Biotechnology/Chemical/Pharmaceutical/Customer Partnership

 Tuesday September 9, 2009 

United States Patent and Trademark Office Alexandria,
Virginia Randolph Conference Center
401 Dulany Street, Alexandria, VA

The most recent quarterly meeting for the Biotechnology and Chemical Pharmaceutical Customer Partnership was held on June 3, 2008 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 Tuesday, September 9, 2008 from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm atRandolph Conference Center, 401 Dulany Street, Alexandria, Virginia..

For information of future meetings and presentations, please go to  http://www.uspto.gov/cgi-bin/exitconf/internet_exitconf.pl?target=www.cabic.com/bcp/ .

The meeting is being webcast. You can join the meeting on line. Please go to the below link and sign in as guest the day of the meeting.

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 September 4, 2008.

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 Webcast Link 

Time	Morning Session	Presenter
9:00-9:15	Greetings and Overview	John LeGuyader, George Elliott, Irem Yucel, Directors, Technology Center 1600
9:15-10:00	Broadest Reasonable Interpretation Standard	Janet Gongola Associate Solicitor 0ffice of the Solicitor
10:00-10:15	Break
10:15-11:00	Double Patenting	Tony Caputa Office of Patent Quality Assurance
11:00-12:00	PPAC Outreach Efforts	Andrew Faile Assistant Deputy Commissioner for Patents
12:00-1:15	Lunch

Time	Afternoon Session	Presenter
1:15-2:00	Trilateral Examiner Exchange's View of Microarrays	B.J. Forman, Art Unit 1634
2:00-2:15	Break
2:15-3:00	Issues in Patenting Proteins	Jon Weber, SPE, Art Unit 1657
3:00-3:45	Incorporation by Reference	Jean Witz, QAS, TC1600
3:45-4:00	Closing Remarks/Discussion	John LeGuyader, George Elliott, Irem Yucel, Directors, Technology Center 1600