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William R. Reid, Partner at Dilworth IP, will be hosting a FREE webinar on Wednesday, July 20th at 1:00 PM (EDT). This entry in the Dilworth IP Webinar Series is entitled Now that the Dust has Settled for the AIA – Where We’ve Been, Where We Are, and Where We Need to Go, and will focus on the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) of 2012. The AIA is widely recognized as causing the most significant change to the U.S. patent system since 1952, and Mr. Reid will consider its impact on both patent procurement and enforcement. In particular, he will address the trends in the new post-grant proceedings, the significant issues which still need further clarification from the Federal Circuit, and the potential additions/corrections to the AIA to expect in the future. This presentation will provide patent practitioners and owners with the information they need to guide their patent strategies in light of the AIA as well as looking at how the AIA has been applied over the last three years, with an eye toward some of its ongoing issues.

Anthony D. Sabatelli, PhD, and Frederick A. Spaeth, Partners at Dilworth IP, are presenting a talk on “Intellectual Property Considerations for Entrepreneurs.” Their talk will be part of a series of training seminars offered by the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute (“YEI”) to their summer fellow venture teams. The event will take place today, Monday, June 13th at YEI, 254 Elm Street in New Haven, CT. Dilworth IP is a corporate partner of YEI.

Dilworth IP partner, Frederick Spaeth, will serve as a panelist at the 2016 Connecticut Business Expo in Hartford, CT this Thursday. This annual, one-day event provides a venue for thousands of business executives from across the state to showcase their products and services. The day will consist of a series of educational sessions moderated and paneled by experts from a variety of industries. Fred’s session, “Building a Great Brand Name,” will focus on the branding process, with his talk emphasizing the selection and securitization of a brand name.

Dilworth IP will be sponsoring CURE at the BIO International Convention in San Francisco. The event, which will be held from Monday, June 6th through Thursday, June 9th at the Moscone Center, brings together over 15,000 biotechnology and pharma leaders from across the world for a week of intense educational programs, exhibitions and networking opportunities. The keynote address this year will be given by Will Smith and Dr. Bennet Omalu and will be entitled “Knowledge Precipitates Evolutio

Dilworth IP is proud to have been a sponsor for the fifty-five Connecticut students who traveled to the National Invention Convention and Entrepreneurship Expo (NICEE) in Washington, D.C. A ceremony was held by Governor Dannel Malloy on Friday, May 20th at the State’s Capitol to see the young inventors off as they headed to the event. Dilworth IP’s Frederick Spaeth, who was present for the ceremony, said “it was a such a pleasure to see so much enthusiasm from the students as they headed to the convention. I think the event is a fantastic way to teach the practical process of protecting their creative ideas.”

Mark A. Thomas, partner at Dilworth IP, will be hosting a FREE webinar on Wednesday, June 8th at 1:00 PM (EDT). This session, entitled Two Years After Alice – A Challenging Adventure for Software Patents, will discuss the aftermath of the 2014 Supreme Court decision in Alice Corp v. CLS Bank International. Alice has grown beyond a less than satisfying Supreme Court decision to become the most significant threat to billions of dollars in software patents. This webinar will be of particular benefit to in-house counsel as it will explore recent Patent Office guidance and federal court decisions with a practical focus on protecting software and getting more patents allowed under evolving Alice standards. The webinar will also touch on the impact of Alice and how it has changed the legal landscape.

Dilworth IP is sponsoring the 2016 Biotech Bootcamp which will be hosted by the Yale Office of Cooperative Research and will be held at Evans Hall in New Haven, CT on Thursday May 12th. This one-day workshop seeks to educate Yale faculty and researchers on how to commercialize their ideas for drug discovery and biological therapeutics, with an emphasis on engaging pharmaceutical and venture capital firms by creating “fundable ideas.” The keynote speakers this year are Crystal McKellar, Managing Director & General Council at Mithril Capital and George Yancopoulos, President of Regeneron Research Laboratories.

Jessica Miles of Dilworth IP will be presenting a talk for the 5th Annual Connecticut Symbiosis Meeting on Monday, May 9th at Yale’s West Campus. This annual symposium brings together researchers from Yale University, The University of Connecticut, and Jackson Laboratory who study microbes that live in close association with animals, plants, and other species. The event will highlight work in a number of research areas, including the human microbiome, microbial communities, microbiomes of insects that spread infection, and host-microbe interactions. Julia Oh, of Jackson Laboratory, will deliver this year’s keynote address. In her talk, Jessica will share her recent discovery of genes that are required for Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a common bacteria in the environment and cause of life-threatening infection in hospital settings, to grow in a fly model of infection.

Frederick Spaeth, Partner at Dilworth IP, will be speaking at the 32nd Annual Joint Patent Practice Seminar which will take place at the New York Marriot Marquis on Thursday, April 21st. The annual event is hosted by the Joint Patent Practice Continuing Legal Education, Inc. (JPPCLE, Inc.), as a one-day seminar of featured speakers who offer comprehensive and concise presentations on various recent developments in patent law; including cases, legislation and regulations. Fred’s talk will focus on the 2015 IPR case American Megatrends et al. v Kinglite Holdings, and will consider the use of a U.S. patent as prior art against an earlier filed patent in the context of an Inter Partes Review.

Frederick A. Spaeth, Partner at Dilworth IP, will be presenting a talk on how to protect intellectual property assets in an ever-evolving world of cloud-based technology. His talk will be part of a business law seminar hosted by the Greater Bridgeport Bar Association, and entitled “Intellectual Property Due Diligence for Start-Up Entities.” The event will take place on Thursday, April 14th at 1057 Broad Street in Bridgeport, CT.