP Day 2022
April 26, 2022 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM | No CLE
Join the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and partner organizations for a special two-hour program to celebrate World Intellectual Property Day 2022. This annual international event is an opportunity to learn about the role that intellectual property (IP) rights play in encouraging innovation and creativity. The theme of this year’s celebration is “IP for a Better Future: Young Innovators.” -
2022 Virtual Design Day
April 21, 2022 1:00 PM to 4:30 PM | No CLE
Please save the date for 15th Annual Virtual Design Day! Join us for an afternoon of lively and thought-provoking discussion about various aspects of design patents, hosted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Get insights from USPTO design examiners and managers, design patent practitioners, and industrial designers. -
AIPLA Virtual Water Cooler - April Meetup
April 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 CLE Webinar: US and EU Design Law – A Growing Divide
April 20, 2022 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM | 1.5 CLE Credits Available
Recent Federal Circuit decisions in Curver Luxembourg, SARL v. Home Expressions Inc., 938 F.3d 1334 (Fed. Cir. 2019) and In re SurgiSil, L.L.P., 14 F.4th 1380 (Fed. Cir. 2021)usher in fundamental change to U.S. design patent law whereby the scope of a design patent is now limited to the article(s) of manufacture identified in the title and/or claim of a design patent. Constricting design patents in this way puts the US design law at odds with European design law where the scope of protection afforded design rightsis“not limited to the product in which the contested design is intended to be incorporated or applied” (European Court of Justice, Joined Cases C-361/15 P and C-405/15 P,Easy Sanitary v EUIPO/Group Nivelles, ECLI:EU:C:2017:720). -
Patent Eligibility - Where Are We Headed?
April 14, 2022 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM | No CLE
Join the USIP Alliance for a Virtual Roundtable Discussion with with present and former representatives of the three branches of government as well as leaders from life sciences and the tech industry, moderated by Professor David Taylor, author of a survey on Patent Eligibility and Investment. -
AIPLA CLE Webinar: Amazon’s Utility Patent Neutral Evaluation Program: Procedure, Remedies and Defenses
April 13, 2022 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM | 1.5 CLE Credits Available
Amazon has instituted a neutral evaluation procedure to be used in patent infringement complaints by patent owners. This presentation will cover the procedure for participating in this program. Timothy D. Nichols will address the patent owner perspective, while Aaron Wininger will explore the defensive perspective. Join us for this interesting and timely discussion of a highly relevant topic. -
AIPLA Virtual Water Cooler - March Meetup
March 16, 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: What’s all the CANUKUS about? Trademark Prosecution Pain Points in Canada, the UK, and the US
March 15, 2022 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM | 1.5 CLE Credits Available
Case-hardened trademark lawyers from Canada, the UK and the US provide advice on tenaciously tackling taxing trademark prosecution issues and suggest strategic filing decisions. The tantalizing topics include: non-distinctiveness; descriptiveness; use; goods/services descriptions; bad faith; and speed/quality of examination. The differences, similarities, disadvantages, and advantages between jurisdictions are illuminated. Fill your personal precedent portmanteau with responses to deploy when facing similar issues. A pinch of BREXIT provides the final point of pain. -
AIPLA CLE Webinar: Global FRAND Licensing in the Digital Era: Negotiation, Disputes, Remedies, and Resolutions Across Jurisdictions
March 9, 2022 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM | 1.5 CLE Credits Available
Experts from Europe, Japan, the UK, and the US share global and country-jurisdiction experiences on negotiating “fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory” (FRAND) licenses for the use of “standard essential patents” (SEPs)—for smart phones, smart cars, and other digital products and services. Current and evolving mechanisms to achieve FRAND licenses will be discussed—ranging from incentives for closing deals by amicable negotiation, court-imposed remedies like injunctions, royalty rate-setting, and damages, to alternative dispute resolution like mediation and arbitration. Meanwhile, the panel will address views on SEPs debated within various government authorities, with examples from Japan. -
AIPLA Virtual Water Cooler - February Meetup
February 16, 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: Damages 2021 Year-in-Review: Lessons and Litigation Strategies
February 15, 2022 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM | 1.5 CLE Credits Available
This year’s panel of experts will leverage decades of deep litigation experience in patent- and other IP-related matters to provide webinar attendees with additional insight on recent cases from the perspectives of private practice litigators and testifying experts. In a conversational format, our panel will address issues of high importance from several of 2021’s most interesting IP damages cases. Among other topics, our panel will discuss recent developments in apportionment, admissibility, damages attributable to use outside the U.S., facts relevant to the hypothetical negotiation, lost profits, and ethics. -
AIPLA CLE Webinar: Exploring Issues Facing AI, Computer-Implemented, and Life Sciences Inventions in the EPO and US, including Subject Matter Eligibility and Written Description
February 10, 2022 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM | 1.5 CLE Credits Available
The panel’s goal is to review the most current issues facing practitioners on both sides of the Atlantic and consider practical solutions to try and navigate or mitigate those challenges. Andrew Bentham (JA Kemp) and Courtenay Brinckerhoff (Foley & Lardner) intend to address issues facing Innovators in the Life Sciences/Biotech areas including written description and subject matter eligibility, with Andrew focusing on the EPO and Courtenay on the USPTO. Mike Jennings (AA Thornton) and Michael Piper (Conley Rose) will jointly consider the new guidelines in the EPO and compare EPO and US Guidance Examples to assess ideas for effective specification and claim drafting for AI/ML and computer simulation and computer-implemented inventions more generally in Europe and the US. -
AIPLA CLE Webinar: Leveraging Instabilities in the Law of Patentable Subject Matter to Create Winning Outcomes
January 26, 2022 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM | 1.5 CLE Credits Available
The fallout from Alice and its progeny has been the invalidation of countless patents in many different arts. But has one of the Court’s more recent approaches to statutory interpretation fundamentally undermined Alice? If not, what does it mean for a claim to be “directed to” a law of nature, a product of nature, or an abstract idea? Seasoned practitioners James R. Major, D.Phil., of Counsel at Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP, and Aaron L.J. Pereira, of Counsel at Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP, provide insights and practical tips to overcome the conundrum of patentable subject matter. -
AIPLA CLE Webinar: Should you Appeal? – Data Driven Strategies to Help you Decide
December 8, 2021 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM | 1.5 CLE Credits Available
Have you or a client ever been faced with a Final Rejection they did not agree with and asked the question, should we go to appeal? Deciding whether to appeal is a rather consequential decision, both in time and money. To help you answer this question, the panel provide you with novel appeal data and discuss how this data can be incorporated into best practices appeal strategy to maximize your effective use of ex parte appeals. This talk aims to help you improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your patent prosecution practice through a strategic and data driven use of ex parte appeals. -
DEI Program: Perspectives from LGBTQ Professionals
December 7, 2021 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
The legal community has made tremendous strides in equity and inclusion for LGBTQ attorneys and IP professionals over the past two decades. Central to this progress have been the allies who have supported the LGBTQ community and advocated for change. Attorneys who identify as LGBTQ, however, continue to face numerous challenges. Hear from panelists on the challenges of being LGBTQ in the IP Field and learn how we can to create an open and welcoming environment for all to bring their authentic selves to work. -
AIPLA CLE Webinar: Drafting Patent Applications for Artificial Intelligence Inventions Related to Healthcare
December 1, 2021 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM | 1.5 CLE Credits Available
The webinar will focus on patenting artificial intelligence inventions related to healthcare for companies in the software or healthcare industries. The presentation will define artificial intelligence and machine learning, discuss reasons healthcare companies might want patent protection in this area, and discuss strategies for obtaining such patent protection. Recent court cases impacting healthcare artificial intelligence patents will be discussed. Some issued claims in the healthcare artificial intelligence space will be analyzed. -
2021 Corporate Practice Institute (Virtual)
November 16 to 17, 2021 | 360 Minutes of CLE - Including Ethics and Elimination of Bias
This Corporate Practice Institute is a two-day virtual event designed for Corporate in-house counsel, including attorneys and patent agents. The program will run from 12 noon to 5:30 and include 3 one-hour CLE sessions and a one-hour networking session each day. -
2021 Trade Secret Summit
November 8 to 9, 2021 | 525 minutes (8.75 hours for 60 minute states and 10.5 hours for 50 minute states)
Please join the AIPLA Trade Secret Committee for the 2021 Trade Secret Summit, which is being held November 8-9, 2021 at the headquarters of SolarWinds in Austin, Texas. The AIPLA Trade Secret Summit is the leading trade secret conference in the nation, with speakers from across the spectrum of private practitioners, in-house counsel, government, and academia, as well as fantastic networking opportunities. -
AIPLA CLE Webinar: Inequitable Conduct Lives!
November 3, 2021 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM | 1.5 ETHICS CLE Credits Available
This presentation will provide information of use to old pros and new practitioners. The panelists will provide an overview of the ethical obligations of practice as well as the substantive law of inequitable conduct and related disciplinary matters, including several recent cases finding inequitable conduct despite the barriers created in 2011 by Therasense. It will also provide practical procedures and practices to avoid creating a record that leads to inequitable conduct and for more compact prosecution. -
AIPLA CLE Webinar: Patent Practitioners, Be On Guard: Artificial Intelligence Will Take Over the Practice of Patent Law - How an AI created the title for this talk, and what it means for your patent practice
October 13, 2021 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM | 1.5 CLE Credits Available
Hear from industry experts, who will provide a framework for patent counsel to quantify the value of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning technologies in practice, as well as specific examples of its use. Common misconceptions about the capabilities of AI will be debunked as they describe what you should, and, importantly, should not expect when adopting AI tools. Functionality will be discussed, as well as how current limitations may evolve in the future. The webinar will also include a round-table discussion between in house, private practice, and knowledge management attorneys who have introduced AI tools to their teams. They’ll discuss implementation challenges, barriers to adoption, and how an organization’s structure can influence its evaluation of such tools.