Biotech/Medical Device Technology Customer Partnership Forum  

Tuesday January 29th, 2013 Meeting 
Madison Auditorium

9:00am to 5:00pm

 United States Patent and Trademark Office
Alexandria, Virginia 
600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, VA, 

 

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Biotech/Medical Device Customer Partnership Forum  

The forum was established to promote discussion between practitioners and the USPTO on current practices and challenges facing all parties in the biotech and medical device technology areas.

Program Agenda

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:15 AM Registration and Meet and Greet
9:15 AM Teresa Stanek Rea, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO: Introduction  
9:30 - 10:30 AM Don Hajec, Director TC 3700 and Derris Banks, Director, TC 2600: CPC – Cooperative Patent Classification 12 slides 761K
10:30 - 10:45 AM Break
10:45 - 11:45 AM Marjorie Moran, Supervisory Patent Examiner, AU 1631: Evaluating Subject Matter Eligibility Under 35 USC § 101 27 slides 158K
11:45 - 1:00 PM  Lunch   The Roundhouse Cafe Cafeteria is inside the Madison Building  lower level.

Afternoon Session

1:00 - 2:00 PM Janet Gongola, Associate Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy; Patent Reform Coordinator: America Invents Act (AIA) Update including First-to-File 47 slides 2.57M Presented by Mary Till, Legal Advisor Office of Patent Legal Administration

2:00 - 2:15 PM Break

2:15 - 3:45 PM Open Round Table Discussion

Topics for Open Round Table Discussion 2 pages Word 32K

Panalists:

Don Hajec, Director, Technology Center 3700

Jerry Lorengo, Director, Technology Center 1600

Angela Sykes, Director, Technology Center 3700 (Panel Moderator)

Mary Till, Legal Advisor, Office of Patent Legal Administration

Wanda Walker, Director, Technology Center 1600

Andrew Wang, Director, Technology Center 3700

Technology Center 1600; Biotechnology, Chemical Compounds and Pharmaceuticals

Customer Partnership Team: Bennett Celsa, SPE TC 1600; Sue Liu, SPE AU 1616; Karlheinz Skowronek, SPE AU 1654; Cecelia Tsang, SPE AU 1654

Technology Center 3700; Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing and Medical Devices/Processes

Customer Partnership Team: Brian Casler, SPE TC 3700; Linda Dvorak, SPE AU 3739; Tom Hughes, SPE AU 3731; Kevin Sirmons, SPE AU 3767

Questions, comments or concerns may be directed to:
Medical_Device_Customer_Partnership_TC3700@USPTO.GOV


Photos of the speakers will be here. 

Google Search the BCP Web Site

[Caveat - Google's spiders have not searched through all the links to all of the Power Point slides. These results are only  partial. For example, type in Morning Session  and as of 2/20/11 you only see the Agendas for 17 meetings. Note for some of the earlier links to meetings in 2001 and 2002 they are at the PTO site as listed below and thus no agendas or slides are here for Google to find.]

Supplemental Materials:
    Carlyle Site Drawings
   
Perspective 3D drawing of the building on campus click here 
    Floor plan for a building (pdf 178K) click here
    Close-up plan view of campus map click here 
    Go to http://www.ptoinalexandria.com/index.php for more views and info

 See the BCP's PTO web page http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/biochempharm/  for the official announcement for the next meeting close to the final date.

For questions about obtaining these materials
contact Cecilia Tsang at Cecilia.Tsang@USPTO.GOV

To be placed on the BCP's e-mail announcement list 
contact Cecilia Tsang at Cecilia.Tsang@USPTO.GOV

   Prior Meetings

  Meeting  September 5, 2012  - Power Point slides are here

  Meeting  June 6, 2012  - PowerPoint slides are here

  Meeting  March 6, 2012  - PowerPoint slides are here

  Meeting  December 1, 2011  - PowerPoint slides are here

  Meeting  September 13, 2011  - PowerPoint slides are here

  Meeting  June 8, 2011  - PowerPoint slides are here

  Meeting  March 2, 2011  - PowerPoint slides are here

  Meeting  December 8, 2010  - PowerPoint slides are here

  Meeting  September 8, 2010  - PowerPoint slides are here

  Meeting  June 1, 2010  - PowerPoint slides are here

  Meeting  March 2, 2010  - PowerPoint slides are here

  Meeting  December 9, 2009  - PowerPoint slides are here

  Meeting  September 2, 2009  - Power Point slides are here

  Meeting  June 2, 2009  - Power Point slides are here

  Meeting  March 3, 2009  - Power Point slides are here

   Meeting  December 3, 2008  - Power Point slides are here

   Meeting  September 9, 2008  - Power Point slides are here

   Meeting  June 4, 2008  - Power Point slides are here

   Meeting  March 12, 2008  - Power Point slides are here    

    Meeting  December 4,  2007  - Power Point slides are here

    Meeting  September 12, 2007  - Power Point slides are here

   Meeting  June 13, 2007  - Power Point slides are here

   Meeting  March 6, 2007  - Power Point slides are here

    Meeting  December 5, 2006  - Power Point slides are here

    Meeting  September 13, 2006  -
Power Point slides are here

   Meeting  June 13, 2006  - Power Point slides are here    

    Meeting  March 7, 2006  - Power Point slides are here

    Meeting November 10, 2005  - Power Point slides are here

    Meeting June 15, 2005  - Power Point slides are here

    Meeting March 15, 2005  - Power Point slides are here

    Meeting December 8, 2004  - Power Point slides are here

    Extra AIPLA Oct. 2004Power Point slides are here 

    Meeting August 3, 2004  - Power Point slides are here

    Meeting April 27, 2004  - Power Point slides are here

   Meeting February 3, 2004  - Power Point slides are here

    Meeting October 29, 2003  - Power Point slides are here

    Meeting July 29, 2003  - Power Point slides are here

    Meeting April 29, 2003  - Power Point slides are here

   Meeting January 14, 2003  - Power Point slides are here

    Meeting October 8, 2002 - Power Point slides are here

    Meeting July 9, 2002  - PTO site here has Agenda, but no links to the presentations

    Meeting March 19, 2002  - PTO site here has a notice for meeting, but no Agenda

   Meeting November 15, 2001  - PTO site here (link hidden to public) has Power Point slides 

    Meeting August 7, 2001  - PTO site here (link hidden to public) has Power Point slides

    Meeting April 17, 2001  - Power Point slides are here