POPRs and the New PTAB Final Rules: Maximizing the Impact of POPRs in IPR Petitions
Recording of a 90-minute premium CLE webinar with Q&A
This CLE course will provide guidance to patent counsel on how to maximize the impact of a Patent Owner Preliminary Response (POPR), in light of the PTAB final rules. The panel will discuss insufficient evidence in the petition, favorable claim constructions, and attacking threshold issues.
Outline
- Impact of final rules on POPRs
- Analysis of patent owner arguments that worked (IPR petitions denied)
- Maximizing impact of POPR
- Evidence in the petition
- Favorable claim construction proposal
- Attacking threshold issues
Benefits
The panel will review the following and other key issues:
- To which PTAB post-grant proceeding do the new rules apply?
- What are the pros and cons of generating and presenting new evidence in the patent owner preliminary response?
Faculty
Cory C. Bell
Partner
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Mr. Bell focuses on patent prosecution management, client counseling, post-grant practice, and litigation, with an... | Read More
Mr. Bell focuses on patent prosecution management, client counseling, post-grant practice, and litigation, with an emphasis on electronic technology. He assists in developing patent prosecution strategies for clients with various budgets and desired outcomes. His patent experience began as a patent examiner at the USPTO. He has evaluated thousands of patents and patent applications for licensing, monetization, or sale; assisted in prosecuting hundreds of patent applications; managed patent portfolios; conducted patent landscaping and competitor analysis; and filed patent reexamination, post-grant review, and inter partes review requests.
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Joshua L. Goldberg
Partner
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Mr. Goldberg focuses on patent office proceedings, client counseling, and litigation. Devoting the majority of his time... | Read More
Mr. Goldberg focuses on patent office proceedings, client counseling, and litigation. Devoting the majority of his time to representing petitioners and patent owners in inter partes review and post-grant review proceedings, he regularly manages the preparation of written submissions, takes and defends technical expert depositions, and argues before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He also develops and manages global patent portfolios, and provides opinions on patent infringement, patent validity, and other intellectual property issues.
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Thomas L. Irving
Partner
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Mr. Irving has 35 years of experience in the field of IP law. His practice includes due diligence, patent prosecution,... | Read More
Mr. Irving has 35 years of experience in the field of IP law. His practice includes due diligence, patent prosecution, reissue and reexamination, patent interferences, and counseling, including prelitigation, Orange Book listings of patents covering FDA-approved drugs, and infringement and validity analysis in the chemical fields, as well as litigation. Mr. Irving has served as lead counsel in many patent interferences.
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Jill K. MacAlpine, Ph.D.
Partner
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Dr. MacAlpine practices patent procurement, due diligence investigations, opinion work, and client counseling,... | Read More
Dr. MacAlpine practices patent procurement, due diligence investigations, opinion work, and client counseling, primarily in the chemical and pharmaceutical areas. She has extensive experience in handling patent matters before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), including post-grant proceedings specifically IPRs, appeals, and oral hearings at the PTAB; drafting and prosecution of patent applications; reissue and reexamination proceedings; and interferences.
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