Agenda

Registration & Networking

Sponsored by Dennemeyer IP Group

The State of the Global IP System: The United States vs. the World *

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s annual International IP Index creates a roadmap for economies seeking to strengthen the ecosystem for innovation and creativity through more effective IP standards. 2023 was the eleventh year the Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) prepared this comprehensive ranking of more than 50 of the world’s economies based on intellectual property climate. Once dominant in the…

Alden Abbott

Arthur Daemmrich

Noel Egnatios

Patrick Kilbride

Networking Break

Sponsored by Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

Global Perspectives on Monetization: The State of the Industry

The patent policy landscape in the United States has caused an uptick in interest in Europe and China in recent years. With the marketplace in flux, many continue to take a fresh look at foreign markets and foreign patent portfolios and foreign strategies. Indeed, the changing landscape in America continues to alter business models and monetization strategies associated with patents…

Russell Binns

Louis Carbonneau

Daniel Papst

Matteo Sabattini

Networking Break

Sponsored by Porter Hedges

Intellectual Property and the Supreme Court *

It has been a busy year for intellectual property at the United States Supreme Court, both with respect to cases decided and certiorari petitions denied. On May 18, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Amgen, Inc. v. Sanofi et al. The Court held, as many feared they would, that the 26 antibody examples and detailed instructions for generating additional…

Llew Gibbons

Nicholas Matich

Hon. Paul R. Michel

The Paul Michel Award for 2023

IPWatchdog is pleased to announce that Brian O’Shaughnessy, Partner, and Chair of IP Transactions & Licensing Group at Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, has been selected as the 2023 recipient of The Paul Michel Award. He will be presented with the award on Sunday evening, September 17, 2023, at IPWatchdog LIVE 2023. The Paul Michel Award, created with the blessing of Chief Judge Paul Michel…

Hon. Paul R. Michel

Brian O’Shaughnessy

Gene Quinn

Renee C. Quinn

Opening Reception & Networking

All attendees of the program are invited to join us for our opening day, networking cocktail reception, featuring open bar, hors d’oeuvres, and more! Have a drink and some food and mingle with the speakers and other attendees from the event!  

After Hours Nightcap – By Invitation Only

Invitees will be notified in advance of the event and provided a ticket to attend.

Breakfast, Registration & Networking

Breakfast is sponsored by Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney.

Dissecting PTAB Rulemaking & Legislation: Will it Make Things Any Better? *

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has published an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) in the Federal Register, seeking public comment regarding a variety of issues relating to proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). The deadline to comment was June 20, 2023, and proposed rules are expected late summer or early fall. The ANPRM,…

Stephen McBride

Brendan McCommas

Scott McKeown

Vincent Rubino

Understanding ROI for Intellectual Property Assets *

While your organization invests substantial resources in protecting its intellectual property, are you extracting the maximum possible value from these valuable assets? This panel will discuss best practices for patent monetization and will provide insights and strategies for optimizing returns on your patent investment. Panelists will address: (1) Smart patent selection: Effective approaches for identifying patents with commercialization potential and…

Bruce Berman

Enno Bibow

Koren Wong-Ervin

Chen Qian

Designing and Implementing a Brand Enforcement Strategy

This panel is off the record. No media. No recordings.  Today, the role of a trademark professional is evolving from a primarily legal role to a broader brand protection management position, which requires new responsibilities and brings new challenges. Of course, the name of the game remains the same, which is to cultivate, harness and protect reputation, and quickly identify…

Victoria Friedman

Mark Leonard

Kevin McPherson

Zach Toczynski

Networking Break

Sponsored by Carmichael IP

Building the Global Patent Portfolio You Need and Can Afford *

Patents have been and continue to be an important asset for all innovators. Unfortunately, a patent is not an asset that typically possesses flexibility and adaptability. This makes “doing it right” from the outset of the utmost importance. What does “doing it right” mean? For many companies, the best course of action when seeking to obtain worldwide patent protection is…

Suzanne Konrad

Benjamin Mak

Marlene Valderrama

Bryan Walker

U.S. District Court Patent Litigation: Where to File & What to Expect *

Is patent litigation out of control? The answer largely depends upon your point of view and experiences, but the data suggests fewer patent lawsuits are filed than one would expect given the number of patents issued every year. What is clear, however, is the reality that where your patent litigation takes place matters greatly with respect to your chance of…

Meredith Addy

Glenn Forbis

Brandon Helms

David G. Henry

Combatting Trade in Counterfeit Goods Across the Supply Chain

With complex trade routes and increasingly sophisticated and flexible criminal networks, dealing with counterfeit goods has become a complex problem for governments and brands. This panel will discuss the sophistication of international counterfeit operations, distribution channels and tactics used by counterfeiters today, as well as: 1. How the “whack-a-mole” type monitoring brand owners must perform is becoming increasingly difficult, although…

Steve Francis

Melissa Gray

Alaina van Horn

Brian Weinhaus

Creating Enforcement Leverage: The ITC Advantage *

Patent owners are increasingly considering more complex strategies when pursuing implementers. While traditional approaches often include domestic filings at the United States International Trade Commission (ITC), companion district court case or multi-district filings do considerably increase leverage. Some patent owners also increasingly pursue a worldwide enforcement campaign when stakes are particularly high. Resorting to a full-court press that leverages the…

Matthew Bathon

Libbie DiMarco

Joshua Hartman

Brian P. Johnson

Federal Circuit Review: The Most Important Decisions of 2023 *

With jurisdiction over all patent appeals from cases originating in the federal district courts, the International Trade Commission, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) is essentially the chief patent court in the United States. Also on the CAFC docket relative to the intellectual property world are appeals…

Meredith Addy

Miranda Y. Jones

Gene Quinn

Douglas Robinson

Politics, Policy and Legislation at the Intersection of Intellectual Property *

With the 2022 mid-terms behind us and the 2024 election cycle just starting, now is the time Congress actually has the opportunity to legislate. The 118th Congress looks quite different with respect to intellectual property than it has in previous years, with Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) exerting more influence on IP matters, and the duo…

David Jones

J. John Lee

Joseph Matal

Eli Mazour

Eileen McDermott

Lunch

Sponsored by Patsnap.

The Pauline Newman Award for 2023

IPWatchdog is pleased to announce the creation of The Pauline Newman Award. The award, created with the blessing of Judge Newman, will be given each year to recognize the unique achievements of one patent attorney. The award recognizes a patent attorney who has achieved at the highest levels. The award recognizes excellence, influence, integrity, vision and wisdom—all characteristics commonly associated…

Henry Hadad

Hon. Pauline Newman

Gene Quinn

Renee C. Quinn

Keynote

Gene will have a fireside chat with Andrei Iancu, former Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and Henry Hadad, Senior Vice President & Deputy General Counsel for Bristol-Meyers Squibb.

Henry Hadad

Hon. Andrei Iancu

Gene Quinn

Managing Trade Secrets to Enhance Enterprise Value *

This shift to intangible assets has been profound, but so swift that few have paid sufficient attention to the magnitude of the change. The accounting profession values corporations on their balance sheets, reflecting mostly tangible assets. That works for the old economy. Today’s modern company is built on a foundation of information, so intangible assets are of critical importance and…

Brian Hinman

Joss Nichols

James Pooley

IP Due Diligence: Essential Elements & Key Considerations *

This panel will discuss how best to conduct intellectual property related due diligence that may be required for various reasons, including but not limited to M&A and licensing negotiations. In addition to discussing traditional ip related due diligence, the panel will also cover topics relating to privacy and data security due diligence. The panel conversation will holistically look at the…

Thomas Carey

Christopher Geyer

Sivon Kalminov

Jennifer Russell

Litigating Patents in South America: The Search for Exclusivity *

Latin American countries have not always been seen as a first-line option when building a strategy to deploy global litigation campaigns to enforce patent rights, but that is changing. For example, Colombia was the first country to issue a preliminary injunction amid the global controversy between Ericsson and Apple. Patent litigators in Columbia also say the presumption of validity is…

Claudia Fernandini

Otto Licks

Carlos Olarte

Networking Break

Sponsored by Volpe Koenig

Controlling Drug Prices: What is the Role of Government, Patents & Exclusivity? *

It is no secret that the cost of prescription drugs is more than anyone wants to pay. But is the price of newly developed, FDA-approved drugs the result of patents, or a thicket of patents? While patents are often to blame for the cost of prescription drugs, the truth is far more complicated. Indeed, the FDA approval process can literally…

Hon. Susan G. Braden

Corey Salsberg

Brad Watts

Patent Litigation in Europe: The Unitary Patent Court Begins *

On February 17, 2023, Germany ratified the Agreement on the Unified Patent Court. This means that the Unified Patent Court (UPC) will definitely go live on June 1, 2023. By the time we hold IPWatchdog LIVE 2023, we will have three months of information to review to see whether predictions about how this new court system would operate are proving to…

Jeffery Langer

Tilman Müller

David Muus

Caren Yusem Sterne

Beating Foreign Copycats and Winning Product Markets

All too often, successful products beget foreign copycats that aim to capitalize on the original innovator’s success.  This is even more so when supply chains require manufacturing abroad.  This panel of experts will explore the challenges that product companies in the U.S. face, such as intentional efforts to circumvent IP, the need to manufacture abroad in the face of risks,…

Carlo Cotrone

Michael Gulliford

Victoria Libin

Joel Samuels

The Infringing Underbelly of AI – Is Resistance Futile?

This panel of experts will explore how AI and deep fakes are transforming the way we identify and enforce IP rights.

Randy Canis

Bryan Mechell

Jessica Richard

Julie Tolek

Intellectual Property Litigation: A Judge’s Perspective

This panel will be off-the-record. Find out what judges on various courts and levels find persuasive, and find out what they do not find particularly helpful or useful.

Hon. Theodore Essex

Hon. John W. Holcomb

Hon. Ryan T. Holte

Hon. Randall R. Rader

Hon. Gerald E. Rosen

Reception & Networking

All attendees of the program are invited to join us for our second networking cocktail reception, featuring open bar, hors d’oeuvres, and more! Have a drink and some food and mingle with the speakers and other attendees from the event!

VIP Dinners – By Invitation Only

VIP dinners are by invitation.  VIPs will be notified in advance of the event and provided a ticket to attend.

After Hours Nightcap – By Invitation Only

Invitees will be notified in advance of the event and provided a ticket to attend.

Breakfast, Registration & Networking

Sponsored by Quest Patent Research Corporation.

Best Practices for Enablement and Written Description After Amgen v. Sanofi *

On May 18, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Amgen, Inc. v. Sanofi et al. The Court determined that the 26 antibody examples and detailed instructions for generating additional antibodies within the genus—which covered some 400 pages and included a CD Rom of the x-ray crystallography coordinates of Amgen’s “anchor” (or lead) antibodies 21B12 (Repatha) and 31H4—was insufficient…

Gene Quinn

Leanne Rakers

Laura Smalley

A.J. Sutton

Collaborative Synergy: Best Practices for In-House and Outside Counsel Working Together

The relationship between in-house counsel and outside counsel can be quite interesting for a variety of reasons. There are many different models corporation clients use when hiring outside counsel, which leads to the complexity. For some corporate clients they prefer to hire outside counsel in more of a transactional manner, giving outside counsel discrete work with specific—sometimes limited—information. Others prefer…

Enno Bibow

David Hall

Joseph Monaghan

Michael Nye

Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Law and Innovation *

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken center stage in popular culture thanks to the significant advances of tools like ChatGPT. The use of these new, high-powered AI tools presents real issues for businesses of all types and all sizes. Notably, Samsung employees shared confidential information with ChatGPT while using the chatbot at work. Subsequently, Samsung decided to restrict the use of…

Ray Chohan

Elina Litvak Cohen

Allison Gaul

John Zevitas

Networking Break

Sponsored by Sisvel Group  

The Hallmarks of a Rational IP Strategy *

Faced with ever-shrinking budgets and mounting pressure from the C-suite to demonstrate intellectual property (IP) value, many enterprises no longer file anywhere in the world where competitors might manufacture or sell products. But simply electing to file more selectively than in the past does not necessarily equate to an optimal global patent strategy. A rationale patent strategy in 2023 must…

Carlo Cotrone

Cynthia Deal-Mitchell

Robert Stoll

Leo White

The U.S. IP System: Diagnosis, Prognosis & Predictions *

Join us for a lively discussion of what is right with the U.S. IP System, what is wrong with the U.S. IP System, and for predictions on what the future holds.  With IPWatchdog personalities and regular contributors, and special guest— the Honorable Scott F. Kieff, former Commissioner on the International Trade Commission (ITC). Moderated by Eileen McDermott, Editor-in-Chief of IPWatchdog.com,…

Hon. F. Scott Kieff

Eileen McDermott

Gene Quinn

Wen Xie

Patent Litigation Funding, Deal Structures and Best Practices

Today, many companies make the business decision to infringe patented technology instead of paying a royalty to license it—so called efficient infringement. The calculation is that it will ultimately be less expensive to ignore the patent rights of innovations than to take a license in an arm’s length negotiation. For much of the last 15 years that calculation has proved…

Alfred R. Fabricant

Phil Goter

Anup Misra

Jon Scahill

A Chief IP Counsel Roundtable: Strategic Planning and Actionable Advice for the C-suite

How does one create a culture of creativity to spur innovation while deciding what innovations need protecting, and how do you combat the ever-growing threat of counterfeits and patent infringement? These and many other questions dominate the day-to-day substantive decision making for intellectual property professionals in the C-Suite, but there are many other issues that arise as well. The Chief…

Paul Hashim

Ken Lemke

Kevin McLintock

Changhae Park

Gene Quinn

AI-Assisted Drafting – Panacea or Pandora’s Box? *

1 hour of ethics MCLE will be requested. The use of Artificial Intelligence while engaging in the practice of law is fraught with peril and pitfalls from both a legal and an ethical standpoint. The ethical concerns presented by the use of artificial intelligence are not insurmountable, but do require practitioners to engage in serious forethought and consultation with clients…

Sivon Kalminov

John Rogitz

Mark Vallone

Mediating Intellectual Property Disputes: Different Approaches and Best Practices

Jeff Kichaven

Hon. Randall R. Rader

Hon. Gerald E. Rosen

Lunch & Keynote

Gene will have a fireside chat with Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Hon. Kathi Vidal

A Conversation with PTAB Judges

This panel, moderated by Todd Walters, Patent Office Litigation Practice Group Leader at Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney, will offer the perspectives of Administrative Patent Judges (APJs) from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). While patent attorneys may think everything they are doing is a best practice and highly persuasive, the real question is whether the Judges of the PTAB…

Hon. Scott R. Boalick

Hon. Melissa A. Haapala

Hon. Grace Karaffa Obermann

Hon. Michael Tierney

Todd Walters

Protecting Fintech IP: Designing and Implementing an Optimal Strategy

FinTech covers many different types of technologies and has become a catch-all term referring to the use of various technologies that collectively empower financial transactions. Fintech encompasses complex blockchain innovations, cybersecurity and encryption technologies, payment gateways, artificial intelligence (AI), and cryptocurrencies and trading platforms. While it has become challenging—if not impossible— to patent financial business methods and payment gateways, it…

Christopher Grice

Jason Harrier

Thara Russell

Ethics and the USPTO: What Every Practitioner Needs to Know *

Join Gene Quinn, President & CEO of IPWatchdog, Inc., for a 1 hour ethics CLE. This ethics presentation will discuss: (1) United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Rules of Professional Conduct, with emphasis on the Rules most often violated by practitioners at the USPTO, and how The USPTO Rules of Professional Conduct are the same as, or differ from,…

Will Covey

Sivon Kalminov

Gene Quinn

John White

Happy Hour & Networking

Join us for happy hour to end IPWatchdog LIVE 2023.