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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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