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Designs in the Digital Age USPTO Design Day 2013 Master of Ceremonies: Rob Spear, Supervisory Patent Examiner, Technology Center 2900, USPTO Schedule of Events 8:30 ‐ 9:00 am Continental Breakfast Sponsor: AIPLA 9:00 ‐ 9:15 Welcome and Kick‐off Margaret Focarino, Commissioner for Patents, USPTO Introduction of Sponsors 9:15 – 9:30 State of the Design Technology Center Robert P. Olszewski, Director, Technology Center 2900, USPTO 9:30 – 10:15 More About the Written Description Requirement of 35 USC 112(a) Joel Sincavage, Design Practice Specialist, Technology Center 2900, USPTO 10:15 – 10:30 10:30 – 11:15 Break & Interaction Time Sponsor: ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law US Implementation of the Hague Agreement: A Conversation David R. Gerk, Patent Attorney, Office of Policy and External Affairs (OPEA), USPTO and Darrell G. Mottley, Shareholder, Banner & Witcoff 11:15 – 11:45 Outline of the Design System in the JPO, History, and Recent Developments in GUI Practice before the JPO Masashi Omine, Deputy Director, Design Policy Section, International Affairs Division, Japanese Patent Office 11:45 – 12:00 pm Design Patents in Reexamination (a look back at the last 10 years and at the future) Tracy‐Gene G. Durkin, Director, Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.
Designs in the Digital Age<br />
USPTO Design Day 2013<br />
Master of<br />
Ceremonies:<br />
Rob Spear, Supervisory Patent Examiner, Technology<br />
Center 2900, USPTO<br />
Schedule of Events<br />
8:30 ‐ 9:00 am Continental Breakfast<br />
Sponsor: AIPLA<br />
9:00 ‐ 9:15 Welcome and Kick‐off<br />
Margaret Focarino, Commissioner for Patents, USPTO<br />
Introduction of Sponsors<br />
9:15 – 9:30 State of the Design Technology Center<br />
Robert P. Olszewski, Director, Technology Center<br />
2900, USPTO<br />
9:30 – 10:15 More About the Written Description Requirement of<br />
35 USC 112(a)<br />
Joel Sincavage, Design Practice Specialist, Technology<br />
Center 2900, USPTO<br />
10:15 – 10:30<br />
10:30 – 11:15<br />
Break & Interaction Time<br />
Sponsor: ABA Section of <strong>Intellectual</strong> <strong>Property</strong> Law<br />
US Implementation of the Hague Agreement: A<br />
Conversation<br />
David R. Gerk, Patent Attorney, Office of Policy and<br />
External Affairs (OPEA), USPTO and<br />
Darrell G. Mottley, Shareholder, Banner & Witcoff<br />
11:15 – 11:45 Outline of the Design System in the JPO, History, and<br />
Recent Developments in GUI Practice before the JPO<br />
Masashi Omine, Deputy Director, Design Policy Section,<br />
International Affairs Division, Japanese Patent Office<br />
11:45 – 12:00 pm Design Patents in Reexamination (a look back at the<br />
last 10 years and at the future)<br />
Tracy‐Gene G. Durkin, Director, Sterne Kessler Goldstein<br />
& Fox P.L.L.C.
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch and Interaction Time<br />
Sponsor: <strong>Intellectual</strong> <strong>Property</strong> <strong>Owners</strong> <strong>Association</strong><br />
1:30 – 2:15 The Increasing Business Value of Design and GUI<br />
Patents and a Practitioners View on Protecting GUI<br />
Designs<br />
Andrew Sanders, Assistant General Counsel, Patent<br />
Group, Microsoft Corporation and<br />
Robert S. Katz, Shareholder, Banner & Witcoff<br />
2:15 – 2:45<br />
2:45 – 3:00<br />
3:00 – 3:30<br />
The Increasing Importance of Graphical User Interface<br />
in the Digital Age<br />
Charles L. Mauro, Founder and President, Mauro New<br />
Media<br />
Overview of USPTO Examination Practice for Icon and<br />
Graphical User Interface Applications<br />
Cathron Brooks, Supervisory Patent Examiner,<br />
Technology Center 2900, USPTO<br />
Questions for Afternoon Speakers<br />
3:30 – 3:45 Break & Interaction Time<br />
Sponsor: ABA Section of <strong>Intellectual</strong> <strong>Property</strong> Law<br />
3:45 – 4:45 Report from the Front Line: Design Patent Judicial<br />
Decisions A Year In Review (including the Apple<br />
Samsung litigation)<br />
Elizabeth Ferrill, Attorney, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow,<br />
Garrett & Dunner, LLP<br />
4:45 – 5:00 Closing
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