Friday, April 25, 2014

USPTO Patent Trial & Appeal Board AIA Roundtable - May 1

The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) will offer an AIA Trial Roundtable on the UW campus on Thursday, May 1, 1:00pm-5:00pm in the Odegaard Undergraduate Library, room 220.

The PTAB Roundtable will focus on the new America Invents Act (AIA) trials. The program will include an overview, statistics, lessons learned, a mock conference call, and a panel discussion. Speakers will include administrative patent judges from the USPTO PTAB.

Details, including a program agenda, are available at: http://www.uspto.gov/ip/boards/bpai/ptab_aia_trial_roundtables_2014.jsp

Additional roundtables will be offered in various cities across the country. The roundtable in Denver on May 8 will be webcast for those unable to attend a roundtable in person.  

Audience:  members of the local legal and IP community, interested members of the general public, as well as UW faculty, staff and students.


Getting to campus, including bus transportation information (The Odegaard Undergraduate Library is on the central campus, located above the Central Plaza Garage, entrance located at 15th Ave. NE at NE 41st St.):
 http://www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/

Campus maps:
http://www.washington.edu/maps/