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The Virginia State Bar Intellectual Property Section is seeking papers written by law students who are attending law school in Virginia or are residents of Virginia attending law school outside of Virginia and relating to an intellectual property law issue or the practice of intellectual property law.  The winner receives a cash prize of $4,000.  The judge of the final round of the competitor is the Honorable Richard Linn, judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  The deadline for submissions is Friday, May 25, 2012 at 4:00 EDT.

A flyer regarding the competition can be found here, and a complete set of rules for the competition is here.  Additional information is available at the section’s website.

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The VSB Intellectual Property Section has announced that  Mr. Michael McCabe will be presenting the IP Section's third annual Spring Ethics CLE that will be conducted both on-site and via the Internet. Mr. McCabe’s presentation will cover various ethical issues that arise in intellectual property prosecution and litigation settings. Mr. McCabe is a partner at Oblon Spivak, where he is Chairman of the firm’s Risk Management Committee.  In this role, he advises firm members on ethical duties before the state bar and the U.S.P.T.O.

The CLE is schedule for Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m. (registration begins at 9:30 a.m.) The seminar will be presented both as a live event and as a webinar.  The registration form can be downloaded here.

The live event will take place in our Richmond office at:
Troutman Sanders Building
1001 Haxall Point
Richmond, VA 23219
Directions can be found here.

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The Virginia State Bar Intellectual Property Section is seeking papers written by law students who are attending law school in Virginia or are residents of Virginia attending law school outside of Virginia relating to an intellectual property law issue or the practice of intellectual property law. The winner receives a cash prize of $4,000. The judge of the final round of the competitor is the Honorable Richard Linn, judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The deadline for submissions is Friday, May 27, 2011 at 4:00 EDT.

Attached are a complete set of rules (here) and a flyer for use in advertising the competition (here). Additional information is available at the section's website: www.vsb.org/site/sections/intellectualproperty/view/writing-competition/.

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You are invited to join us for the November ABA Roundtable. 
Free lunch provided.

At Troutman Sanders, we host a series of American Bar Association roundtable luncheons concerning intellectual property law.  These roundtables are designed to stimulate discussions of current intellectual property law issues.  Our November topic is titled, “Implications of Recent Court Decisions on the Application of the ‘Entire Market Value Rule’ to Patent Damages Analysis”. 

The Entire Market Value Rule (EMVR) has become a hot topic in recent patent case decisions authored by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and certain of its judges sitting by designation in the district courts.  This roundtable will discuss the EMVR in cases such as Cornell v. HP, Lucent v. Gateway, and IPI v. Red Hat and explore issues surrounding the direction the courts may be heading in future cases.

LOCATION
Troutman Sanders LLP
1001 Haxall Point, 15th Floor
Richmond, Virginia 23219

If you are interested in attending REGISTER HERE. 

QUESTIONS
Contact RICMarketing@troutmansanders.com.

Applied for CLE Credit in Virginia.

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December GRIPLA Meeting
and Annual Holiday Celebration

Guest Speaker:  
Robert L. Stoll, USPTO Commissioner for Patents

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010 at 5:00 PM
Cocktails and Hors d'oeuvres

LOCATION
Troutman Sanders LLP
1001 Haxall Point, 15th Floor
Richmond, Virginia 23219
Map/Directions

To RSVP or for questions, contact Natalie Toalson.

Sponsored by:

Thomson Reuters is the world's leading provider of intellectual property solutions.  Their offerings are used by professionals across the IP lifecycle to develop, maintain and extract maximum value from their intellectual assets.   For more information, contact Chris Tangang.

For more information about GRIPLA, the Greater Richmond Intellectual Property Law Association, please visit http://gripla.org.

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The Virginia State Bar Intellectual Property Law Section will be holding its Twenty-Second Annual Fall Weekend CLE on October 1-2, 2010, at The Williamsburg Lodge, Williamsburg, Virginia. It will run on Friday, October 1, from 12:45 p.m. until 6:15 p.m., followed by a reception sponsored by Thomson Reuters^®, and on Saturday, October 2, from 8:30 a.m. until 12:40 p.m., followed by a luncheon. 

The featured topics and speakers include:

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You are invited to join us for the   May ABA Roundtable "Beware The New Patent Trolls U.S. Patent law provides significant incentives for patent owners to mark their patented products with an indication to the public that aspects of the product are covered by  a patent.  However, the holding in Forest Group v. Bon Tool increases the risk of significant damages to a company that falsely marks their products as patented.  Knowledge of the law is essential. - Strategies For Handling and Avoiding False Patent Marking Claims after Forest Group v. Bon Tool." Wednesday, May 12th 12 p.m. Lunch Provided   Troutman Sanders LLP 1001 Haxall Point, 15th Floor Richmond, Virginia 23219     RSVP events@troutmansanders.com   CLE Credit Pending

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This blog previously noted the upcoming 21st Annual IP Fall Weekend Seminar, being held by the Virginia State Bar's Intellectual Property Section on October 2 and 3, 2009 at the Omni Hotel in Richmond.

The Honorable David Kappos, Under Secretary of Commerce and the new Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, has been added to the schedule recently. He will address the seminar late Saturday morning on his plans for the PTO, and his presentation will include a question and answer session.

See our earlier post for registration links.

David Kappos

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The ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law will host a webinar entitled "Trademark Fraud on the USPTO - A New Landscape" on Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM (EST). Details may be found here.

 At the end of August, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in In re Bose, overturned an ever-growing line of Trademark Trial and Appeal Board decisions enabling challengers to invalidate pending trademark applications and issued registrations on grounds of fraud - resulting from circumstances of simple inadvertence or misunderstanding.  The Federal Circuit's Bose decision clarified the standard for alleging and establishing that fraud had occurred before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, making the litigation of these claims before the Board more challenging.  However, even after Bose, many questions remain unanswered. 

This teleconference will feature a distinguished panel of trademark experts who will discuss their views on litigating fraud claims and on best practices for trademark portfolios that may be still vulnerable to fraud claims after Bose.

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The Virginia State Bar Intellectual Property Law Section will be holding its Twenty-First Annual Fall Weekend CLE on October 2-3, 2009, at the Omni Hotel in Downtown Richmond, Virginia. It will be begin on Friday, October 2, 2009 at 1:30 pm and finish around 1:00 pm on Saturday, October 3, 2009.

The featured topics and speakers include:

• Use of Surveys in Trademark Disputes, presented by Hal Poret, Guideline Market Research

• Patent Reform Status Report, presented by Hon. Q. Todd Dickinson, Executive Director, American Intellectual Property Law Association

• Fraud Standards at the Trademark Office, presented by Linda McLeod, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP

• Hot Topics in Patent Law, presented by Stephen Kunin, Oblon Spivak McClelland Maier & Neustadt

• Electronic Copyright Applications, presented by John Jennison, Jennison & Schultz

• Ethics in IP, presented by Deborah Jeffrey, Zuckerman Spaeder

• Bankruptcy and Intellectual Property, presented by Matthew Cheney and Karen Hermann, Crowell & Moring

• Google Adwords/Online Advertising, presented by Brad Newberg, Holland & Knight LLP

For a PDF brochure and full details, please visit: http://www.vsb.org/sections/ip/2009-Fall-CLE.pdf

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