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PLI seminar: Venue Based Patent Litigation Strategies

By Michael C. Smith

Things have been so busy recently with preparations for our firm's Marshall office moving across town into the historic Hub building that I didn't get a post up about this seminar until two days afterwards.

Wednesday morning I was pleased to participate electronically as a presenter in the Practising Law Institute's Venue Based Patent Litigation Strategies webcast from San Francisco.  Eric Kirsch from Cooper & Dunham LLP in New York moderated the discussion between myself on behalf of the Eastern District of Texas, Jack Blumenthal from Delaware, Gabrielle Higgins from Palo Alto for the Northern District of California, and Alexandra Mahaney from San Diego for the Central District of California.  We each had fifteen minutes to talk about our district, and then we had a roundtable for an hour, where we answered questions on topics including motions to transfer, pleading with specificity, claims construction, reexamination & KSR, and summary judgment and patentable subject matter. I enjoyed the rountable discussion very much, and hope we helped enlighten people about how these issues are being handled in different districts.

While the webcast is done, it's available for viewing for CLE credit by purchase through PLI here. 

Full post as published by Eastern District of Texas Federal Court Practice on July 16, 2010 (boomark / email).