On October 5, for the first time since 2007, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuitsat in session in New York City. A three-judge panel from the court based in Washington, D.C. held oral arguments at Fordham University School of Law. Circuit Judges Alan D. Lourie, Kathleen M. O’Malley, and Richard G. Taranto […]
On February 23, 2017, Prof. Hugh C. Hansen joined an amicus curiae brief by 44 professors and scholars in support of Lexmark International in its Supreme Court case against Impression Products. in Impression Products v. Lexmark International. The professors argue that although patent exhaustion provides the baseline rule for sales of a patented product by a […]
On October 19, the Fordham IP Institute, in conjunction with the European Patent Office, hosted a panel of EPO examiners to discuss recent developments in the biotech patent industry. The speakers and their respective topics can be found below: Moderator: John Richards, Ladas & Parry LLP Speakers: 1) Klaus-Peter Döpfer, PhD, Director, EPO Recent Procedural Changes […]
On September 30, 2015, in recognition and celebration of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York’s 225th Anniversary, the Fordham IP Institute, in conjunction with the New York Intellectual Property Law Association (NYIPLA), hosted a Markman claim construction hearing presided over by the Honorable Jed S. Rakoff. The hearing was part of the […]
Recently, courts have invalidated patents for claiming “abstract” ideas or business methods under Section 101 of the patent laws as applied in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, 134 S. Ct. 2347 (2014). The Court reasoned that taking a method that is “abstract” — practiced in the prior art “manually,” without a computer – and just performing […]
On June 11, 2015, the New York Times reported that a small Chinese company had produced 100 doses of an Ebola drug that closely mirrored a drug patented by a U.S. drug-maker and for which the U.S. government held a patent on one of the constituent antibodies. According to the article, a U.S. government official […]
The Fordham IP Institute, in conjunction with the NYIPLA and the USPTO, hosted a “Patent Quality Overview” on Wednesday, July 29, 2015, at Fordham University School of Law. Valencia Martin Wallace, Deputy Commissioner for Patent Quality, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), along with other USPTO Executives provided an overview of the agency’s Enhanced Patent Quality […]
On July 29, 2015, the Fordham IP Institute, in conjunction with the NYIPLA and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), hosted the USPTO Patent Quality Overview. Valencia Martin Wallace, USPTO Deputy Commissioner for Patent Quality, along with other USPTO Executives provided an overview of the agency’s Enhanced Patent Quality Initiative. Mark Bloomberg, Esq. (Zuber Lawler […]
Participants: Paul England, Taylor & Wessing (Moderator); Johannes Karcher, Head of Task Force, EU-Patent and Unified Patent Court, Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, Berlin; Coordinator of the Legal Working Group of the Preparatory Committee for the establishment of the Unified Patent Court (Speaker); Mr. Justice Colin Birss, Chancery Division, High Court, London (Panelist); Sir Robin Jacob, University […]
On Friday, November 14, 2014, the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal (IPLJ), in conjunction with the Fordham Intellectual Property Law Institute, presented a series of panel discussions on recent developments across IP practice areas at Fordham Law School. Program Agenda: 8:30 – 9:15 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast 9:30 – 11:15 […]
On Friday, November 8, 2013, the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media, and Entertainment Law Journal (IPLJ), in conjunction with the Fordham Intellectual Property Law Institute, presented a series of panel discussions on recent developments across IP practice areas at Fordham Law School Lincoln Center, McNally Amphitheatre. AGENDA 08:30 – 09:15 a.m. Registration and Continental breakfast […]
On January 28, 2013 Fordham and Jones Day sponsored a one-day conference on Biotech & Pharmaceutical Issues in China, which explored current topics in one of the hottest growth sectors within one of the world’s dominant economies. AGENDA 8:50–9 a.m Opening Comments Sheila Foster, Vice Dean, Fordham Law 9–10 a.m. WHERE ARE PHARMA AND BIOTECH […]
