Strategies for Defending Against NPEs

Intellectual Property Team Members David Donoghue and Steven Jedlinski will speak at PLI's Non-Practicing Entity Patent Litigation 2013 event. Mr. Donoghue is chair of the event and will speak on a panel with Mr. Jedlinski titled "Strategies for Defending Against NPEs." In addition to taking place at PLI's California Center, the event will also be streamed in a live webcast.

Topics

• new PTO procedures
• bifurcation (recent case law allowing appeal at the end of the first portion of a bifurcated proceeding)
• touch on legislation if it is close to being signed into law or has been signed into law 
• the increasing effectiveness of exhaustion defenses
• the power of standards setting bodies and RAND analysis