Agenda
** Panel videos are available to watch for any panel below showing a double asterisk after the title.
Monday, Aug 26, 2024
8:00 AM ET
9:00 AM ET
Fireside Chat with USPTO Director Kathi Vidal
Description forthcoming. Chat time subject to change. USPTO Director Kathi Vidal has been invited, and has expressed interest in speaking pending USPTO approval and scheduling confirmation. Survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Fireside-Chat-with-USPTO-Director
Renée C. Quinn
Hon. Kathi Vidal
Description forthcoming. Chat time subject to change. USPTO Director Kathi Vidal has been invited, and has expressed interest in speaking pending USPTO approval and scheduling confirmation. Survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Fireside-Chat-with-USPTO-Director
,10:00 AM ET
10:30 AM ET
Building a Successful Career in IP
Despite their significant contributions, women often face obstacles in accessing the resources – particularly financing – and support they need to thrive in industry. Unfortunately, the IP industry is no exception. This panel brings together four exceptional women who have made a mark on the IP industry, each taking a different path into the industry. This panel will explore the…
Danielle Abramson
Melissa Adams
Elizabeth Dougherty
Renée C. Quinn
Despite their significant contributions, women often face obstacles in accessing the resources – particularly financing – and support they need to thrive in industry. Unfortunately, the IP industry is no exception. This panel brings together four exceptional women who have made a mark on the IP industry, each taking a different path into the industry. This panel will explore the…
,11:30 AM ET
12:00 PM ET
Winning the Battle Against Counterfeits *
Counterfeit products are an enormous problem for businesses all over the world, from consumer goods, to software, to pharmaceuticals, counterfeits have become nearly ubiquitous. Counterfeiters easily (and conservatively) cost brand owners hundreds of billions of dollars each year. Given the low risk of getting caught, high profit margins and often uncoordinated enforcement regimes, fighting counterfeits is an ever-growing challenge for…
Gina Johnson
Holly Lance
Maja Szumarska
Alaina van Horn
Counterfeit products are an enormous problem for businesses all over the world, from consumer goods, to software, to pharmaceuticals, counterfeits have become nearly ubiquitous. Counterfeiters easily (and conservatively) cost brand owners hundreds of billions of dollars each year. Given the low risk of getting caught, high profit margins and often uncoordinated enforcement regimes, fighting counterfeits is an ever-growing challenge for…
,2:00 PM ET
Emerging IP Issues in an Artificially Intelligent World *
The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken center stage in popular culture thanks to the significant advances of tools like ChatGPT. Of course, the use of these new, high-powered AI tools presents real issues for businesses of all types and all sizes. And thanks to the popularization of generative AI tools, even those with only passing technological prowess are…
Allison Gaul
Kayleigh Nauman
Lauren Sherwood
Wen Xie
The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken center stage in popular culture thanks to the significant advances of tools like ChatGPT. Of course, the use of these new, high-powered AI tools presents real issues for businesses of all types and all sizes. And thanks to the popularization of generative AI tools, even those with only passing technological prowess are…
,3:30 PM ET
Capturing Innovation: Best Practices for Invention Harvesting *
Invention harvesting—sometimes also referred to as invention mining, brainstorming, and ideation, among other terms—is a proactive process that involves (1) prompting innovators to conceive of new inventions or reveal inventions already conceived but not yet appreciated or articulated; and (2) documenting such inventions so they can be protected, either with a patent or through documentation as a trade secret. Invention…
Jenna Parenti
Thara Russell
Stephanie Schonewald
Celeste Walker
Invention harvesting—sometimes also referred to as invention mining, brainstorming, and ideation, among other terms—is a proactive process that involves (1) prompting innovators to conceive of new inventions or reveal inventions already conceived but not yet appreciated or articulated; and (2) documenting such inventions so they can be protected, either with a patent or through documentation as a trade secret. Invention…
,5:00 PM ET
The Nexus Between Patent Valuation and Patent Monetization *
The value of a patent or a patent portfolio in the broader patent market is in some very basic way related to the likelihood that it can be successfully monetized. Thus, every successful patent monetization campaign must necessarily start with a competent, defendable, valuation exercise to either value the patent or patents that will be enforced, or the entire worldwide…
Erin Crockett
Pinar Gencer
Ngoc Ngo
The value of a patent or a patent portfolio in the broader patent market is in some very basic way related to the likelihood that it can be successfully monetized. Thus, every successful patent monetization campaign must necessarily start with a competent, defendable, valuation exercise to either value the patent or patents that will be enforced, or the entire worldwide…
,6:00 PM ET
Cocktail Reception
Please join us at the end of Day 1 for beer, wine, cocktails and hors d’ oeuvres.
Please join us at the end of Day 1 for beer, wine, cocktails and hors d’ oeuvres.
,Tuesday, Aug 27, 2024
8:00 AM ET
9:00 AM ET
Tech Transfer and the Commercialization Process *
Universities have become a major source of innovation for local and regional economic development. And the role of universities in the innovation ecosystem is owed completely to the revolutionary Bayh-Dole Act, which allows universities to own the patents they obtain and to license them out to industry, and even create start-up companies to commercialize and bring groundbreaking innovations to market. Bayh-Dole has…
Becky Kaufman
Margo Monroe
Laura Peter
Patricia Stepp
Universities have become a major source of innovation for local and regional economic development. And the role of universities in the innovation ecosystem is owed completely to the revolutionary Bayh-Dole Act, which allows universities to own the patents they obtain and to license them out to industry, and even create start-up companies to commercialize and bring groundbreaking innovations to market. Bayh-Dole has…
,10:00 AM ET
10:30 AM ET
Winning on Paper: Effectively & Persuasively Writing for the Court *
Winning and losing at the Federal Circuit sometimes seems arbitrary, and panel dependent. Still, there are many attorneys that have a very high win percentage when representing clients at the Federal Circuit. What have these attorneys learned about the secret to success? In a previous panel on this topic we explored in detail those issues that come into play before…
Khanh Leon
Farheena Rasheed
Coke Morgan Stewart
Winning and losing at the Federal Circuit sometimes seems arbitrary, and panel dependent. Still, there are many attorneys that have a very high win percentage when representing clients at the Federal Circuit. What have these attorneys learned about the secret to success? In a previous panel on this topic we explored in detail those issues that come into play before…
,11:30 AM ET
12:00 PM ET
In-House Insights: What Keeps Us Up at Night
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Jennifer Burdman
Sarah Fashena
Jennifer Kuhn
Erin Wills
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,2:00 PM ET
Gaming Patent Litigation: Perspectives on Patent Trolls and Efficient Infringement *
Depending on your perspective, patent trolls have been and continue to be a problem, or complaints about patent trolls have been greatly exaggerated. As is often the case, the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle. While not every patent owner is or should be considered a patent troll, and not every non-practicing entity is a bad actor, it is…
Elisabeth (Bette) Muirhead
Katie O’Sullivan
Jamie Simpson
Depending on your perspective, patent trolls have been and continue to be a problem, or complaints about patent trolls have been greatly exaggerated. As is often the case, the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle. While not every patent owner is or should be considered a patent troll, and not every non-practicing entity is a bad actor, it is…
,3:30 PM ET
Aligning Business Strategy with IP Strategy *
In view of the substantial costs of obtaining and maintaining Intellectual Property (IP) protection, most enterprises simply cannot afford to mindlessly seek protection for all intangible assets everywhere across the globe. Given ever-shrinking budgets and mounting pressure from the C-Suite to justify the value of IP, there is little point devoting time or resources to things that do not facilitate…
Tenley Krueger
Megan Lyman
Melissa Pytel
Marlene Valderrama
In view of the substantial costs of obtaining and maintaining Intellectual Property (IP) protection, most enterprises simply cannot afford to mindlessly seek protection for all intangible assets everywhere across the globe. Given ever-shrinking budgets and mounting pressure from the C-Suite to justify the value of IP, there is little point devoting time or resources to things that do not facilitate…
,5:00 PM ET
Innovation, IP and Women: Solutions for Closing the Gender Gap *
The number of women inventors has quintupled since the 1970s, yet fewer than 20% of issued U.S. patents have at least one woman inventor and fewer than 8% list a woman as the primary inventor. This patent gender gap is not the only such gap. In 2023, all-women owned business in the United States raised $3.2 billion from VCs, while…
Natasha Landery
Eileen McDermott
Hon. Pauline Newman
Torie Reinhart
The number of women inventors has quintupled since the 1970s, yet fewer than 20% of issued U.S. patents have at least one woman inventor and fewer than 8% list a woman as the primary inventor. This patent gender gap is not the only such gap. In 2023, all-women owned business in the United States raised $3.2 billion from VCs, while…
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