PTO Procedures Under The America Invents Act

A Practical and Tactical Guide for Maneuvering New and Amended Procedures and Mastering the Intricacies of PTO Practice in the Wake of Patent Reform

Monday, March 26 to Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Flatotel, New York City
Co-Chairs

Terri McHenry
Sr. Patent Counsel
Google Inc. (Mountain View, CA)

Matthew A. Smith
Partner
Foley & Lardner LLP (Washington, DC)

Speakers

Brenton R. Babcock
Partner
Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP (Irvine, CA)

David E. Boundy
Vice President, Assistant General Counsel
Intellectual Property
Cantor Fitzgerald LP (Boston, MA)

Patricia Carson
Partner
Kaye Scholer LLP (New York, NY)

David T. Cunningham
VP and Director of Intellectual Property Law
The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (Hartford, CT)

Michael A. Davitz
Partner
Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP (New York, NY)

John M. Griem, Jr.
Partner
Patent Litigation Group
Loeb & Loeb, LLP (New York, NY)

Janet Gongola
Patent Reform Coordinator
United States Patent and Trademark Office (Alexandria, VA)

James M. Gould

Legal Director – Intellectual Property
Litigation
Merck & Co., Inc. (Rahway, NJ)

Herbert D. Hart III

Shareholder
McAndrews, Held & Malloy Ltd (Chicago, IL)

Jeffrey L. Kopacz

Senior Patent Counsel
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (Cambridge, MA)

Thomas J. Kowalski
Shareholder
Vedder Price PC (New York, NY)

Kevin W. McCabe

Director
Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox (Washington, DC)

Scott A. McKeown
Partner
Oblon, Spivak, McClelland
Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P. (Alexandria, VA)

George K. Ng
Partner
Gordon & Rees, LLP (San Diego, CA)

Brad Pedersen
Partner & Patent, Practice Chair
Patterson Thuente, Christensen Pedersen, P.A. (Minneapolis, MN)

Andrea G. Reister

Partner
Covington & Burling LLP (Washington, DC)

W. Karl Renner

Principal
Fish & Richardson (Washington, DC)

Michael P. Sandonato

Partner
Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto (New York, NY)

John A. Squires

Partner
Chadbourne & Parke LLP (New York NY)

J. Eric Thies

Assistant Counsel
Merck (Rahway, NJ)

Michael Tierney

Lead Administrative
Patent Judge, Trial Section
Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences
United States Patent and Trademark Office (Alexandria, VA)

Bartholomew Verdirame

Partner
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP (New York)

Philip Wadsworth

VP & Legal Counsel, Global IP
Qualcomm, Inc. (San Diego, CA)

Eliot D. Williams
Partner
Baker Botts (New York, NY)