USPTO Biotech/Chemical Partnership (BCP) Meetings

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BCP Customer Partnership - Tues, March 6, 2012

Mar 6, 2012, 15:36 PM by AIPLA Admin
Biotechnology/Chemical/Pharmaceutical Customer Partnership  
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 Meeting 
Madison Auditorium
9:30am to 4:00pm

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

Morning Session
9:30 - 9:45 AM Opening Remarks
George Elliott, Wanda Walker and Dan Sullivan (Acting), Directors, TechnologyCenter 1600

 

9:45 - 10:45 AM Lead Compound CAFC Obviousness Analysis (38 slides 2.1M)

 

Joseph Mallon, Partner Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP
10:45-11:00 AM Break
11:00 - Noon Native American Herbal Medicines (18 slides 2.4M PDF)

 

Patricia Leith, Primary Examiner, Art Unit 1655
Noon - 1:00 PM Lunch The Roundhouse Cafe Cafeteria is inside the Madison Building lower level.

Afternoon Session

1:00 - 2:30 PM Introduction to Examiners’ Training and Attorney’s Perspective (30 slides 706K)

 

 

Kathleen Bragdon, QAS, TC 1600

 

2:30 - 2:45 PM Break
2:45 - 3:45 PM NPRM – Changes to Implement the Inventor’s Oath or Declaration Provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (98 slides 1.2M)

 

Michele Cimbala, Ph.D
Sterne Kessler Goldstein Fox
3:45 - 4:00 PM Closing Remarks/Discussion
George Elliott, Wanda Walker and Dan Sullivan (Acting), Directors, Technology Center 1600