Recent European Patent Office Guidance of Patent Claim Interpretation in Assessing Patentability In our SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, October, 27 2025 we will discuss a recent decision whereby the European Patent Office ellucidates on the extent to which the description and drawings may guide patentability within the claims. Traditionally, the European Patent Office [...]
Recent Developments at the European Patent Office and an Update on Design and Trademark Protection in the United Kingdom Please join us Monday, April 22, 2024 at noon where we welcome guest speaker John Kensett from the Dolleymores firm in the United Kingdom. John will lead a presentation addressing recent developments at the European Patent [...]
Tax Court Case of the Century A unique and dramatic presentation by a former IRS Estate Tax Attorney, Michael A. Permutter, whose personal journey included examining Michael Jackson's Estate Tax return, presenting at IRS Appeals, assisting IRS litigators in the Estate's historic and epic court battle against the IRS, and even being called up to [...]
Objective Indicia of Nonobviousness and Restrictive Scope of Patent Reissue Please join us on Monday, September 11, 2023, where we will discuss two recent precedential opinions from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the patent sphere addressing [1] when evidence of objective indicia of nonobviousness is correctly argued and [2] issues [...]
On Monday, June 8, 2015, we will be joined by our guest Kathrin Wagner of Bovard Ltd. from Berne, Switzerland. Ms. Wagner will be giving a presentation on the pros and cons of the new unitary European patent in contrast to the existing European patent system including a short overview of the two systems in [...]
