ACI: ACI Announces Post-Grant PTO Procedures Conference

 
NEW YORK - Feb. 5, 2015 - PRLog -- American Conference Institute’s (ACI) is pleased to announce that registration is now open for its latest patent reform conference, Post- Grant PTO Proceedings. This program will provide in-depth information on Inter Partes Review (IPR), Post Grant Review (PGR) and Covered Business Method Patent Review (CBM).

As Stephanie Butler, Division Manager of ACI’s Life Sciences and Health Care Division noted, “in the three years since their inception and now their final implementation, IPR, CBM and now PGR have collectively been IP game changers. They are being filed in increasing multitude and the PTO’s fledgling Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) which presides over these matters has become one of the busiest administrative courts in the country.”

Lisa J. Piccolo, Senior Industry Manager, Life Sciences and Health Care with ACI, stated “this premier conference will offer practical strategies for and insights on PGR, IPR and CBM Review.  An all- star faculty of PTO patent trial pioneers  from leading  law firms and prestigious companies such as Corelogic, Cubist Pharmaceuticals, ebBay, General Electric, The Hartford, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Medtronic, Merck and Sony will help patent practitioners gain the critical competencies that they need for patent portfolio planning and due diligence analysis in the era of new post grant proceedings; in addition to developing strategies for PTO patent trial practice, and mastering the etiquette for appearing before the PTAB.”

Co-Chairs


-  Honorable James Smith, ALJ (invited), Chief Judge, Patent Trial and Appeal Board, United States Patent and Trademark Office

-  J. Steven Baughman, Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP

Judges

-  Honorable Timothy S. Black, U.S.D.J., United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio

- Honorable Tonianne Bongiovanni, U.S.M.J., United States District Court, District of New Jersey

-  Honorable Arthur J. Gajarsa (ret.), Former Judge, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Senior Counsel, Wilmer Cutler Pickering, Hale and Dorr LLP

In- House Counsel

-  William H. Boger, Senior Vice President and Chief Legislative Counsel, American Bankers Association

-  David T. Cunningham, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, Director of Intellectual, Property and Digital Commerce Law, The Hartford

-  Vladimir Elgort, Senior Director‚ Intellectual Property Counsel, Sony Corporation of America

-  Henry H. Gu, Senior IP Counsel, Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

-  Lisa A. Jakob, Legal Director, IP Litigation, Merck & Company

-  Jason Piché, Patent Counsel, Spinal and Biologics, Medtronic, Inc.

-   Steven Purdy, Senior Counsel, Corporate Litigation, IBM Corporation

-   Richard L. Rainey, Executive Counsel, IP Litigation, General Electric

-   Howard I. Sherman, Patent Counsel,  eBay Enterprise

-  Rouz Tabaddor, VP and Chief IP Counsel, Corelogic

-  Matt Wade, HP Legal Counsel, IP Litigation Group, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Law Firms

-  Aziz Burgy, Partner, Arent Fox LLP

-  Frank A. DeLucia. Partner, Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto

-  Lisa Ferri, Partner, Mayer Brown LLP

-  Ching-Lee Fukuda, Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP

-  Herbert H. Hart III, Shareholder, McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd.

-  Edward D. Manzo, Partner, Husch Blackwell LLP

-  Scott P. McBride, Shareholder, McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd.

-  James Myers, Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP

-   Brian W. Nolan, Partner, Mayer Brown LLP

-  Justin J. Oliver, Partner, Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto

-  Teresa Rea, Partner, Crowell & Moring LLP (Former Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Former Acting Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office)

-  Sherry L. Rollo, Partner, Husch Blackwell LLP

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