by Michele Moss | Jun 13, 2018 | Bar and Committee Business, CLE
The Intellectual Property Law Committee meeting will be held during the 2018 Florida Bar Annual Convention on Thursday, June 14,2018, 9:30-11:30 a.m. at the Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek, 14100 Bonnet Creek Resort Lane, Orlando, FL 32821
For those who cannot attend in person the Dial in Number is: 1-888-376-5050 PIN: 8670236698
See the following link for minutes from the 4/12/18 IP Committee Meeting: IP Committee Meeting Minutes 4.12.18
See the following link for the Agenda for tomorrow’s meeting: 2018 Annual Meeting – IP Committee Agenda
Our CLE Presentation topic is IP Damages and Licensing Negotiations, presented by Dana Trexler of Eisner Amper.
by Michele Moss | May 22, 2018 | General Announcements
Greetings from the Patent Pro Bono Program! The USPTO is excited to introduce a new Achievement Certificate recognizing law firms and corporations that meet cumulative hours of patent pro bono service through their registered patent practitioners. Also, as a result of the great success last year, the USPTO will continue to provide Service Certificates to individual registered patent practitioners who provide at least 50 hours of service in 2018 to their local patent pro bono program. Both certificates will be signed by Commissioner of Patents Andrew Hirshfeld and William Covey, Director for the Office of Enrollment and Discipline. In addition, recipients may choose to be listed on the USPTO website. We hope that your membership will take advantage of these opportunities!
Patent practitioners are uniquely positioned to help financially under-resourced inventors and small businesses file and prosecute patent applications. Matches are made by local patent pro bono programs. The local programs screen applicants using criteria that include: (1) household income; (2) knowledge of the patent system, and (3) possession of an actual invention (not merely an idea). Your organization’s membership can volunteer through Patent Pro Bono FL – Arts and Business Council of Miami. Please see www.uspto.gov/probonopatents or https://www.artsbizmiami.org/ for more information.
Please inform your members about these opportunities. We also welcome the opportunity to speak to them about the Program at one of your meetings. Ethics CLE may be available.
Please to contact us with any questions. Together we can make the Patent Pro Bono Program a lasting success!
Thank you,
The USPTO Patent Pro Bono Team
www.uspto.gov/probonopatents
[email protected]
by Michele Moss | Apr 23, 2018 | Annual Symposium
I am re-sending the link to Professor Duffy’s Article Below. I apologize for any problems with the prior link:
The Festo Case and the Return of the Supreme Court to the Bar of Patents, 2002 S. Ct. Rev. 273: The Festo Decision and the Return of the Supreme Court to the Bar
by Michele Moss | Apr 23, 2018 | Annual Symposium
Thank you to everyone who attended the subject event April 12-13, 2018. For those of you that requested a copy of Professor Duffy’s Symposium Powerpoint on Patents and the Supreme Court, you can find a copy here: John F. Duffy Presentation April_2018
Also, in his presentation, Professor Duffy referenced three articles on patents, and they can be found at the links below:
The Festo Case and the Return of the Supreme Court to the Bar of Patents, 2002 S. Ct. Rev. 273: The Festo Decision and the Return of the Supreme Court to the Bar
The Federal Circuit in the Shadow of the Solicitor General, 78 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 518 (2010)
Statutory Domain and the Commercial Law of Intellectual Property, 102 Va. L. Rev. 1 (2016)
by Michele Moss | Apr 9, 2018 | Annual Symposium, Bar and Committee Business
The next IP Committee Meeting will be this Thursday, April 12, 2018 @ the Don Cesar 4:10-5:00 p.m. during the 9th Annual Florida Bar IP Symposium. Here is a link to download the Agenda for the meeting:Meeting Agenda 2018 IP Symposium
Here is a link to the minutes from the January 18, 2018 meeting: 1/18/18 Committee Mtg Minutes
For those who cannot attend in person, the call-in information for the IP committee meeting is:
Dial-In number: 1-888-376-5050, Pin: 8670236698
We hope to see all of you at the IP Symposium. There is still time to register. See this link: 2018 IP Symposium Brochure
Our room block at the Don Cesar is sold out, but there are still rooms available a short (1.5 miles) distance away at the Sirata Beach Resort: https://bit.ly/2pRzCfF and the Tradewinds Island Resorts: https://bit.ly/2Gkofam
