Upcoming Events

I’m looking forward to a few upcoming events for patent law professionals:

• HOUSTON: On the evening of November 5, 2014, I will be delivering the University of Houston’s IP IL Annual Fall Lecture at the Four Seasons Hotel in Houston (Sponsored by the Katz Foundation). My talk will be on incentives (current and future) for patent clarity. [LINK]. Thank you to the University of Houston Law Center for hosting this event.
• AUSTIN: November 6-7, 2014, I will be down in Austin Texas participating in the annual Advanced Patent Law Institute with a talk titled Evidence Based Patent Law: Trends and Statistics, and What they Mean for Your Practice and your Patent Portfolio. [LINK]. Other speakers include Professors Golden (UT Austin), Lemley (Stanford), Wegner (formerly with GWU), and Hricik (Mercer); the Hon. Terry Rea and Randy Rader; Rob Sterne, et al.
• WASHINGTON DC: Unfortunately, a great conference is also scheduled in DC for November 6-7, 2014 in Washington DC.  The Patents in Telecom conference, co-sponsored by University College of London (UCL) faculty of laws and GWU.  Excellent and varied set of international speakers including Qualcomm president Derek Aberly, AT&T Chief IP counsel Glenn Blumstein, and Sir Christopher Floyd, Lord Justice at the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. Patently-O readers get a 10% discount with code: patently-o-2014
• WASHINGTON DC: On December 9, 2014, the IPO Education Foundation will be awarding its Distinguished IP Professional Award to Judge Richard Linn. Excellent choice and well deserved honor.  The IPO has more information on the award dinner and their reasons for choosing Judge Linn. Hugh Herr will also be named inventor of the year for his work on prosthetics.
• VAIL: January 7-11, 2015, I will be in Vail, Colorado talking about patent law as part of the 32^nd National CLE Confrence where they also happen to have “amazing skiing.” Conference co-chairs are Scott Alter (Baker Daniels) and David Bernstein (Debevoise & Plimpton ). [LINK]
• NAPLES: February 7-10, 2015: Hal Wegner’s annual Patent Experts Conference in Naples (FL) at the Naples Beach Hotel.
• USPTO: The USPTO’s AIA Roadshow continues with stops in Denver (Oct 2), Cupertino (Oct 7), and Atlanta (Oct 9). [LINK]
• COPENHAGEN: A late entry to this list is the October 21 event at Aarhus University in Denmark focusing on the upcoming UNIFIED PATENT COURT in Europe. Judge Rader will deliver the keynote. I would be most interested in hearing the discussion of how the UPC may impact patent licensing, competition and enforcement. [Link]

We also have a set of new job postings on the Patently-O Job Board.

• Patent Associate or Agent – Law Firm – Milwaukee, Wisc.
• Patent Attorney / Agent – Law Firm – Fairfax, Va.
• Patent Associate / Agent – Law Firm – Alexandria, Va.
• U.S. Patent Attorney – Law Firm – Tokyo, Japan
• IP Attorney – Large Corporation – Bloomington, Minn.
• Associate – Law Firm – Minneapolis, Minn.
• Research Analyst – Law Firm – Kansas City, Mo.
• Patent Attorney – Law Firm – Nationwide
• Patent Attorneys – Law Firm – Atlanta, Ga.
• Patent Litigation/Post-Grant Proceedings Associate – Law Firm – Alexandria, Va.