The Chisum Patent Academy will hold its fifth annual Seattle summer seminars on July 31-August 2, 2013and August 5-7, 2013. Both seminars will cover the same material. The interactive, roundtable-format, advanced patent law seminars are limited to ten (10) participants each, and all sessions are co-taught by patent treatise authors and educators Donald Chisum [1] and Janice Mueller [2]
Discussion topics for Seattle will include:
- Patent Practice Gone Wrong: Lessons from Recent Cases on Patent Malpractice and Rule 11 Sanctions
- CLS Bank v. Alice Corp.: Making Sense Out of Nonsense
- Blockbuster Supreme Court and en banc Federal Circuit cases: AMP v. Myriad Genetics (patent eligible subject matter–pending), Lighting Ballast Control v. Philips Elecs. (claim interpretation standard of review–pending)
- Giving Meaning to Means Clauses
- Drafting and Enforcing Method and System Claims: Active Inducement, Divided Infringement, and Territoriality Issues
- Design Patents and Injunctions: Apple v. Samsung as a Case Study
- AIA Review: Where Are We So Far?
- Recent Nonobviousness Developments
- Pleading Requirements for Patent Infringement Actions
Complete syllabi from the 2012, 2011, 2010, and 2009 seminars are available here [3].
The Academy will apply for 18 CLE credits per seminar. The registration fee for the three-day Seattle seminars is $2,000 per person, which includes extensive written materials plus daily breakfast and break refreshments. For location and registration details, please visit their website [4] or emailinfo@chisum.com [5].