Patent Law

Practising Law Institute (PLI) is hosting "Patent Litigation 2008" in San Francisco (with live webcast) on September 22-23, 2008.  The program will also take place in Northern Virginia, Chicago, Atlanta and New York City with October and November dates.

Patent litigation is very expensive, damage awards can be very large and business disruption is a critical risk. Rapid changes in patent law make it necessary, whether you are plaintiff or defendant counsel, to ensure that you are up-to-date on the current state of the law and on how to develop successful litigation strategies and tactics. Patent litigation is a potent tool to protect patents. Damage awards, attorney fees and associated costs can easily run into millions of dollars, potentially closing business operations overnight.

This course is taught by a faculty of judges and lawyers who have earned national reputations in patent litigation by trying a wide variety of bench and jury patent trials, and provides comprehensive coverage of every phase of a patent lawsuit. The program schedule has been revised, based on comments from prior year attendees at this popular annual program.

What You Will Learn

• New! An expanded opening session focusing on the impact of new case law on patent litigation, including recent Supreme Court and Federal Circuit decisions

•  Understand the evolving issues in claim construction and their effect on proof of infringement

• How to successfully handle discovery, including e-discovery, in patent litigation

• How to obtain, and defend against, preliminary and permanent injunctions and declaratory judgments in patent cases post-eBay

• Opinion Letters, representation issues, the impact of Knorr-Bremse, and willful infringement after Seagate

• Proving damages and issues to consider when pursuing and defending the damages case in the wake of Microsoft v. AT&T

• Prosecuting a patent that holds up in litigation

• The impact of KSR v. Teleflex on obviousness

• New! One hour of ethics credit for patent litigators

And demonstrations by expert patent litigators:

• Direct and cross-examination of a technical expert contending for obviousness

•  Closing argument: tips from a patent trial lawyer and a jury consultant

More information, including the faculty for each city, and registration details are available here.