2010 IP Counsel Café

Foley at the Conference:

Reexaminations Under the New Administration
April 14, 2010 at 4:00 p.m.

Reexaminations are used more frequently than expected as a litigation tool rather than a pre-litigation tool. 

• What should your strategy be?
• How have reexaminations changed under the USPTO’s new Director, David Kappos? 
• Are examiners handling it differently? 
• How has the process changed over the last year? 
• What have companies’ experiences been?

Foley Presenter:

• Matthew Smith, Senior Counsel, Foley & Lardner LLP

Guest Presenters:

• Jeff Draeger, Director of Patent Analysis, Intel
• David Foster, IP Counsel, Actel Corporation

Patent Pools: Solution to Standards and Fragmented IP Rights?
April 15, 2010 at 8:45 a.m.

Standard setting is increasingly vital to the commercialization of new technologies, but it also poses many challenges to innovation. 

• Is patent pooling a solution to the problem of access?
• What are the recent trends in standard setting?
• Are patent pools a solution to fragmented IP rights?
• Are patent pools creating more problems?
• What is the status of patent pool regulation?
• What are the anti-trust challenges?
• What are the conditions under which pools are easy or difficult to perform?
• Will we see more patent pools in the future?

Foley Presenter:

• Peter Albert, Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP

Guest Presenters:

• Doug Luftman, Associate General Counsel, IP, Palm
• Marc R. Mayer, Managing Counsel, IP Practice Group, Agilent Technologies
• Paul Bawel, Senior Attorney, Microsoft Corp.
• Dan Lang, Director of IP, Cisco Systems, Inc.
• Bill Geary, Vice President, MPEG LA