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Friday, September 14 – 2012
(All sessions held in the Whittenberger Auditorium at the Indiana Memorial Union unless otherwise indicated.)
8:15 – 8:30am Welcome and Opening Remarks
Mark D. Janis (Robert A. Lucas Chair of Law and Director, Center for Intellectual Property Research, Indiana University Maurer School of Law)
8:30 – 9:00am Remarks
Robert Armitage (Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Eli Lilly and Company)
9:00 – 10:15am Panel: New Doctrine, New Process
Moderator: John Schaibley (Executive Director, Center for Intellectual Property Law and Innovation, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law Indianapolis)
1st Inventor to File:
Dana Colarulli (Director, Office of Governmental Affairs, USPTO)
Jay Thomas (Professor of Law, Georgetown Law)
Supplemental Examination/Inequitable Conduct post-Therasense:
Nathan Kelley (Associate Solicitor, Solicitor’s Office, USPTO)
Jason Rantanen (Associate Professor of Law, University of Iowa)
10:15 – 10:30am Break
10:30 – 11:30am Panel, continued:
Moderator: Joshua Larsen (Barnes & Thornburg)
PGR/IPR:
Jay Kesan (Professor, H. Ross & Helen Workman Research Scholar and Director, Program in Intellectual Property & Technology Law, University of Illinois College of Law)
Michael Tierney (Lead Judge, Trial Section, Board of Patent Appeal and Interferences, USPTO)
11:45 – 1:00pm Lunch (Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center)
Opening Remarks: Hannah Buxbaum (Interim Dean and John E. Schiller Chair in Legal Ethics, Indiana University Maurer School of Law)
Remarks: David Kappos (Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, USPTO)
1:15 – 3:15pm Panel: What did the AIA accomplish? What did it Omit?
Moderator: Mark D. Janis
Mark Chandler (Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Cisco)
Rochelle Dreyfuss (Pauline Newman Professor of Law, New York University School of Law)
John Duffy (Samuel H. McCoy II Professor of Law and Armistead M. Dobie Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law)
Gary Griswold (Chairman Emeritus and Senior Policy Advisory for the Coalition for 21st Century Patent Reform and former President and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel, 3M Innovative Properties Company)
Doug Norman (Vice President and General Patent Counsel, Eli Lilly and Company)
John Vaughn (Executive Vice President, Association of American Universities)
3:30pm Reception (President’s Room – Indiana Memorial Union)
Please contact Allison Hess, the Center’s Administrative Director, at allhess@indiana.edu for additional information.
Indiana CLE credit approved (5 hours).
* Registration fee waived for IU Maurer School of Law faculty, staff and students – please RSVP by sending an email to Allison Hess.
