MARCH 26 PROGRAM: “Best Practices for Patent Litigators, Prosecutors and In-house Counsel in Weakened Patent System”
Date: PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT DAY OF WEEK-Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Location: Hyatt Regency Santa Clara (Great America Parkway, just east of Tasman)
Time: 6:00 p.m., cocktails and registration; 7:00 p.m., dinner and program
Program: “Best Practices for Patent Litigators, Prosecutors and In-house Counsel in Weakened Patent System”
According to the San Jose Mercury News (February 28, 2008): “Recent judicial decisions have already weakened our patent system, making it easier to invalidate patents and more difficult to enforce them… The negative impact of [the Patent Reform Act] will be profound, both near and long term…” The March SVIPLA meeting will focus on what patent litigators, prosecutors and in-house counsel are doing differently, or should do differently, in view of these changes. What are the current “best practices” in patent drafting, prosecution, opinion drafting and the like?
Speaker: Robert Groover, Registered Patent Attorney, Groover & Associates
Robert Groover is an experienced electronics patent attorney with a high-tech orientation. He has a strong background with patent committee operations, substantial publications on patent management and quality issues, and very extensive experience in patent prosecution and management. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a full member of the ASME (the American Society of Mechanical Engineers), and the SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers). During his 20+ years in the patent profession, he has written nearly a thousand patent applications himself (and prosecuted a much larger number), and has been involved in more than a dozen patent infringement lawsuits. He has invented several patents himself, and is a frequent speaker on patent law, innovation management, and patent-related career issues for technologists.
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DEADLINE FOR RESERVATION OR CANCELLATION: Monday, noon, March 24, 2007. Online registration will close at that time - please make your reservation online (see link above) by the deadline as there are only a few extra spaces allotted at the meeting for walk-ins. The venue may not be able to serve meals beyond the guaranteed number expected for the meeting.
MCLE: This activity has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of California in the amount of 1.0 hour. SVIPLA certifies that this activity conforms to the standards for approved education activities prescribed by the State Bar of California governing minimum continuing legal education.
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JOB POSTINGS
You are invited to send any attorney or patent agent job placement ad to svipla@yahoo.com for posting on the SVIPLA website and in our monthly meeting announcement newsletter. At present, users are not able to post job placements directly on the SVIPLA website. We will have the job placements posted on the website for a period of 90 days. If the position is filled before the 90-day period ends, please send an email to svipla@yahoo.com to request removal of the job posting.
2006-2007 SVIPLA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT
Sean Fitzgerald, Sean M. Fitzgerald, Attorney at Law, smf@competitivefactors.com
VICE PRESIDENT/TREASURER
Glenn von Tersch, TIPS Group, gvontersch@tipsgroup.org
SECRETARY
Steven Cahill, mp_94025@yahoo.com
PROGRAM CHAIRS
David J. Aston, Peters Verny LLP, djaston@pvjsa.com
Anthony Diepenbrock, Dechert LLP, anthony.diepenbrock@dechert.com
PAST PRESIDENTS
Marcel Bingham, Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP, mbingham@hptb-law.com
Brian Coleman, Perkins Coie LLP, bcoleman@perkinscoie.com
Robert Guillot, IPLO, rguillot@iplo.com