2012 annual ebulletin

BULLETINAmerican Intellectual Property Law Association

Jeffrey I.D. Lewis2012-2013 AIPLA President

2012 Annual Meeting IssueWashington, DC

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Alternative Dispute Resolution .............................. 26Amicus ................................................................... 26Anti-Counterfeiting and Anti-Piracy ........................ 27Antitrust Law ......................................................... 27Biotechnology ....................................................... 28Chemical Practice ................................................. 28Copyright Law ....................................................... 28Corporate Practice ................................................. 28Diversity in IP Law ................................................. 29Education ............................................................... 29Electronic and Computer Law .............................. 29Emerging Technologies ......................................... 30Fellows ................................................................ 30Food and Drug ....................................................... 31Industrial Designs ................................................. 32International and Foreign Law ............................... 32International Education .......................................... 32International Trade Commission ............................ 33IP Law Associations ............................................... 34IP Practice in China .............................................. 35IP Practice in Europe ............................................. 35IP Practice in the Far East ..................................... 36IP Practice in Japan ............................................... 36IP Practice in Latin America .................................. 37Law Practice Management .................................... 38Law Students ......................................................... 39Licensing and Management of IP Assets .............. 40Membership ........................................................... 40Mentoring ............................................................... 40

Mergers and Acquisitions ..................................... 41New Lawyers ........................................................ 41Online Programs .................................................... 42Patent Agents ....................................................... 44Patent Cooperation Treaty Issues ........................ 44Patent Law ............................................................. 44Patent Litigation ..................................................... 46Patent-Relations with the USPTO ......................... 46Professional Programs ......................................... 47Professionalism and Ethics ................................... 47Public Appointments .............................................. 48Public Education .................................................... 48Special Committee on Genetic Resources49Traditional Knowledge and Folklore ..................... 49Special Committee on IP Practice in Israel .............. 49Special Committee on Legislation ......................... 49Special Committee on Standards and Open Source ......................................................... 50Trade Secret Law ................................................. 50Trademark Internet ................................................ 51Trademark Law ...................................................... 51Trademark Litigation .............................................. 52Trademark Treaties and International Law ............ 53Trademark-Relations with the USPTO ................. 53USPTO Inter Partes Patent Proceedings .............. 54Women in IP Law .................................................. 54

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AIPLA Board of Directors .......................................................................................................................... 4Meet Jeffrey I.D. Lewis, AIPLA 2012–2013 President .............................................................................. 6President’s Report ...................................................................................................................................... 8Copyright Office Affairs ............................................................................................................................... 10Upcoming AIPLA Online Programs ............................................................................................................. 16Future Meetings Calendar .......................................................................................................................... 15

Thank You 2012 Annual Meeting Sponsors ................................................................................................ 16Photo Pages ............................................................................................................................................... 18New Members ............................................................................................................................................ 57


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Board of Directors

President Jeffrey I.D. Lewis Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, LLP1133 Avenue of the AmericasNew York, NY 10036

President-ElectWayne P. Sobon InventErgy19925 Stevens Creek Boulevard, Suite 100Cupertino, CA 95014

First Vice PresidentSharon A. IsraelMayer Brown LLP700 Louisiana Street, Ste. 3400Houston, TX 77002-2730

Second Vice PresidentDenise W. DeFrancoFinnegan Henderson FarabowGarrett & Dunner, LLP55 Cambridge Parkway, Suite 700Cambridge, MA 02142-1215

Immediate Past PresidentWilliam G. Barber PirkeyBarber, LLP600 Congress Avenue, Suite 2120Austin, TX 78701

SecretaryMercedes K. Meyer Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP1500 K Street, NW, Suite 1100Washington, DC 20005-1209

TreasurerGeorgann S. Grunebach Fox Legal Group2121 Avenue of the StarsLos Angeles, CA 90067

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AIPLA Welcomes its Newest Fearless LeaderHe who has insights can broaden the horizons of his neighbor’s life. The AIPLA’s new President, Jeffrey I.D. Lewis, has insights.

Jeff is one of the good guys, using guidance from those who came before, studying with integrity and devotion, and striving to reach a proper conclusion. He is that

rarest of person, one who elicits honor from his fellow man.

(OK, OK, we know. What everyone wants to know is what does the “I.D.” stand for. Wait for it. First, let us present the niceties.)

With each new spokesperson selection, the diverse individuals who make up the AIPLA strike coins that are both identical and unique. They are identical because each leader who passes the gavel strives to bring consensus among diversity. They are unique because they bring fresh perspectives that might be adopted by an audience with at least one more opinion than there are people. In his daily life, with humor, wit, and humility, Jeff exercises his individual responsibility to our collective community by encouraging accord.

Jeff lives in his hometown of Stamford, Connecticut, where his mother was born and his parents (Muriel and Albert) raised him and his sister, Susan. In fact, when Jeff and Sharon first moved back to Stamford, they bought his parents’ home. (They wanted to redecorate.) Did you know that Jeff sang bass with the Westhill Chamber Singers at his high school? This group was highly acclaimed and even toured the USSR and Romania in 1978.

It comes as no surprise to those who know him that Jeff is quite eloquent and has a flair for communication. This started early. When in high school, Jeff performed with his drama club, the Northstar Playmakers, where he had a couple of leading roles. You might ask him what roles he played. Was it Shakespeare’s Lear, West Side Story’s Tony, or perhaps Neil Simon’s Felix or even Oscar? We are sure Jeff would be happy to discuss their relative artistic merit over a glass of merlot.

After high school, Jeff then went on to the University of Connecticut, where he received his B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering, a common trait for AIPLA leaders. Never one

to stand on the sidelines, Jeff became Student Ombudsman during his senior year and still managed to work at the UConn radio station (WHUS) as programming director for public affairs and news. He also had two of his own music shows as a radio DJ—classical and rock.

Now, lest you think that Jeff had too much time on his hands, when he was a Delta Chi he also became Rush Chairman in his senior year. Compounding his ability to promote the extramural elements of the college experience, he was also President of the Inter Fraternity Council.

If you like his taste in music, you’ll love his other hobby, sailing. He even raced Tartan 37 and J/24 sailboats. For the landlubbers, they are really, really cool. Look it up!

Now, differential equations and tacking across ocean waves were just not enough for our newest leader, so after rocking at UConn, Jeff earned a Juris Doctorate from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he met his wife, Sharon. One could say that Jeff made a premeditated decision to be an IP lawyer, but that would not be true. Serendipity was a player in Jeff’s choice of IP law as a career. While at Cardozo he met a visiting professor—named Don Chisum —when the elevator they shared jammed between floors, and by the time they got out Jeff was enrolled in his classes. Don fondly recalled the young engineer who sat in back of class —doing the New York Times crossword puzzle while drinking coffee. Somehow, amidst the verbal intersections, Don still remembers him and recalls that Jeff was a “good student”—high praise indeed from the patent guru.

At Cardozo, Jeff was an Alexander Judicial Fellow for the Hon. Marion T. Bennett, Federal Circuit. He was on the Student Bar Association, a recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Community Service, and graduated cum laude.

After a brief stint at an IP boutique and then several years at a general practice firm in 1993, Jeff joined Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler to start the patent practice. While at this NY law firm, Jeff has represented both patent holders and accused infringers in patent litigation matters, particularly in the chemical and pharmaceutical arena. Since 1999, Jeff has also served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Cardozo teaching, among other things, a seminar on Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Patent Law.

Jeff has many, many accolades—Recognized in Chambers USA in the area of Intellectual Property; Listed as a “Litigation Star” for New York, a “National Star” for Intellectual Property and a “Federal Circuit Star” for Appellate in Euromoney/

Jeffrey I.D. LewisThe 105th President of AIPLA

by: Brian R. Stanton and Ann M. Mueting


Institutional Investor’s Benchmark: America’s Leading Litigation Firms and Attorneys; Named in Super Lawyers in the area of Intellectual Property Litigation; etc.; etc. – BUT, to us, what is really special . . .

Jeff is an educator, with an incomparable wit. He is a great simplifier that can light candles that cut through argument and offer understandable solutions.

One day, I (Brian) had cause to ask a “quick question” about how to file a complaint and establish venue. I’m not sure whether he was plucked from a discussion about defending an innovative medicine’s market position, working on a client’s FDA matter, discussing a new chemical synthesis method, considering a novel programming strategy, or figuring out what a covered business method really covered. Regardless, Jeff lifted his pen and, through the phone I could see him lean back and take the time to listen to my concern, teach me what I needed, and then discuss its implications. This is the way that he has approached every inquiry from either of us, no matter how trivial or profound, with full attention and a wry smile.

Lest one think that he is merely a great thinker, Jeff embodies the theory that “study is great for it leads to action.” When not assisting clients, Jeff has served AIPLA in many capacities, not the least of which include as a member of the Board of Directors, Chair of the Patent Litigation Committee, and Vice Chair of the Patent Law Committee. He was also Counsel of Record for AIPLA as amicus curiae in both Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc. and KSR Int’l Co. v. Teleflex Inc.

Not only does Jeff give to AIPLA, Jeff is very active in both his religious community and the Stamford community. When faced with a playground in North Stamford that needed a serious face-lift, Jeff joined forces with others to raise the necessary funds to rebuild it. Not only did he do this, but he helped with the physical installation during a raging Nor’easter. We hear tell he got a blister or two and couldn’t have been happier.

Jeff and his wife, Sharon, have raised two children, Caren

and Peter. Sharon, also a Cardozo alum, was recently appointed as Director of Alumni Affairs at Cardozo.

Talent and service run in the Lewis family. Sharon is on the Board of Directors of the local Jewish elementary school, where both Caren and Peter attended, as did Jeff in earlier times. Their daughter, Caren, a student at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, is majoring in writing seminars. She has been active not only in the Jewish Student Association and assumed leadership roles at Hopkins, but she has taken the time to work with Teach for America during vacations and hopes to continue with them after graduating. Their son Peter, a certified Emergency Medical Technician, has studied Talmudic law while rock climbing in the Golan and challenging his instructors in Krav Maga. He is currently a Freshman at Drexel University in Philadelphia studying mechanical engineering.

Eclectic, eccentric, energetic, and even sometimes enigmatic, we warmly welcome our newest president and wish him all the best.

Ann & Brian

P.S. For those who thought to ask, “I.D.” stands for Isaac Davidoff, after Jeff’s maternal grandfather.


It’s a bit daunting to be President of AIPLA. There are many significant issues to deal with, but the Association is lucky enough to have superb Committees that assist the Board of Directors and Officers as these issues arise. As a chemical engineer who does primarily patent litigation, many topics are outside of my “wheelhouse,” but I can always rely on great advice from the AIPLA professional staff and Committees to bring me up to speed.

So if the Committees are as wonderful as I say (and they are), you are probably wondering, “What’s so daunting?” What keeps me up at night is finding ways to keep the Association‘s over 14,000 members engaged. AIPLA is not just an “inside the beltway” organization, or one that just mails out information. AIPLA is concerned about members and issues wherever they are located. (My office is not in the DC area either, by the way. Patterson Belknap is a one-office law firm in New York.) Over the next year, I hope to reinforce that point as my fellow AIPLA Officers and I travel around the country. Our name is the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and I intend to make sure that members throughout the country, as well as international members, feel connected.

I therefore want to use this column to introduce you to two initiatives for this year that I hope will achieve this goal.

The first concerns World IP Day, an international event that AIPLA has celebrated in Washington, DC for several years. While it’s important to have our legislators and their staff on board with IP, it also is important to have the rest of America on board too. So this year we are going to start celebrating World IP Day around the country in a few key cities, with the goal of expanding the program to additional cities each year. AIPLA is going to provide the content – the speeches, slides, etc. – for AIPLA members to speak with local civic groups, state officials, school children, … maybe even garden clubs … and spread the teachings of Intellectual Property. We have a team led by Sal Anastasi, and Michael Stewart developing

the materials and reaching out to local organizations, IP and otherwise, to get World IP Day as a nationwide event.

This is one part of a broader Public Education Initiative to which we are dedicated. In case you missed it, intellectual property has been getting hammered in the press while at the same time, it crept into this year’s Presidential debates and newspapers in odd ways. We need to educate the public, judges and legislators if we’re going to turn this around. AIPLA has a Rapid Response Team that does an admirable job responding to publications, but we are looking for new ways of addressing these issues and rebuilding positive public perceptions of IP. We need to preach it to the people, and that’s why World IP Day seemed like the appropriate vehicle to expand this process.

The second initiative is more personal. For the next year I will be authoring a blog in conjunction with Managing IP (www.managingip.com/blog). It will tell you what’s happening at AIPLA, discuss my travel and meetings on your behalf, and may be even include broader thoughts about intellectual property or the Association. Please read along and see what’s going on in your organization. I hope that this will make the organization more transparent and accessible to the members.

So, in conclusion I want to extend an invitation to you all. If there’s a reason for me to be in your locale to support an IP event, please let me know as soon as you can. I, or one of the Officers or staff, will try to be there. It’s vitally important to our practices and AIPLA that we keep communication open, and there’s no better way than seeing each other face-to-face.

President’s Reportby: Jeffrey I.D. Lewis, AIPLA President


Last year, Maria Pallante, Register of Copyrights and Director of the US Copyright Office, announced 10 special projects designed to update and improve the quality and efficiency of the Copyright Office’s services in the 21st century. Detailed in the report Priorities and Special Projects of the United States Copyright Office 2011–2013, available at www.copyright.gov/docs/priorities.gov, these special projects reflect the commitment of the Office to address current complexities in the copyright system and prepare for future challenges. These projects, including a major update to the Compendium of Copyright Office Practices, a reengineering of the Office’s document recordation function, enhanced accessibility to the Office’s historical records, and a comprehensive evaluation of the Office’s technical processing platforms, will inform the Office’s development of its new five-year strategic plan that will commence in October 2013. All projects include a series of important dialogues with stakeholders, from both the technical and legal communities.

Documents Reengineering Gets Under WayAmong the initiatives the Register announced in Priorities and Special Projects of the United States Copyright Office is reengineering of the Office’s Recordation Section, part of the Information and Records Division.

The recordation function was unaffected by the Office’s conversion to electronic registration processing in 2007 and, as a result, the process for recording documents related to copyright ownership that are submitted to the Office remains paper driven. In fiscal 2011, the Office recorded over 8,000 documents containing more than 294,000 titles of works. To improve this important public service, the Office plans to create a system for online submission of documents.

The Office is soliciting input from stakeholders through a series of ongoing meetings with users of the Office’s recordation function and public records. In a June 7 meeting, records users discussed issues related to the current system of searching for copyright ownership information and made suggestions to improve the searching capability.

Additional meetings were held on July 26 and August 6 with attorneys and practitioners who file documents

for recordation and representatives of various copyright industries. Topics included the feasibility of online filing of documents, standards and expectations for searchability, ways submitters might redact or update public information, and the possibility of connecting to privately held records and databases.

In upcoming meetings, the Office will solicit comments from copyright owners and additional records users, including technologists, librarians, educators, and consumer groups.

Office Publishes Policy and Regulatory ChangesIn June and July, the Copyright Office announced policy and regulatory changes relating to the registration of compilations, choreographic works, and automated databases.

The Office published a policy statement in the Federal Register on June 22 addressing the registration of compilations, especially claims of copyrightable authorship in the selection and arrangement of material that does not fall within any of the eight statutory categories of authorship listed in section 102(a) of the Copyright Act.

The Office has long registered compilations under section 103 of the Copyright Act based on the selection, coordination, or arrangement of uncopyrightable elements.

The Office clarified, however, that the law is clear that authorship in compilations is a subset of the categories of copyrightable authorship as defined in section 102(a), not a separate and distinct category.

The Office concluded that the categories of copyrightable subject matter established by law not only determine what is copyrightable, but also limit copyrightable subject matter. It announced that “unless a compilation of materials results in a work of authorship that falls within one or more of the eight categories of authorship listed in section 102(a) of the Copyright Act, the Office will refuse registration in such a claim.”

Also on June 22, the Office clarified that a copyright claim in a choreographic work must contain a minimum amount of original choreographic authorship. For copyright purposes, choreographic authorship is considered to be the

Copyright Office Affairsby: Wendi A. Maloney & Judith Nierman


composition and arrangement of a related series of dance movements and patterns organized into an integrated, coherent, and expressive whole. Simple dance steps, sports movements, exercises, and social dances, even if they are presented as a compilation of movements or dance steps, do not constitute a copyrightable work, because such a compilation of movements would not fit within any of the statutory categories of authorship.

On July 9, the Office announced that it had amended its regulations governing the deposit requirements for applications for copyright in automated databases that consist predominantly of photographs. Beginning August 8, 2012, claims to copyright in such databases had to include the image of each photograph in which copyright is claimed, whether such deposits are submitted with paper or electronic applications.

For details, go to www.copyright.gov/fedreg/77fr37605.pdf and www.copyright.gov/fedreg/77fr40268.pdf.

Online Cable Statement Pilot LaunchedThe Copyright Office launched a pilot in the Licensing Division on September 27 for a new online royalty statement of account system. By law, cable operators and satellite carriers must file statements of account with the Copyright Office as a condition for use of the statutory licenses that allow for the retransmission of distant and local television broadcast signals. In 2010, the Office started a reengineering project to streamline the filing, processing, searching, and archiving of statements of account and to make them more quickly accessible to the public online. Through the pilot, stakeholders and the Office are testing online filing of cable royalty statements of account. Many frequent filers have visited the Office since the pilot’s launch and participated in hands-on testing and validation of the system, providing helpful feedback about the system’s design and performance.

Office Proposes Amending Regulations for Filing Section 115 Notices of Intent In a May 25 Federal Register announcement, the Copyright Office proposed to amend its regulations to provide for electronic filing of notices of intention to obtain a section 115 compulsory license. To test electronic filing, the Office has established a pilot program. In the same Federal Register announcement, the Office proposed to clarify in its regulations that it does not examine notices of intention filed with the Office for legal sufficiency. In addition, it proposed to include in the regulations a privacy act advisory statement regarding notices of intent. Comments were due July 9, 2012. A final rule will be issued before the end of the year. For details, go to www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2012/77fr31237.pdf.

Office Proposes Regulation for Verifying Cable and Satellite Statements of Account The Copyright Office proposed a new regulation in a June 14 Federal Register announcement concerning verification and audit of the statements of account that cable operators and satellite carriers file with the Office. By law, cable operators and satellite carriers must file these statements and submit royalty payments every six months to use the statutory licenses in the Copyright Act that allow retransmission of programming carried on over-the-air broadcast signals. Until the passage of the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act of 2010, the licenses did not authorize copyright owners, who are the beneficiaries of the royalties collected, to audit the information on statements of account or the amounts paid for use of the statutory licenses. The proposed regulation would allow copyright owners to appoint an auditor to verify the accuracy of statements of account and to correct any errors or underpayments identified in an auditor’s report. Comments were due August 13, 2012, and reply comments were due September 12, 2012. For details, go to www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2012/77fr35643.pdf.

Current Policy ActivitiesThe Office continued to pursue a number of priorities in domestic and international copyright policy throughout the year. Among the domestic priorities the Office identified in Priorities and Special Projects of the United States Copyright Office were updates to the copyright framework to reflect current changes in the digital environment, review and revision of exceptions and limitations for libraries and archives, and solutions to issues related to the adjudication of small claims of copyright infringement and the problem of orphan works. The Office also played an important role in a number of international meetings and negotiations and continues to assist the goals of Congress and federal agencies with respect to enforcement issues.

Office Cosponsors Symposium on Section 108 ReformIn Priorities and Special Projects of the United States Copyright Office, the Register announced that the Office will make preliminary recommendations for legislative changes to update and revise section 108 of the copyright law. Section 108 sets forth exceptions to the law to permit libraries and archives to make and distribute copies of copyrighted materials in their collections under certain conditions. An independent study group cosponsored by the Office and the Library of Congress reported in 2008 that section 108, enacted in 1976, fails to meet the needs of libraries and archives dealing with born-digital works, digital preservation, and uses and lending of digital copies of works.

To inform discussion about section 108 reform, the Office is cosponsoring a one-day public symposium with the


Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts at Columbia Law School in New York. Originally slated for November 2, the symposium has been postponed as a result of the extreme weather that impacted the New York area in late October. The symposium, which will feature Maria A. Pallante, along with speakers from Columbia Law School, the US Patent and Trademark Office, and elsewhere, will be rescheduled for early 2013. For details, go to www.copyright.gov/docs/section108.

Office Studies Remedies for Small Copyright ClaimsAt the request of Congress, the Copyright Office initiated a study in 2011 to assess whether the current legal system hinders or prevents copyright owners from pursuing copyright infringement claims that have a relatively small economic value, and if so, how. The study will discuss and make recommendations on potential changes in administrative, regulatory, and statutory authority. In an August 23 Federal Register announcement, the Office issued a second request for public comments and announced public meetings to be held November 15 and 16 in New York City and November 26 and 27 in Los Angeles. Through the second request for public comment, the Office seeks additional input on how a copyright small claims system might be structured and function, as well as replies to earlier comments. For details, go to www.copyright.gov/docs/smallclaims.

Office Seeks Comments on Orphan WorksIn an October 22 Federal Register announcement, the Office requested comments on recent changes in the legal and business environments that might be relevant to resolving the problem of orphan works (that is, copyrighted works for which the authors cannot be identified or located). It also asked for input on potential legislative, regulatory, or voluntary solutions to the problem. The Office is reviewing the problem in continuation of its previous work on the subject and to advise Congress on possible next steps for the United States. Comments are due January 4, 2013, and reply comments are due February 4. The Office anticipates publishing additional notices on this topic. For details, go to www.copyright.gov/orphan.

Office Seeks Comments on Resale RoyaltiesIn a September 19 Federal Register announcement, the Office requested comments on how copyright law affects and supports visual artists and how a federal resale royalty right for visual artists would affect groups or individuals who create, license, sell, exhibit, disseminate, and preserve works of visual art. Specifically, the Office seeks comments on how visual artists exploit their works under existing law and the issues and obstacles that may be encountered when considering a federal resale royalty right in the United

States. Comments were due December 5. For details, go to www.copyright.gov/docs/resaleroyalty.

Office Contributes to International Work on Copyright Issues During the past year, the Office participated on numerous United States delegations to various meetings of the World Intellectual Property Organization, including a diplomatic conference in Beijing on the protection of audiovisual performances, ongoing discussions on limitations and exceptions for the blind and visually impaired, and protection for traditional cultural expressions.

The Copyright Office also continues to support executive branch agencies by providing substantive copyright analysis to US negotiators in bilateral and multilateral trade and treaty deliberations. For example, the Office continued to assist the Office of the United States Trade Representative and other executive branch agencies by serving on official delegations and negotiating teams for the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership. The Office actively participated in bilateral negotiations and consultations with numerous countries, including Canada, Chile, China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, Spain, and Ukraine, as well as implementation of copyright-related legislation in South Korea, Colombia, and Panama, as a result of the passage of bilateral free trade agreements.

Office Concludes Fifth Triennial Section 1201 Rulemaking In October 2012, the Office concluded the fifth triennial rulemaking proceeding pursuant to section 1201 of the copyright law. Section 1201 provides that, upon the recommendation of the Register of Copyrights, the Librarian of Congress may designate certain classes of works as exempt from the prohibition against circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works. The final rule, effective as of October 28, 2012, along with the analysis and recommendation of the Register, may be accessed on the Copyright Office website at www.copyright.gov/1201.


2013 Seminars & Road Shows

USPTO Design DayApril 23, 2013

Alexandria, VA

Legal Secretaries & Administrators’ Conference

May 20-21, 2013Alexandria, VA

Trademark Boot CampJune 7, 2013

Alexandria, VA

Chemical Patent Practice Road ShowJune 18, 2013

San Francisco, CA

June 21, 2013Wilmington, DE

Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) SeminarJuly 22-23, 2013Minneapolis, MN

July 25-26, 2013Alexandria, VA

Practical Patent Prosecution Training for

New LawyersAugust 22-23, 2013

Alexandria, VA

Electronic and Computer Patent Law Summit

August 27, 2013Silicon Valley, CA

Legal Secretaries & Administrators’ Conference

November 14-15, 2013Alexandria, VA

Small Claims Proceedings for Patent EnforcementFebruary 28, 2013University of Illinois Chicago, ILA one-day program co-sponsored with the University of Illinois College of Law.

Advanced Practice under the America Invents Act Seminar April 11-12, 2013Hyatt Regency Hotel Dallas, TexasA two-day seminar co-sponsored with the Center for American and International Law.

Patent Law Institute May 13–17, 2013Duke Law Center for Judicial StudiesDurham, NCA one-week intensive training program, co-sponsored with the Duke Law Center for Ju-dicial Studies.

Co-Sponsored Seminars:


February 29–March 2AUTM Annual MeetingSan Antonio, TX

April 3–6ABA-IPL Annual IP Law ConferenceCrystal City, VA

May 1–3AIPLA Spring Meeting, The Westin SeattleSeattle, WA

May 4–8INTA Annual MeetingDallas, TXwww.inta.org

May 13–17Patent Law InstituteDuke Law Center for Judicial StudiesDurham, NC

June 19–22ECTA Annual ConferenceSibiu, Romania

June 23–26ACPC Summer MeetingAshville, NC

June 26–28AIPLA/FICPI Colloquium Paris, France

October 24–26AIPLA Annual Meeting, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, DC (703-415-0780)

January 29–February 1AIPLA Mid-Winter Institute, Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort & SpaPhoenix, AZ

May 7–9IACC Annual Spring ConferenceHong Kong

May 15-17AIPLA Spring Meeting Philadelphia, PA

October 23–25AIPLA Annual Meeting, Marriott Wardman ParkWashington, DC (703-415-0780)

Future Industry Events2013 2014


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2012 Annual Meeting

Leadership

AIPLA

Q. Todd Dickinson – Executive Director

Steven Malin – Program Chair

Wayne Sobon – Incoming President-Elect

Jeffrey I.D. Lewis – Incoming President, accepts the Association gavel

Manny Schecter – Program Vice-Chair

Honorable David Kappos


Honorable David Kappos AIPLA Executive Director Q. Todd Dickinson

AIPLA Executive Director Q. Todd Dickinson and the Honorable David Kappos

Honorable Joseph Farnam Honorable Nancy Linck

Distinguished Industry Speakers

AIPLA would like to thank photographer Richard H. Burgess for the 2012 Annual Meeting Photos.


Distinguished Industry Speakers


Opening Night Reception – Fall Harvest Celebration

AIPLA would like to thank the sponsors of the Opening Night Reception:


Friday Night Dinner & Entertainment“Black Tie & Boots”

AIPLA would like to thank the sponsors of the Friday Night Dinner & Entertainment:


Law Practice Management/Women in IP Law Breakfast

AIPLA would like to thank the sponsor of the Women in IP Law Breakfast:


New Member/First-Time Attendee Reception

AIPLA would like to thank the following New Member/First-Time Attendee Reception sponsor:


LGBT Reception

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Member NewsNew PositionsStephen A. Holzen has joined Invotex, a national accounting, financial and economic consulting firm in Washington, DC, as a Director. Holzen specializes in the valuation of intellectual property and the determination of economic damages in high stakes IP litigation matters involving patent infringement, theft of trade secrets, trademark infringement and violations of licensing agreements. Holzen was formerly a Director at the Kenrich Group. He received his master’s degree from American University in 2007 and a BS from Pennsylvania State University in 2000.

Christopher J. White has joined Hiscock & Barclay, LLP’s Rochester, NY office as a registered Patent Agent. Prior to joining the firm, he worked as a Patent Agent at Eastman Kodak Company. White graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2001 with a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a minor in Computer Science.

R. David Hosp has joined Fish & Richardson, Boston, as a Principal in their IP Litigation Group. Hosp will continue to focus on copyright, trademark, false advertising, and licensing disputes. Hosp recently served as co-lead counsel for Aereo, Inc. in high-profile copyright litigation brought by the major television networks, including ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, and PBS, regarding technology that enables consumers to access over-the-air television broadcast signals, make copies of the programming, and watch it anytime on internet-enabled devices. Hosp was recently named Litigator of the Week by The American Lawyer for his role in the Aereo litigation and has been named a leading IP litigator by The Legal 500 and The World Trademark Review 1000. He received his JD, cum laude, from George Washington University Law School in 1994 and his BA, cum laude, from Dartmouth College in 1990.

Awards & RecognitionCynthia Johnson Walden, principal and Practice Group Leader in Fish & Richardson’s Trademark and Copyright Group, Boston, has been named to the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly 2012 list of “Top Women of Law.” This prestigious award is given to an elite group of women lawyers who have made important contributions to the legal community through outstanding leadership,

vision, passion and advocacy. Walden received her JD from Duke University School of Law in 1995 and her BS, cum laude, from Dartmouth University in 1990.

Henry M. Sneath, a principal shareholder at Picadio Sneath Miller & Norton, PC, a Pittsburgh business litigation, insurance coverage and intellectual property boutique law firm, was recently awarded the 2012 Pennsylvania Defense Counsel of the Year Award by the Pennsylvania Defense Institute. The award is given annually to a PDI member who “best exemplifies the

qualities of professionalism, dedication to the practice of law and promotion of the highest ideals of justice in the community.”

In MemoriamEugenia “Genie” Hansen passed away unexpectedly on October 29, 2012 at age 57. Genie served on the AIPLA Board from 2000-03 and as Chair of the Women in IP Law Committee from 1996-98. Genie was a thoughtful and well-respected member of AIPLA, and in the Texas IP law community. She served as Chair of the IPL Section of the State Bar of Texas from 2004-05, and was a co-founder and leader of a Dallas/Fort Worth Women in IP networking group. She was considered to have been a “founder” of the current AIPLA Women in IP Law Committee and a driving force behind what has become the very successful Women in IP Law breakfasts held at AIPLA major meetings. I first met Genie not long after I moved to Texas, and I got to know her well over the years both through AIPLA and the State Bar of Texas. She was a great person in every way and the IP community lost a tremendous friend and supporter at far too young an age.Those who knew her described Genie as kind, smart, caring, thoughtful and a valuable contributor. Immediate Past President Bill Barber describes Genie as a “wonderful person and colleague.” Brian Stanton says Genie was “one of the good guys” and that when he was at the USPTO, “she always represented her clients with professionalism and respect.” Harrie Samaras said, “Genie was just a lovely, warm, smart lady who I will always remember with fondness.” Gordon Arnold describes Genie as a “great lady,” and fondly remembers sharing a “wall” and an assistant with Genie when they were associates together. Numerous AIPLA members considered Genie to be a mentor and a friend, including Ann Mueting, Karen Canady and Ann Viksnins, She was especially influential in bringing women into AIPLA and encouraging them to become active. AIPLA Secretary Mercedes Meyer said that Genie had been a role model for her. Genie began her law practice at Richards, Harris, Medlock & Andrews in Dallas, and later at Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood. In 2005, she partnered with Scott Hemingway to form Hemingway & Hansen, LLP. She held B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biochemistry from Texas A&M University and a J.D. from University of Houston Law Center. Genie was devoted to her two children, Todd, a graduate student at Texas A&M University, and Kaitlyn, who is an undergraduate student at Texas A&M. In addition, she was an avid Texas Rangers fan and a huge Texas A&M “Aggie” supporter. She was involved in her children’s activities, her church, various Aggie alumni groups, and the IP community. Genie was predeceased by her husband Bill, who passed away in 2002, while Genie was serving on the AIPLA Board. We will miss Genie, but the impact she left on the IP community and AIPLA, especially the Women in IP Law Committee, will continue. — Sharon Israel, First Vice President, AIPLA

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VISIONAIPLA will expand its role as an innovator, powerful advocate, and visible global leader in intellectual property through our commitment to education, outreach, member service, and advocacy.

MISSIONWe serve our members, fostering their professional and leadership development, helping nurture and mentor them as they advance within our profession, keeping them informed in an ever-evolving legal environment, and enriching the diversity of the profession in which we practice, while responding to their personal and professional needs;

We serve public policy leaders, whose mission is to develop, implement and maintain our intellectual property system, assisting them with objective and unbiased analysis, and helping establish and maintain fair and effective global laws and policies that stimulate and reward innovation and creative works in keeping with the public interest;

We serve the public, providing education as to the daily value and benefits of a strong intellectual property system that fosters incentives for creativity & innovation, while balancing the public’s interest in healthy competition, reasonable costs and basic fairness; and

We serve our association and its employees, providing sound management, financial stability, stable succession, and a vibrant, respectful and collaborative workplace environment, delivering opportunities and support for all to lead, create and thrive.

STRATEGIC GOALSAdvocacy: AIPLA will provide crucial leadership and unbiased analysis leading the way for world-class policy and decision-making, while attracting membership, ideas, and resources as a highly sought after and respected thought leader.

Public Education: AIPLA will educate the public about the daily value of intellectual property so that its importance is understood and appreciated.

Member Service: AIPLA will support the professional and intellectual growth of its members through a flexible organizational framework and innovative channels of communication, delivering outstanding services, cost-effective programs and mentoring opportunities, thereby ensuring that AIPLA remains the premier intellectual property association, and attracts IP professionals from around the world.

Global Outreach: AIPLA will expand its influence to the global community and provide leadership and guidance for the development of sound global intellectual property standards, laws and policies.

AIPLA 2010-2013 Strategic Plan


Alternative Dispute ResolutionChair: J. William Frank IIIVice Chair: Suzanne K. Nusbaum

Vision, Mission & ValuesThe overall mission of the Committee is to perform chosen activities in a manner that comports with AIPLA’s values in order to implement AIPLA’s mission and, thus, fulfill its vision.

Public EducationThe Committee has not performed activities directed solely to public education regarding the “daily value” of IP, rather it has focused on education relating to the use of ADR in IP cases. The Committee will continue the successful forum telephone programs throughout the year on topics of interest to the Alternative Dispute Resolution community. In addition, we are considering having a CLE Committee program at the Spring Meeting and we will propose some topics for inclusion in the program of the 2013 Annual Meeting. Lastly, the Committee will work on a free-standing CLE program relating to Alternative Dispute Resolution. Harrie Samaras (Immediate Past Chair) and Bill Frank (Incoming Chair) are the coordinators for a plenary session at the 2013 Mid-Winter Institute entitled: “Why can’t we all get along? (Why don’t they think like I do?” This unique program and format can be described as follows:

A strength of businesses is having individuals with diverse backgrounds interacting to develop intellectual property assets and create business opportunities for them. When this works well, what you get is active, mutual support. There can be tensions and misunderstandings, however, between in-house counsel, outside counsel and business managers. When you harness the intelligence and benefits of each group, and they coalesce different approaches, behaviors, cultures, and communication skills, what you get is a powerful partnership. Ron Bynum, leadership trainer and consultant with an international client base and over 40 years of experience, will lead this interactive program

to provide both motivation and tools for transforming this workplace dissonance into a collaborative and cooperative environment that maximizes the extraction of value from IP.

Member ServiceThe Committee provides member services through its CLE programs and maintaining relevant and current content on its website. We will be continuing our forum conference calls. The first was scheduled for December 13 on the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Mediation program.

Global OutreachThe Committee will continue to monitor changes in procedural rules of international ADR providers and in document exchange rules/guidelines relating to international arbitration. The Committee is considering developing a CLE program to discuss such changes and the practical implications for conducting international arbitrations. This may be accomplished by engaging international arbitration practitioners and representatives from international ADR providers. We have already announced such changes to Committee members through email and provided links to the new rules on the Committee’s microsite. The Committee had a representative from the International Mediation Institute speak on a teleconference on how to become IMI certified as a mediator and how the IMI can be useful for locating mediators in the United States and abroad.

The Committee will consider cooperation with both the internationally-focused Committees and the Litigation Committees for a CLE program at the Spring Meeting. Future telephone forum topics may also include globally related topics.

AmicusChair: Jerry R. SelingerVice Chair: Guy Donatiello

Vision, Mission & ValuesThe Committee’s overall mission is to scrutinize judicial and

Committee Reports Annual MeetingOctober 25–27, 2012

The Committees were asked to align their reports with the goals in the AIPLA Strategic Plan. (See page 24 for the Strategic Plan.)


administrative decisions which involve significant issues of law or practice which affect intellectual property, and make recommendations to the Board of directors that amicus briefs be filed (or not filed) in appropriate circumstances. The Committee’s overall mission involves its own due diligence, as well as responding to requests from party advocates, members of substantive committees, and the Board. The Committee also makes recommendations to the Board as to brief drafters, and members often volunteer their services pro bono to do so.

AdvocacyAs set forth above, much of the Committee’s work relates to advocacy and member services. The Committee routinely seeks input from whichever substantive committees might have interest in a judicial or administrative decision, including but not limited to the Patent Law Committee, the Patent Litigation Committee, the Copyright Law Committee, the Trademark Law Committee, the Antitrust Law Committee, the Chemical Practice Committee, the Electronic and Computer Law Committee, the Biotech Committee, and the Trademark Litigation Committee.

Public EducationAmicus briefs originating from internal committee discussion are circulated to other IP associations by one of our sister committees. In addition, the amicus briefs are posted on the AIPLA website.

Member ServiceSee above. In addition, briefs filed by AIPLA are posted on its website.

Global OutreachSee above.

Anti-Counterfeiting and Anti-PiracyChair: Crystal Gothard (not pictured)Vice Chair: Toni Y. Hickey

No business to report at this time.

Antitrust LawChair: Kenneth M. FrankelVice Chair: Geoffrey D. Oliver

Vision, Mission & Values The Committee seeks to promote the balance between intellectual property rights and competition laws and policies, thereby fostering innovation and competition; to keep our members informed of developments in the intersections between IP and competition laws and policies; to provide input to the AIPLA Amicus Committee and Board on IP/competition issues arising in the courts, government agencies, and legislature; and to actively involve as many of our members as possible in the Committee’s efforts.

AdvocacyThe Committee often works with the Amicus Committee and Board to develop and draft positions for amicus briefs and legislative initiatives in the IP/competition area, and with the Standards and Open Source Committee to provide input to the Board on IP-standards issues. Currently, the Committee is working with the: (1) Food and Drug Committee to provide input to the Amicus Committee and Board on expected Supreme Court review of court decisions involving antitrust implications of settlements of ANDA pharmaceutical infringement lawsuits; (2) IP in China Committee to provide comments on China’s proposed antitrust enforcement guidelines; and (3) IP in China Committee and the Standards and Open Source Committee in organizing a program for the 2013 Spring Meeting.

Member Service At the Annual Meeting, the Committee presented a program on whether injunctive relief should be available in connection with standards-essential patents.

The Committee’s subcommittees focus on three important topics at the intersection of IP and competition law—pharmaceuticals, standards, and IP acquisitions and licensing—and began periodic telephone conference calls in which members of our subcommittees share important developments in their focus areas with members of the Committee as a whole. Members interested in the subcommittees should contact the subcommittee chairs listed above.


The Committee publishes a newsletter for which its members contribute articles on IP/competition issues at the time of each AIPLA meeting and distributes it electronically to our members. The newsletter provides a forum for our members to express their views and educate our members about current topics in the IP/competition area. Members interested in writing articles should contact our newsletter editor David Swenson.

Global Outreach The Committee presents programs on international IP/competition issues, and encourages members outside the United States to provide newsletter articles about IP/competition developments in their countries or areas of the world. In addition, the Committee currently is assisting in developing comments on China’s proposed antitrust enforcement guidelines.

Subcommitees Pharmaceuticals: Paul Ragusa, Subcommittee Chair

Standards: Richard Stark, Subcommittee Chair

IP Acquisitions & Licensing: Geoffrey Oliver, Subcommittee Chair

Newsletter Editor: David Swenson

BiotechnologyChair: James J. KelleyVice Chair: Carol M. Nielsen


Chemical PracticeChair: William B. KezerVice Chair: Jeffrey N. Townes


Copyright LawChair: Nancy J. Mertzel Vice Chair: Stefan Mentzer


Corporate PracticeChair: David P. RuschkeVice Chair: Valerie Calloway



Diversity in IP LawChair: Shayne E. O’ReillyVice Chair: Wilson L. White


EducationChair: Myra H. McCormackVice Chair: Ehab M. Samuel

2012 Annual Meeting. At the 2012 Annual Meeting, the Education Committee kicked off its Law School Professor Subcommittee. This subcommittee is meant to facilitate the sharing of ideas and teaching tips in the law school class room and for staying connected with law professors, including adjunct professors and colleagues. The program was well attended by a cross section of full-time and adjunct professors.

Annual Practical Patent Prosecution Training for New Lawyers Program (Patent Boot Camp). The Education Committee coordinates the AIPLA Patent Boot Camp in Alexandria, Virginia. This popular program has been offered annually for many years, and includes instructional sessions and hands-on claim drafting workshops taught by experienced private and corporate practitioners.

We have started a Subcommittee to plan of the 2013 Boot Camp. One way for Committee members to get involved would be to attend or serve as an instructor at the Boot Camp. If you are interested in getting involved, please send an email to Myra H. McCormack at [email protected] and Ehab Samuel at [email protected]. Please be sure to look for our upcoming announcements and encourage your friends and colleagues to attend the 2013

program.

Law Professor Subcommittee. The Education Committee is committed to expanding the law professor initiative, which was launched at the 2010 Spring Meeting. Our IP Law Professor Subcommittee provides a platform for present and future full-time and adjunct IP law professors to discuss resources available to IP law professors, best practices, techniques for get involved in teaching, and other issues of interest. The co-chairs of this Subcommittee are Mickie Piatt, fulltime professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, and Don Cameron, adjunct professor at York University.

We have set up a LinkedIn page for the Law Professor Subcommittee. If you are interested in sharing ideas and connecting with fellow IP professors on our LinkedIn page, please send an email to Myra H. McCormack at [email protected] and Ehab Samuel at [email protected]. We are in the process of planning future activities for this initiative for 2013. Please let us know if you are interested in additional information about this subcommittee.

The Coordination Role of the Education Committee: The Education Committee will continue to serve as a communication, networking and teaching resource. The Committee plans to continue its liaison activities with the substantive Committees and hold joint meetings with other Committees on topics of interest to a cross-section of attorneys. We are also planning various activities with other Committees such as the New Lawyers and Law Students Committees. If you are interested in learning about how you can get more involved in AIPLA and the Education Committee, please send an e-mail to Myra H. McCormack at [email protected] and Ehab Samuel at [email protected].

Electronic and Computer LawChair: James D. Hallenbeck (not pictured)Vice Chair: Michael P. Dunnam

The Electronic and Computer Law Committee (ECLC) held a Committee leadership-only meeting at the 2012 AIPLA Annual Meeting on Thursday, October 25.

Jim Hallenbeck provided an update on his meeting with


the AIPLA Board. We have new AIPLA Board liaisons. The liaisons are Carl Oppedahl (primary contact), Barbara Fiacco, and Kevin Rhodes. Strategic planning is nearing its completion with current focus on advancing membership and global outreach.

Steve Lundberg and Thiery Lo are handling webinars. Let Jim know if you have any ideas for webinar content.

International affairs: Ed Round for European perspective, Jennifer Jannuska for Canadian perspective, and Matt Adams for Australian and New Zealand perspectives.

Michael Drapkin reported on the summit planned for Silicon Valley in August 2013.

The summit at the University of San Diego was a success, with over 180 people in attendance.

The Committee is considering a quarterly newsletter.

Lynn Anderson reported on the 2012 Partnering in Patents. The program went well and there was good attendance. The program was broadcast via web. Next year will mark the 20th anniversary of the Partnering in Patents program. If you have any ideas for making that event extra special, let the Committee know.

The Committee held a joint session with the IP Practice in Japan and Latin America Committees and covered preparation and prosecution of software implemented inventions in the US, Japan, and Latin America. The speakers provided insights in preparation of, procedures for, and special considerations necessary with regard to applications filed in Japan, Mexico, Brazil, and Europe with a brief overview of US practice.

John Salazar and Michael Drapkin are organizing the Spring Meeting joint Committee educational session. Ideas - Drafting Patents to License/Litigate, Joint Meeting with Patent Law Committee on 35 USC 101, Import/Export in view of Patent Office Rules, and TED Talks (short presentations with minimal time to prepare in response to topics), and First-Inventor-to-File.

Jim stated that future ECLC leadership business meetings will be via teleconference.

Emerging TechnologiesChair: Kirk A. DammanVice Chair: Robert Capriotti (not pictured)


FellowsChair: Sheldon H. KleinVice Chair: William L. LaFuze

AIPLA’s Bylaws provide for a special category of membership called the Fellows of the Association. The following criteria are set forth for becoming a Fellow: (1) outstanding service to the Association; (2) prominence within the intellectual property profession; (3) learned contributions to the profession through teaching and writing; and (4) observance of the highest standards of ethical conduct. New Fellows are nominated by current Fellows, and must be approved by the AIPLA Board of Directors.

The Bylaws further provide that Fellows may from time to time be requested by the Board of Directors to undertake projects, including those of a scholarly, educational, research or informational nature. Such projects shall be designed to provide the Board of Directors with a balanced and learned perspective on matters relating to public policy, jurisprudence, administrative procedure, international harmonization, comparative law or other matters of importance to the intellectual property profession and the Association. The Fellows support Association objectives, principles and Committee missions and activities, and may submit proposed initiatives to be undertaken by the Fellows to the Board for approval, with any resulting studies, papers and proposals being submitted to the Board for its consideration and disposition.


This past year, in support of the Association’s strategic goals, and its vision, mission, and values relating to advocacy, public education, member service, and global outreach, Fellows have worked on and discussed the following projects and issues:• Professional Programs• Board and Committee chair leadership training• AIPLA Model Patent Jury Instructions • Latin America and Africa initiatives• AIPLA website “Learning Center” review• On-site mentoring at the Spring Meeting• AIPLA membership criteria• Member retention

We are considering the following as possible new areas of involvement:• Pro bono• Public Education• Community Service

Our meeting was held on October 26, 2012. The Fellows met and discussed the following:

1. Congratulations and welcome to our new Fellows:

Joseph S. Cianfrani Stephen G. Kunin Jonathan W. Richards Naomi Abe Voegtli George F. Wheeler

2. Reports on current projects with Fellows involvement:

• Board and Committee chair leadership training (Don Martens, Bill LaFuze, Alan Kasper, Roger Parkhurst)

This project is active and ongoing, and the team is meeting regularly. Don Martens reported to the Board of Directors on the outcome of a detailed survey of current and former Committee chairs.

• Africa initiative (Patrick Coyne, Phil Hampton)

Patrick Coyne delivered a brief report. Sheldon Klein mentioned that our Africa focus fits within AIPLA’s “Global Outreach” goal. Also, the International and Foreign Law Committee is now actively looking at Africa, so we should coordinate with them. For example, they are seeking an IP lawyer from South Africa for a panel for the Mid-Winter Institute.

3. New areas for possible Fellows involvement:

• Pro Bono

Bill LaFuze will chair a Subcommittee on pro bono. The Subcommittee will explore ways in which the Fellows might engage in some sort of organized effort to provide IP –focused pro bono services to deserving individuals or organizations. The Association is currently playing a supporting (primarily

statistical) role in new pro bono efforts by the USPTO, pursuant to a provision of the AIA. Association Treasurer Georgeann Grunebach and Laura Zeman-Mullin represent AIPLA on the USPTO pro bono task force. Georgeann joined our meeting and gave a presentation on the task force. This project is focused solely on patent prosecution/assistance to inventors. The Fellows pro bono Subcommittee will consider this, as well as other ways we might become involved in pro bono.

• • Public Education

AIPLA President Jeff Lewis has asked us to work with the Public Education Committee on a specific project in support of the “Public Education” goal of the strategic plan. Sheldon Klein conferred with the Committee’s Chair, Sal Anastasi. Their focus is on events and efforts surrounding World IP Day, April 26. He would like our participation in their efforts to work with the USPTO and other sponsoring organizations to coordinate and provide content for World IP Day celebrations in various cities and local venues around the country.

• Community Service

Sheldon Klein discussed ideas for a possible Fellows-led Association-wide community service project in a city hosting a future AIPLA major meeting, e.g., Seattle.

4. Fellows dinners

• Reminder of Saturday night dinner at Gary Hoffman’s house

• Possible dinner in Tampa at the Winter meeting (Saturday, February 2)

Food and DrugChair: Denise M. KettelbergerVice Chair: Stephen B. Parker



Industrial DesignsChair: Garfield GoodrumVice Chair: Margaret Polson


International and Foreign LawChair: William S. BoshnickVice Chair: Matt Adams

Vision, Mission & ValuesThe International and Foreign Law Committee (IFLC) considers the treaties of the United States and foreign countries and the statutes, rules, regulations, and judicial decisions of foreign countries relating to patents, trademarks, copyrights or intellectual property generally. The IFLC also considers the statutes, rules, regulations, and judicial decisions of the United States as they may impact intellectual property as a part of trade and commerce between the United States and foreign country nationals. A further role of the IFLC is to coordinate with other Committees of AIPLA on matters which are relevant to their jurisdictions.

AdvocacyThe IFLC coordinates with AIPLA leadership to research and advocate, on the behalf of IP stakeholders, issues potentially affecting foreign rights of such IP stakeholders, by, e.g., submitting position papers on behalf of AIPLA to foreign governmental organizations. Where necessary, the IFLC also coordinates with other foreign Committees where the foreign rights are potentially affected.

The IFLC has established a group of Foreign Liaisons to assist the IFLC by providing advice on intellectual property issues in their representative regions.

Public EducationThe IFLC occasionally coordinates with the International Education Committee to present programs educating members and the public regarding issues concerning intellectual property. The IFLC intends to organize themed seminars comparing subject matter (computer software/medical devices) and claim structures.

Member ServiceThe IFLC serves its members by keeping them informed in an ever-evolving international legal environment. During the 2012 Annual Meeting, it was suggested that the IFLC and AIPLA take a greater role in coordinating with foreign IP organizations in studying how these organizations approach intellectual property, and then passing this information to its members.

Global OutreachThe IFLC has been instrumental in establishing Subcommittees pertaining to international practice, with the goal of such Subcommittees ultimately becoming full -fledged active Committees, the most recent of which are the Indian Practice Subcommittee and the Special Committee on IP Practice in Israel.

International EducationChair: James E. Ruland (not pictured)Vice Chair: Shannon L. Beech

The Committee has two main functions. The Committee’s current focus is on developing and producing educational programming for international audiences, primarily through online programs on US IP law and practice specifically targeted to practitioners, government officials and others outside the U.S. who are interested in IP law, policy and practice. Additionally, in response to requests, the Committee meets with visiting delegations and arranges for speakers for lectures, seminars, and other meetings outside the United States. The Committee coordinates its activities with those of the Online Programs, International and Foreign Law, the IP Practice in Europe, the IP Practice in Japan, the IP Practice in Latin America, the IP Practice in the Far East Committees, and the Special Committee of International Practitioner Associations.


SPECIFIC TASKS UPDATE AND GOING FORWARD:The International Education Committee is in the process of developing multiple webinars for different jurisdictions to be presented within the first half of 2013.

A program is being developed for a Spanish-speaking audience with the assistance of AIPPI Spain with the likely topic being related to the AIA. We are in the process of reaching out to Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America through the assistance of the IP in Latin America Committee in order to increase the size of the audience for this program. We will identify dates, specific topics and speakers once the audience has been set.

At least one program, and possibly more, will be developed for German-speaking audiences in Europe with the likely topics of these programs being on subject matter eligibility of software and biotechnology inventions post-Bilski, and third-party post-patent grant proceedings under the AIA. Speakers have been identified and we are currently in the process of setting dates for these programs.

A program on the AIA is being developed for English-speaking audiences in Pacific Rim countries with the assistance of NZIPA (New Zealand), IPTA Australia and ASPA (Singapore) with the program targeted in February/March 2013. We are in the process of identifying specific topics of interest and finding speakers for this program.

Members of the Committee, possibly in conjunction with other substantive Committees, will coordinate each of the online programs. Each online program has at least one local (e.g. North American) coordinator who works with at least one international coordinator to develop and put on the program. The international coordinator interfaces with the IP organization(s) in their country to establish: (1) a topic of interest for practitioners in the country and (2) mechanisms for marketing the program through the IP organization(s). The local coordinator identifies speakers and sponsors for the program based on the established topic of interest. Most programs will likely be broadcast live. The coordinators may work with other AIPLA Committees or possibly local IP associations outside the US in planning the program. Training sessions will be held for local coordinators within the next two months.

We are also exploring conducting programs in the US with foreign speakers. Interest has been expressed by European attorneys for conducting such programs.

GOALS:(1) Recruit additional members to join the Committee. We would especially like to tap into AIPLA’s international members to encourage involvement of those members in AIPLA.

(2) Explore approaches for expanding audiences for programs. One approach is to establish relationships with IP associations outside the US in order to obtain assistance in promoting and possibly also planning and sponsoring programs. Another, related approach is to begin a formal program of promoting our programming services for US IP law to foreign IP associations, including soliciting requests for online programs and offering speakers for local programs.

(3) Establish a list of speakers possessing a high degree of proficiency in foreign languages.

(4) Coordinate with AIPLA to look for ways the Committee can assist in implementing AIPLA’s international strategies.

(5) Work with AIPLA to find a way to make recordings of the online programs available on the Web site, in a location that is easily found by members and nonmember practitioners outside the US, as well as marketing the existence of the programs to those individuals.

(6) Establish more formal working relationships with other international Committees for purposes of coordinating international education efforts and producing programming.

International Trade CommissionChair: Kim E. ChoateVice Chair: Michael W. Maas

The ITC Committee has been active since spring working closely with the Board to further advocate Section 337 practice at the United States International Trade Commission (USITC). In doing so, the Committee prepared comments for the Board’s approval and submission in response to two recent Federal Register Notices published by the USITC which proposed new rules and procedures for Section 337 practice.

The Committee has also been active in public education. In August, the Committee sponsored an Webinar where the Honorable Theodore Essex, Administrative Law Judge at the USITC, and Kim Choate, Special Counsel at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, spoke on recent updates at the USITC. Additionally, the Committee is planning on participating in one of the educational sessions at the Spring Meeting 2013.


The Committee has formed several Subcommittees to continue its advocacy for Section 337 practice before the USITC and looks forward to working with other Committees to achieve this purpose.

IP Law AssociationsChair: Anthony M. ZupcicVice Chair: Troy Grabow

Vision, Mission & ValuesThe IP Law Associations Committee is AIPLA’s outreach vehicle to all other IP law associations, both local and regional, throughout the United States. The Committee maintains a roster of the leadership of these other IP law associations and fosters cooperation and an exchange of ideas between IP law associations.

AdvocacyOne of the tasks assigned to the Committee is to maintain the Amicus Notification Network which is a Lyris list that enables AIPLA to distribute its amicus briefs to member organizations and similarly to receive copies of amicus briefs filed by other IP law associations that are members of the network. New members to the network are solicited during each Regional Roundtable.

The Committee works with AIPLA staff and the Amicus Committee to distribute all AIPLA amicus briefs to the network in a timely fashion.

Public EducationRegional Roundtables are used as a vehicle to advise local and regional IP law associations of the efforts AIPLA is making in educating both the IP bar and the general public.

In the latest series of Regional Roundtables, the Committee mentioned the several webinars that AIPLA has hosted on various aspects of AIA and explained how those webinars could be used by local and regional associations to educate their members on this important change in IP law.

The Committee worked with the Online Programs Committee to assess how these webinars might be bundled and made available to the local and regional IP law associations.

The Committee also noted that AIPLA is willing to provide speakers on various topics including AIA, upon request. Obtaining a list of speakers on various topics is something that may be compiled in the future.

The latest Regional Roundtables are also being used as a platform to discuss AIPLA’s efforts to educate the public on IP issues. The availability of educational materials at the Creativity in Bloom website (www.creativityinbloom.org) has been noted. Several Regional Roundtable participants have expressed interest in reviewing these educational materials developed by our Public Education Committee and will consider using them for local events.

The Committee also mentioned during the latest Regional Roundtable that the Public Education Committee is developing talking points for the local component of the upcoming World IP Day event in April 2013.

Member ServiceRegional Roundtables also provide a vehicle for learning what benefits other organizations offer their members that might also be implemented by AIPLA in attracting new members. At the same time, AIPLA has offered local and regional associations AIPLA work product that the local and regional associations might not be otherwise able to offer to their members. The Amicus Notification Network and AIPLA’s public education materials are two examples of such work product.

The Committee has also coordinated with the New Lawyers Committee to provide them with local contacts as that Committee tries to set up local events that attract young attorneys.

SUBCOMMITTEES: Regional Roundtable Subcommittee, E-Mailer Subcommittee and Microsite Subcommittee

Committee Meeting, Plans and GoalsSince the terms of three Committee members have expired, at the start of our October Committee Meeting the newly appointed Committee members, Trent Menning, Charles Pannell and Philip Swain, were introduced and each was assigned to one of the three Subcommittees, and each was also given a regional assignment and several AIPLA Committees to monitor.

Three more Regional Roundtables need to be done to complete this series and tentative dates for two of those Regional Roundtables were scheduled for December 2012, with the third to be scheduled during the same time period. A report will then be prepared and circulated both internally at AIPLA and to the regional and local associations.

Turning to projects for the upcoming year, it was agreed that the microsite needs a major update and the members of that Subcommittee will begin work on doing so. It was suggested that some of the educational materials prepared


by the Public Education Committee might be made available on the microsite. It is hoped that the microsite will become a resource to be used by the regional and local associations.

The E-Mailer Subcommittee is in charge of preparing the text of most correspondence sent out by our Committee members. Such correspondence includes invitations to participate at major Committee meetings and to participate in the Regional Roundtables, as well as any other correspondence, such as “quick response” items and periodic “e-mailers” that provide information of interest to the regional and local associations. This Subcommittee will look into a revised format that might be more receptive to the recipients from the regional and local associations.

Vince Garlock has been invited to speak at our Committee meeting during the Mid-Winter Institute and provide the Committee with a legislative update. The E-Mailer Subcommittee will be preparing the invitation to regional and local associations to join the Mid-Winter Institute Committee meeting by phone to listen to Vince’s presentation and participate in our discussions.

The Regional Roundtable Subcommittee will begin preparing the script for the next series of Regional Roundtables. Topics will be discussed at the Mid-Winter Institute so all Committee members should come with ideas developed after discussion with their assigned AIPLA Committees. The goal will be to have a script prepared by the Spring Meeting with all Regional Roundtables completed within a six to eight week window during the summer.

The Committee will also create a new Lyris list of the regional and local association contacts. While the Committee tries to personalize its correspondence with the officers of the regional and local associations, on occasion it might be easier to do a mass mailing. A Lyris list will enable the Chair or Vice-Chair to send a single e-mail to be distributed quickly to all contacts. Two situations where such a Lyris list might be useful are to send out the dial-in numbers following an invitation to a major Committee meeting or to send a “quick response” item.

IP Practice in ChinaChair: Ying TuoCo-Vice Chairs: Patrick J. Coyne and Zhun Lu

The Committee has no business to report at this time.

IP Practice in EuropeCo-Chair: Andrew G. SmithCo-Chair: Laura Brutman

Vision, Mission & ValuesThe IP Practice in Europe Committee seeks to inform our members and members of AIPLA in general of key developments in intellectual property law and practice in Europe, through the establishment and maintenance of relations with professional societies whose members are expert in intellectual property law and practice in Europe.

Member ServiceThe Committee continues to share key learning, developments in practice and in law for our members. Our strong and effective relationships with national IP organizations throughout Europe have assisted us in this process of continuing education.

At the Annual Meeting, together with the Patent Cooperation Treaty Issues Committee, we presented a two-hour program entitled: “Important Changes are Brewing in the PCT.” Representatives of WIPO, the USPTO, and EPO discussed recent and future PCT developments including the Third-Party Observations system and ePCT. Of particular note from the EPO and USPTO presentations, were reports on the ongoing Collaborative Search pilot program which is seeing encouraging improvements in quality and an increase in confidence of national search examiners in the work product of their counterparts in other national offices. An update on developments in Europe towards the unified patent and unified patent court was also provided by our EPO representatives.

Speakers included: Matthew Bryan, Director of the PCT Legal Division; Michael Neas, Supervisor in the Office of PCT Legal Administration at the United States Patent & Trademark Office; Niclas Morey, Director of IP5/Trilateral Affairs and International Organisations at the European Patent Office; and Camille-Rémy Bogliolo, a lawyer in the Directorate International Legal Affairs and PCT at the European Patent Office.

Also at the Annual Meeting, together with the Biotechnology Committee, we presented a two-hour Committee educational session entitled “Antibody Patents and Patenting Antibodies—


US and EP Perspectives.”

The European perspective highlighted the EPO approach to antibody patenting, providing an overview of claiming practice for antibody-based inventions including practice tips for drafting and examination. The presentations further highlighted the inconsistent approach to inventive step of the EPO for structurally defined claims in the antibody field relative to the approach for small molecules, where in the antibody field a functional advantage is considered a prerequisite for a finding of inventive step. The US perspective provided a lively panel discussion on the requirements of written description.

Speakers included: Andrew Smith of Eli Lilly & Company, Ltd.; Dr. Andreas Hübel of Michalski Hüttermann & Partner ; Louise Holliday of D. Young & Co., LLP, Southampton, UK; Amy E. Hamilton of Eli Lilly & Company; Christopher M. Holman, PhD, JD of UMKC School of Law, and Hans Sauer, PhD, JD, Associate General Counsel for Intellectual Property of Biotechnology Industry Organization.

IP Practice in the Far EastChair: Kenneth K. ChoVice Chair: Christopher J. Maier

The Committee has no business to report at this time.

IP Practice in JapanCo-Chair: Joseph A. CalvarusoCo-Chair: Christopher J. Fildes

Vision, Mission & ValuesConsistent with the AIPLA’s Vision, Mission, and Values, the Committee is maintaining a high-level of visibility through its interactions with key Japanese IP organizations to promote the exchange of information on significant IP developments in the US and Japan. These exchanges have historically occurred at two pre-meetings (prior to October AIPLA Annual Meeting and Mid-Winter Institute), each lasting for one and a half days as well as a week-long delegation visit to Japan, generally undertaken in April of each year. It is noted as a result of our consultation with a number of Japanese IP organizations, our Committee decided to forego having a pre-meeting at the 2012 AIPLA Annual Meeting. Basically, the leadership of the Japanese groups advised us that participating in the Annual Meeting this year was very difficult for them because of prior commitments they have to other international meetings scheduled for the same time.

Our Committee participated in a two-hour joint session during the Annual Meeting with the Electronics and Computer Law Committee and the IP Practice in Latin America Committee. During that joint session, there were presentations on the protection of software inventions in the US, Japan, Europe, Mexico and Brazil.

On September 3-4, 2012, our Committee Co-Chairs, Paik Saber and Joseph A. Calvaruso represented AIPLA at the LES Asia Regional Conference in Tokyo. The Conference had about 300 attendees. Joe Calvaruso was a speaker at the session moderated by Paik Saber. During the Conference, Paik Saber also presented Mr. Harashima, LESJ President, with a gift from Bill Barber and the AIPLA organization to commemorate LESJ’s 40th Anniversary. In addition, Joe Calvaruso represented AIPLA at the Annual Meeting of the Japan Trademark Association on September 6-7 in Nagoya. Joe was the sole US speaker at the Nagoya meeting. There were 180 attendees at the Annual Meeting.

Our Committee has already begun planning for our pre-meeting before the January 2013 Mid-Winter Institute as well as our annual April trip to Japan. Immediately following our joint session on October 25, our Steering Committee met


with representatives from JPAA to discuss both the MWI pre-meeting and April Trip. We already have confirmed dates for most of our April 2013 meetings. Included in those April meetings will be our second Women in IP Law meeting as well as our second seminar with JPAA in Osaka.

The Committee will continue to explore having expanded meetings in Japan with JTA and LES Japan including the possibility of an additional trip to Japan for a smaller AIPLA delegation.

The Committee currently has about 160 active voting members. It is the Committee’s intent to increase active participation of its members, and to encourage joining of new members by:

i) posting more information on its web page; and

ii) taking advantage of the annual April trip to Japan to promote AIPLA memberships among the IP professionals working in Japan.

Finally, while historically the Committee has been focused on exchanging information with the Japanese IP organizations, the Committee is now increasing its focus on advocacy, consistent with the AIPLA objectives. To that end, during our April 2012 Trip, the delegation had a very candid discussion with the JPO Director of International Affairs on the issue of what it takes to increase the number of patent filings in Japan.

IP Practice in Latin AmericaChair: James E. LarsonVice Chair: Joaquim Eugenio Goulart

Vision, Mission & ValuesThe IP Practice in Latin America Committee’s (LAC) mission is to foster a better understanding of the complex differences among the numerous countries of Latin America by educating its members and AIPLA. LAC works to this end by constantly reminding its members through its committee programs, web postings and social networking that there are three distinct languages spoken throughout Latin America (English, Spanish and Portuguese), not including the numerous indigenous languages that can be found in

each country, and that each Latin American country is very unique in its culture, political system, history and of course their approach to the procurement of intellectual property. LAC fosters to bring together those differences within the best of its abilities to assist IP practitioners and company executives throughout the world to better understand Latin America and the procurement of IP in the region. LAC’s vision is to include IP Practioners from every Latin American country as members of the Committee and as members of the AIPLA community. LAC’s values are identical to those of the greater membership of the AIPLA in its belief to the enduring power and importance of all areas of Intellectual Property for creating economic growth and prosperity for all of Latin America.

AdvocacyThe Committee is very committed to acting as advocates for furthering the understanding and development of IP systems in Latin America. The LAC will work with fellow IP associations in all of Latin America to assist them in embracing common ideals and systems that are proven to work from other countries with more developed IP procurement systems. However, LAC will always remain cognizant of the unique cultural differences in each Latin America country and will never forget that just because a certain system works in one country, does not mean that it will necessarily work in any other specific Latin American country. The LAC will look to fellow AILPA Committees such as the International and Foreign Law Committee, the PCT Issues Committee, the various Trademark Committees and the Committees covering Japan, Europe and the Far East, to name just a few, for assistance, mutual cooperation and guidance. As well, the LAC has established a liaison with AIPLA’s Biotechnology and International and Foreign Law Committees to foster greater awareness and cooperation among these sister Committees.

Public EducationThe Committee is committed to the highest level of public education as it relates to IP procurement in the Latin American region. As a means to this ends, the LAC will continue to work with a multitude of the other AIPLA Committees in sponsoring joint Committee sessions, especially at each year’s Spring and Annual Meetings. However, the LAC will not only work with other “internationally-focused” Committees, but will strive to incorporate programs that are co-sponsored by a wide variety of the numerous AIPLA Committees so long as the educational program is helpful to the LAC membership and the greater AIPLA community as whole. As an example of such, the LAC is having a joint Committee session at next year’s Spring Meeting in Seattle with the Biotechnology Committee to discuss the most important biotechnology issues developing throughout Latin America. The intended countries to have speakers include: Mexico, Central America


(Costa Rica), Brazil, Chile and Argentina. Further, the LAC Subcommittee for the Maintenance of the AIPLA LAC Micro-Web Site provides the latest information to its Committee membership and the AIPLA membership in regards to the latest IP issues occurring in Latin America. Still further, the LAC is starting a LinkedIn sub-group page, which will be updated and managed by its Subcommittee for the Development and Integration of Social Networking in Latin America.

Member ServiceThe IP Practice in Latin America is wholly committed to expanding its membership to include at least one, if not many, members from each Latin American country in the region. The LAC is also committed to including its members in its educational Committee programs by asking them to speak at any of the three annual meetings when their specific area of expertise fits within the programmed Committee session. Further, the LAC has formed Subcommittees to maintain both its AIPLA micro-web site and its forthcoming LinkedIn sub-group page for the express purpose of keeping its members more informed with the most updated information in regards to important changes occurring in the IP world throughout the Latin American region. Still further, the LAC is actively pursuing AIPLA delegation speaking opportunities with its sister Latin American associations, such as the Brazilian IP Association (ABPI) and the Asociación Interamericana de la Propiedad Intelectual (ASIPI), to name just a few.

Global OutreachEach of the IP Practice in Latin America Committee’s vision, mission and values as well its advocacy, public education and member services will work together to provide a greater global outreach. Latin America, as whole, has become an important economic market for the world and we should expect to see IP procurement increase steadily each year throughout the entire region. The LAC intends to help foster a global outreach by planning an annual trip to a Latin America country to visit its local Patent and Trademark Office and/or other Industrial Property Office and as well to coordinate a visit with the county’s or city’s local IP association and its judicial bar. A very successful trip was taken to Brazil in August of 2012. Plans for a June 2013 trip are already in motion and will be taken to Mexico City. More news of the 2013 trip will be forthcoming before the 2013 Mid-Winter Institute. Other trips are being considered that would coincide with meetings arranged by ASIPI and other sister Latin American organizations. News will be posted on the LAC micro-web site and the forthcoming LinkedIn sub-group when it becomes available, and will be disseminated by both membership e-mails and announcements at the three annual AIPLA meetings during LAC’s Committee sessions.

Subcommittees:

Subcommittee Reporting on IP Developments in South America for 2013Ignacio Manuel Sánchez Echagüe – ChairmanGisella Barreda – Vice Chairman

Subcommittee Reporting on IP Developments in Mexico & Central America for 2013César Ramos - ChairmanJosé Paulo Brenes – Vice Chairman

Subcommittee for the Maintenance of the AIPLA LAC Micro-Web SiteEduardo da Gama Camara Junior – Chairman

Subcommittee for the Development and Integration of Social Networking in Latin AmericaLuis Diego Castro – Chairman

Subcommittee for the Coordination and Planning of the 2013 Annual Latin American TripCésar Ramos – Co-ChairmanEugenio Pérez – Co-Chairman

Law Practice ManagementChair: David A. DivineVice Chair: Richard W. Goldstein

Vision, Mission and ValuesThe mission of the Law Practice Management Committee is to provide resources to our members to manage their law practices. One of the main goals of the LPMC is the timely production of the Report of the Economic Survey. A second goal of the LPMC is to provide educational programming and resources to our members related to law practice management. A third goal of the LPMC is to provide a forum for discussion of issues related to law practice management.

Member ServiceAt the Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, on Friday, October 26, 2012 the Law Practice Management Committee presented the program entitled “Business Development: practical tips for creating and strengthening relationships with in-house counsel.” This program was presented jointly with New Lawyers and Law Student Committees. The


interactive program taught how successful rainmakers build rapport to better serve their clients. Several in-house attorneys shared “what in-house counsel really wants,” and also served to introduce a series created by the Committee: the six critical conversations that every successful law firm leader must master.

The Committee has begun work on the 2013 Economic Survey. Colleen Schaller and John Thuermer will be heading up a subcommittee focused on the Economic Survey. Draft questions for the upcoming survey will be circulated to the Committee this month for review and comment.

Public EducationFollowing on the successful program at the Annual Meeting, we are implementing monthly Committee conference calls the second Wednesday of every month at 1 PM EST starting with the first call on December 12, 2012. The calls will be 60 minutes, and will cover an educational topic related to law practice management and leadership, time for discussion and questions, and an opportunity to get involved in other activities of the Committee. In part, the calls will continue the discussion from the Annual Meeting, concerning the six critical leadership conversations. A separate meeting invite will be sent out prior to the first call. In the meantime, please email Rich Goldstein at [email protected] if you have suggested topics for future calls or would like to be involved in planning educational programming for the Law Practice Management Committee.

Subcommittees: Economic Survey, Professional Programs

Law StudentsChair: Yelena MorozovaVice Chair: Samuel V. Eichner

Vision, Mission & ValuesThe Law Student Committee was created to help the Association better identify with the concerns of law students. The Committee wishes not only to invigorate AIPLA’s current law student members, but also to welcome more students to join AIPLA as active members. The Committee will be a vehicle to educate members on AIPLA’s broader purpose and goal.

The importance of law student outreach to AIPLA cannot be overstated; the law student community is far and away the largest pool of potential new AIPLA members. As a result, a major goal of the Law Student Committee is to expand the AIPLA presence at law schools around the country and around the world, and educate law students about AIPLA’s role in the IP community , while emphasizing the benefits of the AIPLA affiliation. By expanding the AIPLA law student membership base, we can increase exposure to AIPLA and accomplish more as a Committee and as an organization.

We look forward to an active year, and to contributing members, ideas and hard work to the AIPLA community.

Public EducationThe Law Student Committee has been working in conjunction with the Education Committee by providing students to assist the Education Committee with compiling a list of IP law school professors around the country.

Member ServiceOur Committee is actively involved in the mentor/mentee program, which pairs law students with new lawyers, allowing the latter to provide guidance on practice areas and employment opportunities to the former. This program is being implemented in conjunction with the New Lawyers Committee. At the Annual Meeting, we participated on a panel “Business Development: Practical Tips for Creating and Strengthening Relationships with In-House Counsel”, hosted with the Law Practice Management Committee and New Lawyers Committee. The event focused on understanding client’s needs, building a successful rapport with clients, and “what in-house counsel really wants.” We stressed the importance of networking as a law student, and how that relates to obtaining business as an attorney down the road from corporate clients.

Generally speaking the Committee will continue its longstanding outreach efforts which focus on engaging, educating and expanding the AIPLA membership. We intend to expand these efforts in a number of ways. The Event Planning Subcommittee is being created to provide one mechanism for mass outreach to law students. Law students will serve in regional positions on the Subcommittee, providing our Committee with the infrastructure for planning AIPLA events at key schools with strong IP programs. The Social Media Subcommittee currently in development is also a key aspect of our member outreach initiative. We intend to embolden our Facebook and LinkedIn presence, while also starting a new Twitter account devoted to connecting with law students on a consistent basis.

Global OutreachThe Committee has begun to consider various strategies and ideas as to how we can increase membership on a


global basis. While this initiative is in its infant stages, we believe the right approach to global outreach will allow the Committee to gain a foothold in key foreign legal institutions, and allow AIPLA to grow its membership internationally.

Licensing and Management of IP AssetsChair: Robert O. Lindefjeld Vice Chair: Penny Lynn Prater

The Committee has been actively involved in educational presentations during Committee sessions for both the Spring and Annual 2012 meetings. During the Spring Meeting session, James Kelley, Assistant Chief Patent Counsel of Eli Lilly and Co., and Penny Prater, Senior Counsel, Chevron. provided a joint presentation entitled, “Management of Large Intellectual Property Portfolios.” The two presentations provided different perspectives on IP portfolio management within large corporations. An accompanying article, written by Gregory Grissett, Jacob Woolbright and John Thuermer, was provided for CLE credit.

During our session at the Annual Meeting, the concept of licensee estoppel was considered by a panel which analyzed the recent Rates v. Speakeasy decision. Panelists included Pat O’Reilley of Finnegan, Andrew Wu of IP Value, and David Leichtman of Robins, Kaplan Miller and Ciresi. Two supporting articles were prepared for CLE credit by the teams of Donika Pentcheva with Roy Isaac and Debodhouyaa Sengupta with Andrew Kesnevich.

We have posted material from our recent education sessions on the Committee website. We are also adding a listing of popular books and articles of interest in the licensing area. Please let us know if you have suggestions for items to add to our list.

MembershipChair: Michael W. PiperVice Chair: Elizabeth Ann “Betty” Morgan


MentoringChair: Daphne C. LainsonVice Chair: Hetal Kushwaha (not pictured)

Vision, Mission & ValuesThe Mentoring Committee facilitates mentoring relationships within AIPLA to assist members to achieve their goals within AIPLA. Professional mentoring may also be an aspect of the mentoring relationship.

AdvocacyThe Committee does not have a formal role with respect to advocacy. However, through pairings, our mentors introduce their mentees to substantive Committees which have a role in advocacy.

Public EducationThe Committee contributes to public education by supporting Committees like the Education Committee. Our pairings can also increase AIPLA members becoming more involved in public education, with interested mentees being introduced to AIPLA leadership tasked with this objective.

Member ServicesWe believe that the Mentoring Committee draws in new members interested in becoming more involved in AIPLA and who may want professional mentoring.


One of the ways that we contribute to member services is with the Klitzman Award. One objective of the award is to assist junior corporate counsel in becoming more involved in AIPLA. The 2012 recipient of the Klitzman Award is Jason Sosa from IBM. During the Annual meeting, Jason was paired with Georgann Grunebach of Fox, who introduced him to AIPLA and its various Committees.

Also at the Annual Meeting, the Mentoring and Membership Committees held a joint meeting related to getting the most out of AIPLA membership. We provided information on getting involved in Committees, the networking events AIPLA hosts, advocacy opportunities, mentoring programs and innovative programming, including road shows across America. Our speakers were: Jacques Etkowicz, who discussed participating in the Professional Programs Committee; Shannon Beech, who discussed participating in the Online Programming Committee; Kevin Tottis, who discussed participating in other AIPLA Committees and other opportunities like advocacy; Missy Sikorski, who discussed networking opportunities, with a focus on the New Lawyers Committee; and Hetal Kushwaha, who discussed the opportunities in the Mentoring Committee.

We have implemented a mentor/mentee pre-pairing interview in order to improve the mentoring experience. Jenae Gureff contacts each mentor and mentee pair to confirm that the pairing is appropriate.

We ran a pilot program at the Spring Meeting to provide greater mentoring at each major meeting. We paired AIPLA leadership with more junior members who want to become more involved in AIPLA. We will be running another on-site mentoring program at the Mid-Winter Institute, and we also have plans to run the program at the Spring Meeting.

Global OutreachOur Committee has and will continue to improve ways for our members to become more involved outside of major meetings. This allows members who are not able to travel to meetings become involved in and learn more about AIPLA.

We are a global Committee: foreign members are involved in the mentoring program at the leadership level and within the mentoring program as mentors and mentees.

We provided an online program to assist mentors and mentees in getting the most out of their mentoring relationship, increasing our global outreach. Our program ran on March 15, 2012. It was conducted by the former chair, Elizabeth Burke, and included last year’s Mentor of the Year, Mike Martinez, and Rakesh Mehta, a mentee.

We are also developing new ways to reach out to our members using our Committee microsite, Twitter and Facebook. Goals are to provide additional resources for mentors and mentees outside of and at major meetings. We are also considering

ways to provide local mentoring opportunities, building on what the New Lawyers and the Women in IP Law Committees have achieved through community events.

Subcommittees• Pairings Subcommittee: Diana Luo o Mentor/Mentee Pre-Screening: Jenae Gureff• Evaluations Subcommittee (includes reviewing

applicants for Mentor of the Year Award): Lisa Jorgensen; Allison Strickland

• Klitzman Award Selection Subcommittee: Rakesh Mehta• Technology Subcommittee: Jack Abid

Mergers and AcquisitionsChair: Peter E. MimsVice Chair: Carey C. Jordan (Not pictured)


New LawyersCo-Chair: Melissa A. Sikorski Co-Chair: Richard T. Matthews

We would first like to thank outgoing NLC Co-Chair Chad Pannell for all he has done for the Committee while leading the NLC during the past two years, and we are very happy that Chad is maintaining an active role in the Committee and taking the helm of our NLC CLE Subcommittee. Many thanks, Chad!

The NLC welcomes longtime active AIPLA and NLC Committee member, creator and outgoing Chair of the NLC CLE Subcommittee, Rick Matthews as the NLC’s Vice Chair.


Congratulations, Rick!

Following the success of the first NLC CLE program on May 30th in Washington, DC, with satellite participation in Boston, New York and Chicago, the second NLC CLE program titled “iPad for I.P. Lawyers” was held on November 15, 2012. This second CLE was a live luncheon conference that was held in Atlanta, Boston, New York, Washington, DC, and Orange County, CA. We received a great deal of positive feedback following the event and are looking forward to the next event.

At the 2012 Annual Meeting, The Committee joined the Law Practice Management Committee in an interactive session, Business Development: Practical Tips for Creating and Strengthening Relationships with In-house Counsel, followed by a networking reception. During a joint session of the Mentoring and Membership Committees, Chair Missy Sikorski represented the NLC on a panel discussing how to make the most of one’s AIPLA membership.

The 2012 winner of the Watson Writing Competition was Samantak Ghosh of UC Berkeley School of Law. Review of submissions for the 2013 award will begin in July of 2013. As in the past, groups will be selected to assist with the review and “grading” of papers. Very special thanks go to Jen Kuhn for her work leading the Competition.

Thanks go to NLC member Amanda Schreyer for representing the Committee on the Selection Committee for the Klitzman Award.

The Giles Rich Moot Court Competition will begin soliciting judges in January of 2013 to help judge briefs and oral argument. Those interested in judging should contact the regional or national director of the competition listed at http://www.aipla.org/resources/programs/Pages/Moot-Court-Competition.aspx.

Planning for the 2014 Giles Rich will begin in late May or early June.

The NLC held its second summer retreat in New York in August, which we kicked off after work that Friday with a networking reception with members of the NYIPLA, sponsored by Drinker Biddle. Special thanks to local networking leader Ceyda Maisami for organizing a terrific weekend, and to Deborah Plehn-Dujovich for organizing the reception at Drinker. We would also like to thank AIPLA President-Elect, Jeff Lewis for offering his assistance with reception coordinating and for joining us for Sunday brunch to wrap up the weekend.

The NLC enjoyed a well-attended, productive and informational session led by Committee Chair Missy Sikorski at the 2012 Spring Meeting in Austin. The session resulted in new local networking leaders joining the team, plans for International Committee events and cross-programming, and increased interest in volunteering for the Committee’s many ongoing

initiatives as well as projects announced during the session by leadership from other AIPLA Committees. Following the session was a very well-attended local networking happy hour, generously sponsored by Fish & Richardson PC. More Spring Meeting details appear in the anniversary issue of the NLC’s Business Casual™ Newsletter, which was published in October.

The NLC continues to communicate with members through the AIPLA e-mail list and social networking media such as our Facebook page and LinkedIn group, to make Committee announcements, broadcast volunteer opportunities for various AIPLA projects, and post upcoming local events organized by the networking Subcommittee leaders.

If you are interested in getting more involved in the New Lawyers Committee, please send an e-mail to NLC Chair Missy Sikorski [email protected] and Vice Chair Rick Matthews [email protected].

Online ProgramsChair: Brad ChinVice Chair: Stephen E. Belisle

Vision, Mission & ValuesOur mission is to provide high quality, affordable education using online media.

Our vision is to develop and prepare technological options and vendors to be able to work with the leadership and other Committees within the organization to identify, develop, and provide efficient and effective online program content and to facilitate others in the AIPLA to utilize online media for program delivery.

The Committee provides substantial means to AIPLA to expand its role as an innovator, powerful advocate, and visible global leader in intellectual property, including through its interactive and timely Internet-based (and thus global) programming. The Committee also provides AIPLA with the capacity to serve its members, public policy leaders, and the public, while generating revenue necessary to ensure the sustainability of the organization and its employees.

Advocacy


The Committee provides AIPLA with means to directly connect with its membership and the public. While the Committee itself does not engage in advocacy, its capacity to communicate information to and among target groups via online programming provides AIPLA with an invaluable tool in today’s instant information world.

For example, on August 22, 2012 (shortly after the effective date of certain key America Invents Act (“AIA”) provisions), Online Programs hosted a webinar titled “The Final USPTO AIA Rules: What You Need to Know,” which was the fifth in an ongoing series of AIA webinars, featured the USPTO Patent Reform Coordinator, Janet Gongola, and provided a mechanism for information exchange between the USPTO and webinar attendees. Also, on September 26, 2012, Online Programs hosted a webinar titled “USPTO Statistics Initiative,” which featured Manny Schechter of IBM Corp. and Dave Wiley of the USPTO among others. Online Programs will continue its series on the AIA into 2013 with a number webinars that educate and enable practitioners to navigate their practices under the AIA.

Public Education While the Committee has historically provided excellent intellectual property programming for members of the AIPLA and others, there is room to further leverage online programs to educate the general (non-member) public about the daily value of intellectual property and to funnel that programming to specific target groups. Thus, the Committee is continuing to evaluate potential programming topics, audience groups, and cost-sensitive online delivery means in this regard, and coordinating with AIPLA regarding preferred practices for notifying such target groups of the online programming opportunities.

Member ServiceThe Committee provides substantial services to the members of AIPLA through two primary online platforms: Citrix GoToWebinars and webinars professionally hosted by KRM Information Services, Inc. Since the 2011 Annual Meeting, Online Programs has hosted 12 KRM, 10 Citrix, and 10 Committee webinars covering a wide-range of topics, including the AIA, ITC investigations, counterfeiting, PCT prosecution, patent prosecution, trademark prosecution, litigation, e-discovery, and negotiation and others. These online programs not only serve members of AIPLA, but generate revenue to help ensure the financial sustainability of the AIPLA into the future. Webinars typically attract between 50 and 350 registrations.The Committee intends to host about 18 to 20 webinars in 2013, covering a wide range of subject matter to reach a broader scope of the AIPLA membership. The planning for several of them is already underway.

The Committee also provides a substantial channel for the members of AIPLA to obtain needed CLE credits. For

example, in FY 2011-2012 (July 2011-June 2012), AIPLA processed about 5,573 requests for CLE in connection with online programming, and in FY 2012-2013 (July 2012-September 2012), AIPLA has already processed about 1,880 such requests (on track for approximately 6,000-7,000 for FY 2012-2013). The CLE requests, which have historically originated from at least 44 of the 50 US states, demonstrate the geographically diverse reach of the Committee’s efforts.

The Committee coordinates with several other AIPLA committees to provide and continue to expand online programming subject matter and geographic reach. Most recently, we have coordinated with the New Lawyers Committee to recruit new program coordinators to create geographically targeted (localized) programming under development by Young Lawyers and offer that online programming.

The Committee also has the following Subcommittees whose collective mission is to cooperate with other Committees of the AIPLA to expand and enhance member services:

(1) Citrix GoToWebinar Subcommittee, which is charged generally with facilitating such webinars, including a Career and Practice Management Webinar Series, and specifically with coordinating online programming with the Biotechnology, Chemical Practice, Corporate Practice, Electronic and Computer Law, International Education, Mentoring, and Patent Litigation Committees as well as the Special Committee on Standards and Open Source; and

(2) Online Presence Subcommittee, which is charged with evaluating and improving the overall online presence and marketing of the programming of Online Programs, including through such channels as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Blogs, and the AIPLA microsite.

Global OutreachThe Committee provides AIPLA with global outreach through its online programming, which by its very nature is without boundaries (of course, time zones and language barriers affect the audience for any given webinar). The Committee continues to coordinate with the International Education Committee to identify and develop relevant online programming for international audiences, and to increase AIPLA’s international membership.


Patent AgentsChair: Esther M. KepplingerVice Chair: J. Ritu Chander


Patent Cooperation Treaty IssuesChair: Jay A. Erstling (not pictured)Vice Chair: Brooke Schumm III


Patent LawChair: Kenneth N. NigonVice Chair: Marc A. Hubbard

Vision, Mission & ValuesThe Patent Law Committee provides an open community for the exchange of ideas and concerns on US patent law and underlying policy, disseminates information on

recent developments in patent law, develops educational programming on patent law for the membership and policy leaders, assists other Committees with developing educational and other programming, identifies to the membership and AIPLA important issues of patent law, and assists with developing positions on issues of patent law to be advocated by AIPLA. The Committee will do so without regard to any particular technology.

AdvocacyOne of the committee’s primary objectives is to assist AIPLA in its advocacy by monitoring issues that arise concerning the substantive aspects of US patent law and bringing those issues to the attention of the membership and AIPLA. The Committee gathers input from its members on issues involving patent law, and recommends positions to be taken by AIPLA. It also drafts, on behalf of AIPLA, resolutions, and comments in response to requests from governmental agencies concerning patent law. The Advocacy Subcommittee assists the Committee in these efforts.

In addition to their efforts in summarizing and soliciting and collecting comments on the NPRMs the Advocacy Subcommittee continues to monitor case law, PTO publications and NPRMs for issues that may need to be addressed by AIPLA. If an issue is deemed worthy by the Subcommittee, they will make recommendations to the Amicus Committee or prepare a draft resolution for consideration by the Board.

• The Committee collected comments from committee members in response to Federal Register Notices relating to proposed regulations and guidelines for implementing first-inventor-to-file under the AIA.

Recent activities of our Legislation Subcommittee:• Our Legislation Subcommittee, chaired by Eric Mirabel and Lance Reich, has begun work on developing a position that can be recommended to the Board on concerning a revision to 35 U.S.C. § 101. An ad hoc Committee of members of the Patent Law, Biotechnology and Electronic and Computer Law Committees has been formed for this purpose. Comments on possible proposals from the ad hoc Committee are being collected through a forum. Once comments have been collected they will be reviewed and the committee will prepare one or more resolutions for consideration and approval to the Board.

Public EducationThe Committee is a resource for the Public Education Committee for developing materials for use in public education. In January, we reviewed and commented upon educational materials prepared for middle-school students by the Public Education Committee. We will continue to work with the Public Education Committee to ensure that issues relating to the public perception of IP law are addressed.


Member ServiceThe Committee serves its members and AIPLA through a number of different avenues.

First, our substantive Subcommittees provide forums or communities through which Committee members exchange information and thoughts on current legal developments and policy questions. As described above, the Advocacy Subcommittee has solicited and submitted comments to the AIPLA Task Force regarding the Notices of Proposed Rule Making under the AIA. The Patent Law Committee is fortunate to have a technically–diverse membership, enabling it to cover all technologies that arise, including software and the life sciences. Because of the success of the Subject Matter Eligibility Subcommittee, we have expanded our scope to include all issues relating to patentability and renamed it to the Patentability Issues Subcommittee. This Subcommittee is co-chaired by Ben Borson and Gary Cohen.

Second, the Committee regularly arranges and sponsors educational programming during its meetings, often for CLE credit through its Programs Subcommittee, which has chaired by Paul Kitch of Nixon & Peabody and Sarah Knight of Saliwanchick, Lloyd Eisenschenk. The Subcommittee is responsible for planning educational content, preferably for CLE credit, during the Committee’s meetings. The Programs Subcommittee will also be responsible for coordinating with the Professional Programs and the Mid-Winter Institute Committees, as well as the Online Education Committee, by providing to those Committees ideas for programming, and assistance and resources in connection with producing the programming.

Third, the Committee assists other Committees with programming content.

Fourth, the Committee informs its members of important legislative and administrative initiatives, and provides a mechanism through which members may contribute collectively to comments that will be submitted in response to those initiatives.

• A September 17, 2012 free conference call to discuss the new Post Grant Procedures, Post Grant Review, Inter Parties Review and the Transitional Program for Covered Business Methods. The speaker was Kevin Greenleaf of Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner.

• A September 21, 2012 free conference to discuss how the new Declaration practice under the AIA has been working. The conference included a brief presentation by Todd Benni of McDonald Hopkins LLC followed by a discussion by Committee members sharing helpful tips on handling the new Declaration and Power of Attorney forms.

Recent Activities of the Patentability Issues Subcommittee

• On June 5, 2012 the Subcommittee held a free teleconference to discuss obviousness-type double patenting, two recent Board decisions involving this issue, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co.., Ltd. vs. Sandoz, Inc., Apotex, and Teva Pharmaceuticals (2011-1126, 1127; May 7, 2012) and Eurand, Inc. & Cephalon, Inc. v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. (2011-1399-1409; April 16, 2012), as well as a 2008 Board decision in Ex Parte Whalen II (Appeal 2007-4421). Chris Paradies of Fowler White Bogs, Charles Miller of Dickstein Shapiro.

• On July 24, 2012, the Subcommittee held a free teleconference to discuss patent eligible subject matter. The teleconference included a discussion of the Federal Circuit decision in CLS v. Alice (2011-1301; July 9, 2012) and the 101 guidelines issued by the USPTO on July 3, 2012 in view of the Supreme Court’s decision in Mayo v. Prometheus.

• On September 4, the Subcommittee continued its series of free conferenced calls, focusing this time on decisions in The Association for Molecular Pathology, et al., v. United States Patent and Trademark office, et al., 653 F.3d 1329 (2011).

The Subcommittee continues to monitor developments generally in the area of patentability, including subject matter eligibility, anticipation, obviousness, and §112 issues, for the purpose not only of holding regular conference calls to discuss important cases, but also bringing the Association’s attention to them and working with Committee leadership, the Amicus Committee and the Board on developing positions to be taken on important issues.

Activities of the Programs Subcommittee • For the 2012 Annual Meeting, the Programs Subcommittee prepared a 60-minute CLE program on (1) declarations and assignments and (2) effective filing date of claims under the AIA. The speakers were Todd Benni, McDonald Hopkins, LLC, Cleveland, OH Stephen Weed, RatnerPrestia,Valley Forge, PA. Paul Kitch of Nixon & Peabody moderated the program.

Global OutreachOur Programs Subcommittee will work with the International Education Committee to make available resources and speakers on US patent law, as well as suggest possible topics and program that might be of interest to an international audience.

Subcommittees: Patentability Issues; Programs; Advocacy; Legislation


Patent LitigationChair: Dianne B. ElderkinVice Chair: Scott J. Pivnick

At the Committee’s meeting in October, we enjoyed an informative panel discussion on the topic of jury perceptions in patent cases. The jury-experienced panelists were:

• Retired US District Court Judge Joseph J. Farnan, Jr. Judge Farnan presided over scores of patent trials during his decades on the bench in Delaware.

• David Weinberg, founder and President of JuryScope. David has over 25 years of trial consulting experience, much of which has been in the patent infringement area.

• Eric Rudich, Senior Litigation Consultant at Magna Legal Services. Eric has consulted on hundreds of civil and criminal cases, including patent cases.

The following Subcommittees have been formed and are in organizational phases:

Damages Subcommittee: Co-chaired by Matthias Kamber (Keker & Van Nest) and S. Christian Platt (Paul Hastings, LLP)

Litigation Issues Relating to AIA: Co-chaired by Maya Eckstein (Hunton & Williams) and Alex Goranin (Woodcock Washburn LLP)

Expert Witness Subcommittee: Chaired by Christopher Kennerly (Baker Botts)

Model Jury Instructions Subcommittee: Chaired by Ken Adamo (Kirkland) and (other co-chair pending)

The Subcommittees are just getting underway with their work. If you are interested in working on one of these Committees and have not yet been contacted, please contact the chairs.

Patent-Relations with the USPTOChair: Gregory D. AllenVice Chair: Nicholas P. Godici

Vision, Mission & ValuesThe Committee monitors and provides comments on various patent-related activities of the USPTO that may be of interest or concern to the profession or the public. The Committee focuses on the USPTO practices and procedures and their effectiveness in furthering the objectives of the patent system; the statutory and regulatory aspects of USPTO practice with respect to the examination of patent applications, as reflected in the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure and in actual cases coming to the attention of the Committee; the effectiveness of that practice in furthering the objectives of the patent system; and the effectiveness of the facilities afforded by the USPTO to the public interested in patent matters, including publications.

AdvocacyThe Committee seeks input from its members and other interested Committees on USPTO Federal Register Notices for consideration and evaluation for possible AIPLA comment to the USPTO. The Committee will also be working with the Special Task Force on AIA Rulemaking and other Committees, as needed to assist the Task Force.

Public EducationThe Committee typically invites a USPTO official to a Committee meeting during the major meetings to discuss the current status of patent operations and programs, and any new patent policies, practices, or procedures that have recently been adopted or proposed. The latter is usually a joint meeting with at least one other interested Committee. In addition, the Committee often joins with other Committees at during the major meetings.

For example, at the Annual Meeting we held a joint one-hour meeting with the Patent Agents Committee, where Deputy Commissioner for Patent Operations Andrew Faile discussed the Office’s RCE Outreach efforts and Chris Kim, COC Program Coordinator, discussed the new classification system.

At the time of Mr. Faile’s presentation, the RCE backlog was about 100,000 as compared to 20,000 in the fourth


Quarter of 2009. The Office has several efforts under way to reduce the RCE backlog, including the ongoing After Final Consideration Practice (AFCP) and Quick Path IDS (QPIDS) pilot programs. A new effort, “RCE Outreach,” was announced at the meeting and discussed. The purpose of the RCE Outreach effort is to identify the reasons/drivers for RCEs by gathering both internal and external data. The latter will be collected through comments from Federal Register Notice (published December 6, 2012; http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-12-06/pdf/2012-29546.pdf), roundtables, and data analysis with the Public Patent Advisory Committee (PPAC). The outcome of the data collection and analysis is expected to result in new programs and recommend practices to be communicated in the spring of 2013.

Mr. Kim discussed the details of a USPTO/EPO agreement to cooperate on a joint classification system based initially on the International Patent Classification-based European Classification system (IPC-based ECLA). By January 2013, the USPTO will move from USPC to CPC (Cooperative Patent Classification) and the EPO will move from ECLA to CPC. CPC, which is a scheme based on the International Patent Classification (IPC) standard, was described as being specifically designed to be a powerful, flexible, and easily manageable classification scheme for internal, as well as external, users. Additional information can be found at www.cpcinfo.org.

Member ServicesThe Committee actively maintains its microsite to provide information of particular use to the membership.

Subcommittees: Federal Register Notice Committee: Lead drafter designated on a per Notice basis; and Microsite: Michael D. Berger.

Professional ProgramsChair: Manny W. SchecterVice Chair: Jacques L. Etkowicz

Vision, Mission & ValuesThe Professional Programs Committee organizes the agenda

and speakers for the AIPLA Spring and Annual Meetings with the objective of providing world class IP programs by respected speakers and thought leaders.

Member ServiceThe Professional Programs Committee is currently organizing the 2013 Spring Meeting. The agenda topics have been selected with continued emphasis on the implementation of the America Invents Act. Session coordinators were selected during our Committee meeting at the 2012 AIPLA Annual Meeting. Organization of the 2013 Annual Meeting is about to begin with topic identification and the Topic Subcommittee has been named.

Subcommittees2013 Spring Meeting Topic Subcommittee, Jim Hallenbeck, Subcommittee Chair

2013 Annual Meeting Topic Subcommittee, Michael Drapkin, Subcommittee Chair

Professionalism and EthicsChair: Raymond Van DykeVice Chair: Rodney K. Caldwell



Public AppointmentsChair: William C. RooklidgeVice Chair: Roger W. Parkhurst

Vision, Mission & ValuesThe Public Appointments Committee, consisting of members chosen for geographical distribution to provide opportunity for personal acquaintance with candidates for office coming under Committee consideration, considers the qualifications of candidates referred to it by the Board of Directors and reports in confidence, whether the candidate is qualified and any other information the Committee believes useful to the Board.

AdvocacyThe Committee’s activities support the Board’s efforts in advocating for the nomination and confirmation of particular candidates for office in the federal courts, an aspect of its leadership and unbiased analysis resulting in its perception as a highly sought after and respected thought leader.

Public EducationChair: Salvatore Anastasi (not pictured)Vice Chair: Michael B. Stewart

Vision, Mission & Values• Develop key Public Education message points, materials

and audience targets• Tailor the message to particular audiences and prioritize• Disseminate Public Education tailored messages

through specific channels to prioritized audiences

AdvocacyThe Committee is working closely with the Rapid Response

Team to help identify areas where an AIPLA response is appropriate to address public misconceptions regarding intellectual property and to facilitate communication of the response to the public.

The Committee is working with WIPO and the USPTO on the Capitol Hill World IP Day celebration targeted for the week of April 22, 2013.

Public EducationThe Committee is working to build upon the work it has done with WIPO and the USPTO in the past on World IP Day by taking the annual Capitol Hill celebration to the public for 2013. This plan is intended to develop into a multiyear program as we build on successes in 2012. The Committee envisions AIPLA, in collaboration with other sponsors, coordinating World IP Day celebrations in many cities and local venues around the country. The celebrations will include coordinated presentations on the World IP Day theme for that year. In 2013 World IP presentations and celebrations are being scheduled for Detroit, Denver, Silicon Valley, Dallas, and New York.

The Committee has continued its work to provide education packages for use by the membership in reaching public audiences. The Committee has reached out to various Committees within AIPLA to help with review and finalization of these presentations including the Copyright Committee, Trademark Committee, the Trade Secret Committee and the Patent Committee: All presentations are currently posted at www.creativityinbloom.org General IP presentation – posted Copyright presentation – posted Trademark presentation – posted Trade Secret presentation – posted Patent presentation – posted

Recently, the Committee also did a webinar introducing these presentations to the membership for its use. Over 50 members participated in the webinar. A similar introduction presentation was made at the Annual Meeting. The presentations are now on our microsite and the Creativity in Bloom Website (www.creativityinbloom.org) along with the recorded webinar. Additional presentations directed to a more mature audience are being developed and tested.

The Committee is reaching out to various national organizations having an interest in learning more about intellectual property to utilize their distribution network to increase the public awareness of Intellectual Property. For example, the Vice-Chairman recently did a presentation for a local club of a senior men’s organization with the intention that the same presentation may be essentially reused. The Chairman has been in contact with the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA).

The Committee has also talked directly with an organization


called “US First.” Its mission is to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, engineering and technology skills, that inspire innovation, and that foster well-rounded life capabilities including self-confidence, communication, and leadership. We have reviewed its intellectual property materials including the “Learn about Patents” page on its FLL Global Innovation Award site. In return, the organization has offered to work with us to “jazz up” the Creativity in Bloom Website.

The Committee continues to coordinate with the USPTO and to participate in public outreach efforts of the USPTO, including programs devoted to educating the public about trademarks and patents. The week before the Annual Meeting, for example, our Chairman was in Washington, DC participating in the USPTO Trademark Expo. Our Vice Chairman more recently met with key USPTO officials at its new Detroit Office and we have meetings scheduled in Alexandria in late November.

Member ServiceThe Committee has substantially updated its microsite and has provided AIPLA members with easy access to the public education materials available for presentations to the public. When people download the materials, they are asked to provide timely feedback as the materials are used so that they may be refined and new packets of material developed over time. (We have already received some feedback. ) The process of automated distribution with tracking to facilitate survey feedback has recently been implemented. Further, the Committee has undertaken the use of online training sessions introducing the materials to the membership. The Committee also plans to advertise them in daily communications associated with AIPLA meetings and in the AIPLA daily or weekly e-mail communications to the membership and that is our next step, particularly since a link to the recorded version of its recent webinar is available on the Committee’s microsite.

The Creativity in Bloom Website is intended to provide an additional mechanism to provide materials for use by the membership to educate the general public about Intellectual Property and to address incorrect or misleading perceptions.

Global OutreachPlease see the discussion above including, for example 2013 World IP day, both the Committee microsite and the Creativity in Bloom website and materials developed for use by the AIPLA membership.

Subcommittees:Youth Education- Elexis Jones

Business Education – Dave Carlson

Website Development – Michael Stewart

Special Committee on IP Practice in IsraelCo-Chair: William H. MandirCo-Chair: David R.M. Colb


Special Committee on JudgesCo-Chair: Chief Judge Randall Rader Co-Chair: Judge Lorelei Ritchie de Larena


Special Committee on LegislationCo-Chair: Ann Mueting Co-Chair: Griffith B. Price, Jr.

Vision, Mission & ValuesThe overall mission of the Committee is to support the Board and facilitate rapid consideration of legislative


proposals. This includes generation of proposals, as well as consideration of both internally-generated and externally generated proposals. The Committee also works closely with the various substantive law Committees to ensure that the Board has feedback from them on legislative proposals.

The Committee supports the vision of the organization by continually seeking to improve the laws governing intellectual property rights, by considering members’ views as represented by the Committee membership and substantive law Committees with whom we coordinate and communicate, and by supporting the Board and leadership of AIPLA in its advocacy work.

The Committee supports the Association’s mission by keeping members informed regarding legislative developments and initiatives and advocating for fair and effective intellectual property laws. The Committee serves the Association by generating legislative proposals and providing commentary and views of the membership on various legislative proposals to the Board and the leadership.

AdvocacyThe Committee supports the Board and leadership, as requested. This includes generating, reviewing, commenting on, and preparing legislative proposals, positions on legislative proposals, and testimony regarding legislative proposals. We work closely with the substantive law Committees and serve as a liaison between the Board and those Committees to ensure that proposals are carefully considered by persons within the organization having the relevant expertise and experience to provide to the Board sound recommendations.

The Committee is currently monitoring several issues, including: possible technical and substantive amendments to the America Invents Act (AIA); Patent Law Treaty (PLT) implementation; trademark issues, including protection of well-known marks and trademark remedies, and trade dress protection; fashion design protection; orphan works; antitrust scrutiny of reverse payments; federal trade secrets protection; and other issues on which the Board has requested assistance from the Committee.

Public EducationThe Committee works primarily through the Board, the leadership of the Association, and substantive law Committees.

Member ServiceThe Committee actively solicits the substantive law Committees in performing its mission. We seek to provide the Board with a sense of the membership on the various issues that are considered by the Committee.

Global OutreachAs the Committee is directed to US legislation, we consider and coordinate primarily regarding US legislation. Nonetheless, a number of legislative proposals require consideration of various international issues, as well as harmonization with other countries’ laws. The Committee addresses these issues in the regular course of its work.

SubcommiteesCopyright Industrial Designs Patents/Litigation PTO/Agency Practice Trademark

Special Committee on Standards and Open SourceCo-Chair: Monica M. BaroneCo-Chair: Christopher J. Dervishian (not pictured)


Trade Secret LawChair: Janet Craycroft (not pictured)Vice Chair: John F. Marsh



Trademark InternetChair: Mark V.B. PartridgeVice Chair: Janet M. Fuhrer

Vision, Mission & Values The AIPLA Trademark Internet Committee assists AIPLA in being a leader in advocacy and education regarding trademarks and the Internet, with particular attention to ICANN activities, domain names, and social media. The Committee serves its members by sharing information and facilitating participation.

Our Objectives and Goals for 2012-13 include:

a. Monitor developments with new gTLDs

b. Monitor developments with UDRP PDP

c. Build committee participation in the ICANN IPC

d. Conduct webinar on new gTLDs

e. Represent AIPLA at ICANN meetings in Asia and Latin America

Advocacy

The Committee represents AIPLA on the ICANN Intellectual Property Constituency. The IPC provides comments on ICANN policy affecting intellectual property rights and participates in sharing ICANN policies and procedures. Participation in the IPC provides AIPLA with an outlet for advocacy on ICANN issues. The Committee has worked with the AIPLA Board to provide comments to ICANN on matters affecting intellectual property interests. Committee Chair Mark Partridge is the Treasurer of the IPC and has been active in various ICANN committees creating dispute resolution policies for new gTLDs, including the IRT and STI, as well as serving on NomCom, an ICANN committee that fills leadership positions within ICANN, including positions on the ICANN Board of Directors.

Public EducationThe Committee has worked with the AIPLA Board to provide public comments on ICANN issues. The Committee has also worked with the Professional Programs Committee to develop programs on Trademark Internet issues, include a program on new gTLDs for the 2011 and 2012 Annual Meetings, a webinar in November 2012, and a program

on social media for the 2012 Spring Meeting. Committee members have worked to educate the ICANN community about intellectual property issues through public comments, seminars and participation in ICANN committees.

Member Service The Committee has served the AIPLA membership by creating education programs and by proposing public comments adopted by the Board. The Committee also serves its membership through the use of the Committee website and conference calls to discuss relevant issues, and at Committee meetings. In the year 2012 – 13, the Committee plans to hold bi-monthly committee telephone conference meetings; participate in telephone conference meetings of the Intellectual Property Constituency of the ICANN; and attend ICANN meeting in Canada, Asia and Latin America.

Global OutreachThe Committee is involved in the international community through its participation in ICANN. The Committee Chair has represented AIPLA at international ICANN conferences in Singapore, Colombia, San Francisco, Brussels, Prague and Canada, and plans to attend ICANN conferences in Asia and Latin America in 2013.

Trademark LawChair: Kristin Jordan HarkinsVice Chair: Jennifer L. Kovalcik

Vision, Mission & ValuesThe mission of the Trademark Committee includes educating its members about changes in trademark law in the US and abroad; providing educational content and resources for AIPLA members; serving as a resource for other Committees in areas of trademark law; providing opportunities for meaningful volunteer work and being a training ground for future leaders of the organization.

AdvocacyThe Committee works through its Amicus liaison and the Special Committee on Legislation on judicial and legislative advocacy matters. We also concentrate this work with our Legislation Subcommittee.


Public EducationThe Committee participated last year in educational efforts with the USPTO. We have prepared annual CLEs for Trademark Examining Attorneys. We also work with the Rapid Response Team through our rapid response liaison. We have sponsored annual Trademark Boot Camps.

Member ServicesIncreasing its membership is one of the Committee’s areas of focus. We are continuing to work on an evaluation of our existing membership roster and Subcommittee roster, planning on a survey of the membership on how to provide content and services our members want and need, and also a campaign to increase active involvement of existing members as well as recruiting efforts for new members.

Global OutreachThrough the Trademark Treaties and International Law Committees, the Trademark Committee engages with other Committees focused on international law matters. Trademark Committee members also engage in professional programming and reinforce the importance of considering international trademark issues.

We are always open to volunteers, so if you are interested in getting involved, please contact Kristin Jordan Harkins or Jennifer L. Kovalcik.

Subcommittees: Membership Communications Sports & Entertainment TM Boot Camp 2013 Social Media On-Line Programs Liaison Legislation False Advertising Technology/Microsite Rapid Response Liaison Amicus Liaison Professional Programs Liaison

Trademark LitigationChair: Stephanie H. BaldVice Chair: John Crosetto

Vision, Mission & ValuesThe Trademark Litigation Committee is dedicated to education, outreach, member service, and advocacy. The Committee strives to provide helpful tools and reports to educate AIPLA members and the public regarding statutes, rules, regulations, and judicial and administrative decisions relating to the litigation of trademark, trade dress, trade name, domain name, and unfair competition disputes. In addition, the Committee makes recommendations to the Board of Directors regarding legislation and rule changes affecting trademark litigation and provides resources and tools to trademark litigators. The Committee also participates in program planning for various AIPLA meetings throughout the year. The Committee continues to achieve member collaboration through member participation in Committee projects. The Committee continues to seek out and act upon opportunities to provide well-considered and vetted analysis regarding policy and decision-making related to trademark litigation.

The Committee’s objectives and goals for 2012-13:1. Case Summary Report: The Committee currently publishes a quarterly case report summarizing key decisions of interest to trademark practitioners. The Committee’s reports are published on the AIPLA website on its Committee web page. The Committee is exploring new channels and formats through which to distribute this valuable content. The Committee’s objective is to increase readership and make the summaries an even more useful tool for trademark practitioners.

2. Legal Standards: The Committee provides an annual update of its Federal Circuit Map of Legal Standards. The Committee will be adding several new categories of legal standards to the map. It is also exploring the possibility of offering a companion tool to the Legal Standards Map, which would provide a summary of state trademark-related claims, including citations to the relevant state statutes, regulations, and/or case-law authority.

3. Sample Pleadings: The Committee offers samples of pleadings from trademark cases on its Committee web


page. The Committee is working to update the samples offered and to improve the format and organization of this resource. The Committee would also like to substantially expand the pleadings offered on the site and the breadth of the issues covered by those pleadings.

AdvocacyIn connection with its trademark case summary project, the Committee screens and recommends to the Trademark Law and Amicus Committees cases it deems deserving of AIPLA’s amicus support. Regarding legislation, the Committee has been involved in crafting a proposal for new legislation relating to trademark remedies. A representative from the Committee will participate in a roundtable at the US Patent and Trademark Office relating to Alternative Case Resolution (ACR) before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) and possible amendments to the TTAB’s ACR procedures.

Public EducationThe Committee implemented an updated litigation tool which displays a map of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal, and provides an online summary by circuit of leading precedent governing core trademark legal issues. Website updates have been and will continue to be made to the Committee web page to publish the Committee projects for members and the public. Going forward, the Committee is looking at ways to better leverage the case summaries prepared by the Committee’s members in connection with the AIPLA Newsstand.

Member ServiceThe Committee serves its members through the use of its website, telephone conferences to discuss relevant issues, and at committee meetings. The Committee continues to actively involve its members in projects such as the Legal Standards Map and Case Summary Reports. The Committee continues to look for opportunities to work with other Committees to build outreach and education initiatives and cross-market membership and volunteer opportunities. Finally, the Committee is working to build membership through community outreach, cross-marketing and the Committee’s website, as well as leveraging case summary contributions for the AIPLA Newsstand.

Subcommittees: Regional Circuit Litigation Standards Chart; Trademark Litigation Case Summary Reports

Trademark Treaties and International LawChair: Michael M. BallardVice Chair: Jonathan M. Madsen (not pictured)


Trademark-Relations with the USPTOChair: Linda K. McLeodVice Chair: Yasmin Tavakoli Egge



USPTO Inter Partes Patent ProceedingsChair: Brad PedersenVice Chair: Steven M. Auvil

Vision, Mission & ValuesThe areas of responsibility of the USPTO Inter Partes Patent Proceedings Committee include all aspects of post-grant patent practice in the US, including interferences, post-grant review, inter partes review, inter partes reexamination, ex parte reexamination, supplemental examination, derivation proceedings, transitional program for covered business method patents, and reissue proceedings.

The Committee plans to continue to study issues raised by the Final Rules and Practice Guidelines for the Trial Division of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and by the members of the Committee, related to post-grant proceedings in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The Committee will consider Trial Division decisions and orders, Federal Circuit opinions, possible legislation relating to post-grant proceedings and potential additional rule changes concerning formal and substantive issues concerning such proceedings. The Committee will also monitor the new derivation proceedings that will begin after the transition to first-inventor-to-file on March 16, 2013. After receiving approval from the Board, the Committee will report any approved recommendations to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the Trial Division, as appropriate, on behalf of AIPLA.

AdvocacyThe Committee continues to provide comments and advice to the AIPLA Board as requested, particularly pertaining to rule making under the America Invents Act.

Public Education - Member ServiceThe Committee continues to seek out opportunities to share its expertise with AIPLA as a whole by means of CLE programs, such as that conducted at the 2012 Annual Meeting. Further, the Committee continues to maintain and cultivate open communications with the Trial Division concerning issues pertaining to the Committee’s activities.

In keeping with its charter and as a continuation of its efforts as outlined above, the Committee held an in-person meeting at the AIPLA Annual Meeting in Washington DC, on Friday,

October 26, 2012.

The Committee extends a special thanks to Lead Administrative Patent Judge Tierney for leading an excellent and informative discussion among our group of more than 75 attendees about initial experiences with the post-grant proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. The discussion included an overview of some of the important initial orders and the use of the new Patent Review Processing System (PRPS) for electronic filing for the Trial Division.

Also discussed was the issue of potential coordination with other AIPLA Committees on education and advocacy related to post grant and other contested cases, including interferences, inter partes reexamination (soon to shift to inter partes review), post-grant review, derivation proceedings, covered business method patent proceedings, supplemental examination, and ex parte reexamination.

The Committee Chair attended the Spring Meeting Planning Committee to work on obtaining the final slot on the program for a presentation on the PTAB/Review Proceedings from both the bench and bar. Final determination of the Spring program is expected by January 2013 at the latest.

The Committee is also working on evaluating and possibly coordinating with the IPO Inter Partes Committee to alternate monthly telephone conferences in the same time slot to encourage broader participation and communication on the Committee during this period of changes brought about by the new review proceedings.

The Committee expects to continue with an active and expanding year, particularly as initial experiences with the new post-grant proceedings by the Trial Division are reported.

Women in IP LawChair: Alyson G. BarkerVice Chair: Hathaway Russell

Vision, Mission & ValuesThe Women in IP Law Committee is dedicated to serving our members through programs at the stated meetings and webinars between meetings, and by participating in public


outreach through the Women in IP Law national networking receptions.

Advocacy The Advancement and Retention Subcommittee provides ongoing input into the Association’s membership surveys to further the Association’s efforts related to women’s advocacy issues.

Public EducationIn the past year the Committee has hosted two free webinars and has additional webinars planned on educational and development topics of interest to our Committee members. One of the upcoming webinars is a joint effort with the Diversity Committee.

Member ServiceIn addition to the webinars described above, the Committee hosts an annual networking event in over 27 cities across the United States, Canada, and even Asia. These events are free of charge to AIPLA and non-AIPLA members and provide an opportunity for our Committee members to meet other women in IP in their local areas. The receptions also serve as membership and leadership building opportunities for the organization.

Global OutreachThe Committee’s main outreach activities are the webinars and networking receptions described above. However, the Committee also maintains several social media sites for global outreach and dialogue among our members and we distribute a Committee newsletter as well.

Subcommittees: Communications and Electronic Outreach (Randi Karpinia), Retention and Advancement (Meg Boulware); National Networking Event (Carine Doyle)


New MembersREGULARAlden Francis AbbottWashington, DC

Robyn AdamsSeattle, WA

Atulya R. AgarwalSan Francisco, CA

Ashima AggarwalHoboken, NJ

Aisha AhmadLaurel, MD

Joseph Y. AhmadHouston, TX

David lbanCharlotte, NC

Jeffrey C. AldridgeNew York, NY

Michael J. AllanWashington, DC

Benjamin AllenReston, VA

Ryan AlleyArlington, VA

Scott AllisonShelton, CT

Richard AlmonWashington, DC

Dax D. AndersonSalt Lake City, UT

Paige Christopher AndersonCleveland, OH

Arthur M. AntonelliWashington, DC

Benjamin AppelbaumFlanders, NJ

Benjamin AskewSt. Louis, MO

Reynold AustWashington, DC

Anthony AzureRedmond, WA

Aldo A. BadiniNew York, NY

Mary Ann BallNew York, NY

Rick BarnesKnoxville, TN

David BarronLexington, MA

Michael BarryNatick, MA

Darin E. BartholomewMoline, IL

Harry BartonNew Orleans, LA

Neal C. BelgamWilmington, DE

Christopher J. BelterBuffalo, NY

Edward BenesCastle Rock, CO

Abby BhattacharyyaBaltimore, MD

Janis BiksaSant Rosa, CA

Max BishopWashington, DC

David T. BlonderWashington, DC

David BonhamGreat Falls, VA

Joel H. BootzinChicago, IL

Tracy BornmanOverland Park, KS

Erica BristolUniversal City, CA

Nancy K. BrittAlexandria, VA

Samuel Scott BrodaSunnyvale, CA

Wayne Benjamin BrownSan Jan Capistrano, CA

Karen A. BuchananProvidence, RI

Robert BurtzlaffSan Jose, CA

Matthew BussanCary, IL

Katherine ButlerSan Ramon, CA

Jaye S. CampbellWashington, DC

James R. CarpenterWashington, DC

Michael F. CarrPalo Alto, CA

James CarterSeattle, WA

Meredith L. CarterBala Cynwyd, PA

David J. CervenyBedford, MA

Andrew C. ChienNew York, NY

Gregory ClintonArlington, VA

Daniel W. CollinsFoster City, CA

Daniel CollopySingapore, Singapore

Daniel ConradDallas, TX

Mary S. ConsalviNew York, NY

Shruti CostalesWashington, DC

Patricia M. CostanzoElma, NY

Steven CrockerSanta Clara, CA

Mark P. CrockettKnoxville, TN

Peter J. CuomoBoston, MA

Vincent M. DeLucaWashington, DC

Lawrence K. DeMeoBoston, MA

James DeZazzoSan Diego, CA

Melissa S. DillenbeckChciago, IL

Michael DilworthTrumbull, CT

The following applications for membership are being published as of December 17, 2012 in accordance with Article II of the By-Laws. We welcome all of our new members.


Jeffrey L. DoyleTroy, MI

Kevin T. DuncanLouisville, KY

Thomas A. DyeWest Palm Beach, FL

James Alan DyerDayton, OH

Lawrence C. EdelmanEast Brunswick, NJ

Brian EliasSpringboro, OH

Joan EllisWashington, DC

Josephine EscalanteBoston, MA

William EshelmanFront Royal, VA

Bryan FailingMorgan Hill, CA

Calvin FanSan Diego, CA

Stacey J. FarmerMunich, Germany

Kevin M. FarrellPortsmouth, NH

Jeffrey A. FehervariSan Francisco, CA

Michael L. FeinsteinFt. Lauderdale, FL

Ronald S. FernandoPalo Alto, CA

Peter FlanaganVienna, VA

Angela FoxLondon, United Kingdom

Matthew FoxMiddleburg, FL

Robert O. FoxKnoxville, TN

James FranckowiakProvo, UT

William S. FrancosWyomissing, PA

Jeff FrantzHouston, TX

Lawrence G. FridmanClifton, NJ

David A. FrijoufTampa, FL

Jane L. FroydPalo Alto, CA

Jennifer FureyBoston, MA

Carlos GarritanoAkron, OH

Tony A. GayosoReston, VA

Kenneth GermainCincinnati, OH

George A. GilbertPlainsboro, NJ

Lawrence N. GinsbergNewport Beach, CA

Antoinette G. GiuglianoBeverly, MA

Jonathan David GonceKnoxville, TN

William B. GontNaperville, IL

Chellis GonzalezDulles, VA

Robert E. GooznerAlexndria, VA

Mary GouletReston, VA

Mary B. GrantResearch Triangle Park, NC

Timothy E. GrimsrudMinneapolis, MN

Robert GrooverLewisville, TX

Laura GrunzingerRichmond, VA

Maneesh GulatiBoston, MA

Zarema GunnelsWashington, DC

Jane T. GunnisonNew York, NY

Harry GwinnellReston, VA

Aubrey HaddachSan Diego, CA

Steven M. HainesCupertino, CA

Brian D. HancockOrlando, FL

Carlos L. HanzeSan Ramon, CA

Jason D. HarrierWashington, DC

James F. HarringtonSyosset, NY

James M. HarringtonConcord, NC

Bria HarrodHudson, OH

Edward HowardFort Washington, PA

Dennis Michael HubbsScottsdale, AZ

Kumiko IdeWashington, DC

Pam JacobsonSeattle, WA

Grant A. JohnsonRochester, MN

William JohnsonAlpharetta, GA

Jordan Trent JonesMenlo Park, CA

Aaron KamlayWashington, DC

Sharon R. KantorDanville, CA

Kim KanzakiRedwood Shores, CA

David R. KemenyAlexandria, VA

John T. KennedyDenver, CO

Omar KhanNew York, NY

Alexander J. KimMinneapolis, MN

John KimSeoul, South Korea

Nam H. KimSan Diego, CA

James KiplingCincinnati, OH

Charles S. KnoblochHouston, TX


Jay Q. KnoblochChicago, IL

Lisa KobialkaMenlo Park, CA

Bruce KochNew York, NY

Joseph A. KolaschFalls Church, VA

Jeffie A. KopczynskiMountain View, CA

Thomas G. KrivulkaScottsdale, AZ

Lois KwasigrochThousand Oaks, CA

Pet LalosWashington, DC

Carol LarcherDyer, IN

Mike D. LazzaraPittsburgh, PA

Michael David Le BlancLeague City, TX

Brian D. LedahlLos Angeles, CA

Marti LeFevourChicago, IL

Janae E. Lehman BellJohnston, IA

Kevin M. LemleyLittle Rock, AR

John LetchfordHaddonfield, NJ

Elliott D. LightRockville, MD

David R. LipsonRockville, MD

William LoginovConcord, NH

David LongWashington, DC

James A. LongTaipei, Taiwan

David LorettoMadrid, Spain

Carol Bordas LoutzenhiserSewickley, PA

Thomas William LynchEl Segundo, CA

Gary M. MachettaSpring, TX

Cliff MaierPalo Alto, CA

L. Patricia Makle-SmithPort Tobacco, MD

Mark MalinSanta Clara, CA

Morgan MalinoMount Pleasant, SC

Jennie S MalloyMiami, FL

A. John P. ManciniNew York, NY

Michelle ManningMadison, WI

Fabio MarazziBergamo, Italy

Alice O. MartinChicago, IL

Joshua M. MasurMountain View, CA

Eli MazourFairfax, VA

Douglas M. McAllisterMonroe, CT

Meghan A. McgovernAlexandria, VA

Philip John McKayMonterey, CA

Thomas McMastersSanta Clara, CA

Pablo MelesWeston, FL

Srikumaran MelethilPerrysburg, OH

Deborah A. MillerCambridge, MA

Mark T. MitchellAustin, TX

John MonocelloPittsburgh, PA

Gary MorrisWashington, DC

Jeffrey L. MoyerWilmington, DE

Lisa L. MuellerChicago, IL

Amy K. MugheriniBoston, MA

Douglas A. MullenPhoenix, AZ

Joseph Francis MurphyNew York, NY Ireland

Seanan MurphyArlington, MA

Arlene P. NealManassas, VA

Kristin Mazany NevinsBryn Mawr, PA

Ken H. OhrinerLos Angeles, CA

Sam C. OliveBellevue, WA

Timothy J. OlsonWindsor, CT

Tony R. OrsiToronto, ON, Canada

Douglas M. OwensMelville, NY

Ronald J. PabisWashington, DC

Jonathan C. ParksPittsburgh, PA

Alicia PasserinPittsburgh, PA

Amee PatelWashington, DC

Kay PattersonFairfax, VA

Michael PattilloWashington, DC

Deborah PeacockAlbuquerque, NM

Nicholas T. PetersChicago, IL

Laura W. PhillipsWashington, DC

N. Scott PierceConcord, MA

Nelson S. PierceConcord, MA

Jonathan G. PolakIndianapolis, IN

Philip B. PolsterFoster City, CA


Andrei D. PopoviciSan Jose, CA

Catherine ProdyMorgantown, WV

Gene QuinnLeesburg, VA

Gerard ReinhardtManhasset, NY

Pamela RiewertsTowson, MD

Gary J. RinkermanWashington, DC

Joanna RomanoMiami, FL

Marcia Ireland RosenfeldIndianapolis, IN

Lewis RowellGreensboro, NC

Edward K. RunyanChciago, IL

Edward SackmanManchester, NH

Jeffrey M. SakoiSeattle, WA

Margaret Joyce SampsonAustin, TX

Gary SavittSan Jose, CA

Arthur SchaierWaterbury, CT

Thorsten SchmidtNew York, NY

Andrew SchroederHiawatha, IA

Rob G. SchulerColumbus, OH

Aaron Anthony SchutzerSeattle, WA

Andrew D. SedlockLas Vegas, NV

John SeurynckAda, MI

Michael SeymourBarberton, OH

William C. ShearouseSt. Paul, MN

Carolin ShiningSherman Oaks, CA

James ShoreSeattle, WA

Ronald Lee SigworthWashington, DC

Aaron Y. SilversteinAmesbury, MA

Andrew H. SimpsonIrvine, CA

Dawn SimsOro Valley, AZ

Jiri Francis SmetanaPlano, TX

Eric J. SnustadMinneapolis, MN

David SofgeMiami, FL

Surjit P. SoniPasadena, CA

Deborah SpencerResearch Triangle Park, NC

Alexander H. SpieglerCliffside Park, NJ

Christopher M. SpletzerFort Washington, PA

Christiana StateMountain View, CA

Alan W. SteeleBoston, MA

Julie A. StephensonSan Jose, CA

Duane A. StewartPittsburgh, PA

Tom StrouseSparta, NJ

Erik Carl SwansonOrlando, FL

Jennifer Cozeolino TempestaNew York, NY

John Edward ThomasRochester, NY

Tate L. TischnerWebster, NY

Julie TraversWatsonville, CA

Kathryn TsirigotisPhoenix, AZ

Darlene VanstoneWestford, MA

Edna VassilovskiNorth Charleston, SC

Hoang VoBaton Rouge, LA

David H. VoorheesAlexandria, VA

Rachel M. VorbeckChicago, IL

Mark WallersonSevern, MD

Anne K. WalshWashington, DC

Philip WarrickPortland, OR

Ishan WeerakoonWashington, DC

Leigh Ann WeilandMilpitas, CA

Laurence A. WeinbergerExton, PA

Seth M. WeinfeldGarden City, NY

Gary Seth WeinsteinMinneapolis, MN

Jill G. WelytokMilwaukee, WI

Jason C. WhiteChicago, IL

Wilson L. WhiteMountain View, CA

Gregg WisdomBellevue, WA

Frederick E. WolfAlexandria, VA

Steven WongAtlanta, GA

Susan YeeSan Jose, CA

Carmine R. ZarlengaWashington, DC

Lei ZhouWashington, DC

Xiaochun ZhuGarden City, NY

Ken ZwickerBellingham, MA


ACADEMICJerome AndersonWashington, DC

Eve Joy BrownBoston, MA

Sarah BursteinNorman, OK

Sean M. FlynnWashington, DC

Christopher FrerkingConcord, NH

William Reynolds HubbardBaltimore, MD

Megan M. La BelleWashington, DC

Willajeanne F. McLeanHartford, CT

Jane O’ConnellAustin, TX

Susan K. PocchiariBethel, CT

Brenda Reddix-SmallsDurham, NC

Jacob H. RooksbyPittsburgh, PA

Tina I. SchindlerIrvine, CA

Christal A. SheppardLincoln, NE

Robert S. SmithManchester, CT

Will TressBaltimore, MD

John Michael WhealanChevy Chase, MD

Michelle WuWashington, DC

FOREIGNRhiannon AdamsEdmonton, AB, Canada

Christopher ArcherAccra, Ghana

David A. AylenMoscow, Russia

Russell BagnallPretoria, Republic of South Africa

James BakerOttawa, ON, Canada

Diane BeylierTokyo, Japan

Robert BrouilletteMontreal, QC, Canada

Jane CalvertWellington, New Zealand

Francois CartierMontreal, QC, Canada

Paul CasbonWarlingham, United Kingdom

Spring ChangBeijing, Peoples’ Republic of China

Colin ClimieToronto, ON, Canada

Cesar Cruz CruzMakati, Phillipines

Alexandre DaoustQuebec, QC, Canada

Pauline De BruynMelbourne, Australia

Juan Pablo EganaLas Condes, Santiago, Chile

Ligia Ferreira Marcondes RochaSao Paulo-SP, Brazil

Alex Ferdinand S. FiderTaguig, Phillipines

Tarun GandhiNew Delhi, India

Serena GittoRoma, Italy

Keven GodinQuebec, QC, Canada

Jorge GomezMexico City, Mexico

Jean-Charles GrégoireOttawa, ON, Canada

Howard HaoBeijing, Peoples’ Republic of China

Alisse HouwelingToronto, ON, Canada

Jiachen JiShanghai, Peoples’ Republic of China

Koichiro JinTokyo, Japan

Elizabeth Louise JonesLondon, United Kingdom

John JonesLeamington Spa, United Kingdom

Junko KamiguriReston, VA

Takayoshi KawaiTokyo, Japan

Steven N. KennedyToronto, ON, Canada

Claus KrebsSantiago, Chile

Young Mo KwonJung-gu, Seoul, South Korea

Lauren LodenquaiToronto, ON, Canada

Jonathan David Michael LucasAuckland, New Zealand

David James MacaskillHamilton, New Zealand

Martin MengBeijing, Peoples’ Republic of China

Guru NatarajDelhi, India

Maura O’ConnellDublin, Ireland

Toshifumi OnukiTokyo, Japan

Andrea PerronaceRoma, Italy

Liangxuan QianShanghai, Peoples’ Republic of China

Augusto Rodríguez RamírezMexico City, Mexico

Jose Antonio Romero-MiranaMexico City, Mexico

Ricardo Sanchez GilMexico, D.F., Mexico

Abhishek SaxenaNew Delhi, India

Frits SchutThe Hague, Netherlands

Nobuo SekineTokyo, Japan

Jaime SilvaSantiago, Chile

Elliott SimcoeOttawa, ON, Canada


Santosh Mandal SinghBangalore, India

Jose Ramon TriguerosMexico City, Mexico

Vladislav UgryumovMoscow, Russia

Anders ValentinHellerup, Denmark

Margarita ValladaresLima, Peru

Rahul VartakMumbai, India

David WoodCalgary, AB, Canada

Ian C. WoodLondon, United Kingdom

Natalia ZakharovaMoscow, Russia

GOVERNMENT Robert BarlowSpringfield, VA

Jasemine C. ChambersBethesda, MD

Ethan D. CivanPlymouth Meeting, PA

Robert J. DeckerCharlottesville, VA

Chris DeVoreFairfax, VA

Christopher O. EdwardsGreenbelt, MD

Timothy FinneganDurham, NH

Elizabeth GwartneyAlexandria, VA

Cheryl JohnsonLos Angeles, CA

A. J. KellyLittle Rock, AR

Francis KubArnold, MD

Hyuk Jung KwonMcLean, VA

Christos S. KyriakouAberdeen Proving Ground, MD

David Evan LotterArlington, VA

Alan MelroseSummer Hill, Australia

Portia L. MillerPittsburgh, PA

David R. NicholsonAlbany, CA

Adaku NwachukwuAshburn, VA

Conrad PackWoodbridge, VA

Ajit PaiArlington, VA

Pankti PatelArlington, VA

Cheryl PowerOttawa, ON, Canada

Lorelei RitchieLos Angeles, CA

Donald TownsendDulles, VA

Brian WathenAlexandria, VA

Maurice WilliamsAlexandria, VA

John R. WrightLansing, MI

Sonya WrightArlington, VA

Scott ZareSylvania, OH

JUNIORScott Arthur AllenWashington, DC

Jude AndreSpring, TX

Dmitriy AndreyevBoston, MA

Laura N. ArnesonMinneapolis, MN

Brian W. AveryCleveland, OH

Peter BallBaltimore, MD

Shanay BallWayne, PA

William Brad BargerSalt Lake City, UT

Sharon F. BarkumeJericho, NY

Rhett V. BarneyLiberty Lake, WA

Jason BeckerWasington, DC

Adam BeckstromSalt Lake City, UT

Kerry BegleyWashington, DC

George Cox BeighleyColumbia, SC

Suzanna Marie BergnerSaint Louis, MO

Thaddeus J. BlenkeChicago, IL

Johan O. BragWestport, CT

Dmitry BrantRockville, MD

James Fearon BrownSeattle, WA

Michael Rocco BrunelleFishers, IN

Robert E. BuggNew York, NY

Adam Vaughan BurksReston, VA

Brian H. BurksReston, VA

Julia BusonoSeattle, WA

Stephen R. BylciwCary, NC

Krystil CarterNew York City, NY

Michael CartonMilwaukee, WI

Anita CepuritisChicago, IL

Adam H. ChapinArlington, VA

Jaysen S. ChungSan Diego, CA

Julia C. ColarussoWashington, DC

Sheena ConnersManitowoc, WI

Kyle M. CostelloMilwaukee, WI

Daniel CoughlinSabetha, KS


David CroweGreensboro, NC

Peter A. CummingsGrand Rapids, MI

Steven D. CzajkowskiPittsburgh, PA

Michael CzarneckiSeattle, WA

Andrew DiamondJakarta, Indonesia

Allison Williams DobsonWinston-Salem, NC

Andrea DorigoLexington, MA

Steven A. DriskillFairfax, VA

William J. DukesJackson, MS

Harland Clark DuncanMendon, MA

Joshua EngelDenver, CO

Justen FauthFalls Church, VA

Justin K. FlanaganSalt Lake City, UT

Jesse McCoy FloresSalt Lake City, UT

Robert E. FordFarmington Hills, MI

Amy FowlerSalt Lake City, UT

Thomas A. FroatsAlexandria, VA

Ian W. GilliesSan Diego, CA

Matthew M. GoogeKnoxville, TN

Robert GordonMaple Shade, NJ

Sejal GosaliaWashington, DC

Meph Jia GuiBeijing, Peoples’ Republic of China

Thomas Patrick GushuePhiladelphia, PA

Eric HampChicago, IL

Nishat HasanVienna, VA

Ross G. HicksBow, NH

Christopher HigginsWashington, DC

Thomas Y. HoWashington, DC

Sok HongVienna, VA

Dana Rashay HowardLexington, KY

Richard A. HoweMantua, NJ

Maria T. IaniroWilloughby, OH

Brian R. IversonNashville, TN

Lev Ivan Gabriel IwashkoWashington, DC

Jian JiangChicago, IL

Patrick JohnsonMinneapolis, MN

Taffie JonesPhiladelphia, PA

Christina JordanNew York, NY

Neil KardosArlington, VA

Wayne S. KauffmanFarmington, MI

Amanda L. KeysRochester, NY

Pratibha KhanduriWashington, DC

Do KimDallas, TX

Anna KingChicago, IL

Darlene K. KondoBoulder, CO

Katherine A.D. KruegerBloomington, MN

Andrew O. LarsenNew York, NY

Albert Jongman LeeSan Jose, CA

Jae Bok LeeWashington, DC

Yangyang LiKansas City, MO

Flann LippincottRingoes, NJ

Loretta LucasMinneapolis, MN

J. Bradley LuchsingerTroy, MI

Scott MandirVienna, VA

Lisa M. MandrusiakAlexandria, VA

Naphtali MatlisFalls Church, VA

Kevin C. McgrathSomerville, MA

Jessica MortonPhiladelphia, PA

Marcia Belinda Moulon-AtherleyRennes, France

Daniel Albert MurrayIrving, TX

Jorge I. NegronWashington, DC

Jana NelsonAlexandria, VA

Yama David NezamMenlo Park, CA

Jamie NguyenAlexandria, VA

Wade OrrKnoxville, TN

Baldine Brunel PaulWashington, DC

Vanessa Perez-RamosAldie, VA

Nathan PollardWashington, DC

John PorrazzaPhiladelphia, PA

Dominik RabiejBoston, MA

Thomas RaffertyCincinnati, OH

Dipti RamnarainBoston, MA


Matthew RizzoloWashington, DC

Victor Manuel Rodriguez-ReyesSan Juan, PR

Gregory Allen RoyalAlexandria, VA

Lawrence F. RozsnyaiMillbrae, CA

Daniel J. RyanOrlando, FL

Michael S. RyanPhiladelphia, PA

Reza SadrBoston, MA

Kevin SchadickWestlake, OH

Jonathan SchlaiferWashington, DC

Joseph ShapiroSalt Lake City, UT

Ryan J. ShinHauppauge, NY

Jessica Jane SibleyCharlotte, NC

Benjamin James SidersSaint Louis, MO

Brianna Lynn SilversteinWashington, DC

Roshni SitaparaDerwood, MD

Isaac T. SlutskyBloomfield Hills, MI

Rachel SmithBloomfield Hills, MI

Kevin SoulesAlbuquerque, NM

Jon Phillip SpiersHouston, TX

Warunee SrisiriWest Valley City, UT

Theresa StadheimMinneapolis, MN

Tara C. StuartAtlanta, GA

Eileen SunSeattle, WA

John B. SwingleVirginia Beach, VA

Stefan J. SzpajdaPalo Alto, CA

Robert K. TakaraLa Jolla, CA

Janelle TanganyikaKansas City, MO

James David TarioSunnyvale, CA

Eric J. TeVeldeHartford, CT

Melissa ThompsonPrinceton, NJ

Sandra J. ThompsonBloomfield Hills, MI

Sameer VaderaWashington, DC

Kristen VoorheesNew York, NY

Shannon G. WajerGarden City, NY

Vanessa WaldrefSpokane, WA

Emily WalkerDurham, NC

Kun WangSan Diego, CA

Margaret M. WelshWashington, DC

Christopher WorrelToledo, OH

Li WuBrighton, MA

Cnristopher H. YaenWashington, DC

Xin YangWilsonville, OR

Alysa N. YoungsonTysons Corner, VA

Anis ZerrinyWest Windsor, NJ

Gaynne ZimmermanWashington, DC

PATENT AGENTLeticia Reyes BlockSanta Clara, CA

Stacy H. CombsOakland, CA

Jeff EderBellevue, WA

Fiona FergusonCanton, OH

Tomas FriendHelsingborg, Sweden

Charles A. GarrisWashington, DC

Karin M. GerstinLa Jolla, CA

Donna Johnson GresslerSan Francisco, CA

James JannielloFairfield, CT

Ann-Mari KossPhiladelphia, PA

Christian ManninoCosta Mesa, CA

Karen R. MarkowiczWashington, DC

Susan Myers FitchMenlo Park, CA

Claude F. PurchaseMidland, MI

Eric SatermoSeal Beach, CA

Gene ScottIrvine, CA

Wendy M. SladeAlexandria, VA

Shyam VangalaSomerset, NJ

Larry WilliamsSanta Rosa, CA

Yiding WuHalf Moon Bay, CA

PATENT AGENT–JUNIORGaurav AsthanaWashington, DC

Ethan BrodyBrooklyn, NY

Awa Carole DiopMontreal, QC, Canada

Emily C. DuganDoylestown, PA

Robert David EislerIrvine, CA

Kevin J. EverettNerima-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Mark FearerWoodbridge, VA


Christopher L. FrankBoston, MA

Kelly FrazierFort Collins, CO

Amy S. GarberOttawa Hills, OH

Michael F. GrossWashington, DC

Cindy HannaNew Brunswick, NJ

Ben HittPortland, OR

Brandon HudderAtlanta, GA

Lawrence T. KaleMoon Township, PA

Shinji KondoBrisbane, CA

Christopher LambrechtGoleta, CA

Paul D. LevinPittsburgh, PA

Ainslie LittleToronto, ON, Canada

Robert LuzziPleasanton, CA

Edgardo J. MantillaMalden, MA

Edward J. MayleWashington, DC

Clyde Steven MillerSt. Louis, MO

Leonard R. RockettWashington, DC

George (Guosheng) WangOrrville, OH

Christopher J. WhiteAvon, NY

Daniel YoungHingham, MA

PTO PROFESSIONALJonathan CooperChicago, IL

Mohammad GhayourFairfax, VA

Tyler PaigeAlexandria, VA

Robert Thomas PayneCromwell, CT

James M. Van BuskirkAlexandria, VA

STUDENTLina AbbaouiCapital University Law SchoolPowell, OH

Ankit AggarwalUniversity of Maryland School of LawWashington, DC

Katie Pearl AhlesWhittier Law SchoolNewport Beach, CA

Kevin AhlstromGeorge Washington University National Law CenterArlington, VA

Nitya AnandGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

Harry AnastopulosGeorgetown University Law CenterWashington, DC

Eric AshbahianRutgers, State University of New Jersey School of LawWyckoff, NJ

Tommas BalducciNew York Law SchoolNew York, NY

Griffin BarnettAmerican University, Washington College of LawArlington, VA

Kyle BarringerSouthern Illinois University School of LawMurphysboro, IL

Vanessa BellUniversity of Southern California School of LawLos Angeles, CA

Victoria Jade BennettYeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of LawBrooklyn, NY

Cristin BerkeyBoston College Law SchoolBoston, MA

Eb BernazardDuke University School of LawDurham, NC

Raymond W. BerryUniversity of California, Hastings College of the LawIrvine, CA

Kulwant S. BooraThomas M. Cooley Law SchoolTemperance, MI

Carlton BowersCharleston School of LawCharleston, SC

Jasmine BraxtonUniversity of California, Hastings College of the LawEl Sobrante, CA

Ken BrooksUniversity of Detroit Mercy School of LawShelby Township, MI

Asa Daniel BrownFlorida State University College of LawTallahassee, FL

Alexansder K. BusseyFordham University School of LawBrooklyn, NY

Amy W. ByrdUniversity of Virginia School of LawCharlottesville, VA

Robert CaisonWashington and Lee University School of LawSelma, NC

Deontrea CampbellGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

Randy R. CardozaFlorida A&M University College of LawOrlando, FL

Michael CarrozzaJohn Marshall Law SchoolHarwood Heights, IL

Laura CarvalhoGeorgetown University Law CenterWashington, DC

Christine CasaceliAmerican University, Washington College of LawWashington, DC

Sofia CastilloAmerican University, Washington College of LawBethesda, MD

David CaubleSuffolk University Law SchoolCambridge, MA


Kristina Danielle ChavisGeorge Washington University National Law CenterArlington, VA

Beichen ChenUniversity of Connecticut School of LawHartford, CT

Diana ChengUniversity of Maryland School of LawEllicott City, MD

Daniel CherryThomas M. Cooley Law SchoolDetroit, MI

Victor CheungGeorge Mason University School of LawFalls Church, VA

Nicholas Joseph ChidiacGeorge Washington University National Law CenterAlexandria, VA

Scott Joseph ChmieleckiUniversity of Akron, C. Blake McDowell Law CenterFairfax, VA

Lydia ChoiFordham University School of LawCoram, NY

Benjamin ChojnackiUniversity of Toledo College of LawToledo, OH

Elvina ChowStanford Law SchoolStanford, CA

Chandrika ChristieSaint Louis University School of LawSaint Louis, MO

Benjamin ChristoffUniversity of Dayton School of LawDayton, OH

Allard ChuGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

Lana CiaramellaPace University School of LawYonkers, NY

Jessica Michelle CimineroFlorida International College of LawMiami, FL

Adam CollegeGeorgetown University Law CenterArlington, VA

Carlo Mario ColussiGeorge Washington University National Law CenterSegrate, Italy

Adrienne CormierUniversity of Maryland School of LawSevern, MD

John D. CraveroChicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of LawChicago, IL

K. CuneoGeorge Washington University National Law CenterStar, ID

Jamie Marie CurtisCapital University Law SchoolColumbus, OH

Jessica DaFonteUniversity of FloridaCollege of LawGainesville, FL

Christopher Ryan DandridgeUniversity of Akron, C. Blake McDowell Law CenterCuyahoga Falls, OH

Kimberly Anne DavisWashington and Lee University School of LawLexington, VA

Laura de las CasasGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

Rhojonda A. Debrow CornettThe University of Alabama School of LawTuscaloosa, AL

Nichole Brittany DeJulioGeorge Washington University National Law CenterArlington, VA

William J. DelfsWilliam Mitchell College of LawFridley, MN

Dorothy (Donghua) DengCollege of William and Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of LawWilliamsburg, VA

Seth Owen DennisAmerican University, Washington College of LawWashington, DC

Sam DillonGeorge Washington University National Law CenterAlexandria, VA

Christopher DombkowskiUniversity of Santa Clara School of LawPalo Alto, CA

Kevin M. DonnellyUniversity of California, Hastings College of the LawSan Francisco, CA

Joseph DrishNorthwestern University School of LawChicago, IL

Anthony Michael DuncanHoward University School of LawWashington, DC

Tyler DuttonEmory University School of LawAtlanta, GA

Esther EarbinUniversity of North Carolina School of LawChapel Hill, NC

Samuel Van EichnerYeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of LawNew York, NY

Christa Elizabeth EllisFranklin Pierce Law CenterNashville, TN

John Thomas EllwoodSeton Hall University School of LawAstoria, NY

Katherine EppleyUniversity of Akron, C. Blake McDowell Law CenterStow, OH

Robert ErdmanUniversity of Florida College of LawDeltona, FL

Daniel FilstrupGeorge Washington University National Law CenterArlington, VA

Harrison Richard FinkCharleston School of LawMount Pleasant, SC


Suzanne FitzgeraldDuke University School of LawRaleigh, NC

Brian Joseph FocarinoCollege of William and Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of LawFairfax Station, VA

Brianna FordAmerican University, Washington College of LawWashington, DC

Colin FowlerThe University of Tulsa College of LawSan Jose, CA

Daniel FraleySouthern Methodist University, Dedman School of LawDallas, TX

LaToya FranklinSouthern University Law CenterAmite, LA

Zhenhai FuSanta Clara University School of LawFremont, CA

Yazmin GalindoFordham University School of LawGrabada Hills, CA

Claudia GarciaGolden Gate University School of LawSan Francisco, CA

Justus GettyGeorgetown University Law CenterWashington, DC

David GhorbanpoorDePaul University College of LawChicago, IL

Neal GibeaultUniversity of San Diego School of LawSan Diego, CA

Tanya GillisGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

Raquel GoldsteinFordham University School of LawJericho, NY

Sarah GreibrokGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

William GrosJohn Marshall Law SchoolHinsdale, IL

Jayita GuhaniyogiRutgers University School of Law – NewarkHilsborough, NJ

Amrit GuptaBoston University School of LawBoston, MA

Utsav GuptaGeorgetown University Law CenterWashington, DC

Galina GurokGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

Michael B. GutierrezDrexel University School of LawForked River, NJ

Austin R. GwynnValparaiso University School of LawValparaiso, IN

William HabdasUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of LawLas Vegas, NV

Brendan HaberleUniversity of Arizona College of LawVail, AZ

Selene Ava HaediUniversity of North Carolina School of LawChapel Hill, NC

Brent HagenNew York University School of LawBrooklyn, NY

Keith HardenSouthern Methodist University, Dedman School of LawCarrolton, TX

Ali HarrisonSyracuse University College of LawJamesville, NY

Jared HartzmanGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

Sean HickeyBoston College Law SchoolBoston, MA

Pamela HillUniversity of Miami School of LawMiami, FL

Tammi HillUniversity of Chicago Law SchoolIrvine, CA

Stephanie Marie HilstromWilliam Mitchell College of LawBrooklyn Center, MN

John HodgeAlbany Law School, Union UniversityLincoln, NE

Sarah HomenchukNotre Dame Law SchoolNiles, MI

Nzingha HookerGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

Sean Lawrence HybergGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

Kwangho JangGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

Christopher C. JohnsGeorge Washington University National Law CenterArlington, VA

Paul A. JuergensenTouro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law CenterNorth Babylon, NY

Meera KamathBoston University School of LawAllston, MA

Peter KaralisThe Catholic University of America School of LawBethesda, MD

Robert Eric KentUniversity of Houston Law CenterHouston, TX

Fria KermaniGeorge Washington University National Law CenterColumbia, MD


Laura KiefferThe Catholic University of America School of LawClifton, VA‘Grace KimWilliam Mitchell College of LawMinneapolis, MN

Shawn KimMcGeorge School of Law, University of the PacificPacifica, CA

Max KolarMichigan State University College of LawEast Lansing, MI

Benjamin KoopferstockWashington & Lee University School of LawLexington, VA

Christopher M. KornakBoston University School of LawNorth Bethesda, MD

Jason KuntzDrexel University School of LawLancaster, PA

Jonathan KwokRutgers, State University of New Jersey School of LawNew York, NY

Dennis LazarevYeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of LawNew York, NY

Bradley Harris LazearCharleston School of LawMount Pleasant, SC

Corey LeggettCapital University Law SchoolColumbus, OH

Daniel LeoUniversity of Baltimore School of LawBaltimore, MD

Choi LiHarvard University Law SchoolCambridge, MA

Qihui LiGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

Ying LiGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

Song LiuGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

Oren LivneNew York University School of LawPrinceton, NJ

Alyssa L. LocusLoyola University - Chicago Law SchoolChicago, IL

Theodore Daniel LoganIndiana University School of Law-BloomingtonBloomington, IN

Abhinav LohiaGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

Jonathan LombardoVillanova University School of LawPhiladelphia, PA

Andrea LongworthTulane University School of LawNew Orleans, LA

Stephen A. ManiscalcoSt. John’s University School of LawHoward Beach, NY

Richard MasonSouthern Methodist University, Dedman School of LawRockwall, TX

Svetlana MattUniversity of California, Hastings College of the LawWashington, DC

Joshua McCoyUniversity of Maine School of LawPortland, ME

Elizabeth Ann McGovernNew York Law SchoolNaples, FL

Dan McManusVillanova University School of LawPhiladelphia, PA

Jacob D. MerrillGeorge Mason University School of LawAlexandria, VA

Jean Christian MichelDuke University School of LawDurham, NC

Steven Jay MillerPhoenix School of LawPhoenix, AZ

Kyu MinSanta Clara University School of LawSan Jose, CA

Kakoli MitraGeorge Washington University National Law CenterSilver Spring, MD

Kristen MogaveroPace University School of LawEastchester, NY

Felipe MontoyaPennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of LawState College, PA

Stewart MooreSeattle University School of LawSeattle, WA

John MorrissettUniversity of Richmond School of LawReston, VA

Ryan M. MottThe University of Michigan Law SchoolHoboken, NJ

Daniel MunroUniversity of Oregon School of LawSpringfield, OR

Kaili Marie MutkaUniversity of Toledo College of LawToledo, OH

Anna MyersGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

Stephen NagyGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

Amanda S. NaoufalAmerican University, Washington College of LawWashington, DC

Genevieve Aimee NapolitanoUniversity of Miami School of LawMiami, FL

Khashayar Nezami NaraghiWashington University School of LawSaint Louis, MO


Jason R. NehmerGeorge Washington University National Law CenterAlexandria, VA

Matthew NewmanNotre Dame Law SchoolCentreville, VA

Christopher NofalNorthwestern University School of LawWashington, DC

Koji NoguchiJohn Marshall Law SchoolAtlanta, GA

Seth OlsonFranklin Pierce Law CenterConcord, NH

Suchismita PahiUniversity of Houston Law CenterKingwood, Tx

Rajiv Jason PalGolden Gate University School of LawSan Francisco, CA

Thomas ParisiGeorge Mason University School of LawArlington, VA

Jun Jeong ParkGeorgetown University Law CenterVienna, VA

Sung Won ParkGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

Henry Andrews PeacorLoyola Law SchoolLos Angeles, CA

Selin PehlivanGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

Adam PouilliardGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

William C. PowellSeattle University School of LawSeattle, WA

Rachael PriceCapital University Law SchoolColumbus, OH

Nicole E. PrunettiGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

Melanie RaubesonUniversity of Connecticut School of LawNorthford, CT

Kim RayIndiana University School of Law, BloomingtonCary, NC

Jenne RelucioMichigan State University College of LawStockton, CA

Ilizete C. RhineAmerican University, Washington College of LawMclean, VA

Kevin RichardsUniversity of Virginia School of LawCharlottesville, VA

Andrew Patrick RitterSuffolk University Law SchoolHolliston, MA

Steven G. RizkFordham University School of LawJersey City, NJ

Derrick RoweGeorge Washington University National Law CenterFairfax, VA

Steven RushingVanderbilt University School of LawReston, VA

Benjamin Wham RyanWashington University School of LawSaint Louis, MO

Jaime Z. SaavedraSanta Clara University School of LawSalinas, CA

Stephano Daniel SalaniFlorida International College of LawMiami, FL

Michael Edward SamuelsGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

Michelle Elizabeth SawyerUniversity of North Carolina School of LawReunion, FL

Olivia ScheuerUniversity of Buffalo Law SchoolTonawanda, NY

Ryan SchneerAmerican University, Washington College of LawBethesda, MD

John Henry ScottLouisiana State University Law CenterAshville, OH

Laura Lee SennewaldSyracuse UniversityCollege of LawSyracuse, NY

Aras ShahabiLoyola Law SchoolIrvine, CA

Rebecca ShawFranklin Pierce Law CenterManchester, NH

Christopher P. SherwinWest Virginia University College of LawPittsburgh, PA

Karla SittnickQuinnipiac University School of LawEast Haven, CT

Meme SmithThomas M. Cooley Law SchoolGrand Rapids, MI

Patrick SoonWhittier Law SchoolCosta Mesa, CA

Jared Michael StipelmanGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

Richard StrakoschUniversity of North Carolina School of LawRaleigh, NC

Jonathan Rudolph Kominek StroudAmerican University, Washington College of LawWashington, DC

Frederik StruveWilliam Mitchell College of LawMinneapolis, MN

Andrew Benjamin SymnsJohn Marshall Law SchoolLa Grange, IL

Jason Patrick TejaniWayne State University Law SchoolRoyal Oak, MI


Ryan ThelenWestern New England College School of LawEast Windsor, CT

Tasha ThomasGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

Daniel F. ThorntonUniversity of VirginiaSchool of LawCharlottesville, VA

Patrick ToolGeorge Washington University National Law CenterOrinda, CA

Shari Devon TrahanSouthern University Law CenterBaton Rouge, LA

Lane TuttleIndiana University School of Law, IndianapolisCarmel, IN

Olga VinogradovaUniversity of Chicago Law SchoolEvanston, IL

Denille WachtenheimYeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of LawNew York, NY

Michael WagnerUniversity of Colorado School of LawBoulder, CO

Erika WallaceSuffolk University Law SchoolBoston, MA

I-Chu WangFranklin Pierce Law CenterArlington, VA

Qiong (Joan) WangUniversity of Texas School of LawAustin, TX

Shuqi WangGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

Yi-Kai WangValparaiso University School of LawValparaiso, IN

Zheng WangGeorge Mason University School of LawAlexandria, VA

Kiley WhiteGeorge Washington University National Law CenterAlexandria, VA

Lynda WhitmireUniversity of San Francisco School of LawHalf Moon Bay, CA

Bryce WhitworthStetson University College of LawSouth Pasadena, FL

Andrew WilsonGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

Jane W. WiseAmerican University, Washington College of LawArlington, VA

Mary WitzelGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

Shehla WynneGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

Nadya XieThe University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of LawPalo Alto, CA

Minchul YangUniversity of Maryland School of LawLaurel, MD

Ryan Yu YangThe University of Michigan Law SchoolAnn Arbor, MI

Yieyie YangGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

Kana YasueFranklin Pierce Law CenterConcord, NH

Matthew Harrison YuenFranklin Pierce Law CenterConcord, NH

Caren YusemChicago-Kent College of LawChicago, IL

Matthew ZarghouniPhoenix School of LawPhoenix, AZ

Furong ZhangGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

Huaning ZhangGeorge Washington University National Law CenterWashington, DC

Jacob S. ZodieruSouthwestern University School of LawLos Angeles, CA


2013 Spring MeetingMay 1-3, 2013

Session Topics Include:• America Invents Act One Year In• ITC & Discovery• Section 101 Post Prometheus & Myriad• Protecting Designs from Smartphone to Red Shoes• The Impact of Counterfeit Products• Mid-year Case Law Reviews• Computer Fraud & Abuse Act• The Current State of gTLDs• IP Exhaustion • International Issues in Trade Agreements and Antitrust

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