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IPWatchDog free virtual CON2020 legal IP conference: Keynote of USPTO Director Anrei Inacu (Sep. 1 2020 at 12:05 PM ET); a session on various types of design protection (Sep 12, 2020 at 12:45 PM ET); 'How China is Changing the Global Patent System' (Sep 30, 2020 at 12:45 PM ET), etc.

IPWatchDog offers in September 2020 free multiday virtual legal IP conference. It includes many session discussing different aspects patent protection, including patent prosecution, PTAB proceeding and patent litigation. The full program is available here.

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The following presentations may be of particular interest:

Keynote: Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property & Director of the USPTO (Sep. 1 2020 at 12:05-12:45 PM ET)

Strategic Use of Design Rights (Sep 12, 2020 at 12:45-2:00 PM ET)

Design rights can be a useful tool in your arsenal, particularly when attempting to create overlapping protection. This panel will summarize the various design-related legal rights (i.e., design patents, trade dress, design-related copyrights) available to build company value. We will provide case examples for protection and enforcement strategies in a wide variety of product segments, including consumer electronics, apparel and footwear, and graphical user interface.

Panelists: John White (US patent attorney and a renowned patent lecturer), Tracy-Gene Durkin (“the preeminent authority on design patents in the United States”, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, PLLC) and Christopher Carani (“as a leading authority in the field of design law”, McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd.)

https://con2020.ipwatchdog.com/session/strategic-use-of-design-rights/

How China is Changing the Global Patent System (Sep 12, 2020 at 12:45-2:00 PM ET)

The massive volume of filings at the Chinese Patent Office exceeds the filings of the next four most active patent offices combined. This filing surge in China signals a rapid shift to China as the center for the leading-edge technologies that will enable the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

The massive prior art collection being built by the Chinese Patent Office comes at the same time the Chinese are investing in infrastructure and loans to the many countries along European and African trade routes. The Chinese prior art collection seems poised to dominate decisions on patentability as a natural outgrowth of this dissemination of technological information throughout Europe, Asia and Africa.

Meanwhile, China has adopted an expansive definition of what constitutes patent-eligible subject matter, which may even be broader than the definitions in the EPO, JPO, and KIPO, and certainly broader than definitions in the US.

In addition to taking as many questions as possible, we will specifically address:

• How Chinese filings constitute a massive trove of global prior art, which by sheer numbers will dominate the global prior art library within a few years.
• How the Chinese government has been incentivizing and subsidizing patent filing and patent fees.
• Strategies for confronting the language barrier now so as to not be left in the dark with respect to the new global prior art landscape.

Patellists: Robert Greene Sterne (a founding director of Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox), Erick Robinson (a partner at Dunlap, Bennett & Ludwig PLLC, leads DBL’s Chinese IP Practice), The Honorable Randall Rader, Chief Judge (ret.) of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

• How China Will Fundamentally Change the Global IP System [Rob Sterne, IPWatchdog Blog, July 24, 2019]
• Navigating the Patent Landscape in China [Gene Quinn, IPWatchdog Blog, May 23, 2018]
• Rapid changes in the Chinese legal system, an increasingly attractive venue for IP litigation [Jeffery Langer, IPWatchdog Blog, May 7, 2018]
• The Petri dish Effect will keep Technology in China for Generations [Paul Morinville, IPWatchdog Blog, March 4, 2018]
• Chinese President Xi Jinping says infringers should be punished and pay a heavy price [Steve Brachmann & Gene Quinn, IPWatchdog Blog, July 23, 2018]

https://con2020.ipwatchdog.com/session/how-china-is-changing-the-global-patent-system/

See also previous IPWatchdog Webinar on the same subject (“How China is Changing the Global Patent System”) recorded December 3, 2019  (a link to recording) (Panelists Robert  Sterne (Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox) & Gene Quinn (IPWatchdog))