Insights
March 15, 2017 – Presentation “Communication Skills for Licensing Professionals” AUTM Annual Meeting Julie M. Watson
March 14, 2017 – Presentation “Intellectual Property Dispute Settlement in Life Sciences” AUTM Annual Meeting Pamela Cox
March 13, 2017 – Presentation “Are You Wasting Too Much Time on Non-license Agreements?” AUTM Annual Meeting Julie M. Watson
March 2, 2017 – Presentation “Patent Owners and Petitioners Weigh In” PTAB Bar Association Inaugural Conference Sandip H. Patel
February 24, 2017 “Life Technologies Corp. Establishes a Quantitative Test Under 35 U.S.C. § 271(f)(1)” Marshall Gerstein Alert William K. Merkel, Ph.D.
February 23, 2017 – Presentation “Avoiding Willful Infringement Under the Evolving Willfulness Standard” IP Strategy Summit: Orange County Mark H. Izraelewicz
January 27, 2017 “Sovereign Immunity Prevents AIA Trial Against University-Owned Patent” Marshall Gerstein Alert Pamela Cox
January 26, 2017 “AIA Estoppel Provision Not As Restricted As Many Expected” (featured quotes) Law360 Sandip H. Patel
December 2, 2016 “New EPO Requirements Regarding Patent Assignments” Marshall Gerstein Alert Slava Elkin and Jeremy R. Kriegel
November 14, 2016 – Presentation “USPTO Subject Matter Eligibility Guidelines” USPTO Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Roundtable David Gass
September 27, 2016 – Presentation “Start-up Challenge 2.0” Women in Bio-Chicago Katherine L. Neville, Ph.D.
September 14, 2016 – Presentation “Advanced Claim Drafting Issues” PLI’s Advanced Patent Prosecution Workshop Sharon M. Sintich, Ph.D.
June 7, 2016 – Presentation “Rise of the Biosimilars: Recent Developments and Strategies for Innovators and Biosimilar Applicants for Resolving Patent Disputes under the BPCIA” 2016 BIO International Convention John Labbé
April 6, 2016 “‘Signed, sealed, delivered’: Pay-for-delay deals aren’t all bad” IPPro Life Sciences Katherine Neville, Ph.D.
December 31, 2015 “Number 1: Device Tax Suspension: Medical Device Daily's top 10: The biggest news makers and trending stories of 2015” (featured quotes) Medical Device Daily David Gass
December 2015 “Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. v. Sequenom, Inc.: How the Federal Judiciary Stripped a Breakthrough Invention of Patent Protection” Corporate LiveWire Expert Guide David Gass
December 4, 2015 “Federal Circuit passes on en banc hearing for Sequenom” (featured quotes) Medical Device Daily David Gass
September 30, 2015 – Presentation “Start-up Challenge” Women in Bio-Chicago Heather Kissling
September 10, 2016 – Presentation “Advanced Claim Drafting Issues” PLI's Patent Prosecution Seminar Sharon M. Sintich, Ph.D.
October 12, 2015 “How Sequenom Lost Patent Protection For Fetal DNA Test” Law360 David Gass
August 13, 2015 “En Banc Federal Circuit Extends Law on Divided Infringement” Marshall Gerstein Alert Michael Weiner
June 16, 2015 “Sequenom Patent Invalidation May Have Ramifications for NIPT Field, Entire MDx Industry” (featured quotes) GenomeWeb David Gass
June 15, 2015 “Even Breakthrough Patents Can Be Invalid, Sequenom Shows” (featured quotes) Law360 David Gass
June 15, 2015 “Hold the Mayo? Patent on groundbreaking test swept aside” (featured quotes) Medical Device Daily David Gass
June 15, 2015 “Fed Circuit Affirms Patent Ineligibility Of Sequenom Prenatal Test Methods” (featured quotes) Bloomberg BNA, Daily Report for Executives David Gass
May 27, 2015 “Supreme Court Holds that an Accused Infringer’s Belief Regarding Patent Validity is Not a Defense to Induced Infringement” Marshall Gerstein Alert Sandip H. Patel
March 2015 “Encouraging Growth and Advancement of Women in Intellectual Property Professions” ManagingIP.com Lilian Y. Ficht
March 3-4, 2015 – Presentation “Global Biotech IP Update: Patent Eligibility Requirements in Life Sciences” Webinar David Gass
December 16, 2014 “What Inventions are Eligible for Patenting? US PTO Issues New Guidelines for Examiners” Marshall Gerstein Alert David Gass
November 2014 “Sector Focus—Bioscience” Lawyer Monthly David Gass
September 11, 2014 – Presentation “Claim Drafting and Amendment Writing” PLI's Advanced Patent Prosecution Workshop Sharon M. Sintich, Ph.D.
June 2, 2014 “Supreme Court Clarifies Requirements for Proving Inducement of Infringement” Marshall Gerstein Alert Michael Weiner
June 2013 – Presentation 2013 BIO International Convention, Chicago, IL Panel speaker on the topic of IP protection for biomarker diagnostics David Gass
July 2012 – Presentation “Patent Protection for Antibody Inventions” Speaker, London, U.K. David Gass
2012 – Presentation 2012 BIO International Convention, Boston, MA Panel speaker on the topic of IP protection for biomarker diagnostics David Gass
2011 “Patenting Genes and Diagnostics” Life Sciences Intellectual Property Review 2011 David Gass
September 1, 2011 “Protecting Diagnostic Inventions in the U.S.” Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News David Gass
August 30, 2011 Tom Ross Interviewed By Crain's Chicago Business on IP Enforcement in China Crain's Chicago Business Thomas I. Ross
August 3, 2011 “Financial Independence For The Patent Office” IPLaw360 Robert Gerstein
2011 – Presentation 2011 BIO International Convention, Washington D.C. Panel moderator and speaker on the topic of IP protection for biomarker diagnostics. David Gass
May 2011 “Impact of Recent IP Case law on Biomarkers and Personalized Medicine” Journal of Commercial Biotechnology David Gass
March 29, 2011 “Are Bayh-Dole's Best Days Over?” Law360 Robert Gerstein
2011 – Presentation 2011 Biotechnology and Health-Related Issues Intellectual Property Law Symposium, John Marshall Law School, Chicago Panelist, provided analysis of IP law and strategies for diagnostic and biomarker-based intellectual property in light of recent legal developments, including high profile Supreme Court and Federal Circuit cases such as Bilski, Myriad (AMP v. USPTO), Mayo v. Prometheus, and Classen. David Gass
December 3, 2010 “The Growing Problem of Trademark Registration and Domain Name Scams” IPToday Gregory Chinlund
March 2010 “Drafting Agreements in the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries” Oxford University Press Pamela Cox
December 11, 2009 “The Limited Benefits of Product-By-Process Claims” Intellectual Property Today Sandip H. Patel
August 29, 2005 “Incentives to foster new antibiotics are proposed” The National Law Journal Kevin M. Flowers, Ph.D.