Biotechnology/Chemical/Pharmaceutical Customer Partnership
Thursday November 10th, 2005
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Remsen Building, Lobby Conference Room
400 Dulany Street
Alexandria, Virginia
The most recent quarterly meeting for the Biotechnology and Chemical Pharmaceutical Customer Partnership was held on June 15, 2005 at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The Biotechnology and Chemical Pharmaceutical Customer Partnership is designed and developed to be a forum to share ideas, experiences, and insights between individual users and the USPTO. The USPTO does not intend to use these customer partnership groups to arrive at any consensus. Invitations to participate will indicate that individual opinions are sought, rather than a group consensus and that the meetings are intended to be informal in nature and have varying participants. These customer partnership groups are formed with full recognition of the USPTO's responsibility under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), and that these customer partnership groups are not established as FACA compliant committees.
We value our customers in obtaining feedback from individual participants is important in our efforts to continuously improve the quality of our products and services. Your willing participation is helpful in providing us with insights and experiences in this informal process to assist us.
The next meeting of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Biotechnology and Chemical Pharmaceutical Customer Partnership is scheduled for Thursday November 10th from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm
at the Lobby Conference Room in Remsen Building
Building, 400 Dulany Street, Alexandria, Virginia.
Please contact Cecilia Tsang at 571-272-0562, or by fax at 571-273-0562, or email Cecilia.Tsang@uspto.gov to decline or confirm your attendance by November 4th, 2005.
Biotechnology/Chemical/Pharmaceutical Customer Partnership |
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9:00-9:15 |
Greetings and Overview |
Jasemine C. Chambers, Bruce Kisliuk, George Elliott,
Directors, TC 1600 |
9:15-9:45 |
Pre-Appeal Conferences
and after final practice
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Anton Fetting, Office of Patent
Legal Administration
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9:45-10:30 |
Recent Biotech Case Law |
Steve Walsh, Office of the Solicitor |
10:30-10:45 |
Break |
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10:45-11:30 |
Patents update/Forecasting
the new year??? |
John J. Doll, Commissioner for Patents |
11:30-12:45 |
Lunch |
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Afternoon Session |
12:45-1:45 |
NAS Study of IPRs in Genomic
and Protein-Related inventions |
Roderick McKelvie, Covington and Burling,
Former District Court Judge |
1:45-2:30 |
Breaking Unity |
Michael Woodward, TQAS; TC1600 |
2:30-2:45 |
Break |
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2:45-3:45 |
Deposits Rules and How
to obtain Biological Deposits
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Gary Benzion, Supervisory Patent Examiner, and Michael Woodward, TQAS; TC1600 |
3:45-4:00 |
Closing Remarks/Discussion |
Jasemine C. Chambers, Bruce Kisliuk, George Elliott, Directors, TC 1600 |
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