Events 2021 Kilpatrick Townsend Intellectual Property Seminars

You are invited to join us at Kilpatrick Townsend Intellectual Property Seminars (KTIPS). KTIPS is a patent strategy and protection seminar designed to provide insightful training related to current developments in patent law. This year, we are pleased to offer three sessions to our Japanese-based clients and guests. See below for more information on each session.

WHEN

10:00 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. JST

WHERE

Online | Link will be provided upon registration.

AGENDA

Hitoshi Akiba will moderate and provide interpretation for this seminar.

• 10:00 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. JST
  

  Session 1 | Patent Law Update

  This session will highlight hot topics at the Federal Circuit in 2020 and 2021. The session will focus on patent-eligible subject matter, venue, post grant review, and recent U.S. Supreme Court petitions.
  Presented by Jamie Isbester

• 11:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. JST
  

  Session 2 | Patent Litigation in the Western District of Texas

  Is the Western District of Texas becoming the new center for U.S. patent litigation? This session will highlight recent trends in the Western District of Texas.
  Presented by Bob Hollingshead and Steve Moore

• 12:00 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. JST
  

  Session 3 | ITC Trends and Recent Important Decisions

  The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) is tasked with stopping the importation of infringing goods into the United States, and the ITC is more popular than ever. This session will provide a brief overview of ITC practice and highlight recent trends and decisions that have impacted practice before this unique federal agency.
  Presented by Dario Machleidt, Kris Reed and Aarti Shah

For questions or more information, please contact Ritsuko Saito at saito.ritsuko@kilpatricktownsend.jp or Alex Vidaure at avidaure@kilpatricktownsend.com.

ABOUT US

Kilpatrick Townsend’s patent practice goes back more than 160 years. We have considerable experience, not only prosecuting patent applications, but also litigating patent claims and other IP and complex technology issues. All of our patent attorneys, and many of our litigators, have an engineering or science background, often with deep experience in the technologies our clients want to protect. Unlike many other law firms, we do not have expertise solely in one or two technical areas, but in a wide variety of technical specialties to advance and develop our client’s entire patent portfolio. Learn more at https://kilpatricktownsend.jp/.