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BCP Meeting - Mar 6, 2007

Mar 6, 2007, 16:03 PM by AIPLA Admin

Biotechnology/Chemical/Pharmaceutical Customer Partnership  

March 6, 2007 Meeting 
Madison Auditorium North

 United States Patent and Trademark Office
Alexandria, Virginia 
600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, VA, 
  

Morning Session
9:00-9:05 AM. Greetings and Overview
John LeGuyader, Bruce Kisliuk,
George Elliott,Directors, Technology
Center 1600
9:05-9:20 AM Complex Work Unit (CWU) Pilot – Chemical & Mathematical Formulae, Large Tables And Protein Structure Data
13 slides 220K
Lisa Hobbs, SIRA
9:20-10:00 AM Appeals
9 slides 289K


Jean Witz
TC 1600, QAS – Appeals

10:00-10:40 Discussion of claim Types– Genus, Species, Linking, and Markush
35 slides 127K


Julie Burke, Special Program Examiner, TC1600

10:40 –10:55 AM Break
10:55 – 12:00 AM Markush Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Preview
24 slides 326K

John LeGuyader, Director, Technology Center 1600

12:00 – 1:15 PM Lunch Roundhouse Cafe Cafeteria is inside Madison Building lower level.
Afternoon Session
1:15 – 2:00 PM


Examination of Protein Crystallography Applications

32 slides 1.86M


Kathleen Bragdon
Supervisory Patent Examiner,
Art Unit 1656

2:00 – 2:45 PM Immunology /Cancer Therapy
29 slides 186K


Gary Nickol
Supervisory Patent Examiner,
Art Unit 1646

2:45 – 3:00 PM Break
3:00 - 3:45 PM

Enablement Issues in Pharmaceutical Claims
25 slides 224K


Joseph McKane Supervisory Patent Examiner Art Unit 1626 and Ardin Marschel Supervisory Patent Examiner Art Unit,1614
3:45 – 4:00 PM

Closing Remarks/Discussion

John LeGuyader, Bruce Kisliuk,
George Elliott,Directors, TC 1600