RALEIGH, N.C. – A cast of legal all stars will comprise four panels as Campbell Law’s Intellectual Property Law Society hosts its Patent Law Symposium this Friday, April 10 from 1-5:30 p.m. The Honorable Paul R. Michel, retired Chief Judge of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, will deliver a keynote address on patent reform.
Online registration for the symposium is available at this link until April 8.
“I am excited about the opportunity to learn from such great panel members who have a tremendous depth of experience,” said Campbell Law third-year student Lorie Goins, who serves as president of the Intellectual Property Law Society. “This is a rare opportunity to hear from Judge Michel, one of the most knowledgeable and respected global experts in the field of intellectual property.”
The first panel will explore patentable subject matter and recent Supreme Court activity, while the second will delve into the America Invents Act’s post-grant review provisions. The third and fourth panels will both look into patent litigation in North Carolina, with practitioners describing experiences and making comparisons to other jurisdictions in the third panel, while federal judges from the Eastern District of North Carolina weigh in and provide advice in the fourth. Judge Michel’s keynote address will follow the panel discussions. A complete list of panel participants is included at the end of this release.
Campbell Law Associate Professor Lucas Osborn, who is a member of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons’ Confidentiality Commission and the Triangle Intellectual Property Law Association’s Board of Directors, heads up the law school’s intellectual property program.
Campbell Law began offering a Certificate in Patent Law to non-law students at the beginning of the fall 2014 academic semester. The certificate provides members of the professional community a platform to gain in-depth understanding of intellectual property, patent law, and patent drafting. The certificate can be obtained in one academic year by taking one class in the fall and two in the spring. Click here for more information.
Program participants
Panel 1: Patentable Subject Matter and recent Supreme Court activity
* Amy Fix (Womble Carlyle)
* Shawna Lemon, Ph.D. (Myers Bigel)
* Patrick McBride (Red Hat)
* Drew Shores (Ward & Smith)^
Panel 2: Post-issuance reviews (PGR/IPR) after the America Invents Act
* David Bennett (Coats & Bennett)
* Associate Professor Lucas Osborn (Campbell Law School)^
* Rob Van Arnam (Williams Mullen)
* Tim Wilson (SAS Institute)
Panel 3: Patent litigation in North Carolina
* Julio Garceran (Cree)
* Steve Gardner (Kilpatrick Townsend)
* Professor Arti Rai (Duke University Law School)^
* Rachelle Thompson, Ph.D. (McGuireWoods)
Panel 4: A View from the Bench: Patent Litigation in North Carolina
* Chief U.S. District Court Judge James C. Dever III (Eastern District of N.C.)
* U.S. District Judge Louise W. Flanagan (Eastern District of N.C.)
* U.S. Magistrate Judge James E. Gates (Eastern District of N.C.)
* Patricia Magee(Law Clerk to The Honorable Frank D. Whitney, US. District Court, Western District of N.C.)^
^-denotes panel moderator
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