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BCP meetings are part of a long-standing partnership between the USPTO and its valued stakeholders. The partnership works to improve the quality of the USPTO's products and services.  

The meeting's discussion topics include:

• Claim construction and doctrine of equivalents
• Statutory provisions governing patent infringement: A practical analysis
• Deferred subject matter eligibility response pilot program
• Quality metrics
• Explicit rationales in rejections under 35 U.S.C. 103
• A systematic approach to 35 U.S.C. 112(b)
• Sequence search

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9:00 – 9:10 a.m. Welcome and opening remarks

• Daniel Sullivan Director, TC1600, USPTO
• Gary Jones Director, TC1600, USPTO

9:10 – 10:30 a.m. Claim Construction and Doctrine of Equivalents – A review for the Patent Office

• Henry C. Su Trial Lawyer and Partner, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

10:30 – 10:40 a.m. Break

10:40 – 11:40 a.m. Statutory provisions governing patent infringement – A practical analysis

• Christopher J. Harnett Shareholder, Maynard, Cooper & Gale in NYC

11:40 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Deferred subject matter eligibility response (DSMER) pilot program

• Daniel Kolker Supervisory Patent Examiner (SPE) TC1600, USPTO

12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch

1:00 – 1:30 p.m. Patent Quality Metrics

• Kathleen Bragdon Quality Assurance Specialist (mQAS) OPQA, USPTO

1:30 – 2:30 p.m. Providing explicit rationales in rejections under 35 U.S.C. 103

• Lora Barnhart Driscoll Quality Assurance Specialist (TQAS) TC1600, USPTO

2:30 – 2:40 p.m. Break

2:40 – 3:10 p.m. Biological Sequence Searching

• Christopher Babic Supervisory Patent Examiner (SPE) TC1600, USPTO

3:10 – 4:40 p.m. A systematic approach to 35 U.S.C. 112(b)

• Gary Benzion Supervisory Patent Examiner (SPE)
• Bennett Celsa Quality Assurance Specialist (TQAS)
• Amjad Abraham Supervisory Patent Examiner (SPE)
• Ashwin Mehta Review Quality Assurance Specialist (RQAS)
• TC1600 and OPQA, USPTO

4:40 – 5:00 p.m. Closing remarks

• TC1600 Directors, USPTO