Biotechnology/Chemical/Pharmaceutical Customer Partnership
Tuesday March 7th, 2006
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
November 10 th , 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. 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 March 1st, 2006.
| Time | Morning Session | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
|
9:00-9:15
|
Greetings and Overview
|
John LeGuyader, Bruce Kisliuk, George
Elliott, Directors, Technology Center
1600
|
|
9:15-10:00
|
EFS-web update
|
Stew Levy, Deputy Commissioner for Patent
Resources and Planning
Don Levin, Manager, eCommerce Unit
|
|
10:00-10:15
|
Break
|
|
|
10:15-11:00
|
Patent Training Academy update
|
Janice Falcone, Director Technology
Center 2800
|
|
11:00-11:45
|
Proposed Rules Package Update
|
John Doll, Commissioner for
Patents
|
| Time | Afternoon Session | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
|
11:45-1:00
|
Lunch
|
|
| 1:00-1:45 |
New 101 training and examples
|
Ardin Marschel, Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 1631 |
| 1:45-2:30 |
Baird/Ochiai
|
Sreeni Padmanabhan, Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 1617 |
| 2:30-2:45 |
Break
|
|
| 2:45-3:30 |
Antibody case law and practice
|
Larry Helms, Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 1643 |
| 3:30-3:45 |
Closing Remarks/Discussion
|
John LeGuyader, Bruce Kisliuk, George Elliott, Directors, TC 1600 |
