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Best Practices for Patent Litigators, Prosecutors and In-house Counsel in Weakened Patent System March 26, 2008 According to the San Jose Mercury News (February 28, 2008): “Recent judicial decisions have already weakened our patent system, making it easier to invalidate patents and more difficult to enforce them… The negative impact of [the Patent Reform Act] will be profound, both near and long term…” The March SVIPLA meeting will focus on what patent litigators, prosecutors and in-house counsel are doing differently, or should do differently, in view of these changes. What are the current “best practices” in patent drafting, prosecution, opinion drafting and the like. Speaker: Robert Groover, Registered Patent Attorney, Groover & Associates Robert Groover is an experienced electronics patent attorney with a high-tech orientation. He has a strong background with patent committee operations, substantial publications on patent management and quality issues, and very extensive experience in patent prosecution and management. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a full member of the ASME (the American Society of Mechanical Engineers), and the SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers). During his 20+ years in the patent profession, he has written nearly a thousand patent applications himself (and prosecuted a much larger number), and has been involved in more than a dozen patent infringement lawsuits. He has invented several patents himself, and is a frequent speaker on patent law, innovation management, and patent-related career issues for technologists. | ||
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