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Webcast Evaluation Kilpatrick Stockton LLP Webslides: Patent Case Law Update for In-house Counsel Transcript

Presented by ACC's Intellectual Property Law Committee, sponsored by Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

        This webcast will discuss important opinions on patent law from the last six months, and will provide in-house patent counsel's perspective.  Practical tips will be provided for patent litigation, opinions, prosecution, and licensing.

• the Federal Circuit's application of the Supreme Court's 2007 decision in KSR and its impact on the          obviousness inquiry;
  
• the Federal Circuit's application of the Supreme Court's 2007 decision in MedImmune and the
  lowering of the bar on declaratory judgment jurisdiction;
  

• the changing use of the enablement requirement under 35 USC 112 to narrow and invalidate
  claims;
  
• replacement of the duty of due care with a new "objective recklessness" standard for willful
  infringement in In re Seagate;
  
• the scope of privilege waiver when disclosing an opinion of counsel in defense of a willfulness
  accusation;
  
• approval of compulsory licensing for post-trial infringement by the Federal Circuit; and
  several others topics, including patentable subject matter under 35 USC 101, divided direct
  infringement, priority claims, and post-Twombly motions to dismiss.  
  

ACC will not seek CLE credits for this webcast

Presenters:

        Steven Gardner, Partner, Kilpatrick Stockton LLP
        Jayna Whitt, Patent Counsel, Apple Inc.

Moderator:

        Steven Rosenthal, Senior Counsel, IP, Diageo North America, Inc.