USPTO Post-Grant Proceedings
Meeting the New Requirements for Post-Grant and Inter Partes Reviews and Supplemental Examination
Recording of a 90-minute premium CLE webinar with Q&A
This CLE course will provide guidance for counsel to IP owners on post-grant practice since the America Invents Law and recent developments, including proposed rules on trial validity. The panel will discuss post-grant review proceedings, special transitional review of business method patents, and supplemental exams.
Outline
- America Invents Act
- Inter partes review
- Timing
- Request standard
- Process flow
- PTAB
- Implementation
- Litigation strategy going forward
- Post-grant review (including business method challenges)
- Differences relative to inter partes reexam
- Industry-specific issues
- Interface with litigation
- Comparison with European oppositions
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key questions:
- How has the AIA transformed post-grant practice?
- How do the changes of the AIA alter the strategic use of post-grant proceedings parallel to litigation?
- What are the relevant deadlines and best practices for the new post-grant review process?
Following the speaker presentations, you'll have an opportunity to get answers to your specific questions during the interactive Q&A.
Faculty
Greg H. Gardella
Partner
Oblon Spivak McClelland Maier & Neustadt
Mr. Gardella focuses on post-grant patent proceedings, patent prosecution, strategic counseling, due diligence... | Read More
Mr. Gardella focuses on post-grant patent proceedings, patent prosecution, strategic counseling, due diligence investigations, and pre-suit investigations. He leverages his extensive litigation background to focus on adversarial post-grant USPTO proceedings. He has handled a significant amount of high-profile patent reexamination disputes, such as the defense of the famous TiVo time warp patent.
CloseScott A. McKeown
Partner
Oblon Spivak McClelland Maier & Neustadt
Mr. McKeown focuses on post-grant counseling, litigation and related prosecution issues. He leads the... | Read More
Mr. McKeown focuses on post-grant counseling, litigation and related prosecution issues. He leads the Reexamination/Reissue team responsible for electronics, wireless communications, software and computer-related inventions and business methods. He handles post-issuance proceedings at the USPTO including reissue applications, ex parte and inter partes reexamination proceedings and appeals to the BPAI.
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Technical Advisor
Oblon Spivak McClelland Maier & Neustadt
Prior to joining the firm, she served over 24 years at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). She served as a... | Read More
Prior to joining the firm, she served over 24 years at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). She served as a supervisory patent examiner in the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU), where her management oversight focused on software and business method patent reexamination proceedings. At the firm, she is a post grant proceedings specialist.
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