USPTO Biotechnology/Chemical/Pharmaceutical Customer Partnership Meeting

Biotechnology/Chemical/Pharmaceutical Customer Partnership  

Wednesday, June 8, 2011 Meeting 
Madison Auditorium  

Starting Time of 10:00 AM

 United States Patent and Trademark Office
Alexandria, Virginia 
600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, VA, 

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Morning Session
10:00 – 10:30 AM.	Greetings, TC Update and Overview	Jackie Stone, George Elliott and Remy Yucel, Directors, Technology Center 1600
10:30 – 11:15 AM	Microsoft v. i4i Ltd.: How potential changes in the evidentiary standard for an invalidity defense could affect patent prosecution and litigation	Garth M. Dahlen, Ph.D., Esq. Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
11:15 – 11:30 AM	Break
11:30 – 12:15 PM	COPA (Clearing the Oldest Patent Applications) – An Overview and Implementation Briefing	John Barlow   SPE, TC2800
12:15 – 1:00 PM	Expedited Examinations (Track 1, PPH, Green Tech, AE, and to Make Special)	Bennett Celsa   QAS, TC1600
1:00 – 2:00 PM	Lunch   The Roundhouse Cafe Cafeteria is inside the Madison Building  lower level. Menu for the Week in PDF will be here.
Afternoon Session
2:00 – 2:45 PM	Current Sequence Listing Process for Nucleic Acids and Polypeptides	Joe Woitach   SPE, Art Unit 1633
2:45 – 3:00 PM	Break
3:00 – 3:45 PM	Common Issues Examiners Face Regarding PLTs and Plant Utility Patents	Anne Marie Grunberg, SPE, Art Unit 1638/1661
3:45 – 4:00 PM	Closing Remarks/Discussion	Jackie Stone, George Elliott and Remy Yucel, Directors, Technology Center 1600

 

Photos of the speakers  will be here.

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Supplemental Materials:
    Carlyle Site Drawings
    Perspective 3D drawing of the building on campus click here 
    Floor plan for a building (pdf 178K) click here
    Close-up plan view of campus map click here 
    Go to http://www.ptoinalexandria.com/index.php for more views and info

 See the BCP’s PTO web page http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/biochempharm/  for the official announcement for the next meeting close to the final date.

For questions about obtaining these materials
contact Cecilia Tsang at Cecilia.Tsang@USPTO.GOV

To be placed on the BCP’s e-mail announcement list 
contact Cecilia Tsang at Cecilia.Tsang@USPTO.GOV

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