Foley’s Reexamination Practice Chair, Matt Smith, will be speaking at the Ninth Annual Symposium on Hot Topics in Patent Law presented by George Mason University School of Law on July 20, 2010 in Arlington, VA. Mr. Smith’s panel discussion is “Reexamination Strategies and Tactics.”
Additional hot topics to be addressed at the Symposium include:
- A view from the bench—the evolution of the federal circuit
- Analyzing In Re Bilski
- Supplemental examinations to consider, reconsider, or correct information: Ethics and disciplinary implications
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