AnnouncementsChief Judge Paul Michel's speech, given at the Harvard Law School Conference on Intellectual Property Law on Tuesday, September 9, 2008 is available at this link .
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Jan Horbaly, Circuit Executive and Clerk of Court, Pamela Twiford, Chief Deputy Clerk and Karen Smagala Hendrick, Senior Deputy Clerk will present a practical discussion of the rules of practice at the Federal Circuit on September 9, 2008. This program is part of the Horizon Seminar Series of the Federal Circuit Bar Association. Registration information is available at this link .
Chief Judge Michel will give the keynote address at the Harvard Law School Conference on Intellectual Property Law on September 9, 2008 at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Circuit Judge Alan Lourie will speak on a panel titled "The Law of Obviousness after KSR" and Circuit Judge Arthur Gajarsa will speak on a panel titled "The Supreme Court Returns to Patent Law." Registration information is available at this link.
Chief Judge Michel, Circuit Judge Newman and Circuit Judge Rader will speak at the 41st World Intellectual Property Congress taking place in Boston, Massachusetts from September 6 to 11, 2008. Chief Judge Michel will take part in a discussion among judges from jurisdictions around the world who specialize in deciding intellectual property cases. Judge Newman will moderate a panel discussion in the topic "Patent Litigation in the United States." Judge Rader will introduce and summarize a series of six mock patent trials which demonstrate procedures in the United States, China, England, Japan and Germany. Program details can be found at this link.
The Circuit Mediation Office has issued its Second Quarter 2008 Statistics, available at this link .