Pennsylvania (PA) Patent Law CLE Course Catalog

A patent examiner interview can be a critical tool to breakthrough prosecution logjams and drive efficient prosecution, if approached thoughtfully and strategically. This webinar provides examiner interview best practices and tips generated from a quantitative analysis of prior examiner interviews and the qualitative real-world experience of former USPTO examiners.

Learn about recent developments in patent eligibility law and the challenges and opportunities they present, including: the new Supreme Court--and the possibility of a new path for restoring protection for diagnostics and natural products; the strange return of the mental steps doctrine; the issues raised by American Axle CVSG; and new rules for information displays and graphical user interfaces.

Trade secrets have become an important means of protecting intellectual property, especially where patentability is problematic. This seminar will explain trade secret protection and discuss emerging issues under state and federal trade secret statutes and case law.

Trade dress and design patent protection provide interrelated but distinct avenues for protecting the appearance of a new product design or product feature. Recognizing the differences between the two protection strategies and how the strategies interrelate is critical to maximizing protection.

Judicial decisions regularly look beyond the claims of a patent and explore the "essence" of the underlying invention, even though this is not a standalone legal concept. Understanding the role of a patent's "essence" is therefore indispensable for effective patent practice, whether as a litigator, prosecutor or advisor.

A panel discussion of current anti-counterfeiting issues and remedies from three different perspectives: Inhouse counsel for one of the largest online marketplaces in the world, a representative of the FBI's anticounterfeiting task force; and outside civil litigation counsel with a focus on anti-counterfeiting and intellectual property theft.

The presentation will discuss important concepts such as freedom to operate and patent infringement, how patents compare with trade secrets, and monetizing patents.

Join us for an exciting session on how AI is driving another patent boom. We’ll take a deep dive into the various interdisciplinary fields of AI, including computer vision, deep learning, robotic process automation, and neural networks. Learn what differentiates these categories in terms of utility and patent eligibility.

The cloning of online marketplaces and eCommerce sites that peddle in illegal merchandise and counterfeits is proliferating and nearly impossible to track on a manual basis. In this session, we turn the tables on these illicit operators. We will examine how computer vision, a subset of AI, is being smartly leveraged to track and remove illegal content and fakes like it’s a walk in the park.