Patent Institutions Summit
CLE Materials
Panel 1: The PTO/District Court Interface
Focus: reexamination; post-grant review; stays; claim construction
Menell, Pasahow, Pooley, Powers, Carlson & Homrig, Patent Case Management Judicial Guide (2nd ed. forthcoming 2012)
• Chapter 2 – Early Case Management
• Chapter 4 – Discovery
• Chapter 5 – Claim Construction
Panel 2: The ITC/District Court Interface
Focus: remedies; domestic industry (and NPEs); stays; joinder
Menell, Chien, Busey, Cordell, Davis, Powers & Sobin, Section 337 Patent Investigation Management Guide (forthcoming 2012)
• Chapter 1 – Background and General Principles
• Chapter 14 – Section 337 Primer
Colleen V. Chien and Mark A. Lemley, Patent Holdup, the ITC, and the Public Interest, Cornell Law Review (forthcoming 2012)
Panel 3: The Federal Circuit/District Court Interface
Focus: patentable subject matter; claim construction; damages
Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., 132 S.Ct. 1289 (2012)
Retractable Technologies, Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson and Co., 659 F.3d 1369 (Fed. Cir. 2011) (dissents from denial of rehearing en banc)
Uniloc USA, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp., 632 F.3d 1292 (Fed. Cir. 2011)
Panel 4: The Market for Patent Litigation (International and Domestic)
Focus: the domestic marketplace; the international marketplace
Colleen V. Chien, A Race to the Bottom, Intellectual Asset Management 10 (Jan/Feb 2012)