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  Subject:   The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Comes to Silicon Valley

  Sponsor:   Stanford University; Bay Area Bioscience Center; SVIPLA; SFIPLA

  Date:   Tuesday, April 11, 2000

  Time:   7:30am - 5:15pm

  Location:   Stanford Law School [look for it in a campus map]

  Event URL:   http://www.law.stanford.edu/programs/execed/programs/patent/index.shtml

  Contact:   Robert Gibson at 650-725-5849; execed@law.stanford.edu

The U. S. Patent and Trademark Office Comes to Silicon Valley Cutting Edge
Patent Issues in Biotech and Software 

Presented by The Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology, and 
Stanford Law School Executive Education 

Stanford University 
April 11, 2000 

Co-sponsored by: 
Bay Area Bioscience Center 
Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association (SVIPLA) 
San Francisco Intellectual Property Law Association (SFIPLA) 

Program Chairs 
Q. Todd Dickinson 
Assistant Secretary of Commerce and 
Commissioner of Patents & Trademarks 


Paul Goldstein 
Stella W. and Ira S. Lillick Professor of Law, Stanford Law School 


The Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology, and Stanford Law
School Executive Education, is pleased to present leading officials from
the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Joined by local experts,
they will discuss current patent issues of particular interest to
Biotechnology and Software Companies, and Silicon Valley practitioners.
There will be ample time for discussion questions and answers, as well
as informal conversations with Patent and Trademark staff over lunch and
coffee. 


AGENDA 

7:30am-8:30am - Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30am-8:45am - Welcome and Opening Remarks 
Paul Goldstein, Stella W. and Ira S. Lillick Professor of Law, Stanford
Law School 

8:45am-9:30am - Bioinformatics 
Margaret Parr, Technology Center 1600 Practice Specialist 

9:30am-10:15am - Written Description Guidelines 
Margaret Parr 

10:15am-10:30am - Break 

10:30am-12:00pm - Breakout Sessions: 
    Biotech: Utility and Enablement Issues 
    Margaret Parr 
    Software: Description and Best Mode 
    Stephen G. Kunin, Deputy Asst. Commissioner for Patent
    Policy and Projects 

12:00pm-2:00pm - Luncheon Keynote Address 
Q. Todd Dickinson, Assistant Secretary of 
Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks 

2:00pm-3:30pm - Breakout Sessions: 
   Biotech: Claim Interpretation 
   Margaret Parr 
   Software: Patentability and Signal Claims 
   Stephen Kunin   

3:30pm-3:45pm - Break 

3:45pm-4:30pm - Practice Before the New Interference Trial Section 
Richard Schafer, Administrative Patent Judge, Board of Patent Appeals
and Interferences 

4:30pm-5:15pm - 35 USC 112, 6th Paragraph 
Stephen Kunin   
Practitioners and faculty expected to join PTO speakers include: ·
Donald S. Chisum, Of Counsel, Morrison & Foerster, and Professor of Law,
Santa Clara University 

·Rebecca Eisenberg, Visiting Professor of Law, Stanford Law School 
·Henry B. Gutman, Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 
·Sean Johnston, Vice President-Intellectual Property, Genentech, Inc. 
·Randy Scott, President & Chief Scientific Officer, Incyte Pharmaceuticals,Inc. 
·Debra Shetka, Partner, Morrison & Foerster 

Program Fee:    
Full Rate: $345.00 
3 or more in group: $300.00 (per person) 
Registrants from non-profit and government agencies or academic
institutions, please call for rate information 

To register for the conference, please visit the on-line registration
page on the Stanford Law School Executive Education web site: 
http://www.law.stanford.edu/programs/execed/registration/index.shtml

For more information about the "U.S. PTO Comes to Silicon Valley"
conference, please visit the following page on the Stanford Law School
Executive Education web site: 

http://www.law.stanford.edu/programs/execed/programs/patent/index.shtml

If you are unable to register on-line and would like a brochure and
registration form sent to you, please call Stanford Law School Executive
Education at (650) 723-5905 or E-Mail your request to:execed@law.stanford.edu

 Event history: Submitted by erlinda on 22-Mar-2000;

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