Upcoming CLE: Las Vegas!

I’ll be speaking in Las Vegas next month (April 11th) for Dunes, speaking at their Patent Drafting & Prosecution CLE on “Tips and Tricks for Expediting Examination of Your Clients’ Cases.”

Summary of my presentation:

Let’s face it, clients can be driven crazy by how long it takes these days to get a patent. While they are typically forced to wait their turn for examination, it doesn’t have to be that way. In Tips and Tricks for Expediting Examination of Your Client’s Cases, Mr. Nipper will discuss a number of different tips and tricks a savvy practitioner can use to expedite the examination of his/her pending cases.

Also speaking with me:

Doug Sorocco with Dunlap, Codding and Rogers, writer of the PHOSITA patent blog
Howard Sobelman of Snell & Wilmer
Robert Ryan Morishita of the Morishita Law Firm
Matt Buchanan with Dunlap, Codding and Rogers, writer of the Promote the Progress patent blog
Mark A. Litman with Mark A. Litman & Associates.

I’m always interested in “Tips and Tricks for Expediting Examination of Your Client’s Cases”…if you have some that work for you, feel free to drop me a line (nipper@inventblog.com) or leave a comment.

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CLE Webcast on Patent Licensing

The Idaho State Bar has recently started webcasting many of their CLEs.  So far, it seems that many lawyers are opting to watch the presentation from their desk, rather than attend in person.    Of note to my readers might be this upcoming CLE:  Ten Things Every Lawyer Should Know About Patent Licensing by Steven Johnson from the Intellectual Property Licensing Department at Hewlett-Packard on Thursday, February 21, 2008, 8:30-9:30 MST.  Cost:  $35.  Sign up form here.  If you want CLE credit for it, you’d have to fill out your own forms (typically available from your State Bar’s website).

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Buchanan Times Two, CLE and Patent PDFs

Two updates regarding my good friend Matt Buchanan:

1. He’s speaking at the October Dunes CLE.

Current Issues in Patent Law 2007 is being held on October 12, 2007 at the Bellagio hotel and casino in Las Vegas. The speakers include Thomas M. Hardman, a shareholder with Madson & Austin, J. Matthew Buchanan, of Counsel to Dunlap, Codding & Rogers, P.C. and author of the Promote the Progress legal blog that focuses on worldwide patent law and policy issues, Eric L. Maschoff, a shareholder with the law firm of Workman Nydegger and an adjunct professor of law at the University of Utah College of Law teaching patent law and patent prosecution, Mark Sandbaken, Ph.D., the Director of Intellectual Property at Seattle Genetics, Inc, and Robert Ryan Morishita, founder of the Morishita Law Firm.

Topics:

1. Inequitable Conduct After McKesson: Has The “Plague” Returned? - Thomas M. Hardman
2. USPTO Claims and Continuation Practice Files Rules: Where Are We Now? - Mark Sandbaken
3. Statutory Subject Matter in 2007 and Beyond - Robert Ryan Morishita
4. The Supreme Court’s Decision in KSR v. Teleflex - Eric L. Maschoff
5. Patent Law and Policy Update 2007 - A Comprehensive Review of Significant Developments in Congress and the Federal Circuit - J. Matthew Buchanan

If you’re looking for a fun trip (Vegas, Baby!), some CLE credits before the end of the year and a briefing on the new USPTO Rule changes…Dunes CLE would fit that bill. http://www.dunescle.com

2. Matt has released “version 2.0″ of PatentFizz, including the ability to download pdf copies of patents (for free). What is great about PatentFizz is that searching by number will give you everything you need to know about the patent on one page AND the ability to leave comments on the patent (for instance, known prior art). Very cool. http://www.patentfizz.com.

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Last Call…Boise Idea Market

Updating my earlier post, Matt Homann will be in Boise putting on a CLE “Think REAL Big: Ten Innovative Strategies for Building a Better Firm” and running a “Boise Idea Market” TOMORROW.

There is still room to attend the Idea Market…invite yourself here if you want to come.

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In Chicago? Want to meet up with some law bloggers?

Matt Homann has invited me (we’re speaking together at ABA’s TechShow next week) and my Chicago readers to join him “and a bunch of legal bloggers for the First Annual Techshow Blogger Bar Crawl.”

Starts: Mar 22, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Ends: Mar 23, 2007 at 1:00 am
Location: Sheraton Hotel and Towers (START), 301 E North Water St # 1, Chicago, 60611

It is TECHSHOW time again, and we are going to bring together Legal Bloggers and a bunch of our non-lawyer Chicago blogging buddies for a night of collaboration, communication, blog-talk and beer!

Venue information will follow, but we’ll start out at the Sheraton Lobby at 7:00 pm and hit 4-5 bars within walking distance of each other. The schedule will be enforced, so if you can’t join us at the beginning, you’ll know where to find us in the middle (or the end)!

Cost is FREE. See you in Chicago!

If you can make it, sign up here: First Annual Techshow Blogger Bar Crawl. I look forward to meeting some of you!

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Patent Litigation CLE…in Vegas

Have plans for Friday, March 2, 2007?  How about a quick trip to Vegas for a CLE on Patent Litigation?

I’ll be speaking then at The Dunes CLE on "A Primer on the FRCP’s New Electronic Discovery Rules for Patent Litigators." 

As the flyer says.."More and more of the documents that businesses are creating and
handling today are in electronic formats. In response to that fact, on
December 1, 2006, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were amended to
include (among other things) changes to how parties are to treat
electronic data during the litigation process. To comply with the
rules, patent litigators must have a thorough understanding of the
changes to the pre-trial "meet and confer" conference, how
electronically stored information (ESI) is to be produced/disclosed,
how to handle inaccessible documents, how to sequester/retrieve
inadvertently produced privileged documents, and how to appropriately
counsel your clients about document retention and ESI preservation."

Other CLEs/speakers include:                        

• Post-Issuance Litigation Matters - Robert S. Rapp
• The Consequences of Failing to Perform an Adequate Pre-Filing Investigation Before Filing a Patent Infringement Action - Sid Leach
• The Interplay Between Patents and Trade Secrets - Mark A. Miller
• Be Prepared for the Perfect Storm-Litigating Software Patents  - Ryan A. Heck, Ph.D.
• <Title of Presentation Forthcoming> - Frederick N. Samuels

Matt and Doug both spoke at their August CLE, and it looks like Dennis Crouch spoke at their April 2006 CLE on:  Patent Drafting & Prosecution: New Developments and Practical Tips.

More details about the March Dunes CLE:  Register, Agenda,  Speakers …hope to see you there.

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Upcoming CLE

When: April 6-7, 2006

Where: The Bellagio, Las Vegas, Nevada

What: PATENT DRAFTING & PROSECUTION: NEW DEVELOPMENTS AND PRACTICAL TIPS.

Web: www.dunescle.com

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Quit flying solo

This post [thanks Doug] is for those of you I met last week at BlawgerConnect, TechShow and LexThink. 

If I had to post a list of the most inspiring things I read last year, this would be on that list:  a post on the “Relax, Everything is Deeply Intertwingled” blog entitled “Superhacker and Phoneboy” talking about starting a business and collaborating with others.  The post is dead on, particularly:

Every person has strengths and weaknesses. The appeal of a partnership — even if the team is just a pair of people doing what they can to leverage the power of two — is a matching so well-suited that the pair’s strengths are more powerful than those of either individual, thereby reducing the effects of each individual’s foibles. Whereas finding a romantic partner is such a regular occurrence in our society that people couple all the time, finding a business partner who is truly complementary and thoroughly communicative and unquestionably trustworthy is a much more elusive achievement. And yet, there is tremendous value to a business person if s/he can find someone with whom s/he can triangulate issues, talk through everything, make decisions, and take actions. (Not to mention the benefits that stem from having someone who will always watch one’s back, who will push back gently, and who will amplify the shared message.)

This is true not only in the rethink(ip) sense, but I see it every day in dealing with startups and independent inventors.  Your success in life is more dependent upon the team you build around you (both at home and outside the home) than on your own passion.  Sure, you need passion, but without someone to fuel that passion (and douse it when it burns out of control), your chances of being successful are greatly hindered.

Quit flying solo.

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