U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Biotechnology, Chemical, & PharmaceuticalPartnership Meeting

DETROIT – This Sept. 14 BCP meeting will be jointly hosted by Technology Centers

1600 (Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry) and 1700 (Chemical and Materials

Engineering), expanding this long-standing industry sector partnership.

This meeting will be simultaneously available at locations

in the USPTO Headquarters in Alexandria, VA and the Midwest Regional Office in

Detroit. During this BCP, participants can interact with office personnel

in person at both locations, or alternatively, via webcast.

Discussion topics:

Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) Overview

Trends in Subject Matter Eligibility for Biotechnology

Inventions (A Customer Perspective)

Practitioner’s Perspective on 101 as Applied to Biotech

Applications

Third Party Submission

AIA 130 Declaration

PCT National Stage Filing Tips

Double Patenting

Register at http://www.michbio.org/events/event_details.asp?id=672866&group=