Our special guest speaker, Sharon R. Barner, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), provided the keynote presentation, “Patent Leadership — The Roles of China, the United States, and the IP5,” which focused on the impact of cooperation between the USPTO and the State Intellectual Property Office of China (SIPO) and the need for timely and quality patents.
Other topics included:
- Implications of key U.S. patent cases, especially on international exhaustion, “rocket-dockets” and other venue issues, and damages
- Inter partes reexamination — strategies for defending patent infringement claims
- Defending patent infringement and anti-dumping claims before the ITC
- Shaping and strengthening your China brand in today’s global market
- New strategies for corporate patent management in the post-
financial-crisis era
- The effect and application of IP identification on IP litigation
- IP litigation strategies and tactics
Speakers
- Sharon R. Barner, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director, USPTO
- Yi Lu, Inspector, SIPO
- Steven J. Rizzi, Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP
- Matthew A. Smith, Senior Counsel, Foley & Lardner LLP
- Catherine Sun, Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP
- Harold C. Wegner, Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP
- Xiuyuan Wen, Director, Specialist Committee of All-China Patent Agents Association, and Director, IP Committee of Beijing Judicial Identification Association
- Xu Wen, Professor, China Ji’nan University, and Chairman, Scihead Patent Agent Co. Ltd
- A senior judge from the Supreme People’s Court of Guangdong Providence, China
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