The Connecticut Intellectual Property Law Association (CIPLA) is pleased to announce that the 2018 CIPLA Lobster Bake and Annual Meeting will be held on June 13, 2018 at Penfield Pavilion II (Jacky Durrell Pavilion) on Penfield beach in Fairfield, CT. Directions to Penfield Beach can be found here. The Lobster Bake will also serve as CIPLA’s […]
The Connecticut Intellectual Property Law Association (CIPLA) is pleased to announce its first meeting in the 2018-2019 schedule. We are welcoming Matthew Hutman of Serco Inc. Serco is the classification contractor to the USPTO and has classified over 3.9 million newly filed utility patent applications. Mr Hutman will speak on “USPTO Art Unit Determinations” and […]
The Connecticut Intellectual Property Law Association (CIPLA) is pleased to announce its second meeting in the 2018-2019 schedule. We are welcoming Benjamin Haber, senior policy advisor to Director Iancu at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. We are currently working with Mr. Haber to settle on a topic(s) for his presentation that would be […]
The Connecticut Intellectual Property Law Association (CIPLA) is pleased to announce its third meeting in the 2018-2019 schedule. We are welcoming Reza Mollaaghababa, a partner in the Intellectual Property Department of Pepper Hamilton LLP. Dr. Mollaaghababa represents clients in post-grant proceedings before the USPTO and has handled more than 40 inter partes review (IPR) proceedings. Dr. Mollaaghababa […]
Attorney Andrew Williams of Wolf, Greenfield and Sacks, P.C. presents on: What Ever Happened to the Patent Troll Problem? – The Past and Future of Patent Reform Legislation
— In 2013, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 3309, the Innovation Act, to help curb the perceived patent troll problem. Even though this legislation was never enacted, the Supreme Court has rendered several decisions in the past few years that seeming addressed the concerns about so-called abusive patent assertion. Is there still a need for legislation to reform the patent system, or has the pendulum swung so far that legislation is now required to respond to the Supreme Court patent jurisprudence?
Maja Szumarska of Gibney, Anthony & Flaherty, LLP The Lanham Act authorizes courts to issue ex parte orders directing the seizure of counterfeit goods. By enacting this law, Congress recognized that, absent such ex parte relief, willful counterfeiters would likely destroy or transfer counterfeit merchandise and business records upon the filing of a lawsuit. Congress […]
We are pleased to announce our first meeting in the 2019-2020 schedule. We are welcoming Jeffrey West, a Senior Legal Advisor at the USPTO’s Office of Patent Legal Administration, will speak on: New USPTO patent subject matter eligibility guidelines.
RONALD D. COLEMAN, PARTNER, MANDELBAUM SALSBURG The Connecticut Intellectual Property Law Association (CIPLA) is pleased to announce its second meeting in the 2019-2020 schedule. We are welcoming Ronald D. Coleman, a partner at Mandelbaum Salsburg in New York, who will speak about the overturning of the Lanham Act’s provisions prohibiting the registration of disparaging, immoral, […]
Tracy-Gene G. Durkin, Director, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. The Connecticut Intellectual Property Law Association (CIPLA) is pleased to announce its next meeting in the 2019-2020 schedule. We are welcoming Tracy-Gene G. Durkin, a Director of the law firm Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. in Washington DC, who will speak about hot topics […]
David J. Kappos, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP The Connecticut Intellectual Property Law Association (CIPLA) is pleased to announce its next meeting in the 2019-2020 schedule. We are welcoming former Under Secretary of Commerce and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), David J. Kappos, currently of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, who will speak about […]