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IP at Pierce Law: Conferences, Institutes, Symposia and Workshops

For decades Pierce Law has sponsored and hosted regular presentations on important topics, serving the local, regional and international IP communities. These presentations enrich the formal program of study.

Pierce and the many IP related student organizations host IP speakers several times monthly.

Basic Seminar On The Patent Cooperation Treaty

Electronic Trademark Registration Practice: What Every Trademark Lawyer Needs To Know

Emerging Issues: Trademark, Trade Secret And Patent Litigation

Enforcing And Litigating Patents And Trademarks

Ethics Forum: Issues In Intellectual Property Practice

Intellectual Property System Biennial Major Problems Conference

International Intellectual Property Practice Series

Patent Litigation Explosion

Patent Litigation: Tactics & Tools

Patenting In Europe: Strategies And Practice For Today And Tomorrow

Software Litigation Seminar

Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Seminars

Intellectual Property Summer Institute (IPSI) (which includes ALI)

• 1st - 6/22-7/31/87
• 2nd - 88
• 3rd - 89
• 4th - 90
• 5th - 6/17-7/26/91
• 6th - 6/15-7/24/92
• 7th - 6/14-7/30/93
• 8th - 6/8-8/5/94
• 9th - 6/7-7/28/95
• 10th - 6/5-7/26/96
• 11th - 6/3-8/1/97
• 12th - 6/2-7/31/98
• 13th - 6/1-7/30/99
• 14th - 5/22-7/21/00
• 15th - 5/21-7/20/01
• 16th - 5/20-7/19/02
• 17th - 5/19-7/18/03
• 18th - 5/17-7/16/04

China Intellectual Property Summer Institute (CHIPSI)

• 1st - 6/10-7/12/02
• 2nd - 6/21-7/23/04

Advanced Licensing Institute (ALI)

• 1st - 7/27-3/1/92
• 2nd - 7/26-30/93
• 3rd - 7/25-29/94
• 4th - 7/24-28/95
• 5th - 7/22-26/96
• 6th - 7/21-25/97
• 7th - 7/20-24/98
• 8th - 7/19-23/99
• 9th - 7/17-21/00
• 10th - 7/16-20/01
• 11th - 7/15-19/02
• 12th - 7/14-18/03
• 13th - 7/12-16/04

Basic Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Seminar

• 1st - 4/19-20/96
• 2nd - 4/18-19/97
• 3rd - 4/16-17/99
• 4th - 4/26-27/02
• 5th - 4/25-26/03
• 6th - 4/16-17/04

Patent System Major Problems Conference

1. 3/31/87
1. Major Problem Area 1 - Determination of Validity of Patents
2. Major Problem Area 2 - Improvements in Systems of Obtaining Patents
2. 3/23/89
1. Dispute Resolution
2. Patent Trial Simplification
3. 4/27/91
1. Secret Prior Art
2. Prior User Rights
3. Sec. 104 (Inventions Made Abroad)
4. Publication of Applications
4. 5/22/93
1. Abolition of Jury Trials in Patent Cases
2. New Specialized Patent Court in England
3. Prior User Rights
4. PTO as Independent government Corporation
5. 11/11/95
1. Patent Costs
2. Future of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
3. Prior User Rights
4. Additional Major Problems
6. 4/11-12/97
1. Medical Procedures Patents
2. Additional Major Problems
3. Software Protection
4. Doctrine of Equivalents
5. Remarks by the Deputy Assistant Commissioner of Patents
7. 11/14/98
1. Threats & Opportunities; Owners & Users
2. Technical Measures and Anti-Circumvention
3. Private Copying, Levy Systems, and Compensation
4. Online Service Provider Liability
8. 11/8-9/02 - Cancelled

Advanced IP Practice Symposia

• 1st - 6/13-17/88 - Patents & Licensing - Problems & Solutions, New York City
• 2nd - 10/88 - Public Participation in Risk Management, Concord
• 3nd - 9/11-13/89 - Patent, Trademark & Computer Litigation: Trial Techniques & Strategies, Boston
• 4rd - 1/6/90 - Patenting Software, Cambridge
• 5rd - 9/10-12/90 - Trademark, Trade Secret & Patent Litigation: Emerging Issues, Boston
• 6rd - 9/23-25/91 - Enforcing & Litigating patents & Trademarks, Boston
• 7th - 3/17-18/92 - Patenting in Europe, Boston
• 8th - 9/15-16/92 - Patent Litigation: Tactics & Tools, Boston
• 9th - 7/24/93 - Maximizing the Return from Genome Research, Manchester
• 8th - 9/21-22/93 - Patent Litigation Explosion, Concord
• 10th - 9/30-10/1/94 - Patent Interferences at the Crossroads, Concord
• 110th - 4/9/94 - The Greening of Technology: Protection of the Environment and of IP, Concord
• 12th - 10/6/94 - Which Scientist Do You Believe, Concord
• 13th - 10/13-14/95 -Promoting & Managing Genome Innovation, Concord?
• 14rd - 9/20-21/96 - Protecting Industrial Property in Mexico & Central America, Concord
• 15th -10/24/97 - Ethics Forum: Issues in IP Practice, Concord
• 16th - 10/4/02 - Electronic Trademark Registration Practice, Concord