Thursday, January 28
1pm ET

Patent quality is no longer a question of good lawyering, it’s a now-or-never consideration when it comes to securing valuable and defensible intellectual assets.

Join Scott Bergeson, patent attorney at H.C. Park & Associates, Erik Pérez, Ph. D., IP Operations Leader at DuPont, Gene Quinn, patent attorney and founder of IPWatchdog.com and Brian Elias, patent attorney and Director of IP Product Planning at Reed Tech, to discuss the building blocks of patent quality.

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Topics to be covered:

• Drafting an application with a broad enabling disclosure for alternative embodiments.
• Drafting a minimal background section to avoid it being cited against you during prosecution.
• Importance of draft claims varying in scope and type, including claims that can be infringed.
• Drafting the specification with foreign prosecution in mind.
• Avoiding patent profanity, such as “prior art,” “every,” “each,” “critical,” and “essential.”
• Conducting an issue fee review once an application is allowed.
• Minimizing excessive office action responses to overcome rejection.

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