USPTO Biotech/Chemical Partnership (BCP) Meetings

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BCP Customer Partnership - Wed, June 6, 2012

Jun 6, 2012, 15:24 PM by AIPLA Admin
Biotechnology/Chemical/Pharmaceutical Customer Partnership  
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 Meeting 
Madison Auditorium
9:00am to 4:30pm

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

Morning Session
9:00 - 9:15 AM Opening Remarks
TC 1600 Management Update (9 slides 5.59M)

 

George Elliott, Wanda Walker and Dan Sullivan (Acting), Directors, TechnologyCenter 1600

 

9:15 - 10:15 AM AIA Update (43 slides 1.69M)

 

Janet Gongola, Patent Reform Coordinator
10:15-10:30 AM Break
10:30 - 11:15 AM Cooperative Patent Classification Overview (22 slides 571K) Jerry Lorengo, SPE, TC 1700
11:15 - 12:00 AM Claim Interpretation (48 slides 485K) Jeffery Lundgren, SPE Art Unit 1629
Noon - 1:15 PM Lunch The Roundhouse Cafe Cafeteria is inside the Madison Building lower level.

Afternoon Session

1:15- 2:45 PM Mayo v. Prometheus (42 slides 437K)

 

 

Roberte Makowski,
Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP. and
Hans Sauer, Associate General Counsel for BIO

 

2:45 - 3:00 PM Break
3:00 - 3:30 PM Recommendations for the Disclosure of Sequence Listings using XML (Proposed ST.26) (22 slides 293K)

 

A Federal Register Notice requesting comments in pdf form is here

Susan Wolski, PCT Legal
3:30 - 4:15 PM Range Limitations in Claims (31 slides 786K)

 

Jean Witz, QAS, TC 1600
4:15 - 4:30 PM Closing Remarks/Discussion
George Elliott, Wanda Walker and Dan Sullivan (Acting), Directors, Technology Center 1600