Evolving PTAB Trial Practice: Navigating Complex Procedural Rules
Strategically Using Routine and Additional Discovery, Requests for Joinder, and Motions to Amend
Recording of a 90-minute premium CLE webinar with Q&A
This CLE course will guide patent counsel on trends in Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) trial practice, focusing on motion opportunities, amendment, concurrent reissue/reexamination, evidentiary opportunities, petition missteps and much more.
Outline
- Preliminary Proceeding Post-SAS
- Petitioner Strategy
- Claim Construction (Phillips)
- Leveraging Markman
- Grounds
- Timing/325(d)
- RPI/Privy
- Claim Construction (Phillips)
- Patent Owner Strategy
- POPR
- Claim Construction
- Litigation Considerations
- Stay?
- Petitioner Strategy
- Trial
- Discovery
- Depositions
- Claim Construction
- Amendment
- New Evidence?
- Sur-reply
- Preserving the record for appeal
- Motion practice
- Oral Hearing
- Discovery
- Appeal
- Legislation/Changes to Come
Benefits
The panel will review these and other high priority issues:
- New claim construction practice
- Amendment Changes
- Post-SAS practice
- Sur-replies
- New Discovery Opportunities
- Related litigation strategy
- Expected Changes in the horizon
Faculty
Kevin B. Laurence
Partner
Laurence & Phillips
Mr. Laurence has been included in IAM’s list of leading post-grant practitioners every year since... | Read More
Mr. Laurence has been included in IAM’s list of leading post-grant practitioners every year since 2012. He has taught a course as an adjunct professor at the George Washington University Law School on post-grant patent practice since 2015. Mr. Laurence served as an instructor for the Patent Resources Group in three-day courses on post-grant proceedings held biannually during 2009–2019 and is a co-author of a two-volume treatise titled Post-Grant Patent Practice provided in conjunction with the courses. Best Lawyers in America named him 2016 “Lawyer of the Year” in Patent Law for Washington, D.C.
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Scott A. McKeown
Shareholder
Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks
Mr. McKeown is a shareholder with Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks in Washington D.C. and a professorial Lecturer in... | Read More
Mr. McKeown is a shareholder with Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks in Washington D.C. and a professorial Lecturer in Law at The George Washington University Law School. Named one of the world’s leading patent practitioners for post-grant proceedings by Intellectual Asset Management, he is one of the most active PTAB trial attorneys in the US, having handled more than 400 PTAB matters, including those in which more than $500 million was at stake. Mr. McKeown currently serves as lead post-grant counsel to some of the world’s best-known innovators, and is the editor of the award-winning blog PatentsPostGrant.com.
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