Biotechnology/Chemical/Pharmaceutical Customer Partnership
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
9:00am to 4:30pm
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Alexandria, Virginia
Madison Auditorium
600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, VA
The most recent quarterly meeting for the Biotechnology and Chemical Pharmaceutical Customer Partnership was held on March 6, 2012 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 Wednesday, June 6, 2012 from 9:00 am to 4:30 PM at Auditorium in Madison East, 600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, Virginia.
For information of future meetings and presentations, please go to http://www.cabic.com/bcp/.
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 June 4, 2012.
Agenda and Schedule for the Biotechnology and Chemical Pharmaceutical Customer Partnership Meeting
| Morning Session | ||
| 9:00 - 9:15 | Opening Remarks | George Elliott, Wanda Walker and Peter Paras (Acting), Directors, TC1600 |
| 9:15 – 10:15 | AIA Update | Janet Gongola, Patent Reform Coordinator |
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10:15 -10:30 |
Break | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Cooperative Patent Classification Overview | Jerry Lorengo, SPE, TC1700 |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Claim Interpretation | Jeffrey Lundgren, SPE, Art Unit 1629 |
| 12:00 - 1:15 Lunch | ||
| Afternoon Session | ||
| 1:15 - 2:45 | Mayo v. Prometheus | Roberte Makowski, Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP, Hans Sauer, Associate General Counsel for BIO |
| 2:45 – 3:00 | Break | |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Recommendation for the Disclosure of Sequence Listings using XML (Proposed ST.26) | Susan Wolski, PCT Legal |
| 3:30 – 4:15 | Range Limitations in Claims | Jean Witz, QAS, TC1600 |
| 4:15 – 4:30 | Closing Remarks/Discussion | George Elliott, Wanda Walker and Peter Paras (Acting), Directors, TC1600 |
Proposed ST.26
The meeting agenda has been updated by the addition of the talk Recommendation for the Disclosure of Sequence Listings using XML (Proposed ST.26). A Federal Register Notice requesting comments on the recommendation for the disclosure of sequence listings Using XML (Proposed ST.26) is published and is available at this link or by cut and paste of the url (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-05-15/pdf/2012-11755.pdf) into a browser.
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