Events

The Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association will host its March 21, 2019 program “Considerations for Building an International Patent Portfolio,” at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, [...]

Trademark Commissioner Denison and Deputy Commissioner Marsh will provide the latest update on current USPTO initiatives and practices and address any questions you may have regarding examination [...]

The LAIPLA Spring Seminar Retreat will be held April 26-28, 2019 at the spectacular Terranea Oceanfront Resort on the Palos Verdes Peninsula—one of Southern California’s most scenic and [...]

Andreas Vogel of Bals & Vogel (Munich, Bochum) presents the latest impact of Brexit on the direction of IP strategies in Europe. The subsequent discussion will provide an additional emphasis [...]

On Saturday, July 27, 2019, SFIPLA will host the 22nd Annual SFIPLA Bay Area Job Fair for rising 2L and 3L law students. This year’s event is being held at and is co-sponsored by the University [...]

Please join the San Francisco Intellectual Property Law Association for: NEW YEAR MIXER AND IP ETHICS You are invited to SFIPLA’s first social mixer event of the year (we figured we should [...]

Ethics & Technology in the Law Office 1 hour of Ethics MCLE The California Bar Association’s Rules of Professional Conduct were amended effective November 1st, and a number of the changes [...]

The Golden Gate University School of Law is hosting The 17th Annual Conference on Recent Developments in IP Law and Policy on October 26 from 9:00 am-5:30 pm at 536 Mission Street, Room 2201, San [...]

At IAM’s Software IP (San Francisco, October 30), patentability and protection will take center stage as industry leaders from Google, Box, Red Hat, PayPal, Alibaba, Facebook and many more gather [...]

Functional claiming is a topic relevant to patent prosecution and litigation alike.  While claims written in functional language may appear broad on their face, in reality they can be interpreted [...]