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Shareholder Rob Katz will participate in a panel discussion guiding patent counsel on the Federal Circuit’s recent decision in LKQ Corp. v. GM Global Technology Operations L.L.C during a Strafford CLE webinar on Wednesday, July 10 from 1 – 2:30 pm EDT. The webinar, “Design Patents Post-LKQ v. GM: Navigating New Obviousness Test for Design…

Heather Smith-Carra will present on Ex Parte Appeals on Wednesday, June 26, at the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s 2024 Trademark Boot Camp. Her presentation will cover practice rules, pleading requirements, tips for briefs, oral arguments, and what happens after the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board renders its decision. This will be the fourth time…

Banner Witcoff’s Scott Kelly will present at The Sedona Conference on AI and the Law, Part 2: AI and IP Law from Thursday, June 20 to Friday, June 21 in Reston, Virginia. Scott and his co-speakers will present “Challenges to the Patent Law System Presented by AI.” The session will discuss how AI may impact…

Banner Witcoff’s Robert Katz and Anna King will present at the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI) ABC Meeting 2024 in Edinburgh from June 15 to 18. Rob’s presentation, “Navigating the Complexities and Challenges of Overlapping IP Rights,” will take place on June 16, and examine several scenarios where different kinds of intellectual property…

Banner Witcoff Shareholder Robert Katz will present in a Strafford CLE webinar on Thursday, June 6, from 1:00 to 2:30 PM EDT. The webinar, titled “Leveraging Design Patents to Protect Graphical User Interfaces: Protecting the ‘Look and Feel’ of GUIs, Understanding Current U.S. and Global Prosecution Practices,” will examine the advantages of design patent protection…

Ross Dannenberg of Banner Witcoff will moderate a panel at the Video Game Bar Association (VGBA) Summit at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles from Monday, June 3, to Tuesday, June 4. Generative AI is increasingly used throughout the video game development process.  As AI assistance becomes more prevalent in coding, art development, music, video,…

Shareholder Mercedes Meyer will moderate a panel at the American Conference Institute’s (ACI) 22nd Advanced Summit on Life Sciences Patents on Thursday, May 30. Additionally, Mercedes serves as a conference chair. The panel, “The Interplay of Geopolitics and Patent Law for Enhanced Portfolio Management: Navigating Global Filing and Patent Term Strategy,” will unpack the most…

Shareholder Ross Dannenberg will be speaking on the “IP Rights in Gaming: Leveraging Trademarks, Copyrights, and Patents to Protect From Development to Delivery” Strafford panel on Wednesday, May 29, 2024.  The CLE webinar will provide guidance to IP counsel advising creators, designers, companies, and others in the gaming industry on managing key IP challenges. The panel will…

Banner Witcoff’s Mercedes Meyer, Ph.D., and Kamaram Munira, Ph.D., will lead a discussion on the whys and hows of crafting business plans when starting your career in Patent Law and becoming a Patent Attorney at Harrity for Parity, the 7th Annual Women’s Patent Workshop on Wednesday, May 22. The virtual program, hosted by Harrity and…

Banner Witcoff’s Ross Dannenberg and Scott M. Kelly will present at the More Than Just a Game (MTJG) conference in London on May 9-10. The Conference will focus on issues raised in video game law by the intersection of technical advancement in AI and lawmaking principles. Ross will participate in the panel “Patent and Innovation”…