Patent Baristas

The Licensing Executive Society (LES) 2009 Winter meeting will incorporate the professional aspects of licensing and how they exemplify licensing as a culture…a global culture.  Licensing opportunities exist on a global scale, and LES members are increasingly called up on to develop and manage Intellectual Property around the world. Licensing professionals globally deal with the […]

Lawline.com is celebrating their 10 year anniversary of offering online Continuing Legal Education programs by implementing a new “Go Green” approach to our business.  Their Clean Law Initiative is aimed at reducing overall waste and increasing energy efficiency and sustainability. According to Lawline, accessing CLE online is by nature environmentally friendly.  Attorneys save millions of […]

What:  Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal’s 25th Annual Symposium When: Friday, January 30, 2009 Where:  San Jose, Calif. Program: The 2009 Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal Symposium takes place in the heart of Silicon Valley, where innovation is happening every day. For years, the Journal has dedicated symposia to […]

Please join the Kentucky BioAlliance for their Annual Meeting and Reception as they explore the Life Cycle of Life Sciences.  Roger Griggs, founder of the Drug Enhancement Company of America, will talk to Kentucky BioAlliance members and guests about his experience in growing five successful life science companies in Kentucky. Following the presentation, the Kentucky […]

Doug Lichtman, a Professor of Law at UCLA, has alerted us to the fact that he sat down this past weekend with Professor Rob Merges from Berkeley and Professor John Duffy from GW, and they recorded a one-hour audio podcast about Bilski.  They have posted it for free, and in downloadable form, on the Web. […]

The Center for American and International Law is holding its 46th Annual Conference on Intellectual Property Law (CAILAW) at its headquarters in Plano on November 10-11, 2008. From 3:30pm-4:15pm on November 10, I will be part of a law blogger panel “All the News That’s Fit to Blawg,” which asks whether or not bloggers are […]

John J. Doll, Commissioner for Patents, US Patent & Trademark Office, talked today at the BIO Intellectual Property Counsel Committee’s Fall Conference and Committee Meeting, a group with a very keen sense of the importance of patents. He livened up the discussion in extolling that “We [the Patent Office] don’t have a standard so we’d […]

In a session on Case Law Updates, a panel discussion at the the BIO Intellectual Property Counsel Committee’s Fall Conference and Committee Meeting brought up that there was previously a lot of attention on infringement but lately it has been off radar except for joint joint infringement. Joint infringement comes up as a big issue […]