A Town Hall with the Magistrate Judges*
Honorable Tonianne J. Bongiovanni
Magistrate Judge
District of New Jersey (Trenton, NJ)
Aziz Burgy
Partner
Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP (Washington, DC)
Honorable Christopher J. Burke
Magistrate Judge
District of Delaware
Bo Davis
Founding Partner
The Davis Firm (Longview, TX)
Anne Shea Gaza
Partner
Young Conaway Stargartt & Taylor, LLP (Wilmington, DE)
Honorable Roy Payne
Magistrate Judge
Eastern District of Texas (Marshall, TX)
Honorable Mary Pat Thynge
Chief Magistrate Judge
District of Delaware (Wilmington, DE)
9:15
When to Reduce Claims and Defenses to a Manageable Level in Paragraph IV Litigation
- Utilizing claim reduction during scheduling negotiations to avoid excessive patent claims
- Deciding when to oppose consolidation of new actions in litigation based on patents issuing from new applications
- Determining when to demand that claims to be tried are representative of all asserted claims and give ride to estoppel
10:00
How to Masterfully Manage Protective Order Disputes
- When to seek limitation on prosecution and regulatory bars
- Deciding how many tiers of confidentiality should be designed and who many access confidential information within each tier
- Best practices for expanding or limiting the scope of protective order provisions
10:45
Practical Strategies and Tactics for Effective Settlement Negotiation
- Developing timelines for business and legal milestones relatives to terms of the settlement
- Understanding the application of antitrust law’s “rule of reason” to pharmaceutical patent settlements
- Examining decisions concerning pharmaceutical patent settlements