Federal Circuit Bar Association’s Patent Litigation 2016: The Courts and the PTAB
21 April 2016
This program featured the following eminent jurists:
- Chief Judge Sharon Prost of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- Chief Judge Ruben Castillo of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- Judge Edmond E. Chang, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- Judge Virginia M. Kendall, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- Acting Chief Administrative Judge Nathan Kelley, Patent Trial & Appeal Board
- Judge Beverly Bunting, Patent Trial & Appeal Board
The judges offered insight into how the amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure may affect the management of patent cases; claim construction in the PTAB and the courts; and ethical considerations in view of amendments to the Federal Rules and the PTAB rules. The program also offered perspectives on damages in patent cases. A panel of noted law professors, moderated by Ed Haug, President of FCBA, addressed hot topics in patent law.
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