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13th Annual Advanced Patent Law Institute - Austin, Texas

By Michael Smith

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Today and tomorrow I'm attending the UT CLE Advanced Patent Law Institute in Austin, Texas. Today's highlights (for me) was an very good presentation on Forum Selection and Local Rules by John Torkelson of Carrington, Coleman, and a judicial panel with Judges David Folsom and Judge T. John Ward of the Eastern District of Texas, and Judge Lee Yeakel of the Western District of Texas. (Ken Adamo from Jones Day did the usual very good patent law update while haranguing the audience).
The sessions I was really looking forward to tomorrow were Stanford law pro Mark Lemley's presentation on his preliminary findings from a extensive survey on patent litigation data (the graphs on the handout are really, really good) and Jones Day's Hilda Galvan's presentation on the care and feeding of joint defense agreements, but I've had to move my flight home up after realizing that tomorrow is Halloween, and I really, really need to be home to help shepherd our astronaut, Sponge Bob, and Thomas the Tank Engine around the neighborhood.

Full post as published by Eastern District of Texas Federal Court Practice on October 30, 2008 (boomark / email).