Spring 2012 Course Highlight: Crafting & Drafting Winning Patents

PRG’s Spring 2012 Advanced Courses Program will be held from March 25-31, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort & Spa in Bonita Springs, Florida, and all courses have been updated to reflect the many impacts of AIA.  We’ve  posted an overview of all Spring 2012 Advanced Courses and looked at the courses “Designing Around Valid U.S. Patents” and the Art and Science of Patent Searching.  Today’s course highlight is for experienced patent professional who want to learn the art of Crafting & Drafting Winning Patents!

General Information: Crafting & Drafting Winning Patents

• Course Dates: March 29, 2012 – March 31, 2012
• Course Times:8:15-11:30; 1:30-4:45 (Thur-Fri); 8:15-11:30 (Sat)
• Projected CLE: 15.0 hours
• Projected Ethics Credit: 1.0 hour
• Instructors:William Jividen, Dale Lazar and John Tsavaris
• For more detailed information on this course, visit this page of the PRG website

Course Description

This Crafting & Drafting course marches to a special drummer and focuses on the end result – producing a “winning patent” that will be held literally infringed and not invalid under §112, para. 1 despite the time pressure created by moving to a first-inventor-to-file system under the AIA.

Why Should You Take This Course?

Learn the areas of chaos in Federal Circuit jurisprudence of primary concern to practitioners who prepare and prosecute patents. The course will focus on a series of cases where the patent owner lost, not because of what the litigators did, but because of how the patent practitioners drafted and prosecuted the application. Compounding the problem is the time pressure created by moving to a first-inventor-to-file system under the recently enacted AIA and the anticipated increase in the filings of provisional applications — with their many traps for the unwary. The course will teach you how to write provisional applications and draft and prosecute nonprovisional patent applications to avoid these pitfalls.

Who Should Take This Course?

This course is for patent practitioners with a minimum of two years of practice, and preferably more. It is sufficiently sophisticated for even the most experienced. The faculty knows this to be true because the problems and solutions about which they conferred and debated in bringing this course to fruition plumbed the depths of their combined patent law knowledge, experience and ongoing research and scholarship.

Beginning patent practitioners should look forward to our four-day workshop designed specifically for them, Winning Patents Workshop. 

Course Materials

A comprehensive, one-volume course Textbook, entitled Crafting & Drafting Winning Patents, and a bound set of lecture slides, are definitive on the subject and will be given to registrants at the course. The Textbook and slides are constantly updated and revised to include recent decisions and changes in the law – including the applicable provisions of AIA.

Registration, Hotel Information, FAQs, and Special Offers:

• If you’re interested in registering online for this Spring 2012 Advanced Course, visit this page on the PRG website!
• You can also view the Spring 2012 Advanced Courses Catalog, which included a print registration form.
• Visit this page for more information on the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort and Spa in Bonita Spring, FL.
• Want general information on PRG’s Advanced Courses? Visit this FAQ page.
• And finally, learn about all the ways you can save through PRG’s Special Offers!

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