Patent Law Reform Teleconference

In partnership with IP Law and Business magazine, Steptoe & Johnson LLP introduces a new quarterly teleconference series highlighting important intellectual property issues that you and your company might face.

On Thursday, November 17, 2005, from 1:00 pm until 2:00 pm EST, please join Steptoe's patent attorneys and recognized experts as they discuss the details and implications of the proposed Patent Reform Act of 2005.  If enacted, what are the implications? What changes are envisioned for injunctions, inequitable conduct law, and post-grant patent procedures? How will a "first to file" system change patent practice? Will the proposed changes really fix the problems?

Speakers include:

Adam B. Jaffe, the Dean of Arts and Sciences at Brandeis University and co-author of Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It.

Charles E. Phelps , Provost of the University of Rochester, who testified on behalf of the Association of American Universities before the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Intellectual Property.

Lee  A.  Hollaar, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Utah and author of Legal Protection of Digital Information.

Stuart T.F. Huang, partner in the Washington office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, who practices in the Intellectual Property group.

Seth A. Watkins, special counsel in the Washington office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, who practices in the Intellectual Property group.

The teleconference is toll-free, and there is no charge to participate. For more information, please contact us at events@steptoe.com.