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In late May, I attended the sixteenth annual Rocky Mountain IP Institute. I also spoke at the Institute about best practices for communicating between in-house team and outside counsel (more on that later). The Rocky Mountain IP Institute has grown to be one of the largest two IP conferences in the country. More importantly than…

I attended the 14th annual Rocky Mountain IP & Technology Institute at the beginning of June. This panel looked at the PTAB case law and related Federal Circuit decisions over the last year.  Here are the highlights:

  • Institution trends
    • 87% institution rate in fiscal 2013 trending downward and settling in fiscal 2015-16 around two-thirds

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I attended the 14th annual Rocky Mountain IP & Technology Institute at the beginning of June. An interesting addition to this year’s Institute was the panel of PTAB personnel, including the following:

  • Nathan Kelley, PTO Solicitor and former Acting Chief Administrative Patent Judge
  • Patrick Bucher, Administrative Patent Judge
  • Melissa Haapala, Administrative Patent Judge
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I attended the 14th annual Rocky Mountain IP & Technology Institute at the beginning of June. As usual, one of the highlights of the Institute was the judges panel. This year’s panel was a group of federal magistrate judges discussing IP litigation. As usual, it was a lively panel that delved deep into the…

In two weeks, I will be heading to the Colorado Rockies for the 2015 Rocky Mountain IP & Technology Institute where I will be moderating a panel called “Innovation & Disruption: How Crafty Micro-brews are Shaking Up the Beer Industry.”   If the subject matter does not sound interesting enough, it is being book-ended by a…

At the end of this week, I will be heading to the Colorado Rockies at for the Annual Rocky Mountain IP & Technology Institute where I will be moderating a panel called “Damages Models: What Are We Seeing After the Federal Circuit’s Changes.”   William Sloan Coats, with Greenberg Traurig and Matthew Sarboraria, with Oracle Corp.,…