One Day Symposium On Advanced Patent Issues Focus on US, EP, and Indian Scenario

IIPRD (Institute of Intellectual Property Research & Development) is happy to announce it’s International Symposium on Advanced Software, Electronics, and Business Method Patent issues. Presentation of all important Patent Issues relating to Prosecution and Enforcement Strategies, Identification of potential inventions, Types of claims allowed in each geography, and their relevance to the broadness of claims, Preparation of a set of claims, including experience sharing session on Drafting of Patent Applications, and Patent Prosecution can be expected from the speakers.

The international symposium will be held at Mumbai on 11^th Oct 2011 at Hilton Hotel and at Hyderabad on 12^th Oct 2011 at Hotel Taj Banjara. IIPRD is organizing the International Symposium in association with Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch LLP, USA (BSKB), Carpmaels & Ransford, UK, and Khurana & Khurana, Advocates and IP Attorneys, India.

Key speakers include:

1. Mr. Michael Mutter from BSKB, USA
2. Mr. John Brunner from Carpmaels & Ransford, UK,
3. Dr. Viswanathan Seshan, Head IP&S, Phillips, India
4. Mr. Tarun Khurana from Khurana & Khurana.

The speakers are a unique gathering of Patent Attorneys, who have extensive years of experience in their professional fields, and will put across to the delegates, a real insight of Patent Laws and Practices as prevalent and practiced in European Patent Office, United States, and India. The Workshop will provide an opportunity to receive first-hand information including recent Judgment on various issues from the experts in the fields. The speakers are selected such that the attendees can get to know the real insight and nitty-gritty followed at European, United States, and Indian Patent Offices. The speakers would share real-life cases and experiences that can help the attendees in following the best practices for building their respective patent portfolios. The speakers would also talk at length on the recent case laws and how courts of different geographies interpret the same application in different ways so that best practices for each geography can be put across.

About the Organizers:

IIPRD is a premier Intellectual Property Consulting and Commercialization / Licensing Firm with a diversified business practice providing services in the domain of Commercialization, Valuation, Licensing, Transfer of Technology and Due-Diligence of Intellectual Property Assets along with providing complete IP and Patent Analytics and Litigation Support Services to International Corporates and Global IP Law Firms. IIPRD also provides industrial training to Indian business houses. In this direction, IIPRD has been regularly holding International Seminars as one of its focused activities on its own and in collaboration with various Government and International agencies. IIPRD has held scores of National and International Programmes. IIPRD also conducts tailor-made educational programs for better-known corporates at their premises specific to their needs. IIPRD has been established as an earnest and sincere effort by corporate trained IP practitioners to assist Global Business Houses in strategizing their growth by leveraging their IPR’s through effective Creation, Promotion, Protection, and Commercialization of IP. IIPRD has a legacy of over ten years of existence and is among the first Indian IP Firms to have a core focus on Commercialization, Technology Transfer, and Licensing for numerous Indian and Global Corporates, with Patent practitioners from across technology domains.