USPTO Biotech/Chemical Partnership (BCP) Meetings

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BCP - Wed, Jun 8, 2011

Jun 8, 2011, 16:12 PM by AIPLA Admin
Biotechnology/Chemical/Pharmaceutical Customer Partnership  

Wednesday, June 8, 2011 Meeting 
Madison Auditorium  

Starting Time of 10:00 AM

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

Morning Session
10:00 - 10:30 AM. Greetings, TC Update and Overview
TC1600 Management Update (9 slides 5.5M)
Jackie Stone, George Elliott and Remy Yucel, Directors, TechnologyCenter 1600
10:30 - 11:15 AM Microsoft v. i4i Ltd.: How potential changes in
the evidentiary standard for an invalidity defense could affect patent prosecution and litigation

(49 slides 819K)
Garth M. Dahlen, Ph.D., Esq. Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

 

11:15 - 11:30 AM Break
11:30 - 12:15 PM COPA (Clearing the Oldest Patent Applications) - An Overview and Implementation Briefing (15 slides 463K)

 

 

John Barlow SPE, TC2800
12:15 - 1:00 PM Expedited Examinations (Track 1, PPH, Green Tech, AE, and to Make Special) (56 slides 1.5M) Bennett Celsa QAS, TC1600

 

1:00 - 2:00 PM Lunch The Roundhouse Cafe Cafeteria is inside the Madison Building lower level.

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 2:45 PM Current Sequence Listing Process for Nucleic Acids and Polypeptides (25 slides 10.9M)

 

Dave Nguyen SPE, Art Unit 1634
Joseph Woitach SPE, Art Unit 1633

 

2:45 - 3:00 PM Break
3:00 - 3:45 PM Stem Cells (35 slides 450K)
Peter Paras, SPE, Art Unit 1632


3:45 - 4:00 PM Closing Remarks/Discussion
Jackie Stone, George Elliott and Remy Yucel, Directors, Technology Center 1600