This webinar will focus on the history and context of the agencies’ 2013, 2019, and (draft) 2021 policy statements, as well as the legal impact of their withdrawal. It will also include a discussion of where the U.S. government, standards organizations, and private parties should go from here.

In this webinar, the panel will discuss the basics around what the myth of the meritocracy is and how it affects the legal profession. The panel will be using the published white paper as our guide.

This webinar will focus on the Unified Patent Court and how it will change the way businesses operate in this new world. Join our expert panel—Bettina Wanner of Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH, Boris Kreye of Bird & Bird LLP, and Jakob Kellenberger of Procter & Gamble Services Co. NV—to learn more about the UPC.

The webinar will discuss real stories about challenges in leadership and advancement and consider hypotheticals on how panelists would respond to specific challenging fact patterns. This will include discussion about how changes in leadership styles can make a positive impact on those who continue to be negatively impacted in a post-2020 world, including discussing mental burdens, lack of barrier between work and home, the downsides of “flexibility,” other inequities, and leading across generations.

There is no question that the legal field remains one of the least diverse professions in the United States. Not only are men overrepresented in the practice of law, but they outnumber women in equity partner positions nearly five to one. The statistics become even grimmer when we examine patent attorneys, who need both a law degree and a hard science degree. In the wake of a new study indicating that the Mansfield Rule is not as effective as thought for increasing diversity, what is our industry to do? Join our distinguished panelists who have taken action to help diversity the patent bar. Learn about their innovative and collaborative programs and how you can get involved to be part of the solution.

Join IPO to hear from the USPTO and WIPO on the implementation of the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) Standard ST.26 as the experts discuss the changes to sequence listings filed in patent applications that contain disclosures of nucleotide and/or amino acid sequences. WIPO Standard ST.26, requiring XML formatting, went into effect worldwide on July 1, 2022. The USPTO has adopted new rules to implement this Standard as published at 87 Fed Reg. 30806, (May 20, 2022). The presentation will provide guidance on how you will be able to prepare and submit a compliant sequence listing in U.S. patent applications and PCT applications filed on or after July 1, 2022.

A Joint Presentation by IPO and the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) In this webinar, speakers will address recent IP developments in the United Kingdom and Europe post-Brexit. They will provide an overview of IP rights, the UK and European litigation landscape, and address what has (and has not) changed in the UK.

IPO has been closely monitoring IP issues related to the evolving situation in Russia. During this webinar, our panelists will provide updates related to protection and enforcement of IP in Russia, including the impact of sanctions on the maintenance of Russian IP and developments in Russian laws and in Russian courts impacting IP owners.

This session will provide strategies and best practices for sharing and protecting your business’ data. Speakers will discuss considerations when licensing data including who owns the data, where it can be stored, whether it can be manipulated, what it can be used for, etc. They will also discuss when to choose an open data model vs. a closed model.

This panel will delve into the PTAB’s use of Fintiv to thwart would be challengers from attacking patent claims in AIA proceedings. The panel will look at the changing landscape and evaluate the import of the various factors over time, consider whether Fintiv makes sense given the sliding trial schedules in some jurisdictions, consider how Fintiv impacts different technology areas, and consider how parallel proceedings in different jurisdictions have been impacted. Further the panel will consider where we are now and how changes to Patent Office leadership and proposed legislation might impact future proceedings.

This presentation will review the ethics issues arising from cases in the last 12 months for intellectual property law attorneys.

Our panel will discuss the USPTO’s efforts to increase global harmonization and focus on case studies on strategies used by US and the EU/UK practitioners in preparing industrial design applications that meet their client’s needs in both the priority country and internationally.

What do sustainability, diversity & inclusion, and intellectual property all have in common? Many companies are publicly pledging to lower carbon footprints, increase diversity within their organizations, and share IP in the fight against COVID. This session, which was originally presented during the IPOwners Spring Summit™ in March, will discuss the origin of pledges, how they can impact your organization, and whether they work.

This webinar will take an in-depth look at the new ex parte expungement and reexamination proceedings, including requirements for filing a petition and USPTO procedures for initiating a proceeding.

This webinar will address key TTAB developments and trends from 2021. Important TTAB decisions from the last year will be highlighted, with a focus on fraud on the TTAB, false association, descriptiveness, and functionality.