CLE number for June 25
The meeting package has been updated to include the CLE course number. If you have already printed your meeting documents, the course number is 3948-9
June 25 IP Committee Meeting
The Intellectual Property Committee will meet in Orlando on June 25 as part of the Florida Bar’s Annual Convention. The meeting will take place on Thursday from 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. in San Antonio at World Center Marriott. Below are the materials you will need for the meeting.
June 2009 Meeting Materials, revised 6/22/09
Full Bar brochure, including BLS’s luncheon and Friday’s E-Everything CLE available here
CLE on Design Patents Offered at IP Committee Meeting on 1/15!
Perry Saidman, Esq., of the Design Law Group will present a seminar on design patents at the next meeting of the IP Committee to be held Thursday, January 15, 2009 at the Hyatt Hotel and Conference Center in conjunction with the mid-year meeting of the Florida Bar. The meeting begins at 9:00 am and the seminar will be held after regular committee business is completed.
Perry will discuss design patent prosecution and infringement litigation in light of the recent decision in Egyptian Goddess v. Swisa. Egyptian Goddess, a 2008 en banc decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, is the most significant design patent case in the past 135 years.
Perry Saidman, an expert in design patent law who wrote the amicus brief on behalf of Apple in the case, will explain the pre-Egyptian and post-Egyptian law as respects the two big issues in the case: design patent Markman claim construction, and the point of novelty design patent infringement test. His informative and enjoyable presentation will be supported by numerous slides of litigated designs.
Don’t miss this great opportunity
To read Perry’s bio, click here. To read the seminar outline, click here.
Agenda Available for 1/15 Meeting, Minutes Too.
The agenda for the upcoming meeting of the Intellectual Property committee are now available. To view the agenda, click here.
In addition, the minutes from the last committee meeting held on August 30th are available. Please click here to read the minutes.
Please print these out and bring them with you to the meeting Thursday. See you there!
BLS Journal
For those of you interested in writing for the Business Law Section Journal, the deadline for submissions is February 1, 2009. Steph Nagin is the editor of the 2009 journal. For further information, please contact Steph directly at [email protected].
Looking for Presenter on Abel Time Case
As everyone is aware, we try to have 2-3 brief presentations on significant cases at each I.P. Committee meeting. We have a speaker whom will cover Egyptian Goddess in detail and think we have someone to speak about In Re Bilski. We are looking for someone to speak about a the Ninth Circuit decision in U.S. v. Abel Time, 2008 WL 4350027. The presentation should only be 5-10 minutes long. If you are interseted please let me or Joel know. Thanks.
