DUBLIN, Mar 03, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "How to Avoid Common Pitfalls in Combined EU/US Patent Applications" conference to their offering.
This seminar addressed the parallel, but substantially different, rules for drafting and prosecuting patents required by the Examiners and Appeal Board of the EPO and USPTO. You will study the contrasting approaches of the EPO and USPTO and learn the experts' techniques for drafting an applications for, and responding to, rejections issued by the two offices.
This Seminar Will Include:
- The often unseen traps posed by differing EU and US requirements
- Best practices for reconciling the EU and US requirements and drafting an application to:
- - Maximise scope of protection
- - Reduce objections
- - Minimise costs and maximise flexibility
- Prosecution procedures
- - EPO and USPTO approaches to rejections
- - Responding to EPO and USPTO rejections, based on an optimised specification
- - Limiting US prosecution history estoppel
- Worked examples
Practical Applications:
- You and the other delegates will be invited to correct and modify a sample application to be field with both the EPO and the USPTO.
- You will be asked to develop effective arguments, for the EPO and USPTO, with respect to hypothetical patent office rejections
This course qualifies for the following CPD programmes:
- Solicitors Regulation Authority
Who Should Attend:
- Patent professionals and other executiveds who are responsible for patent applications that are filed in, and prosecuted before, both the European and US Patent Offices
- Managers overseeing and evaluating the multinational patent prosecution
Agenda:
09.00 Registration and refreshments
09.30 Introduction
09.45 Review of the similarities and differences in the statutory systems of the EPO and USPTO
11.00 Refreshments
11.15 Best Practices' for preparing one specification to comply with the European and US requirements
12.45 Lunch
13.45 EPO/US: Prosecution and Appeal Procedures
15.15 Refreshments
15.30 EPO/US Definitions of Prior Art and Priority
16.45 Question and answer session
17.00 Close of day one
Day Two
09.00 Refreshments
09.30 EPO/US: Rejections and Responses
10.45 Refreshments
11.00 Prosecution History Estoppel in the US
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Arguments on Non-Technical (EPO) and Subject Matter (US)
14.45 Refreshments
15.00 Worked Examples
16.00 Plenary Session
17.00 Close of course
For more information about this conference visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/x655k7/how_to_avoid
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