Date:  05/22/2007

Time:   Registration: 9:30-10:00a.m. Program: 10:00-12:00 noon

Location:   Palace Hotel Rose Room 1-1-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

Speaker:   Peter J. Stern, Alex Chartove, Mark W. Danis

Contact Email:   tkseminar@moof.com

Description:  

The Supreme Court issued its groundbreaking decision in KSR International v. Teleflex, Inc. on April 30, 2007. The decision could affect any company that holds patents or licenses patents for commercial use. As a global leader in intellectual property law, Morrison & Foerster is pleased to offer clients and friends a seminar on the decision’s consequences for the legal and business community. Our leading patent prosecutors and IP litigators will share their views on the decision’s practical ramifications for patent law.  They will discuss:

• What the future holds for the Federal Circuit’s longstanding “Teaching-Suggestion-Motivation” test for obviousness
• What this decision means for those seeking patents
• Implications for portfolio valuation and reevaluation
• Why your competitors will increase their use of reexaminations to challenge a patent’s validity
• How the odds have generally improved for defendants in patent infringement suits

This program is also being offered in Tokyo.

MCLE Accredited: 

California:  Morrison & Foerster LLP (provider # 2183) certifies that this activity has been approved for MCLE credit by the State Bar of California in the amount of 1.5 hours.

New York:  Morrison and Foerster LLP has been certified by the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board as an Accredited Provider of continuing legal education in the State of New York [8/20/2004 - 8/19/2007].This continuing legal education program has been approved in accordance with the requirements of the Continuing Legal Education Board for a maximum of 1.5 credit hours, of which 1.5 credit hour can be applied toward the professional practice requirement.