Paul Brest Hall, Munger Graduate Residences

Sponsored by the Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology and Samsung Electronics

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The patent system has gone through some dramatic changes in the last decade. This conference will explore the impact of those changes on patent litigation, patent prosecution, and management, and will look at alternatives to patent protection.

AGENDA* 

8:30am Breakfast and Registration

9:00am Keynote Address – Chief Judge David Ruschke, Patent and Trial Appeal Board (PTAB), USPTO

9:45am Break

10:15am The Changing Nature of Patent Prosecution and PTO review
• patentable subject matter issues, IPRs, CBMs

Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Stanford Law School (moderator)
Kathy Ku, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL), Stanford University
Teresa Rea, Crowell & Moring LLP
Judge Christa Zado, Patent and Trial Appeal Board (PTAB), USPTO

11:45am Lunch

12:45pm The Changing Nature of Patent Litigation
• new federal rules on litigation, new cases on damages, venue reform, fee shifting, drop in multi-defendant troll suits

Sonal N. Mehta, Durie Tangri LLP (moderator)
Honorable Leonard Davis, Fish & Richardson P.C.; former Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
Christen Dubois, Facebook
Ashok Ramani, Keker & Van Nest LLP

2:15pm Break

2:45pm What Does the Future Hold?
• is this a sea change for the patent system?, future patent reform, industry-specific effects on innovation incentives, role of trade secrecy and the DTSA

Mark A. Lemley, Stanford Law School; Durie Tangri LLP (moderator)
Kenneth Korea, Samsung Electronics
James Pooley, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe; former Deputy Director General, WIPO
Lee Van Pelt, Van Pelt, Yi & James

4:15pm Reception

*subject to change