All meetings start at 7p with social hour preceding at
6p.
Monday, September 17, 2012 - planning and social
meeting
- Keynote speakers - Terry Rea and Judge Newman
- Venue: USPTO auditorium
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
- Joint Inn meeting with Giles Rich Inn
- Venue: Federal Circuit
- Speaker Dr. Chakrabarty
- Pupillage team leaders George Best, Joshua Goldberg and
Elizabeth Dougherty
Thursday, November 8, 2012
- Tentative topic - Patent Litigation
- co-leader(s)- Laurin Mills (possibly
Ron Epstein, the CEO of Epicenter IP)
- Venue: EDVA Courthouse - Alexandria
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
- Holiday Meeting - joint meeting with Giles Rich
Inn
- Venue: USPTO museum
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Honored speaker: Gerard Rogers - Chief Administrative Trademark
Judge - Trademark Trial and Appeal Board
Topic 1: Non-traditional
trademarks: an overview and recent case-law
Speakers: Sharon Marsh, Deputy Commissioner for Trademark
Examination Policy and Cynthia Lynch, Administrator for Trademark
Policy and Procedure
Topic 2: TM mtg -
Advantages/disadvantages of Oppositions and TM
Litigation
co-leader: Bob Adams
Venue: USPTO auditorium
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Joint meeting with George Mason Inn of Court
Topic 1: USPTO proposed Ethics
Rules
Speaker: William Griffin from the USPTO Office of Enrollment and
Disciple (OED)
Topic 2: George Mason Inn - Ethics - vignettes
leaders: Ron Stern and Jason Morgan
Venue: USPTO auditorium
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Speaker - Don Chisum
co-leaders : Meridth Petravick
Venue: USPTO auditorium
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Wednesday, May 22, 2012
- Annual dinner
- Venue - TBD