Inventive Contribution in Patent Litigation, Licensing, and Prosecution: Identification and Use, Court Treatment
Recording of a 90-minute premium CLE video webinar with Q&A
This CLE course will guide patent counsel on patent inventive contribution. The panel will discuss how the courts have addressed the issue and the role of inventive contribution in patent litigation and licenses, as well as in patent prosecution. The panel will offer best practices for identifying and using inventive contribution.
Outline
- Inventive contribution
- Identification
- Use
- Risks/dangers of relying on inventive contribution
- Court treatment
- Best practices
- For patent prosecutors
- For transactional attorneys handling patent licenses
- For patent prosecutors
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- Inventive contribution in patent litigation
- Implications of inventive contribution for patent licenses
- Court treatment of inventive contribution
Faculty
Jerry A. Riedinger
Partner
Perkins Coie
Mr. Riedinger focuses his practice on patent infringement, trade secret and complex intellectual property litigation.... | Read More
Mr. Riedinger focuses his practice on patent infringement, trade secret and complex intellectual property litigation. He has over 36 years' experience conducting patent litigation, he has represented clients in more than 110 patent litigation matters, and has been lead counsel in more than 66 patent litigations. Mr. Riedinger has practiced in over 120 technologies.
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Nagendra (Nick) Setty
Shareholder
Setty Chachkes
Mr. Setty has been an intellectual property trial lawyer for nearly 30 years. As a partner in national firms, Nick was... | Read More
Mr. Setty has been an intellectual property trial lawyer for nearly 30 years. As a partner in national firms, Nick was lead counsel in +200 IP cases, representing clients, large and small, in a wide range of complex, technical cases involving semiconductor design, computer networking, wireless (e.g., WIFI, 4G LTE), smartphones, LCD TVs, pharmaceuticals and biotechnologies. For this body of work, Mr. Setty was featured in Chambers USA, Benchmark Litigation, IAM Patent 1000, Managing IP, and Diversity magazine.
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