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The USPTO recently announced that Chief Judge Michael R. Fleming and the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) will be hosting its ?First Annual Board Conference? on Wednesday, April 7, 2010, at the USPTO?s Madison Auditorium. Several speakers are scheduled to present at this conference (PDF flyer available HERE, including Paul R. Michel, Chief Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Randall R. Rader, Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Michael R. Fleming, two Vice Chief Judges of the BPAI, Gregory Morse of the USPTO Central Reexam Unit, seven representatives of law firms, with a lunch presentation by David Kappos, the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO. There is a nominal registration fee (which includes breakfast, lunch, and refreshments), with registration available online HERE. A formal agenda is available HERE, with topics including ?Practice Tips: Top Ten Mistakes,? ?Winning Your Non-Obviousness Case at the Board,? and ?Inter Partes Reexam,? to name a few.

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