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BULLETIN American Intellectual Property Law Association

2012 Annual Meeting Issue Washington, DC

Jeffrey I.D. Lewis 2012-2013 AIPLA President

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AIPLA Board of Directors........................................................................................................................... 4 Meet Jeffrey I.D. Lewis, AIPLA 2012–2013 President............................................................................... 6 President’s Report....................................................................................................................................... 8 Copyright Office Affairs................................................................................................................................ 10 Upcoming AIPLA Online Programs.............................................................................................................. 16 Future Meetings Calendar........................................................................................................................... 15 Thank You 2012 Annual Meeting Sponsors................................................................................................. 16 Photo Pages................................................................................................................................................ 18 New Members............................................................................................................................................. 57

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Alternative Dispute Resolution............................... 26 Amicus.................................................................... 26 Anti-Counterfeiting and Anti-Piracy �� 27 Antitrust Law .......................................................... 27 Biotechnology ........................................................ 28 Chemical Practice .................................................. 28 Copyright Law ........................................................ 28 Corporate Practice.................................................. 28 Diversity in IP Law.................................................. 29 Education................................................................ 29 Electronic and Computer Law ............................... 29 Emerging Technologies.......................................... 30 Fellows ................................................................. 30 Food and Drug........................................................ 31 Industrial Designs .................................................. 32 International and Foreign Law................................ 32 International Education........................................... 32 International Trade Commission............................. 33 IP Law Associations................................................ 34 IP Practice in China ............................................... 35 IP Practice in Europe.............................................. 35 IP Practice in the Far East...................................... 36 IP Practice in Japan................................................ 36 IP Practice in Latin America ................................... 37 Law Practice Management..................................... 38 Law Students.......................................................... 39 Licensing and Management of IP Assets �� 40 Membership............................................................ 40 Mentoring................................................................ 40

Mergers and Acquisitions ...................................... 41 New Lawyers ......................................................... 41 Online Programs..................................................... 42 Patent Agents ........................................................ 44 Patent Cooperation Treaty Issues �� 44 Patent Law.............................................................. 44 Patent Litigation...................................................... 46 Patent-Relations with the USPTO.......................... 46 Professional Programs .......................................... 47 Professionalism and Ethics.................................... 47 Public Appointments............................................... 48 Public Education..................................................... 48 Special Committee on Genetic Resources49 Traditional Knowledge and Folklore �� 49 Special Committee on IP Practice in Israel �� 49 Special Committee on Legislation.......................... 49 Special Committee on Standards and Open Source.......................................................... 50 Trade Secret Law .................................................. 50 Trademark Internet................................................. 51 Trademark Law....................................................... 51 Trademark Litigation............................................... 52 Trademark Treaties and International Law �� 53 Trademark-Relations with the USPTO �� 53 USPTO Inter Partes Patent Proceedings �� 54 Women in IP Law................................................... 54

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President Jeffrey I.D. Lewis Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, LLP 1133 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10036

Immediate Past President William G. Barber PirkeyBarber, LLP 600 Congress Avenue, Suite 2120 Austin, TX 78701

President-Elect Wayne P. Sobon InventErgy 19925 Stevens Creek Boulevard, Suite 100 Cupertino, CA 95014

Secretary Mercedes K. Meyer Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP 1500 K Street, NW, Suite 1100 Washington, DC 20005-1209

First Vice President Sharon A. Israel Mayer Brown LLP 700 Louisiana Street, Ste. 3400 Houston, TX 77002-2730

Treasurer Georgann S. Grunebach Fox Legal Group 2121 Avenue of the Stars Los Angeles, CA 90067

Second Vice President Denise W. DeFranco Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner, LLP 55 Cambridge Parkway, Suite 700 Cambridge, MA 02142-1215

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Jeffrey I.D. Lewis The 105th President of AIPLA by: Brian R. Stanton and Ann M. Mueting AIPLA Welcomes its Newest Fearless Leader He who has insights can broaden the horizons of his neighbor’s life. The AIPLA’s new President, Jeffrey I.D. Lewis, has insights. Jeff is one of the good guys, using guidance from those who came before, studying with integrity and devotion, and striving to reach a proper conclusion. He is that rarest of person, one who elicits honor from his fellow man. (OK, OK, we know. What everyone wants to know is what does the “I.D.” stand for. Wait for it. First, let us present the niceties.) With each new spokesperson selection, the diverse individuals who make up the AIPLA strike coins that are both identical and unique. They are identical because each leader who passes the gavel strives to bring consensus among diversity. They are unique because they bring fresh perspectives that might be adopted by an audience with at least one more opinion than there are people. In his daily life, with humor, wit, and humility, Jeff exercises his individual responsibility to our collective community by encouraging accord. Jeff lives in his hometown of Stamford, Connecticut, where his mother was born and his parents (Muriel and Albert) raised him and his sister, Susan. In fact, when Jeff and Sharon first moved back to Stamford, they bought his parents’ home. (They wanted to redecorate.) Did you know that Jeff sang bass with the Westhill Chamber Singers at his high school? This group was highly acclaimed and even toured the USSR and Romania in 1978. It comes as no surprise to those who know him that Jeff is quite eloquent and has a flair for communication. This started early. When in high school, Jeff performed with his drama club, the Northstar Playmakers, where he had a couple of leading roles. You might ask him what roles he played. Was it Shakespeare’s Lear, West Side Story’s Tony, or perhaps Neil Simon’s Felix or even Oscar? We are sure Jeff would be happy to discuss their relative artistic merit over a glass of merlot. After high school, Jeff then went on to the University of Connecticut, where he received his B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering, a common trait for AIPLA leaders. Never one 6

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to stand on the sidelines, Jeff became Student Ombudsman during his senior year and still managed to work at the UConn radio station (WHUS) as programming director for public affairs and news. He also had two of his own music shows as a radio DJ—classical and rock. Now, lest you think that Jeff had too much time on his hands, when he was a Delta Chi he also became Rush Chairman in his senior year. Compounding his ability to promote the extramural elements of the college experience, he was also President of the Inter Fraternity Council. If you like his taste in music, you’ll love his other hobby, sailing. He even raced Tartan 37 and J/24 sailboats. For the landlubbers, they are really, really cool. Look it up! Now, differential equations and tacking across ocean waves were just not enough for our newest leader, so after rocking at UConn, Jeff earned a Juris Doctorate from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he met his wife, Sharon. One could say that Jeff made a premeditated decision to be an IP lawyer, but that would not be true. Serendipity was a player in Jeff’s choice of IP law as a career. While at Cardozo he met a visiting professor—named Don Chisum — when the elevator they shared jammed between floors, and by the time they got out Jeff was enrolled in his classes. Don fondly recalled the young engineer who sat in back of class —doing the New York Times crossword puzzle while drinking coffee. Somehow, amidst the verbal intersections, Don still remembers him and recalls that Jeff was a “good student”— high praise indeed from the patent guru. At Cardozo, Jeff was an Alexander Judicial Fellow for the Hon. Marion T. Bennett, Federal Circuit. He was on the Student Bar Association, a recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Community Service, and graduated cum laude. After a brief stint at an IP boutique and then several years at a general practice firm in 1993, Jeff joined Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler to start the patent practice. While at this NY law firm, Jeff has represented both patent holders and accused infringers in patent litigation matters, particularly in the chemical and pharmaceutical arena. Since 1999, Jeff has also served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Cardozo teaching, among other things, a seminar on Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Patent Law. Jeff has many, many accolades—Recognized in Chambers USA in the area of Intellectual Property; Listed as a “Litigation Star” for New York, a “National Star” for Intellectual Property and a “Federal Circuit Star” for Appellate in Euromoney/ 2012 Annual Meeting Issue

Institutional Investor’s Benchmark: America’s Leading Litigation Firms and Attorneys; Named in Super Lawyers in the area of Intellectual Property Litigation; etc.; etc. – BUT, to us, what is really special . . . Jeff is an educator, with an incomparable wit. He is a great simplifier that can light candles that cut through argument and offer understandable solutions. One day, I (Brian) had cause to ask a “quick question” about how to file a complaint and establish venue. I’m not sure whether he was plucked from a discussion about defending an innovative medicine’s market position, working on a client’s FDA matter, discussing a new chemical synthesis method, considering a novel programming strategy, or figuring out what a covered business method really covered. Regardless, Jeff lifted his pen and, through the phone I could see him lean back and take the time to listen to my concern, teach me what I needed, and then discuss its implications. This is the way that he has approached every inquiry from either of us, no matter how trivial or profound, with full attention and a wry smile. Lest one think that he is merely a great thinker, Jeff embodies the theory that “study is great for it leads to action.” When not assisting clients, Jeff has served AIPLA in many capacities, not the least of which include as a member of the Board of Directors, Chair of the Patent Litigation Committee, and Vice Chair of the Patent Law Committee. He was also Counsel of Record for AIPLA as amicus curiae in both Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc. and KSR Int’l Co. v. Teleflex Inc. Not only does Jeff give to AIPLA, Jeff is very active in both his religious community and the Stamford community. When faced with a playground in North Stamford that needed a serious face-lift, Jeff joined forces with others to raise the necessary funds to rebuild it. Not only did he do this, but he helped with the physical installation during a raging Nor’easter. We hear tell he got a blister or two and couldn’t have been happier. Jeff and his wife, Sharon, have raised two children, Caren

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and Peter. Sharon, also a Cardozo alum, was recently appointed as Director of Alumni Affairs at Cardozo. Talent and service run in the Lewis family. Sharon is on the Board of Directors of the local Jewish elementary school, where both Caren and Peter attended, as did Jeff in earlier times. Their daughter, Caren, a student at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, is majoring in writing seminars. She has been active not only in the Jewish Student Association and assumed leadership roles at Hopkins, but she has taken the time to work with Teach for America during vacations and hopes to continue with them after graduating. Their son Peter, a certified Emergency Medical Technician, has studied Talmudic law while rock climbing in the Golan and challenging his instructors in Krav Maga. He is currently a Freshman at Drexel University in Philadelphia studying mechanical engineering. Eclectic, eccentric, energetic, and even sometimes enigmatic, we warmly welcome our newest president and wish him all the best. Ann & Brian P.S. For those who thought to ask, “I.D.” stands for Isaac Davidoff, after Jeff’s maternal grandfather.

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President’s Report by: Jeffrey I.D. Lewis, AIPLA President

It’s a bit daunting to be President of AIPLA. There are many significant issues to deal with, but the Association is lucky enough to have superb Committees that assist the Board of Directors and Officers as these issues arise. As a chemical engineer who does primarily patent litigation, many topics are outside of my “wheelhouse,” but I can always rely on great advice from the AIPLA professional staff and Committees to bring me up to speed. So if the Committees are as wonderful as I say (and they are), you are probably wondering, “What’s so daunting?” What keeps me up at night is finding ways to keep the Association‘s over 14,000 members engaged. AIPLA is not just an “inside the beltway” organization, or one that just mails out information. AIPLA is concerned about members and issues wherever they are located. (My office is not in the DC area either, by the way. Patterson Belknap is a oneoffice law firm in New York.) Over the next year, I hope to reinforce that point as my fellow AIPLA Officers and I travel around the country. Our name is the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and I intend to make sure that members throughout the country, as well as international members, feel connected. I therefore want to use this column to introduce you to two initiatives for this year that I hope will achieve this goal. The first concerns World IP Day, an international event that AIPLA has celebrated in Washington, DC for several years. While it’s important to have our legislators and their staff on board with IP, it also is important to have the rest of America on board too. So this year we are going to start celebrating World IP Day around the country in a few key cities, with the goal of expanding the program to additional cities each year. AIPLA is going to provide the content – the speeches, slides, etc. – for AIPLA members to speak with local civic groups, state officials, school children, … maybe even garden clubs … and spread the teachings of Intellectual Property. We have a team led by Sal Anastasi, and Michael Stewart developing

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the materials and reaching out to local organizations, IP and otherwise, to get World IP Day as a nationwide event. This is one part of a broader Public Education Initiative to which we are dedicated. In case you missed it, intellectual property has been getting hammered in the press while at the same time, it crept into this year’s Presidential debates and newspapers in odd ways. We need to educate the public, judges and legislators if we’re going to turn this around. AIPLA has a Rapid Response Team that does an admirable job responding to publications, but we are looking for new ways of addressing these issues and rebuilding positive public perceptions of IP. We need to preach it to the people, and that’s why World IP Day seemed like the appropriate vehicle to expand this process. The second initiative is more personal. For the next year I will be authoring a blog in conjunction with Managing IP (www. managingip.com/blog). It will tell you what’s happening at AIPLA, discuss my travel and meetings on your behalf, and may be even include broader thoughts about intellectual property or the Association. Please read along and see what’s going on in your organization. I hope that this will make the organization more transparent and accessible to the members. So, in conclusion I want to extend an invitation to you all. If there’s a reason for me to be in your locale to support an IP event, please let me know as soon as you can. I, or one of the Officers or staff, will try to be there. It’s vitally important to our practices and AIPLA that we keep communication open, and there’s no better way than seeing each other faceto-face.

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Last year, Maria Pallante, Register of Copyrights and Director of the US Copyright Office, announced 10 special projects designed to update and improve the quality and efficiency of the Copyright Office’s services in the 21st century. Detailed in the report Priorities and Special Projects of the United States Copyright Office 2011–2013, available at www.copyright. gov/docs/priorities.gov, these special projects reflect the commitment of the Office to address current complexities in the copyright system and prepare for future challenges. These projects, including a major update to the Compendium of Copyright Office Practices, a reengineering of the Office’s document recordation function, enhanced accessibility to the Office’s historical records, and a comprehensive evaluation of the Office’s technical processing platforms, will inform the Office’s development of its new five-year strategic plan that will commence in October 2013. All projects include a series of important dialogues with stakeholders, from both the technical and legal communities. Documents Reengineering Gets Under Way Among the initiatives the Register announced in Priorities and Special Projects of the United States Copyright Office is reengineering of the Office’s Recordation Section, part of the Information and Records Division. The recordation function was unaffected by the Office’s conversion to electronic registration processing in 2007 and, as a result, the process for recording documents related to copyright ownership that are submitted to the Office remains paper driven. In fiscal 2011, the Office recorded over 8,000 documents containing more than 294,000 titles of works. To improve this important public service, the Office plans to create a system for online submission of documents. The Office is soliciting input from stakeholders through a series of ongoing meetings with users of the Office’s recordation function and public records. In a June 7 meeting, records users discussed issues related to the current system of searching for copyright ownership information and made suggestions to improve the searching capability. Additional meetings were held on July 26 and August 6 with attorneys and practitioners who file documents

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for recordation and representatives of various copyright industries. Topics included the feasibility of online filing of documents, standards and expectations for searchability, ways submitters might redact or update public information, and the possibility of connecting to privately held records and databases. In upcoming meetings, the Office will solicit comments from copyright owners and additional records users, including technologists, librarians, educators, and consumer groups. Office Publishes Policy and Regulatory Changes In June and July, the Copyright Office announced policy and regulatory changes relating to the registration of compilations, choreographic works, and automated databases. The Office published a policy statement in the Federal Register on June 22 addressing the registration of compilations, especially claims of copyrightable authorship in the selection and arrangement of material that does not fall within any of the eight statutory categories of authorship listed in section 102(a) of the Copyright Act. The Office has long registered compilations under section 103 of the Copyright Act based on the selection, coordination, or arrangement of uncopyrightable elements. The Office clarified, however, that the law is clear that authorship in compilations is a subset of the categories of copyrightable authorship as defined in section 102(a), not a separate and distinct category. The Office concluded that the categories of copyrightable subject matter established by law not only determine what is copyrightable, but also limit copyrightable subject matter. It announced that “unless a compilation of materials results in a work of authorship that falls within one or more of the eight categories of authorship listed in section 102(a) of the Copyright Act, the Office will refuse registration in such a claim.” Also on June 22, the Office clarified that a copyright claim in a choreographic work must contain a minimum amount of original choreographic authorship. For copyright purposes, choreographic authorship is considered to be the

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composition and arrangement of a related series of dance movements and patterns organized into an integrated, coherent, and expressive whole. Simple dance steps, sports movements, exercises, and social dances, even if they are presented as a compilation of movements or dance steps, do not constitute a copyrightable work, because such a compilation of movements would not fit within any of the statutory categories of authorship. On July 9, the Office announced that it had amended its regulations governing the deposit requirements for applications for copyright in automated databases that consist predominantly of photographs. Beginning August 8, 2012, claims to copyright in such databases had to include the image of each photograph in which copyright is claimed, whether such deposits are submitted with paper or electronic applications. For details, go to www.copyright.gov/fedreg/77fr37605.pdf and www.copyright.gov/fedreg/77fr40268.pdf. Online Cable Statement Pilot Launched The Copyright Office launched a pilot in the Licensing Division on September 27 for a new online royalty statement of account system. By law, cable operators and satellite carriers must file statements of account with the Copyright Office as a condition for use of the statutory licenses that allow for the retransmission of distant and local television broadcast signals. In 2010, the Office started a reengineering project to streamline the filing, processing, searching, and archiving of statements of account and to make them more quickly accessible to the public online. Through the pilot, stakeholders and the Office are testing online filing of cable royalty statements of account. Many frequent filers have visited the Office since the pilot’s launch and participated in hands-on testing and validation of the system, providing helpful feedback about the system’s design and performance. Office Proposes Amending Regulations for Filing Section 115 Notices of Intent In a May 25 Federal Register announcement, the Copyright Office proposed to amend its regulations to provide for electronic filing of notices of intention to obtain a section 115 compulsory license. To test electronic filing, the Office has established a pilot program. In the same Federal Register announcement, the Office proposed to clarify in its regulations that it does not examine notices of intention filed with the Office for legal sufficiency. In addition, it proposed to include in the regulations a privacy act advisory statement regarding notices of intent. Comments were due July 9, 2012. A final rule will be issued before the end of the year. For details, go to www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2012/77fr31237.pdf.

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Office Proposes Regulation for Verifying Cable and Satellite Statements of Account The Copyright Office proposed a new regulation in a June 14 Federal Register announcement concerning verification and audit of the statements of account that cable operators and satellite carriers file with the Office. By law, cable operators and satellite carriers must file these statements and submit royalty payments every six months to use the statutory licenses in the Copyright Act that allow retransmission of programming carried on over-the-air broadcast signals. Until the passage of the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act of 2010, the licenses did not authorize copyright owners, who are the beneficiaries of the royalties collected, to audit the information on statements of account or the amounts paid for use of the statutory licenses. The proposed regulation would allow copyright owners to appoint an auditor to verify the accuracy of statements of account and to correct any errors or underpayments identified in an auditor’s report. Comments were due August 13, 2012, and reply comments were due September 12, 2012. For details, go to www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2012/77fr35643.pdf. Current Policy Activities The Office continued to pursue a number of priorities in domestic and international copyright policy throughout the year. Among the domestic priorities the Office identified in Priorities and Special Projects of the United States Copyright Office were updates to the copyright framework to reflect current changes in the digital environment, review and revision of exceptions and limitations for libraries and archives, and solutions to issues related to the adjudication of small claims of copyright infringement and the problem of orphan works. The Office also played an important role in a number of international meetings and negotiations and continues to assist the goals of Congress and federal agencies with respect to enforcement issues. Office Cosponsors Symposium on Section 108 Reform In Priorities and Special Projects of the United States Copyright Office, the Register announced that the Office will make preliminary recommendations for legislative changes to update and revise section 108 of the copyright law. Section 108 sets forth exceptions to the law to permit libraries and archives to make and distribute copies of copyrighted materials in their collections under certain conditions. An independent study group cosponsored by the Office and the Library of Congress reported in 2008 that section 108, enacted in 1976, fails to meet the needs of libraries and archives dealing with born-digital works, digital preservation, and uses and lending of digital copies of works. To inform discussion about section 108 reform, the Office is cosponsoring a one-day public symposium with the

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Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts at Columbia Law School in New York. Originally slated for November 2, the symposium has been postponed as a result of the extreme weather that impacted the New York area in late October. The symposium, which will feature Maria A. Pallante, along with speakers from Columbia Law School, the US Patent and Trademark Office, and elsewhere, will be rescheduled for early 2013. For details, go to www.copyright. gov/docs/section108. Office Studies Remedies for Small Copyright Claims At the request of Congress, the Copyright Office initiated a study in 2011 to assess whether the current legal system hinders or prevents copyright owners from pursuing copyright infringement claims that have a relatively small economic value, and if so, how. The study will discuss and make recommendations on potential changes in administrative, regulatory, and statutory authority. In an August 23 Federal Register announcement, the Office issued a second request for public comments and announced public meetings to be held November 15 and 16 in New York City and November 26 and 27 in Los Angeles. Through the second request for public comment, the Office seeks additional input on how a copyright small claims system might be structured and function, as well as replies to earlier comments. For details, go to www.copyright.gov/docs/smallclaims. Office Seeks Comments on Orphan Works In an October 22 Federal Register announcement, the Office requested comments on recent changes in the legal and business environments that might be relevant to resolving the problem of orphan works (that is, copyrighted works for which the authors cannot be identified or located). It also asked for input on potential legislative, regulatory, or voluntary solutions to the problem. The Office is reviewing the problem in continuation of its previous work on the subject and to advise Congress on possible next steps for the United States. Comments are due January 4, 2013, and reply comments are due February 4. The Office anticipates publishing additional notices on this topic. For details, go to www.copyright.gov/orphan.

States. Comments were due December 5. For details, go to www.copyright.gov/docs/resaleroyalty.Â Office Contributes to International Work on Copyright Issues During the past year, the Office participated on numerous United States delegations to various meetings of the World Intellectual Property Organization, including a diplomatic conference in Beijing on the protection of audiovisual performances, ongoing discussions on limitations and exceptions for the blind and visually impaired, and protection for traditional cultural expressions. The Copyright Office also continues to support executive branch agencies by providing substantive copyright analysis to US negotiators in bilateral and multilateral trade and treaty deliberations. For example, the Office continued to assist the Office of the United States Trade Representative and other executive branch agencies by serving on official delegations and negotiating teams for the proposed TransPacific Partnership. The Office actively participated in bilateral negotiations and consultations with numerous countries, including Canada, Chile, China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, Spain, and Ukraine, as well as implementation of copyright-related legislation in South Korea, Colombia, and Panama, as a result of the passage of bilateral free trade agreements. Office Concludes Fifth Triennial Section 1201 Rulemaking In October 2012, the Office concluded the fifth triennial rulemaking proceeding pursuant to section 1201 of the copyright law. Section 1201 provides that, upon the recommendation of the Register of Copyrights, the Librarian of Congress may designate certain classes of works as exempt from the prohibition against circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works. The final rule, effective as of October 28, 2012, along with the analysis and recommendation of the Register, may be accessed on the Copyright Office website at www. copyright.gov/1201.

Office Seeks Comments on Resale Royalties In a September 19 Federal Register announcement, the Office requested comments on how copyright law affects and supports visual artists and how a federal resale royalty right for visual artists would affect groups or individuals who create, license, sell, exhibit, disseminate, and preserve works of visual art. Specifically, the Office seeks comments on how visual artists exploit their works under existing law and the issues and obstacles that may be encountered when considering a federal resale royalty right in the United

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2013 Seminars & Road Shows USPTO Design Day April 23, 2013 Alexandria, VA

Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Seminar July 22-23, 2013 Minneapolis, MN July 25-26, 2013 Alexandria, VA

Legal Secretaries & Administrators’ Conference May 20-21, 2013 Alexandria, VA

Trademark Boot Camp June 7, 2013 Alexandria, VA

Chemical Patent Practice Road Show June 18, 2013 San Francisco, CA June 21, 2013 Wilmington, DE

Practical Patent Prosecution Training for New Lawyers August 22-23, 2013 Alexandria, VA

Electronic and Computer Patent Law Summit August 27, 2013 Silicon Valley, CA

Legal Secretaries & Administrators’ Conference November 14-15, 2013 Alexandria, VA

Co-Sponsored Seminars: Small Claims Proceedings for Patent Enforcement February 28, 2013 University of Illinois Chicago, IL A one-day program cosponsored with the University of Illinois College of Law.

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Advanced Practice under the America Invents Act Seminar April 11-12, 2013 Hyatt Regency Hotel Dallas, Texas A two-day seminar cosponsored with the Center for American and International Law.

Patent Law Institute May 13–17, 2013 Duke Law Center for Judicial Studies Durham, NC A one-week intensive training program, co-sponsored with the Duke Law Center for Judicial Studies.

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Future Industry Events 2013

February 29–March 2 AUTM Annual Meeting San Antonio, TX

June 23–26 ACPC Summer Meeting Ashville, NC

April 3–6 ABA-IPL Annual IP Law Conference Crystal City, VA

June 26–28 AIPLA/FICPI Colloquium Paris, France

May 1–3 AIPLA Spring Meeting, The Westin Seattle Seattle, WA

October 24–26 AIPLA Annual Meeting, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, DC (703-415-0780)

May 4–8 INTA Annual Meeting Dallas, TX www.inta.org

2014

January 29–February 1 AIPLA Mid-Winter Institute, Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort & Spa Phoenix, AZ May 7–9 IACC Annual Spring Conference Hong Kong May 15-17 AIPLA Spring Meeting Philadelphia, PA October 23–25 AIPLA Annual Meeting, Marriott Wardman Park Washington, DC (703-415-0780)

May 13–17 Patent Law Institute Duke Law Center for Judicial Studies Durham, NC June 19–22 ECTA Annual Conference Sibiu, Romania

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2012 AIPLA Annual Meeting Leadership

Jeffrey I.D. Lewis – Incoming President, accepts the Association gavel

Steven Malin – Program Chair

Wayne Sobon – Incoming President-Elect

Manny Schecter – Program Vice-Chair

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Distinguished Industry Speakers

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Honorable Joseph Farnam

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Opening Night Reception – Fall Harvest Celebration

AIPLA would like to thank the sponsors of the Opening Night Reception:

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Friday Night Dinner & Entertainment “Black Tie & Boots”

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Law Practice Management/ Women in IP Law Breakfast

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LGBT Reception

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Stephen A. Holzen has joined Invotex, a national accounting, financial and economic consulting firm in Washington, DC, as a Director. Holzen specializes in the valuation of intellectual property and the determination of economic damages in high stakes IP litigation matters involving patent infringement, theft of trade secrets, trademark infringement and violations of licensing agreements. Holzen was formerly a Director at the Kenrich Group. He received his master’s degree from American University in 2007 and a BS from Pennsylvania State University in 2000. Christopher J. White has joined Hiscock & Barclay, LLP’s Rochester, NY office as a registered Patent Agent. Prior to joining the firm, he worked as a Patent Agent at Eastman Kodak Company. White graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2001 with a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a minor in Computer Science. R. David Hosp has joined Fish & Richardson, Boston, as a Principal in their IP Litigation Group. Hosp will continue to focus on copyright, trademark, false advertising, and licensing disputes. Hosp recently served as co-lead counsel for Aereo, Inc. in high-profile copyright litigation brought by the major television networks, including ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, and PBS, regarding technology that enables consumers to access over-the-air television broadcast signals, make copies of the programming, and watch it anytime on internetenabled devices. Hosp was recently named Litigator of the Week by The American Lawyer for his role in the Aereo litigation and has been named a leading IP litigator by The Legal 500 and The World Trademark Review 1000. He received his JD, cum laude, from George Washington University Law School in 1994 and his BA, cum laude, from Dartmouth College in 1990.

Awards & Recognition Cynthia Johnson Walden, principal and Practice Group Leader in Fish & Richardson’s Trademark and Copyright Group, Boston, has been named to the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly 2012 list of “Top Women of Law.” This prestigious award is given to an elite group of women lawyers who have made important contributions to the legal community through outstanding leadership, vision, passion and advocacy. Walden received her JD from Duke University School of Law in 1995 and her BS, cum laude, from Dartmouth University in 1990.

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Henry M. Sneath, a principal shareholder at Picadio Sneath Miller & Norton, PC, a Pittsburgh business litigation, insurance coverage and intellectual property boutique law firm, was recently awarded the 2012 Pennsylvania Defense Counsel of the Year Award by the Pennsylvania Defense Institute. The award is given annually to a PDI member who “best exemplifies the qualities of professionalism, dedication to the practice of law and promotion of the highest ideals of justice in the community.”

In Memoriam Eugenia “Genie” Hansen passed away unexpectedly on October 29, 2012 at age 57. Genie served on the AIPLA Board from 200003 and as Chair of the Women in IP Law Committee from 1996-98. Genie was a thoughtful and well-respected member of AIPLA, and in the Texas IP law community. She served as Chair of the IPL Section of the State Bar of Texas from 2004-05, and was a cofounder and leader of a Dallas/Fort Worth Women in IP networking group. She was considered to have been a “founder” of the current AIPLA Women in IP Law Committee and a driving force behind what has become the very successful Women in IP Law breakfasts held at AIPLA major meetings. I first met Genie not long after I moved to Texas, and I got to know her well over the years both through AIPLA and the State Bar of Texas. She was a great person in every way and the IP community lost a tremendous friend and supporter at far too young an age. Those who knew her described Genie as kind, smart, caring, thoughtful and a valuable contributor. Immediate Past President Bill Barber describes Genie as a “wonderful person and colleague.” Brian Stanton says Genie was “one of the good guys” and that when he was at the USPTO, “she always represented her clients with professionalism and respect.” Harrie Samaras said, “Genie was just a lovely, warm, smart lady who I will always remember with fondness.” Gordon Arnold describes Genie as a “great lady,” and fondly remembers sharing a “wall” and an assistant with Genie when they were associates together. Numerous AIPLA members considered Genie to be a mentor and a friend, including Ann Mueting, Karen Canady and Ann Viksnins, She was especially influential in bringing women into AIPLA and encouraging them to become active. AIPLA Secretary Mercedes Meyer said that Genie had been a role model for her. Genie began her law practice at Richards, Harris, Medlock & Andrews in Dallas, and later at Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood. In 2005, she partnered with Scott Hemingway to form Hemingway & Hansen, LLP. She held B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biochemistry from Texas A&M University and a J.D. from University of Houston Law Center. Genie was devoted to her two children, Todd, a graduate student at Texas A&M University, and Kaitlyn, who is an undergraduate student at Texas A&M. In addition, she was an avid Texas Rangers fan and a huge Texas A&M “Aggie” supporter. She was involved in her children’s activities, her church, various Aggie alumni groups, and the IP community. Genie was predeceased by her husband Bill, who passed away in 2002, while Genie was serving on the AIPLA Board. We will miss Genie, but the impact she left on the IP community and AIPLA, especially the Women in IP Law Committee, will continue. — Sharon Israel, First Vice President, AIPLA 2012 Annual Meeting Issue

AIPLA 2010-2013 Strategic Plan VISION AIPLA will expand its role as an innovator, powerful advocate, and visible global leader in intellectual property through our commitment to education, outreach, member service, and advocacy.

MISSION We serve our members, fostering their professional and leadership development, helping nurture and mentor them as they advance within our profession, keeping them informed in an ever-evolving legal environment, and enriching the diversity of the profession in which we practice, while responding to their personal and professional needs; We serve public policy leaders, whose mission is to develop, implement and maintain our intellectual property system, assisting them with objective and unbiased analysis, and helping establish and maintain fair and effective global laws and policies that stimulate and reward innovation and creative works in keeping with the public interest; We serve the public, providing education as to the daily value and benefits of a strong intellectual property system that fosters incentives for creativity & innovation, while balancing the public’s interest in healthy competition, reasonable costs and basic fairness; and We serve our association and its employees, providing sound management, financial stability, stable succession, and a vibrant, respectful and collaborative workplace environment, delivering opportunities and support for all to lead, create and thrive.

STRATEGIC GOALS Advocacy: AIPLA will provide crucial leadership and unbiased analysis leading the way for world-class policy and decisionmaking, while attracting membership, ideas, and resources as a highly sought after and respected thought leader. Public Education: AIPLA will educate the public about the daily value of intellectual property so that its importance is understood and appreciated. Member Service: AIPLA will support the professional and intellectual growth of its members through a flexible organizational framework and innovative channels of communication, delivering outstanding services, cost-effective programs and mentoring opportunities, thereby ensuring that AIPLA remains the premier intellectual property association, and attracts IP professionals from around the world. Global Outreach: AIPLA will expand its influence to the global community and provide leadership and guidance for the development of sound global intellectual property standards, laws and policies.

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Committee Reports

Annual Meeting October 25–27, 2012

The Committees were asked to align their reports with the goals in the AIPLA Strategic Plan. (See page 24 for the Strategic Plan.)

Alternative Dispute Resolution Chair: J. William Frank III Vice Chair: Suzanne K. Nusbaum

to provide both motivation and tools for transforming this workplace dissonance into a collaborative and cooperative environment that maximizes the extraction of value from IP. Member Service The Committee provides member services through its CLE programs and maintaining relevant and current content on its website. We will be continuing our forum conference calls. The first was scheduled for December 13 on the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Mediation program. Global Outreach

Vision, Mission & Values The overall mission of the Committee is to perform chosen activities in a manner that comports with AIPLA’s values in order to implement AIPLA’s mission and, thus, fulfill its vision. Public Education The Committee has not performed activities directed solely to public education regarding the “daily value” of IP, rather it has focused on education relating to the use of ADR in IP cases. The Committee will continue the successful forum telephone programs throughout the year on topics of interest to the Alternative Dispute Resolution community. In addition, we are considering having a CLE Committee program at the Spring Meeting and we will propose some topics for inclusion in the program of the 2013 Annual Meeting. Lastly, the Committee will work on a free-standing CLE program relating to Alternative Dispute Resolution. Harrie Samaras (Immediate Past Chair) and Bill Frank (Incoming Chair) are the coordinators for a plenary session at the 2013 MidWinter Institute entitled: “Why can’t we all get along? (Why don’t they think like I do?” This unique program and format can be described as follows: A strength of businesses is having individuals with diverse backgrounds interacting to develop intellectual property assets and create business opportunities for them. When this works well, what you get is active, mutual support. There can be tensions and misunderstandings, however, between in-house counsel, outside counsel and business managers. When you harness the intelligence and benefits of each group, and they coalesce different approaches, behaviors, cultures, and communication skills, what you get is a powerful partnership. Ron Bynum, leadership trainer and consultant with an international client base and over 40 years of experience, will lead this interactive program 26

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The Committee will continue to monitor changes in procedural rules of international ADR providers and in document exchange rules/guidelines relating to international arbitration. The Committee is considering developing a CLE program to discuss such changes and the practical implications for conducting international arbitrations. This may be accomplished by engaging international arbitration practitioners and representatives from international ADR providers. We have already announced such changes to Committee members through email and provided links to the new rules on the Committee’s microsite. The Committee had a representative from the International Mediation Institute speak on a teleconference on how to become IMI certified as a mediator and how the IMI can be useful for locating mediators in the United States and abroad. The Committee will consider cooperation with both the internationally-focused Committees and the Litigation Committees for a CLE program at the Spring Meeting. Future telephone forum topics may also include globally related topics.

Amicus Chair: Jerry R. Selinger Vice Chair: Guy Donatiello

Vision, Mission & Values The Committee’s overall mission is to scrutinize judicial and 2012 Annual Meeting Issue

administrative decisions which involve significant issues of law or practice which affect intellectual property, and make recommendations to the Board of directors that amicus briefs be filed (or not filed) in appropriate circumstances. The Committee’s overall mission involves its own due diligence, as well as responding to requests from party advocates, members of substantive committees, and the Board. The Committee also makes recommendations to the Board as to brief drafters, and members often volunteer their services pro bono to do so.

Antitrust Law

Chair: Kenneth M. Frankel Vice Chair: Geoffrey D. Oliver

Advocacy As set forth above, much of the Committee’s work relates to advocacy and member services. The Committee routinely seeks input from whichever substantive committees might have interest in a judicial or administrative decision, including but not limited to the Patent Law Committee, the Patent Litigation Committee, the Copyright Law Committee, the Trademark Law Committee, the Antitrust Law Committee, the Chemical Practice Committee, the Electronic and Computer Law Committee, the Biotech Committee, and the Trademark Litigation Committee. Public Education Amicus briefs originating from internal committee discussion are circulated to other IP associations by one of our sister committees. In addition, the amicus briefs are posted on the AIPLA website. Member Service See above. In addition, briefs filed by AIPLA are posted on its website. Global Outreach See above.

Anti-Counterfeiting and Anti-Piracy Chair: Crystal Gothard (not pictured) Vice Chair: Toni Y. Hickey

Vision, Mission & Values The Committee seeks to promote the balance between intellectual property rights and competition laws and policies, thereby fostering innovation and competition; to keep our members informed of developments in the intersections between IP and competition laws and policies; to provide input to the AIPLA Amicus Committee and Board on IP/competition issues arising in the courts, government agencies, and legislature; and to actively involve as many of our members as possible in the Committee’s efforts. Advocacy The Committee often works with the Amicus Committee and Board to develop and draft positions for amicus briefs and legislative initiatives in the IP/competition area, and with the Standards and Open Source Committee to provide input to the Board on IP-standards issues. Currently, the Committee is working with the: (1) Food and Drug Committee to provide input to the Amicus Committee and Board on expected Supreme Court review of court decisions involving antitrust implications of settlements of ANDA pharmaceutical infringement lawsuits; (2) IP in China Committee to provide comments on China’s proposed antitrust enforcement guidelines; and (3) IP in China Committee and the Standards and Open Source Committee in organizing a program for the 2013 Spring Meeting. Member Service At the Annual Meeting, the Committee presented a program on whether injunctive relief should be available in connection with standards-essential patents.

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The Committee’s subcommittees focus on three important topics at the intersection of IP and competition law— pharmaceuticals, standards, and IP acquisitions and licensing—and began periodic telephone conference calls in which members of our subcommittees share important developments in their focus areas with members of the Committee as a whole. Members interested in the subcommittees should contact the subcommittee chairs listed above. aipla bulletin

The Committee publishes a newsletter for which its members contribute articles on IP/competition issues at the time of each AIPLA meeting and distributes it electronically to our members. The newsletter provides a forum for our members to express their views and educate our members about current topics in the IP/competition area. Members interested in writing articles should contact our newsletter editor David Swenson.

Chemical Practice Chair: William B. Kezer Vice Chair: Jeffrey N. Townes

Global Outreach The Committee presents programs on international IP/ competition issues, and encourages members outside the United States to provide newsletter articles about IP/ competition developments in their countries or areas of the world. In addition, the Committee currently is assisting in developing comments on Chinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposed antitrust enforcement guidelines. Subcommitees

Pharmaceuticals: Paul Ragusa, Subcommittee Chair

Standards: Richard Stark, Subcommittee Chair

IP Acquisitions & Licensing: Geoffrey Oliver, Subcommittee Chair

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Chair: Nancy J. Mertzel Vice Chair: Stefan Mentzer

Newsletter Editor: David Swenson

Biotechnology

Chair: James J. Kelley Vice Chair: Carol M. Nielsen

No business to report at this time.

Corporate Practice Chair: David P. Ruschke Vice Chair: Valerie Calloway

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Diversity in IP Law Chair: Shayne E. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Reilly Vice Chair: Wilson L. White

No business to report at this time.

Education

Chair: Myra H. McCormack Vice Chair: Ehab M. Samuel

2012 Annual Meeting. At the 2012 Annual Meeting, the Education Committee kicked off its Law School Professor Subcommittee. This subcommittee is meant to facilitate the sharing of ideas and teaching tips in the law school class room and for staying connected with law professors, including adjunct professors and colleagues. The program was well attended by a cross section of full-time and adjunct professors. Annual Practical Patent Prosecution Training for New Lawyers Program (Patent Boot Camp). The Education Committee coordinates the AIPLA Patent Boot Camp in Alexandria, Virginia. This popular program has been offered annually for many years, and includes instructional sessions and hands-on claim drafting workshops taught by experienced private and corporate practitioners. We have started a Subcommittee to plan of the 2013 Boot Camp. One way for Committee members to get involved would be to attend or serve as an instructor at the Boot Camp. If you are interested in getting involved, please send an email to Myra H. McCormack at mmccorm1@its.jnj. com and Ehab Samuel at samuele@dicksteinshapiro.com. Please be sure to look for our upcoming announcements and encourage your friends and colleagues to attend the 2013 2012 Annual Meeting Issue

program. Law Professor Subcommittee. The Education Committee is committed to expanding the law professor initiative, which was launched at the 2010 Spring Meeting. Our IP Law Professor Subcommittee provides a platform for present and future full-time and adjunct IP law professors to discuss resources available to IP law professors, best practices, techniques for get involved in teaching, and other issues of interest. The co-chairs of this Subcommittee are Mickie Piatt, fulltime professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, and Don Cameron, adjunct professor at York University. We have set up a LinkedIn page for the Law Professor Subcommittee. If you are interested in sharing ideas and connecting with fellow IP professors on our LinkedIn page, please send an email to Myra H. McCormack at mmccorm1@ its.jnj.com and Ehab Samuel at samuele@dicksteinshapiro. com. We are in the process of planning future activities for this initiative for 2013. Please let us know if you are interested in additional information about this subcommittee. The Coordination Role of the Education Committee: The Education Committee will continue to serve as a communication, networking and teaching resource. The Committee plans to continue its liaison activities with the substantive Committees and hold joint meetings with other Committees on topics of interest to a cross-section of attorneys. We are also planning various activities with other Committees such as the New Lawyers and Law Students Committees. If you are interested in learning about how you can get more involved in AIPLA and the Education Committee, please send an e-mail to Myra H. McCormack at mmccorm1@its.jnj.com and Ehab Samuel at samuele@ dicksteinshapiro.com.

Electronic and Computer Law Chair: James D. Hallenbeck (not pictured) Vice Chair: Michael P. Dunnam

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the AIPLA Board. We have new AIPLA Board liaisons. The liaisons are Carl Oppedahl (primary contact), Barbara Fiacco, and Kevin Rhodes. Strategic planning is nearing its completion with current focus on advancing membership and global outreach.

Emerging Technologies Chair: Kirk A. Damman Vice Chair: Robert Capriotti (not pictured)

Steve Lundberg and Thiery Lo are handling webinars. Let Jim know if you have any ideas for webinar content. International affairs: Ed Round for European perspective, Jennifer Jannuska for Canadian perspective, and Matt Adams for Australian and New Zealand perspectives. Michael Drapkin reported on the summit planned for Silicon Valley in August 2013. The summit at the University of San Diego was a success, with over 180 people in attendance.

No business to report at this time.

The Committee is considering a quarterly newsletter.

Fellows

Lynn Anderson reported on the 2012 Partnering in Patents. The program went well and there was good attendance. The program was broadcast via web. Next year will mark the 20th anniversary of the Partnering in Patents program. If you have any ideas for making that event extra special, let the Committee know. The Committee held a joint session with the IP Practice in Japan and Latin America Committees and covered preparation and prosecution of software implemented inventions in the US, Japan, and Latin America. The speakers provided insights in preparation of, procedures for, and special considerations necessary with regard to applications filed in Japan, Mexico, Brazil, and Europe with a brief overview of US practice. John Salazar and Michael Drapkin are organizing the Spring Meeting joint Committee educational session. Ideas - Drafting Patents to License/Litigate, Joint Meeting with Patent Law Committee on 35 USC 101, Import/Export in view of Patent Office Rules, and TED Talks (short presentations with minimal time to prepare in response to topics), and First-Inventor-to-File. Jim stated that future ECLC leadership business meetings will be via teleconference.

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Chair: Sheldon H. Klein Vice Chair: William L. LaFuze

AIPLAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bylaws provide for a special category of membership called the Fellows of the Association. The following criteria are set forth for becoming a Fellow: (1) outstanding service to the Association; (2) prominence within the intellectual property profession; (3) learned contributions to the profession through teaching and writing; and (4) observance of the highest standards of ethical conduct. New Fellows are nominated by current Fellows, and must be approved by the AIPLA Board of Directors. The Bylaws further provide that Fellows may from time to time be requested by the Board of Directors to undertake projects, including those of a scholarly, educational, research or informational nature. Such projects shall be designed to provide the Board of Directors with a balanced and learned perspective on matters relating to public policy, jurisprudence, administrative procedure, international harmonization, comparative law or other matters of importance to the intellectual property profession and the Association. The Fellows support Association objectives, principles and Committee missions and activities, and may submit proposed initiatives to be undertaken by the Fellows to the Board for approval, with any resulting studies, papers and proposals being submitted to the Board for its consideration and disposition. 2012 Annual Meeting Issue

This past year, in support of the Association’s strategic goals, and its vision, mission, and values relating to advocacy, public education, member service, and global outreach, Fellows have worked on and discussed the following projects and issues: • Professional Programs • Board and Committee chair leadership training • AIPLA Model Patent Jury Instructions • Latin America and Africa initiatives • AIPLA website “Learning Center” review • On-site mentoring at the Spring Meeting • AIPLA membership criteria • Member retention We are considering the following as possible new areas of involvement: • Pro bono • Public Education • Community Service Our meeting was held on October 26, 2012. The Fellows met and discussed the following: 1. Congratulations and welcome to our new Fellows:

Joseph S. Cianfrani Stephen G. Kunin Jonathan W. Richards Naomi Abe Voegtli George F. Wheeler

2. Reports on current projects with Fellows involvement: •

Board and Committee chair leadership training (Don Martens, Bill LaFuze, Alan Kasper, Roger Parkhurst)

This project is active and ongoing, and the team is meeting regularly. Don Martens reported to the Board of Directors on the outcome of a detailed survey of current and former Committee chairs. •

statistical) role in new pro bono efforts by the USPTO, pursuant to a provision of the AIA. Association Treasurer Georgeann Grunebach and Laura Zeman-Mullin represent AIPLA on the USPTO pro bono task force. Georgeann joined our meeting and gave a presentation on the task force. This project is focused solely on patent prosecution/assistance to inventors. The Fellows pro bono Subcommittee will consider this, as well as other ways we might become involved in pro bono. •

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AIPLA President Jeff Lewis has asked us to work with the Public Education Committee on a specific project in support of the “Public Education” goal of the strategic plan. Sheldon Klein conferred with the Committee’s Chair, Sal Anastasi. Their focus is on events and efforts surrounding World IP Day, April 26. He would like our participation in their efforts to work with the USPTO and other sponsoring organizations to coordinate and provide content for World IP Day celebrations in various cities and local venues around the country. •

Community Service

Sheldon Klein discussed ideas for a possible Fellows-led Association-wide community service project in a city hosting a future AIPLA major meeting, e.g., Seattle. 4. Fellows dinners • •

Reminder of Saturday night dinner at Gary Hoffman’s house Possible dinner in Tampa at the Winter meeting (Saturday, February 2)

Food and Drug

Chair: Denise M. Kettelberger Vice Chair: Stephen B. Parker

Africa initiative (Patrick Coyne, Phil Hampton)

Patrick Coyne delivered a brief report. Sheldon Klein mentioned that our Africa focus fits within AIPLA’s “Global Outreach” goal. Also, the International and Foreign Law Committee is now actively looking at Africa, so we should coordinate with them. For example, they are seeking an IP lawyer from South Africa for a panel for the Mid-Winter Institute. 3. New areas for possible Fellows involvement: •

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Pro Bono

Bill LaFuze will chair a Subcommittee on pro bono. The Subcommittee will explore ways in which the Fellows might engage in some sort of organized effort to provide IP –focused pro bono services to deserving individuals or organizations. The Association is currently playing a supporting (primarily 2012 Annual Meeting Issue

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Industrial Designs Chair: Garfield Goodrum Vice Chair: Margaret Polson

Public Education The IFLC occasionally coordinates with the International Education Committee to present programs educating members and the public regarding issues concerning intellectual property. The IFLC intends to organize themed seminars comparing subject matter (computer software/ medical devices) and claim structures. Member Service

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International and Foreign Law Chair: William S. Boshnick Vice Chair: Matt Adams

The IFLC serves its members by keeping them informed in an ever-evolving international legal environment. During the 2012 Annual Meeting, it was suggested that the IFLC and AIPLA take a greater role in coordinating with foreign IP organizations in studying how these organizations approach intellectual property, and then passing this information to its members. Global Outreach The IFLC has been instrumental in establishing Subcommittees pertaining to international practice, with the goal of such Subcommittees ultimately becoming full -fledged active Committees, the most recent of which are the Indian Practice Subcommittee and the Special Committee on IP Practice in Israel.

International Education Chair: James E. Ruland (not pictured) Vice Chair: Shannon L. Beech Vision, Mission & Values The International and Foreign Law Committee (IFLC) considers the treaties of the United States and foreign countries and the statutes, rules, regulations, and judicial decisions of foreign countries relating to patents, trademarks, copyrights or intellectual property generally. The IFLC also considers the statutes, rules, regulations, and judicial decisions of the United States as they may impact intellectual property as a part of trade and commerce between the United States and foreign country nationals. A further role of the IFLC is to coordinate with other Committees of AIPLA on matters which are relevant to their jurisdictions. Advocacy The IFLC coordinates with AIPLA leadership to research and advocate, on the behalf of IP stakeholders, issues potentially affecting foreign rights of such IP stakeholders, by, e.g., submitting position papers on behalf of AIPLA to foreign governmental organizations. Where necessary, the IFLC also coordinates with other foreign Committees where the foreign rights are potentially affected. The IFLC has established a group of Foreign Liaisons to assist the IFLC by providing advice on intellectual property issues in their representative regions. 32â&#x20AC;&#x192;

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The Committee has two main functions. The Committeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current focus is on developing and producing educational programming for international audiences, primarily through online programs on US IP law and practice specifically targeted to practitioners, government officials and others outside the U.S. who are interested in IP law, policy and practice. Additionally, in response to requests, the Committee meets with visiting delegations and arranges for speakers for lectures, seminars, and other meetings outside the United States. The Committee coordinates its activities with those of the Online Programs, International and Foreign Law, the IP Practice in Europe, the IP Practice in Japan, the IP Practice in Latin America, the IP Practice in the Far East Committees, and the Special Committee of International Practitioner Associations. 2012 Annual Meeting Issue

SPECIFIC TASKS UPDATE AND GOING FORWARD: The International Education Committee is in the process of developing multiple webinars for different jurisdictions to be presented within the first half of 2013. A program is being developed for a Spanish-speaking audience with the assistance of AIPPI Spain with the likely topic being related to the AIA. We are in the process of reaching out to Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America through the assistance of the IP in Latin America Committee in order to increase the size of the audience for this program. We will identify dates, specific topics and speakers once the audience has been set. At least one program, and possibly more, will be developed for German-speaking audiences in Europe with the likely topics of these programs being on subject matter eligibility of software and biotechnology inventions post-Bilski, and third-party post-patent grant proceedings under the AIA. Speakers have been identified and we are currently in the process of setting dates for these programs. A program on the AIA is being developed for English-speaking audiences in Pacific Rim countries with the assistance of NZIPA (New Zealand), IPTA Australia and ASPA (Singapore) with the program targeted in February/March 2013. We are in the process of identifying specific topics of interest and finding speakers for this program. Members of the Committee, possibly in conjunction with other substantive Committees, will coordinate each of the online programs. Each online program has at least one local (e.g. North American) coordinator who works with at least one international coordinator to develop and put on the program. The international coordinator interfaces with the IP organization(s) in their country to establish: (1) a topic of interest for practitioners in the country and (2) mechanisms for marketing the program through the IP organization(s). The local coordinator identifies speakers and sponsors for the program based on the established topic of interest. Most programs will likely be broadcast live. The coordinators may work with other AIPLA Committees or possibly local IP associations outside the US in planning the program. Training sessions will be held for local coordinators within the next two months. We are also exploring conducting programs in the US with foreign speakers. Interest has been expressed by European attorneys for conducting such programs. GOALS: (1) Recruit additional members to join the Committee. We would especially like to tap into AIPLA’s international members to encourage involvement of those members in AIPLA.

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(2) Explore approaches for expanding audiences for programs. One approach is to establish relationships with IP associations outside the US in order to obtain assistance in promoting and possibly also planning and sponsoring programs. Another, related approach is to begin a formal program of promoting our programming services for US IP law to foreign IP associations, including soliciting requests for online programs and offering speakers for local programs. (3) Establish a list of speakers possessing a high degree of proficiency in foreign languages. (4) Coordinate with AIPLA to look for ways the Committee can assist in implementing AIPLA’s international strategies. (5) Work with AIPLA to find a way to make recordings of the online programs available on the Web site, in a location that is easily found by members and nonmember practitioners outside the US, as well as marketing the existence of the programs to those individuals. (6) Establish more formal working relationships with other international Committees for purposes of coordinating international education efforts and producing programming.

International Trade Commission Chair: Kim E. Choate Vice Chair: Michael W. Maas

The ITC Committee has been active since spring working closely with the Board to further advocate Section 337 practice at the United States International Trade Commission (USITC). In doing so, the Committee prepared comments for the Board’s approval and submission in response to two recent Federal Register Notices published by the USITC which proposed new rules and procedures for Section 337 practice. The Committee has also been active in public education. In August, the Committee sponsored an Webinar where the Honorable Theodore Essex, Administrative Law Judge at the USITC, and Kim Choate, Special Counsel at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, spoke on recent updates at the USITC. Additionally, the Committee is planning on participating in one of the educational sessions at the Spring Meeting 2013. aipla bulletin

The Committee has formed several Subcommittees to continue its advocacy for Section 337 practice before the USITC and looks forward to working with other Committees to achieve this purpose.

The Committee also noted that AIPLA is willing to provide speakers on various topics including AIA, upon request. Obtaining a list of speakers on various topics is something that may be compiled in the future.

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The latest Regional Roundtables are also being used as a platform to discuss AIPLA’s efforts to educate the public on IP issues. The availability of educational materials at the Creativity in Bloom website (www.creativityinbloom.org) has been noted. Several Regional Roundtable participants have expressed interest in reviewing these educational materials developed by our Public Education Committee and will consider using them for local events.

Chair: Anthony M. Zupcic Vice Chair: Troy Grabow

The Committee also mentioned during the latest Regional Roundtable that the Public Education Committee is developing talking points for the local component of the upcoming World IP Day event in April 2013. Member Service Vision, Mission & Values The IP Law Associations Committee is AIPLA’s outreach vehicle to all other IP law associations, both local and regional, throughout the United States. The Committee maintains a roster of the leadership of these other IP law associations and fosters cooperation and an exchange of ideas between IP law associations. Advocacy One of the tasks assigned to the Committee is to maintain the Amicus Notification Network which is a Lyris list that enables AIPLA to distribute its amicus briefs to member organizations and similarly to receive copies of amicus briefs filed by other IP law associations that are members of the network. New members to the network are solicited during each Regional Roundtable. The Committee works with AIPLA staff and the Amicus Committee to distribute all AIPLA amicus briefs to the network in a timely fashion. Public Education Regional Roundtables are used as a vehicle to advise local and regional IP law associations of the efforts AIPLA is making in educating both the IP bar and the general public. In the latest series of Regional Roundtables, the Committee mentioned the several webinars that AIPLA has hosted on various aspects of AIA and explained how those webinars could be used by local and regional associations to educate their members on this important change in IP law. The Committee worked with the Online Programs Committee to assess how these webinars might be bundled and made available to the local and regional IP law associations. 34

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Regional Roundtables also provide a vehicle for learning what benefits other organizations offer their members that might also be implemented by AIPLA in attracting new members. At the same time, AIPLA has offered local and regional associations AIPLA work product that the local and regional associations might not be otherwise able to offer to their members. The Amicus Notification Network and AIPLA’s public education materials are two examples of such work product. The Committee has also coordinated with the New Lawyers Committee to provide them with local contacts as that Committee tries to set up local events that attract young attorneys. SUBCOMMITTEES: Regional Roundtable Subcommittee, E-Mailer Subcommittee and Microsite Subcommittee Committee Meeting, Plans and Goals Since the terms of three Committee members have expired, at the start of our October Committee Meeting the newly appointed Committee members, Trent Menning, Charles Pannell and Philip Swain, were introduced and each was assigned to one of the three Subcommittees, and each was also given a regional assignment and several AIPLA Committees to monitor. Three more Regional Roundtables need to be done to complete this series and tentative dates for two of those Regional Roundtables were scheduled for December 2012, with the third to be scheduled during the same time period. A report will then be prepared and circulated both internally at AIPLA and to the regional and local associations. Turning to projects for the upcoming year, it was agreed that the microsite needs a major update and the members of that Subcommittee will begin work on doing so. It was suggested that some of the educational materials prepared 2012 Annual Meeting Issue

by the Public Education Committee might be made available on the microsite. It is hoped that the microsite will become a resource to be used by the regional and local associations. The E-Mailer Subcommittee is in charge of preparing the text of most correspondence sent out by our Committee members. Such correspondence includes invitations to participate at major Committee meetings and to participate in the Regional Roundtables, as well as any other correspondence, such as “quick response” items and periodic “e-mailers” that provide information of interest to the regional and local associations. This Subcommittee will look into a revised format that might be more receptive to the recipients from the regional and local associations. Vince Garlock has been invited to speak at our Committee meeting during the Mid-Winter Institute and provide the Committee with a legislative update. The E-Mailer Subcommittee will be preparing the invitation to regional and local associations to join the Mid-Winter Institute Committee meeting by phone to listen to Vince’s presentation and participate in our discussions. The Regional Roundtable Subcommittee will begin preparing the script for the next series of Regional Roundtables. Topics will be discussed at the Mid-Winter Institute so all Committee members should come with ideas developed after discussion with their assigned AIPLA Committees. The goal will be to have a script prepared by the Spring Meeting with all Regional Roundtables completed within a six to eight week window during the summer. The Committee will also create a new Lyris list of the regional and local association contacts. While the Committee tries to personalize its correspondence with the officers of the regional and local associations, on occasion it might be easier to do a mass mailing. A Lyris list will enable the Chair or Vice-Chair to send a single e-mail to be distributed quickly to all contacts. Two situations where such a Lyris list might be useful are to send out the dial-in numbers following an invitation to a major Committee meeting or to send a “quick response” item.

IP Practice in China

Chair: Ying Tuo Co-Vice Chairs: Patrick J. Coyne and Zhun Lu

The Committee has no business to report at this time. 2012 Annual Meeting Issue

IP Practice in Europe Co-Chair: Andrew G. Smith Co-Chair: Laura Brutman

Vision, Mission & Values The IP Practice in Europe Committee seeks to inform our members and members of AIPLA in general of key developments in intellectual property law and practice in Europe, through the establishment and maintenance of relations with professional societies whose members are expert in intellectual property law and practice in Europe. Member Service The Committee continues to share key learning, developments in practice and in law for our members. Our strong and effective relationships with national IP organizations throughout Europe have assisted us in this process of continuing education. At the Annual Meeting, together with the Patent Cooperation Treaty Issues Committee, we presented a two-hour program entitled: “Important Changes are Brewing in the PCT.” Representatives of WIPO, the USPTO, and EPO discussed recent and future PCT developments including the ThirdParty Observations system and ePCT. Of particular note from the EPO and USPTO presentations, were reports on the ongoing Collaborative Search pilot program which is seeing encouraging improvements in quality and an increase in confidence of national search examiners in the work product of their counterparts in other national offices. An update on developments in Europe towards the unified patent and unified patent court was also provided by our EPO representatives. Speakers included: Matthew Bryan, Director of the PCT Legal Division; Michael Neas, Supervisor in the Office of PCT Legal Administration at the United States Patent & Trademark Office; Niclas Morey, Director of IP5/Trilateral Affairs and International Organisations at the European Patent Office; and Camille-Rémy Bogliolo, a lawyer in the Directorate International Legal Affairs and PCT at the European Patent Office. Also at the Annual Meeting, together with the Biotechnology Committee, we presented a two-hour Committee educational session entitled “Antibody Patents and Patenting Antibodies— aipla bulletin

US and EP Perspectives.” The European perspective highlighted the EPO approach to antibody patenting, providing an overview of claiming practice for antibody-based inventions including practice tips for drafting and examination. The presentations further highlighted the inconsistent approach to inventive step of the EPO for structurally defined claims in the antibody field relative to the approach for small molecules, where in the antibody field a functional advantage is considered a prerequisite for a finding of inventive step. The US perspective provided a lively panel discussion on the requirements of written description. Speakers included: Andrew Smith of Eli Lilly & Company, Ltd.; Dr. Andreas Hübel of Michalski Hüttermann & Partner ; Louise Holliday of D. Young & Co., LLP, Southampton, UK; Amy E. Hamilton of Eli Lilly & Company; Christopher M. Holman, PhD, JD of UMKC School of Law, and Hans Sauer, PhD, JD, Associate General Counsel for Intellectual Property of Biotechnology Industry Organization.

IP Practice in the Far East Chair: Kenneth K. Cho Vice Chair: Christopher J. Maier

The Committee has no business to report at this time.

IP Practice in Japan Co-Chair: Joseph A. Calvaruso Co-Chair: Christopher J. Fildes

Vision, Mission & Values Consistent with the AIPLA’s Vision, Mission, and Values, the Committee is maintaining a high-level of visibility through its interactions with key Japanese IP organizations to promote the exchange of information on significant IP developments in the US and Japan. These exchanges have historically occurred at two pre-meetings (prior to October AIPLA Annual Meeting and Mid-Winter Institute), each lasting for one and a half days as well as a week-long delegation visit to Japan, generally undertaken in April of each year. It is noted as a result of our consultation with a number of Japanese IP organizations, our Committee decided to forego having a pre-meeting at the 2012 AIPLA Annual Meeting. Basically, the leadership of the Japanese groups advised us that participating in the Annual Meeting this year was very difficult for them because of prior commitments they have to other international meetings scheduled for the same time. Our Committee participated in a two-hour joint session during the Annual Meeting with the Electronics and Computer Law Committee and the IP Practice in Latin America Committee. During that joint session, there were presentations on the protection of software inventions in the US, Japan, Europe, Mexico and Brazil. On September 3-4, 2012, our Committee Co-Chairs, Paik Saber and Joseph A. Calvaruso represented AIPLA at the LES Asia Regional Conference in Tokyo. The Conference had about 300 attendees. Joe Calvaruso was a speaker at the session moderated by Paik Saber. During the Conference, Paik Saber also presented Mr. Harashima, LESJ President, with a gift from Bill Barber and the AIPLA organization to commemorate LESJ’s 40th Anniversary. In addition, Joe Calvaruso represented AIPLA at the Annual Meeting of the Japan Trademark Association on September 6-7 in Nagoya. Joe was the sole US speaker at the Nagoya meeting. There were 180 attendees at the Annual Meeting. Our Committee has already begun planning for our premeeting before the January 2013 Mid-Winter Institute as well as our annual April trip to Japan. Immediately following our joint session on October 25, our Steering Committee met

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with representatives from JPAA to discuss both the MWI premeeting and April Trip. We already have confirmed dates for most of our April 2013 meetings. Included in those April meetings will be our second Women in IP Law meeting as well as our second seminar with JPAA in Osaka.

The Committee currently has about 160 active voting members. It is the Committee’s intent to increase active participation of its members, and to encourage joining of new members by:

each country, and that each Latin American country is very unique in its culture, political system, history and of course their approach to the procurement of intellectual property. LAC fosters to bring together those differences within the best of its abilities to assist IP practitioners and company executives throughout the world to better understand Latin America and the procurement of IP in the region. LAC’s vision is to include IP Practioners from every Latin American country as members of the Committee and as members of the AIPLA community. LAC’s values are identical to those of the greater membership of the AIPLA in its belief to the enduring power and importance of all areas of Intellectual Property for creating economic growth and prosperity for all of Latin America.

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The Committee will continue to explore having expanded meetings in Japan with JTA and LES Japan including the possibility of an additional trip to Japan for a smaller AIPLA delegation.

posting more information on its web page; and

ii) taking advantage of the annual April trip to Japan to promote AIPLA memberships among the IP professionals working in Japan. Finally, while historically the Committee has been focused on exchanging information with the Japanese IP organizations, the Committee is now increasing its focus on advocacy, consistent with the AIPLA objectives. To that end, during our April 2012 Trip, the delegation had a very candid discussion with the JPO Director of International Affairs on the issue of what it takes to increase the number of patent filings in Japan.

IP Practice in Latin America Chair: James E. Larson Vice Chair: Joaquim Eugenio Goulart

The Committee is very committed to acting as advocates for furthering the understanding and development of IP systems in Latin America. The LAC will work with fellow IP associations in all of Latin America to assist them in embracing common ideals and systems that are proven to work from other countries with more developed IP procurement systems. However, LAC will always remain cognizant of the unique cultural differences in each Latin America country and will never forget that just because a certain system works in one country, does not mean that it will necessarily work in any other specific Latin American country. The LAC will look to fellow AILPA Committees such as the International and Foreign Law Committee, the PCT Issues Committee, the various Trademark Committees and the Committees covering Japan, Europe and the Far East, to name just a few, for assistance, mutual cooperation and guidance. As well, the LAC has established a liaison with AIPLA’s Biotechnology and International and Foreign Law Committees to foster greater awareness and cooperation among these sister Committees. Public Education

Vision, Mission & Values The IP Practice in Latin America Committee’s (LAC) mission is to foster a better understanding of the complex differences among the numerous countries of Latin America by educating its members and AIPLA. LAC works to this end by constantly reminding its members through its committee programs, web postings and social networking that there are three distinct languages spoken throughout Latin America (English, Spanish and Portuguese), not including the numerous indigenous languages that can be found in 2012 Annual Meeting Issue

The Committee is committed to the highest level of public education as it relates to IP procurement in the Latin American region. As a means to this ends, the LAC will continue to work with a multitude of the other AIPLA Committees in sponsoring joint Committee sessions, especially at each year’s Spring and Annual Meetings. However, the LAC will not only work with other “internationally-focused” Committees, but will strive to incorporate programs that are co-sponsored by a wide variety of the numerous AIPLA Committees so long as the educational program is helpful to the LAC membership and the greater AIPLA community as whole. As an example of such, the LAC is having a joint Committee session at next year’s Spring Meeting in Seattle with the Biotechnology Committee to discuss the most important biotechnology issues developing throughout Latin America. The intended countries to have speakers include: Mexico, Central America aipla bulletin

(Costa Rica), Brazil, Chile and Argentina. Further, the LAC Subcommittee for the Maintenance of the AIPLA LAC MicroWeb Site provides the latest information to its Committee membership and the AIPLA membership in regards to the latest IP issues occurring in Latin America. Still further, the LAC is starting a LinkedIn sub-group page, which will be updated and managed by its Subcommittee for the Development and Integration of Social Networking in Latin America. Member Service The IP Practice in Latin America is wholly committed to expanding its membership to include at least one, if not many, members from each Latin American country in the region. The LAC is also committed to including its members in its educational Committee programs by asking them to speak at any of the three annual meetings when their specific area of expertise fits within the programmed Committee session. Further, the LAC has formed Subcommittees to maintain both its AIPLA micro-web site and its forthcoming LinkedIn subgroup page for the express purpose of keeping its members more informed with the most updated information in regards to important changes occurring in the IP world throughout the Latin American region. Still further, the LAC is actively pursuing AIPLA delegation speaking opportunities with its sister Latin American associations, such as the Brazilian IP Association (ABPI) and the Asociación Interamericana de la Propiedad Intelectual (ASIPI), to name just a few.

Subcommittee Reporting on IP Developments in South America for 2013 Ignacio Manuel Sánchez Echagüe – Chairman Gisella Barreda – Vice Chairman Subcommittee Reporting on IP Developments in Mexico & Central America for 2013 César Ramos - Chairman José Paulo Brenes – Vice Chairman Subcommittee for the Maintenance of the AIPLA LAC Micro-Web Site Eduardo da Gama Camara Junior – Chairman Subcommittee for the Development and Integration of Social Networking in Latin America Luis Diego Castro – Chairman Subcommittee for the Coordination and Planning of the 2013 Annual Latin American Trip César Ramos – Co-Chairman Eugenio Pérez – Co-Chairman

Law Practice Management Chair: David A. Divine Vice Chair: Richard W. Goldstein

Global Outreach Each of the IP Practice in Latin America Committee’s vision, mission and values as well its advocacy, public education and member services will work together to provide a greater global outreach. Latin America, as whole, has become an important economic market for the world and we should expect to see IP procurement increase steadily each year throughout the entire region. The LAC intends to help foster a global outreach by planning an annual trip to a Latin America country to visit its local Patent and Trademark Office and/ or other Industrial Property Office and as well to coordinate a visit with the county’s or city’s local IP association and its judicial bar. A very successful trip was taken to Brazil in August of 2012. Plans for a June 2013 trip are already in motion and will be taken to Mexico City. More news of the 2013 trip will be forthcoming before the 2013 MidWinter Institute. Other trips are being considered that would coincide with meetings arranged by ASIPI and other sister Latin American organizations. News will be posted on the LAC micro-web site and the forthcoming LinkedIn sub-group when it becomes available, and will be disseminated by both membership e-mails and announcements at the three annual AIPLA meetings during LAC’s Committee sessions. Subcommittees: 38

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Vision, Mission and Values The mission of the Law Practice Management Committee is to provide resources to our members to manage their law practices. One of the main goals of the LPMC is the timely production of the Report of the Economic Survey. A second goal of the LPMC is to provide educational programming and resources to our members related to law practice management. A third goal of the LPMC is to provide a forum for discussion of issues related to law practice management. Member Service At the Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, on Friday, October 26, 2012 the Law Practice Management Committee presented the program entitled “Business Development: practical tips for creating and strengthening relationships with in-house counsel.” This program was presented jointly with New Lawyers and Law Student Committees. The 2012 Annual Meeting Issue

interactive program taught how successful rainmakers build rapport to better serve their clients. Several in-house attorneys shared “what in-house counsel really wants,” and also served to introduce a series created by the Committee: the six critical conversations that every successful law firm leader must master. The Committee has begun work on the 2013 Economic Survey. Colleen Schaller and John Thuermer will be heading up a subcommittee focused on the Economic Survey. Draft questions for the upcoming survey will be circulated to the Committee this month for review and comment. Public Education Following on the successful program at the Annual Meeting, we are implementing monthly Committee conference calls the second Wednesday of every month at 1 PM EST starting with the first call on December 12, 2012. The calls will be 60 minutes, and will cover an educational topic related to law practice management and leadership, time for discussion and questions, and an opportunity to get involved in other activities of the Committee. In part, the calls will continue the discussion from the Annual Meeting, concerning the six critical leadership conversations. A separate meeting invite will be sent out prior to the first call. In the meantime, please email Rich Goldstein at Goldstein@goldsteinpc.com if you have suggested topics for future calls or would like to be involved in planning educational programming for the Law Practice Management Committee. Subcommittees: Economic Survey, Professional Programs

Law Students

Chair: Yelena Morozova Vice Chair: Samuel V. Eichner

Vision, Mission & Values The Law Student Committee was created to help the Association better identify with the concerns of law students. The Committee wishes not only to invigorate AIPLA’s current law student members, but also to welcome more students to join AIPLA as active members. The Committee will be a vehicle to educate members on AIPLA’s broader purpose and goal. 2012 Annual Meeting Issue

The importance of law student outreach to AIPLA cannot be overstated; the law student community is far and away the largest pool of potential new AIPLA members. As a result, a major goal of the Law Student Committee is to expand the AIPLA presence at law schools around the country and around the world, and educate law students about AIPLA’s role in the IP community , while emphasizing the benefits of the AIPLA affiliation. By expanding the AIPLA law student membership base, we can increase exposure to AIPLA and accomplish more as a Committee and as an organization. We look forward to an active year, and to contributing members, ideas and hard work to the AIPLA community. Public Education The Law Student Committee has been working in conjunction with the Education Committee by providing students to assist the Education Committee with compiling a list of IP law school professors around the country. Member Service Our Committee is actively involved in the mentor/mentee program, which pairs law students with new lawyers, allowing the latter to provide guidance on practice areas and employment opportunities to the former. This program is being implemented in conjunction with the New Lawyers Committee. At the Annual Meeting, we participated on a panel “Business Development: Practical Tips for Creating and Strengthening Relationships with In-House Counsel”, hosted with the Law Practice Management Committee and New Lawyers Committee. The event focused on understanding client’s needs, building a successful rapport with clients, and “what in-house counsel really wants.” We stressed the importance of networking as a law student, and how that relates to obtaining business as an attorney down the road from corporate clients. Generally speaking the Committee will continue its longstanding outreach efforts which focus on engaging, educating and expanding the AIPLA membership. We intend to expand these efforts in a number of ways. The Event Planning Subcommittee is being created to provide one mechanism for mass outreach to law students. Law students will serve in regional positions on the Subcommittee, providing our Committee with the infrastructure for planning AIPLA events at key schools with strong IP programs. The Social Media Subcommittee currently in development is also a key aspect of our member outreach initiative. We intend to embolden our Facebook and LinkedIn presence, while also starting a new Twitter account devoted to connecting with law students on a consistent basis. Global Outreach The Committee has begun to consider various strategies and ideas as to how we can increase membership on a aipla bulletin

global basis. While this initiative is in its infant stages, we believe the right approach to global outreach will allow the Committee to gain a foothold in key foreign legal institutions, and allow AIPLA to grow its membership internationally.

Membership

Chair: Michael W. Piper Vice Chair: Elizabeth Ann “Betty” Morgan

Licensing and Management of IP Assets Chair: Robert O. Lindefjeld Vice Chair: Penny Lynn Prater

No business to report at this time.

Mentoring

Chair: Daphne C. Lainson Vice Chair: Hetal Kushwaha (not pictured) The Committee has been actively involved in educational presentations during Committee sessions for both the Spring and Annual 2012 meetings. During the Spring Meeting session, James Kelley, Assistant Chief Patent Counsel of Eli Lilly and Co., and Penny Prater, Senior Counsel, Chevron. provided a joint presentation entitled, “Management of Large Intellectual Property Portfolios.” The two presentations provided different perspectives on IP portfolio management within large corporations. An accompanying article, written by Gregory Grissett, Jacob Woolbright and John Thuermer, was provided for CLE credit. During our session at the Annual Meeting, the concept of licensee estoppel was considered by a panel which analyzed the recent Rates v. Speakeasy decision. Panelists included Pat O’Reilley of Finnegan, Andrew Wu of IP Value, and David Leichtman of Robins, Kaplan Miller and Ciresi. Two supporting articles were prepared for CLE credit by the teams of Donika Pentcheva with Roy Isaac and Debodhouyaa Sengupta with Andrew Kesnevich. We have posted material from our recent education sessions on the Committee website. We are also adding a listing of popular books and articles of interest in the licensing area. Please let us know if you have suggestions for items to add to our list.

Vision, Mission & Values The Mentoring Committee facilitates mentoring relationships within AIPLA to assist members to achieve their goals within AIPLA. Professional mentoring may also be an aspect of the mentoring relationship. Advocacy The Committee does not have a formal role with respect to advocacy. However, through pairings, our mentors introduce their mentees to substantive Committees which have a role in advocacy. Public Education The Committee contributes to public education by supporting Committees like the Education Committee. Our pairings can also increase AIPLA members becoming more involved in public education, with interested mentees being introduced to AIPLA leadership tasked with this objective. Member Services We believe that the Mentoring Committee draws in new members interested in becoming more involved in AIPLA and who may want professional mentoring.

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One of the ways that we contribute to member services is with the Klitzman Award. One objective of the award is to assist junior corporate counsel in becoming more involved in AIPLA. The 2012 recipient of the Klitzman Award is Jason Sosa from IBM. During the Annual meeting, Jason was paired with Georgann Grunebach of Fox, who introduced him to AIPLA and its various Committees. Also at the Annual Meeting, the Mentoring and Membership Committees held a joint meeting related to getting the most out of AIPLA membership. We provided information on getting involved in Committees, the networking events AIPLA hosts, advocacy opportunities, mentoring programs and innovative programming, including road shows across America. Our speakers were: Jacques Etkowicz, who discussed participating in the Professional Programs Committee; Shannon Beech, who discussed participating in the Online Programming Committee; Kevin Tottis, who discussed participating in other AIPLA Committees and other opportunities like advocacy; Missy Sikorski, who discussed networking opportunities, with a focus on the New Lawyers Committee; and Hetal Kushwaha, who discussed the opportunities in the Mentoring Committee. We have implemented a mentor/mentee pre-pairing interview in order to improve the mentoring experience. Jenae Gureff contacts each mentor and mentee pair to confirm that the pairing is appropriate. We ran a pilot program at the Spring Meeting to provide greater mentoring at each major meeting. We paired AIPLA leadership with more junior members who want to become more involved in AIPLA. We will be running another on-site mentoring program at the Mid-Winter Institute, and we also have plans to run the program at the Spring Meeting. Global Outreach

ways to provide local mentoring opportunities, building on what the New Lawyers and the Women in IP Law Committees have achieved through community events. Subcommittees • Pairings Subcommittee: Diana Luo o Mentor/Mentee Pre-Screening: Jenae Gureff • Evaluations Subcommittee (includes reviewing applicants for Mentor of the Year Award): Lisa Jorgensen; Allison Strickland • Klitzman Award Selection Subcommittee: Rakesh Mehta • Technology Subcommittee: Jack Abid

Mergers and Acquisitions Chair: Peter E. Mims Vice Chair: Carey C. Jordan (Not pictured)

No business to report at this time.

New Lawyers

Co-Chair: Melissa A. Sikorski Co-Chair: Richard T. Matthews

Our Committee has and will continue to improve ways for our members to become more involved outside of major meetings. This allows members who are not able to travel to meetings become involved in and learn more about AIPLA. We are a global Committee: foreign members are involved in the mentoring program at the leadership level and within the mentoring program as mentors and mentees. We provided an online program to assist mentors and mentees in getting the most out of their mentoring relationship, increasing our global outreach. Our program ran on March 15, 2012. It was conducted by the former chair, Elizabeth Burke, and included last year’s Mentor of the Year, Mike Martinez, and Rakesh Mehta, a mentee. We are also developing new ways to reach out to our members using our Committee microsite, Twitter and Facebook. Goals are to provide additional resources for mentors and mentees outside of and at major meetings. We are also considering 2012 Annual Meeting Issue

We would first like to thank outgoing NLC Co-Chair Chad Pannell for all he has done for the Committee while leading the NLC during the past two years, and we are very happy that Chad is maintaining an active role in the Committee and taking the helm of our NLC CLE Subcommittee. Many thanks, Chad! The NLC welcomes longtime active AIPLA and NLC Committee member, creator and outgoing Chair of the NLC CLE Subcommittee, Rick Matthews as the NLC’s Vice Chair. aipla bulletin

Congratulations, Rick! Following the success of the first NLC CLE program on May 30th in Washington, DC, with satellite participation in Boston, New York and Chicago, the second NLC CLE program titled “iPad for I.P. Lawyers” was held on November 15, 2012. This second CLE was a live luncheon conference that was held in Atlanta, Boston, New York, Washington, DC, and Orange County, CA. We received a great deal of positive feedback following the event and are looking forward to the next event. At the 2012 Annual Meeting, The Committee joined the Law Practice Management Committee in an interactive session, Business Development: Practical Tips for Creating and Strengthening Relationships with In-house Counsel, followed by a networking reception. During a joint session of the Mentoring and Membership Committees, Chair Missy Sikorski represented the NLC on a panel discussing how to make the most of one’s AIPLA membership. The 2012 winner of the Watson Writing Competition was Samantak Ghosh of UC Berkeley School of Law. Review of submissions for the 2013 award will begin in July of 2013. As in the past, groups will be selected to assist with the review and “grading” of papers. Very special thanks go to Jen Kuhn for her work leading the Competition.

initiatives as well as projects announced during the session by leadership from other AIPLA Committees. Following the session was a very well-attended local networking happy hour, generously sponsored by Fish & Richardson PC. More Spring Meeting details appear in the anniversary issue of the NLC’s Business Casual™ Newsletter, which was published in October. The NLC continues to communicate with members through the AIPLA e-mail list and social networking media such as our Facebook page and LinkedIn group, to make Committee announcements, broadcast volunteer opportunities for various AIPLA projects, and post upcoming local events organized by the networking Subcommittee leaders. If you are interested in getting more involved in the New Lawyers Committee, please send an e-mail to NLC Chair Missy Sikorski missysikorski@gmail.com and Vice Chair Rick Matthews rmatthews@myersbigel.com.

Online Programs Chair: Brad Chin Vice Chair: Stephen E. Belisle

Thanks go to NLC member Amanda Schreyer for representing the Committee on the Selection Committee for the Klitzman Award. The Giles Rich Moot Court Competition will begin soliciting judges in January of 2013 to help judge briefs and oral argument. Those interested in judging should contact the regional or national director of the competition listed at http://www.aipla.org/resources/programs/Pages/MootCourt-Competition.aspx. Planning for the 2014 Giles Rich will begin in late May or early June. The NLC held its second summer retreat in New York in August, which we kicked off after work that Friday with a networking reception with members of the NYIPLA, sponsored by Drinker Biddle. Special thanks to local networking leader Ceyda Maisami for organizing a terrific weekend, and to Deborah Plehn-Dujovich for organizing the reception at Drinker. We would also like to thank AIPLA President-Elect, Jeff Lewis for offering his assistance with reception coordinating and for joining us for Sunday brunch to wrap up the weekend. The NLC enjoyed a well-attended, productive and informational session led by Committee Chair Missy Sikorski at the 2012 Spring Meeting in Austin. The session resulted in new local networking leaders joining the team, plans for International Committee events and cross-programming, and increased interest in volunteering for the Committee’s many ongoing 42

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Vision, Mission & Values Our mission is to provide high quality, affordable education using online media. Our vision is to develop and prepare technological options and vendors to be able to work with the leadership and other Committees within the organization to identify, develop, and provide efficient and effective online program content and to facilitate others in the AIPLA to utilize online media for program delivery. The Committee provides substantial means to AIPLA to expand its role as an innovator, powerful advocate, and visible global leader in intellectual property, including through its interactive and timely Internet-based (and thus global) programming. The Committee also provides AIPLA with the capacity to serve its members, public policy leaders, and the public, while generating revenue necessary to ensure the sustainability of the organization and its employees. Advocacy 2012 Annual Meeting Issue

The Committee provides AIPLA with means to directly connect with its membership and the public. While the Committee itself does not engage in advocacy, its capacity to communicate information to and among target groups via online programming provides AIPLA with an invaluable tool in today’s instant information world. For example, on August 22, 2012 (shortly after the effective date of certain key America Invents Act (“AIA”) provisions), Online Programs hosted a webinar titled “The Final USPTO AIA Rules: What You Need to Know,” which was the fifth in an ongoing series of AIA webinars, featured the USPTO Patent Reform Coordinator, Janet Gongola, and provided a mechanism for information exchange between the USPTO and webinar attendees. Also, on September 26, 2012, Online Programs hosted a webinar titled “USPTO Statistics Initiative,” which featured Manny Schechter of IBM Corp. and Dave Wiley of the USPTO among others. Online Programs will continue its series on the AIA into 2013 with a number webinars that educate and enable practitioners to navigate their practices under the AIA. Public Education While the Committee has historically provided excellent intellectual property programming for members of the AIPLA and others, there is room to further leverage online programs to educate the general (non-member) public about the daily value of intellectual property and to funnel that programming to specific target groups. Thus, the Committee is continuing to evaluate potential programming topics, audience groups, and cost-sensitive online delivery means in this regard, and coordinating with AIPLA regarding preferred practices for notifying such target groups of the online programming opportunities. Member Service The Committee provides substantial services to the members of AIPLA through two primary online platforms: Citrix GoToWebinars and webinars professionally hosted by KRM Information Services, Inc. Since the 2011 Annual Meeting, Online Programs has hosted 12 KRM, 10 Citrix, and 10 Committee webinars covering a wide-range of topics, including the AIA, ITC investigations, counterfeiting, PCT prosecution, patent prosecution, trademark prosecution, litigation, e-discovery, and negotiation and others. These online programs not only serve members of AIPLA, but generate revenue to help ensure the financial sustainability of the AIPLA into the future. Webinars typically attract between 50 and 350 registrations.The Committee intends to host about 18 to 20 webinars in 2013, covering a wide range of subject matter to reach a broader scope of the AIPLA membership. The planning for several of them is already underway.

example, in FY 2011-2012 (July 2011-June 2012), AIPLA processed about 5,573 requests for CLE in connection with online programming, and in FY 2012-2013 (July 2012-September 2012), AIPLA has already processed about 1,880 such requests (on track for approximately 6,000-7,000 for FY 2012-2013). The CLE requests, which have historically originated from at least 44 of the 50 US states, demonstrate the geographically diverse reach of the Committee’s efforts. The Committee coordinates with several other AIPLA committees to provide and continue to expand online programming subject matter and geographic reach. Most recently, we have coordinated with the New Lawyers Committee to recruit new program coordinators to create geographically targeted (localized) programming under development by Young Lawyers and offer that online programming. The Committee also has the following Subcommittees whose collective mission is to cooperate with other Committees of the AIPLA to expand and enhance member services: (1) Citrix GoToWebinar Subcommittee, which is charged generally with facilitating such webinars, including a Career and Practice Management Webinar Series, and specifically with coordinating online programming with the Biotechnology, Chemical Practice, Corporate Practice, Electronic and Computer Law, International Education, Mentoring, and Patent Litigation Committees as well as the Special Committee on Standards and Open Source; and (2) Online Presence Subcommittee, which is charged with evaluating and improving the overall online presence and marketing of the programming of Online Programs, including through such channels as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Blogs, and the AIPLA microsite. Global Outreach The Committee provides AIPLA with global outreach through its online programming, which by its very nature is without boundaries (of course, time zones and language barriers affect the audience for any given webinar). The Committee continues to coordinate with the International Education Committee to identify and develop relevant online programming for international audiences, and to increase AIPLA’s international membership.

The Committee also provides a substantial channel for the members of AIPLA to obtain needed CLE credits. For 2012 Annual Meeting Issue

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Patent Agents Chair: Esther M. Kepplinger Vice Chair: J. Ritu Chander

recent developments in patent law, develops educational programming on patent law for the membership and policy leaders, assists other Committees with developing educational and other programming, identifies to the membership and AIPLA important issues of patent law, and assists with developing positions on issues of patent law to be advocated by AIPLA. The Committee will do so without regard to any particular technology. Advocacy

No business to report at this time.

Patent Cooperation Treaty Issues Chair: Jay A. Erstling (not pictured) Vice Chair: Brooke Schumm III

No business to report at this time.

One of the committee’s primary objectives is to assist AIPLA in its advocacy by monitoring issues that arise concerning the substantive aspects of US patent law and bringing those issues to the attention of the membership and AIPLA. The Committee gathers input from its members on issues involving patent law, and recommends positions to be taken by AIPLA. It also drafts, on behalf of AIPLA, resolutions, and comments in response to requests from governmental agencies concerning patent law. The Advocacy Subcommittee assists the Committee in these efforts. In addition to their efforts in summarizing and soliciting and collecting comments on the NPRMs the Advocacy Subcommittee continues to monitor case law, PTO publications and NPRMs for issues that may need to be addressed by AIPLA. If an issue is deemed worthy by the Subcommittee, they will make recommendations to the Amicus Committee or prepare a draft resolution for consideration by the Board. • The Committee collected comments from committee members in response to Federal Register Notices relating to proposed regulations and guidelines for implementing firstinventor-to-file under the AIA. Recent activities of our Legislation Subcommittee:

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Chair: Kenneth N. Nigon Vice Chair: Marc A. Hubbard

• Our Legislation Subcommittee, chaired by Eric Mirabel and Lance Reich, has begun work on developing a position that can be recommended to the Board on concerning a revision to 35 U.S.C. § 101. An ad hoc Committee of members of the Patent Law, Biotechnology and Electronic and Computer Law Committees has been formed for this purpose. Comments on possible proposals from the ad hoc Committee are being collected through a forum. Once comments have been collected they will be reviewed and the committee will prepare one or more resolutions for consideration and approval to the Board. Public Education

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Member Service The Committee serves its members and AIPLA through a number of different avenues. First, our substantive Subcommittees provide forums or communities through which Committee members exchange information and thoughts on current legal developments and policy questions. As described above, the Advocacy Subcommittee has solicited and submitted comments to the AIPLA Task Force regarding the Notices of Proposed Rule Making under the AIA. The Patent Law Committee is fortunate to have a technically–diverse membership, enabling it to cover all technologies that arise, including software and the life sciences. Because of the success of the Subject Matter Eligibility Subcommittee, we have expanded our scope to include all issues relating to patentability and renamed it to the Patentability Issues Subcommittee. This Subcommittee is co-chaired by Ben Borson and Gary Cohen. Second, the Committee regularly arranges and sponsors educational programming during its meetings, often for CLE credit through its Programs Subcommittee, which has chaired by Paul Kitch of Nixon & Peabody and Sarah Knight of Saliwanchick, Lloyd Eisenschenk. The Subcommittee is responsible for planning educational content, preferably for CLE credit, during the Committee’s meetings. The Programs Subcommittee will also be responsible for coordinating with the Professional Programs and the Mid-Winter Institute Committees, as well as the Online Education Committee, by providing to those Committees ideas for programming, and assistance and resources in connection with producing the programming. Third, the Committee assists other Committees with programming content. Fourth, the Committee informs its members of important legislative and administrative initiatives, and provides a mechanism through which members may contribute collectively to comments that will be submitted in response to those initiatives. • A September 17, 2012 free conference call to discuss the new Post Grant Procedures, Post Grant Review, Inter Parties Review and the Transitional Program for Covered Business Methods. The speaker was Kevin Greenleaf of Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner. • A September 21, 2012 free conference to discuss how the new Declaration practice under the AIA has been working. The conference included a brief presentation by Todd Benni of McDonald Hopkins LLC followed by a discussion by Committee members sharing helpful tips on handling the new Declaration and Power of Attorney forms. Recent Activities Subcommittee

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• On June 5, 2012 the Subcommittee held a free teleconference to discuss obviousness-type double patenting, two recent Board decisions involving this issue, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co.., Ltd. vs. Sandoz, Inc., Apotex, and Teva Pharmaceuticals (2011-1126, 1127; May 7, 2012) and Eurand, Inc. & Cephalon, Inc. v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. (2011-1399-1409; April 16, 2012), as well as a 2008 Board decision in Ex Parte Whalen II (Appeal 2007-4421). Chris Paradies of Fowler White Bogs, Charles Miller of Dickstein Shapiro. • On July 24, 2012, the Subcommittee held a free teleconference to discuss patent eligible subject matter. The teleconference included a discussion of the Federal Circuit decision in CLS v. Alice (2011-1301; July 9, 2012) and the 101 guidelines issued by the USPTO on July 3, 2012 in view of the Supreme Court’s decision in Mayo v. Prometheus. • On September 4, the Subcommittee continued its series of free conferenced calls, focusing this time on decisions in The Association for Molecular Pathology, et al., v. United States Patent and Trademark office, et al., 653 F.3d 1329 (2011). The Subcommittee continues to monitor developments generally in the area of patentability, including subject matter eligibility, anticipation, obviousness, and §112 issues, for the purpose not only of holding regular conference calls to discuss important cases, but also bringing the Association’s attention to them and working with Committee leadership, the Amicus Committee and the Board on developing positions to be taken on important issues. Activities of the Programs Subcommittee • For the 2012 Annual Meeting, the Programs Subcommittee prepared a 60-minute CLE program on (1) declarations and assignments and (2) effective filing date of claims under the AIA. The speakers were Todd Benni, McDonald Hopkins, LLC, Cleveland, OH Stephen Weed, RatnerPrestia,Valley Forge, PA. Paul Kitch of Nixon & Peabody moderated the program. Global Outreach Our Programs Subcommittee will work with the International Education Committee to make available resources and speakers on US patent law, as well as suggest possible topics and program that might be of interest to an international audience. Subcommittees: Patentability Issues; Programs; Advocacy; Legislation

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At the Committee’s meeting in October, we enjoyed an informative panel discussion on the topic of jury perceptions in patent cases. The jury-experienced panelists were:

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Chair: Dianne B. Elderkin Vice Chair: Scott J. Pivnick

• Retired US District Court Judge Joseph J. Farnan, Jr. Judge Farnan presided over scores of patent trials during his decades on the bench in Delaware. • David Weinberg, founder and President of JuryScope. David has over 25 years of trial consulting experience, much of which has been in the patent infringement area. • Eric Rudich, Senior Litigation Consultant at Magna Legal Services. Eric has consulted on hundreds of civil and criminal cases, including patent cases. The following Subcommittees have been formed and are in organizational phases: Damages Subcommittee: Co-chaired by Matthias Kamber (Keker & Van Nest) and S. Christian Platt (Paul Hastings, LLP) Litigation Issues Relating to AIA: Co-chaired by Maya Eckstein (Hunton & Williams) and Alex Goranin (Woodcock Washburn LLP) Expert Witness Subcommittee: Chaired by Christopher Kennerly (Baker Botts) Model Jury Instructions Subcommittee: Chaired by Ken Adamo (Kirkland) and (other co-chair pending) The Subcommittees are just getting underway with their work. If you are interested in working on one of these Committees and have not yet been contacted, please contact the chairs.

Chair: Gregory D. Allen Vice Chair: Nicholas P. Godici

The Committee monitors and provides comments on various patent-related activities of the USPTO that may be of interest or concern to the profession or the public. The Committee focuses on the USPTO practices and procedures and their effectiveness in furthering the objectives of the patent system; the statutory and regulatory aspects of USPTO practice with respect to the examination of patent applications, as reflected in the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure and in actual cases coming to the attention of the Committee; the effectiveness of that practice in furthering the objectives of the patent system; and the effectiveness of the facilities afforded by the USPTO to the public interested in patent matters, including publications. Advocacy The Committee seeks input from its members and other interested Committees on USPTO Federal Register Notices for consideration and evaluation for possible AIPLA comment to the USPTO. The Committee will also be working with the Special Task Force on AIA Rulemaking and other Committees, as needed to assist the Task Force. Public Education The Committee typically invites a USPTO official to a Committee meeting during the major meetings to discuss the current status of patent operations and programs, and any new patent policies, practices, or procedures that have recently been adopted or proposed. The latter is usually a joint meeting with at least one other interested Committee. In addition, the Committee often joins with other Committees at during the major meetings. For example, at the Annual Meeting we held a joint onehour meeting with the Patent Agents Committee, where Deputy Commissioner for Patent Operations Andrew Faile discussed the Office’s RCE Outreach efforts and Chris Kim, COC Program Coordinator, discussed the new classification system. At the time of Mr. Faile’s presentation, the RCE backlog was about 100,000 as compared to 20,000 in the fourth

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Quarter of 2009. The Office has several efforts under way to reduce the RCE backlog, including the ongoing After Final Consideration Practice (AFCP) and Quick Path IDS (QPIDS) pilot programs. A new effort, “RCE Outreach,” was announced at the meeting and discussed. The purpose of the RCE Outreach effort is to identify the reasons/drivers for RCEs by gathering both internal and external data. The latter will be collected through comments from Federal Register Notice (published December 6, 2012; http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/ FR-2012-12-06/pdf/2012-29546.pdf), roundtables, and data analysis with the Public Patent Advisory Committee (PPAC). The outcome of the data collection and analysis is expected to result in new programs and recommend practices to be communicated in the spring of 2013.

and speakers for the AIPLA Spring and Annual Meetings with the objective of providing world class IP programs by respected speakers and thought leaders.

Mr. Kim discussed the details of a USPTO/EPO agreement to cooperate on a joint classification system based initially on the International Patent Classification-based European Classification system (IPC-based ECLA). By January 2013, the USPTO will move from USPC to CPC (Cooperative Patent Classification) and the EPO will move from ECLA to CPC. CPC, which is a scheme based on the International Patent Classification (IPC) standard, was described as being specifically designed to be a powerful, flexible, and easily manageable classification scheme for internal, as well as external, users. Additional information can be found at www.cpcinfo.org.

2013 Spring Meeting Topic Subcommittee, Jim Hallenbeck, Subcommittee Chair

Member Service The Professional Programs Committee is currently organizing the 2013 Spring Meeting. The agenda topics have been selected with continued emphasis on the implementation of the America Invents Act. Session coordinators were selected during our Committee meeting at the 2012 AIPLA Annual Meeting. Organization of the 2013 Annual Meeting is about to begin with topic identification and the Topic Subcommittee has been named. Subcommittees

2013 Annual Meeting Topic Subcommittee, Michael Drapkin, Subcommittee Chair

Professionalism and Ethics Chair: Raymond Van Dyke Vice Chair: Rodney K. Caldwell

Member Services The Committee actively maintains its microsite to provide information of particular use to the membership. Subcommittees: Federal Register Notice Committee: Lead drafter designated on a per Notice basis; and Microsite: Michael D. Berger. No business to report at this time.

Professional Programs Chair: Manny W. Schecter Vice Chair: Jacques L. Etkowicz

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Team to help identify areas where an AIPLA response is appropriate to address public misconceptions regarding intellectual property and to facilitate communication of the response to the public. The Committee is working with WIPO and the USPTO on the Capitol Hill World IP Day celebration targeted for the week of April 22, 2013. Public Education

Vision, Mission & Values The Public Appointments Committee, consisting of members chosen for geographical distribution to provide opportunity for personal acquaintance with candidates for office coming under Committee consideration, considers the qualifications of candidates referred to it by the Board of Directors and reports in confidence, whether the candidate is qualified and any other information the Committee believes useful to the Board. Advocacy The Committee’s activities support the Board’s efforts in advocating for the nomination and confirmation of particular candidates for office in the federal courts, an aspect of its leadership and unbiased analysis resulting in its perception as a highly sought after and respected thought leader.

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Chair: Salvatore Anastasi (not pictured) Vice Chair: Michael B. Stewart

The Committee is working to build upon the work it has done with WIPO and the USPTO in the past on World IP Day by taking the annual Capitol Hill celebration to the public for 2013. This plan is intended to develop into a multiyear program as we build on successes in 2012. The Committee envisions AIPLA, in collaboration with other sponsors, coordinating World IP Day celebrations in many cities and local venues around the country. The celebrations will include coordinated presentations on the World IP Day theme for that year. In 2013 World IP presentations and celebrations are being scheduled for Detroit, Denver, Silicon Valley, Dallas, and New York. The Committee has continued its work to provide education packages for use by the membership in reaching public audiences. The Committee has reached out to various Committees within AIPLA to help with review and finalization of these presentations including the Copyright Committee, Trademark Committee, the Trade Secret Committee and the Patent Committee: All presentations are currently posted at www.creativityinbloom.org General IP presentation – posted Copyright presentation – posted Trademark presentation – posted Trade Secret presentation – posted Patent presentation – posted Recently, the Committee also did a webinar introducing these presentations to the membership for its use. Over 50 members participated in the webinar. A similar introduction presentation was made at the Annual Meeting. The presentations are now on our microsite and the Creativity in Bloom Website (www.creativityinbloom.org) along with the recorded webinar. Additional presentations directed to a more mature audience are being developed and tested.

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The Committee is reaching out to various national organizations having an interest in learning more about intellectual property to utilize their distribution network to increase the public awareness of Intellectual Property. For example, the Vice-Chairman recently did a presentation for a local club of a senior men’s organization with the intention that the same presentation may be essentially reused. The Chairman has been in contact with the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA). The Committee has also talked directly with an organization 2012 Annual Meeting Issue

called “US First.” Its mission is to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, engineering and technology skills, that inspire innovation, and that foster well-rounded life capabilities including self-confidence, communication, and leadership. We have reviewed its intellectual property materials including the “Learn about Patents” page on its FLL Global Innovation Award site. In return, the organization has offered to work with us to “jazz up” the Creativity in Bloom Website. The Committee continues to coordinate with the USPTO and to participate in public outreach efforts of the USPTO, including programs devoted to educating the public about trademarks and patents. The week before the Annual Meeting, for example, our Chairman was in Washington, DC participating in the USPTO Trademark Expo. Our Vice Chairman more recently met with key USPTO officials at its new Detroit Office and we have meetings scheduled in Alexandria in late November. Member Service The Committee has substantially updated its microsite and has provided AIPLA members with easy access to the public education materials available for presentations to the public. When people download the materials, they are asked to provide timely feedback as the materials are used so that they may be refined and new packets of material developed over time. (We have already received some feedback. ) The process of automated distribution with tracking to facilitate survey feedback has recently been implemented. Further, the Committee has undertaken the use of online training sessions introducing the materials to the membership. The Committee also plans to advertise them in daily communications associated with AIPLA meetings and in the AIPLA daily or weekly e-mail communications to the membership and that is our next step, particularly since a link to the recorded version of its recent webinar is available on the Committee’s microsite. The Creativity in Bloom Website is intended to provide an additional mechanism to provide materials for use by the membership to educate the general public about Intellectual Property and to address incorrect or misleading perceptions.

Special Committee on IP Practice in Israel Co-Chair: William H. Mandir Co-Chair: David R.M. Colb

No business to report at this time.

Special Committee on Judges

Co-Chair: Chief Judge Randall Rader Co-Chair: Judge Lorelei Ritchie de Larena

No business to report at this time.

Special Committee on Legislation Co-Chair: Ann Mueting Co-Chair: Griffith B. Price, Jr.

Global Outreach Please see the discussion above including, for example 2013 World IP day, both the Committee microsite and the Creativity in Bloom website and materials developed for use by the AIPLA membership. Subcommittees: Youth Education- Elexis Jones Business Education – Dave Carlson Website Development – Michael Stewart 2012 Annual Meeting Issue

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proposals. This includes generation of proposals, as well as consideration of both internally-generated and externally generated proposals. The Committee also works closely with the various substantive law Committees to ensure that the Board has feedback from them on legislative proposals. The Committee supports the vision of the organization by continually seeking to improve the laws governing intellectual property rights, by considering members’ views as represented by the Committee membership and substantive law Committees with whom we coordinate and communicate, and by supporting the Board and leadership of AIPLA in its advocacy work. The Committee supports the Association’s mission by keeping members informed regarding legislative developments and initiatives and advocating for fair and effective intellectual property laws. The Committee serves the Association by generating legislative proposals and providing commentary and views of the membership on various legislative proposals to the Board and the leadership. Advocacy The Committee supports the Board and leadership, as requested. This includes generating, reviewing, commenting on, and preparing legislative proposals, positions on legislative proposals, and testimony regarding legislative proposals. We work closely with the substantive law Committees and serve as a liaison between the Board and those Committees to ensure that proposals are carefully considered by persons within the organization having the relevant expertise and experience to provide to the Board sound recommendations. The Committee is currently monitoring several issues, including: possible technical and substantive amendments to the America Invents Act (AIA); Patent Law Treaty (PLT) implementation; trademark issues, including protection of well-known marks and trademark remedies, and trade dress protection; fashion design protection; orphan works; antitrust scrutiny of reverse payments; federal trade secrets protection; and other issues on which the Board has requested assistance from the Committee.

Global Outreach As the Committee is directed to US legislation, we consider and coordinate primarily regarding US legislation. Nonetheless, a number of legislative proposals require consideration of various international issues, as well as harmonization with other countries’ laws. The Committee addresses these issues in the regular course of its work. Subcommitees Copyright Industrial Designs Patents/Litigation PTO/Agency Practice Trademark

Special Committee on Standards and Open Source Co-Chair: Monica M. Barone Co-Chair: Christopher J. Dervishian (not pictured)

No business to report at this time.

Trade Secret Law

Chair: Janet Craycroft (not pictured) Vice Chair: John F. Marsh

Public Education The Committee works primarily through the Board, the leadership of the Association, and substantive law Committees. Member Service The Committee actively solicits the substantive law Committees in performing its mission. We seek to provide the Board with a sense of the membership on the various issues that are considered by the Committee.

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Trademark Internet Chair: Mark V.B. Partridge Vice Chair: Janet M. Fuhrer

on social media for the 2012 Spring Meeting. Committee members have worked to educate the ICANN community about intellectual property issues through public comments, seminars and participation in ICANN committees. Member Service

Vision, Mission & Values The AIPLA Trademark Internet Committee assists AIPLA in being a leader in advocacy and education regarding trademarks and the Internet, with particular attention to ICANN activities, domain names, and social media. The Committee serves its members by sharing information and facilitating participation. Our Objectives and Goals for 2012-13 include: a.

Monitor developments with new gTLDs

Monitor developments with UDRP PDP

Build committee participation in the ICANN IPC

Conduct webinar on new gTLDs

e. Represent AIPLA at ICANN meetings in Asia and Latin America Advocacy The Committee represents AIPLA on the ICANN Intellectual Property Constituency. The IPC provides comments on ICANN policy affecting intellectual property rights and participates in sharing ICANN policies and procedures. Participation in the IPC provides AIPLA with an outlet for advocacy on ICANN issues. The Committee has worked with the AIPLA Board to provide comments to ICANN on matters affecting intellectual property interests. Committee Chair Mark Partridge is the Treasurer of the IPC and has been active in various ICANN committees creating dispute resolution policies for new gTLDs, including the IRT and STI, as well as serving on NomCom, an ICANN committee that fills leadership positions within ICANN, including positions on the ICANN Board of Directors. Public Education The Committee has worked with the AIPLA Board to provide public comments on ICANN issues. The Committee has also worked with the Professional Programs Committee to develop programs on Trademark Internet issues, include a program on new gTLDs for the 2011 and 2012 Annual Meetings, a webinar in November 2012, and a program 2012 Annual Meeting Issue

The Committee has served the AIPLA membership by creating education programs and by proposing public comments adopted by the Board. The Committee also serves its membership through the use of the Committee website and conference calls to discuss relevant issues, and at Committee meetings. In the year 2012 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 13, the Committee plans to hold bi-monthly committee telephone conference meetings; participate in telephone conference meetings of the Intellectual Property Constituency of the ICANN; and attend ICANN meeting in Canada, Asia and Latin America. Global Outreach The Committee is involved in the international community through its participation in ICANN. The Committee Chair has represented AIPLA at international ICANN conferences in Singapore, Colombia, San Francisco, Brussels, Prague and Canada, and plans to attend ICANN conferences in Asia and Latin America in 2013.

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Chair: Kristin Jordan Harkins Vice Chair: Jennifer L. Kovalcik

Vision, Mission & Values The mission of the Trademark Committee includes educating its members about changes in trademark law in the US and abroad; providing educational content and resources for AIPLA members; serving as a resource for other Committees in areas of trademark law; providing opportunities for meaningful volunteer work and being a training ground for future leaders of the organization. Advocacy The Committee works through its Amicus liaison and the Special Committee on Legislation on judicial and legislative advocacy matters. We also concentrate this work with our Legislation Subcommittee. aipla bulletin

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Public Education The Committee participated last year in educational efforts with the USPTO. We have prepared annual CLEs for Trademark Examining Attorneys. We also work with the Rapid Response Team through our rapid response liaison. We have sponsored annual Trademark Boot Camps.

Trademark Litigation Chair: Stephanie H. Bald Vice Chair: John Crosetto

Member Services Increasing its membership is one of the Committee’s areas of focus. We are continuing to work on an evaluation of our existing membership roster and Subcommittee roster, planning on a survey of the membership on how to provide content and services our members want and need, and also a campaign to increase active involvement of existing members as well as recruiting efforts for new members. Global Outreach Through the Trademark Treaties and International Law Committees, the Trademark Committee engages with other Committees focused on international law matters. Trademark Committee members also engage in professional programming and reinforce the importance of considering international trademark issues. We are always open to volunteers, so if you are interested in getting involved, please contact Kristin Jordan Harkins or Jennifer L. Kovalcik. Subcommittees: Membership Communications Sports & Entertainment TM Boot Camp 2013 Social Media On-Line Programs Liaison Legislation False Advertising Technology/Microsite Rapid Response Liaison Amicus Liaison Professional Programs Liaison

Vision, Mission & Values The Trademark Litigation Committee is dedicated to education, outreach, member service, and advocacy. The Committee strives to provide helpful tools and reports to educate AIPLA members and the public regarding statutes, rules, regulations, and judicial and administrative decisions relating to the litigation of trademark, trade dress, trade name, domain name, and unfair competition disputes. In addition, the Committee makes recommendations to the Board of Directors regarding legislation and rule changes affecting trademark litigation and provides resources and tools to trademark litigators. The Committee also participates in program planning for various AIPLA meetings throughout the year. The Committee continues to achieve member collaboration through member participation in Committee projects. The Committee continues to seek out and act upon opportunities to provide well-considered and vetted analysis regarding policy and decision-making related to trademark litigation. The Committee’s objectives and goals for 2012-13: 1. Case Summary Report: The Committee currently publishes a quarterly case report summarizing key decisions of interest to trademark practitioners. The Committee’s reports are published on the AIPLA website on its Committee web page. The Committee is exploring new channels and formats through which to distribute this valuable content. The Committee’s objective is to increase readership and make the summaries an even more useful tool for trademark practitioners. 2. Legal Standards: The Committee provides an annual update of its Federal Circuit Map of Legal Standards. The Committee will be adding several new categories of legal standards to the map. It is also exploring the possibility of offering a companion tool to the Legal Standards Map, which would provide a summary of state trademark-related claims, including citations to the relevant state statutes, regulations, and/or case-law authority. 3. Sample Pleadings: The Committee offers samples of pleadings from trademark cases on its Committee web

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page. The Committee is working to update the samples offered and to improve the format and organization of this resource. The Committee would also like to substantially expand the pleadings offered on the site and the breadth of the issues covered by those pleadings.

Trademark Treaties and International Law

Chair: Michael M. Ballard Vice Chair: Jonathan M. Madsen (not pictured)

Advocacy In connection with its trademark case summary project, the Committee screens and recommends to the Trademark Law and Amicus Committees cases it deems deserving of AIPLA’s amicus support. Regarding legislation, the Committee has been involved in crafting a proposal for new legislation relating to trademark remedies. A representative from the Committee will participate in a roundtable at the US Patent and Trademark Office relating to Alternative Case Resolution (ACR) before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) and possible amendments to the TTAB’s ACR procedures.

No business to report at this time.

Public Education The Committee implemented an updated litigation tool which displays a map of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal, and provides an online summary by circuit of leading precedent governing core trademark legal issues. Website updates have been and will continue to be made to the Committee web page to publish the Committee projects for members and the public. Going forward, the Committee is looking at ways to better leverage the case summaries prepared by the Committee’s members in connection with the AIPLA Newsstand.

Trademark-Relations with the USPTO Chair: Linda K. McLeod Vice Chair: Yasmin Tavakoli Egge

Member Service The Committee serves its members through the use of its website, telephone conferences to discuss relevant issues, and at committee meetings. The Committee continues to actively involve its members in projects such as the Legal Standards Map and Case Summary Reports. The Committee continues to look for opportunities to work with other Committees to build outreach and education initiatives and cross-market membership and volunteer opportunities. Finally, the Committee is working to build membership through community outreach, cross-marketing and the Committee’s website, as well as leveraging case summary contributions for the AIPLA Newsstand.

No business to report at this time.

Subcommittees: Regional Circuit Litigation Standards Chart; Trademark Litigation Case Summary Reports

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USPTO Inter Partes Patent Proceedings Chair: Brad Pedersen Vice Chair: Steven M. Auvil

Vision, Mission & Values The areas of responsibility of the USPTO Inter Partes Patent Proceedings Committee include all aspects of post-grant patent practice in the US, including interferences, post-grant review, inter partes review, inter partes reexamination, ex parte reexamination, supplemental examination, derivation proceedings, transitional program for covered business method patents, and reissue proceedings.

October 26, 2012. The Committee extends a special thanks to Lead Administrative Patent Judge Tierney for leading an excellent and informative discussion among our group of more than 75 attendees about initial experiences with the post-grant proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. The discussion included an overview of some of the important initial orders and the use of the new Patent Review Processing System (PRPS) for electronic filing for the Trial Division. Also discussed was the issue of potential coordination with other AIPLA Committees on education and advocacy related to post grant and other contested cases, including interferences, inter partes reexamination (soon to shift to inter partes review), post-grant review, derivation proceedings, covered business method patent proceedings, supplemental examination, and ex parte reexamination. The Committee Chair attended the Spring Meeting Planning Committee to work on obtaining the final slot on the program for a presentation on the PTAB/Review Proceedings from both the bench and bar. Final determination of the Spring program is expected by January 2013 at the latest.

The Committee plans to continue to study issues raised by the Final Rules and Practice Guidelines for the Trial Division of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and by the members of the Committee, related to post-grant proceedings in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The Committee will consider Trial Division decisions and orders, Federal Circuit opinions, possible legislation relating to post-grant proceedings and potential additional rule changes concerning formal and substantive issues concerning such proceedings. The Committee will also monitor the new derivation proceedings that will begin after the transition to firstinventor-to-file on March 16, 2013. After receiving approval from the Board, the Committee will report any approved recommendations to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the Trial Division, as appropriate, on behalf of AIPLA.

The Committee is also working on evaluating and possibly coordinating with the IPO Inter Partes Committee to alternate monthly telephone conferences in the same time slot to encourage broader participation and communication on the Committee during this period of changes brought about by the new review proceedings.

Advocacy

Chair: Alyson G. Barker Vice Chair: Hathaway Russell

The Committee continues to provide comments and advice to the AIPLA Board as requested, particularly pertaining to rule making under the America Invents Act.

The Committee expects to continue with an active and expanding year, particularly as initial experiences with the new post-grant proceedings by the Trial Division are reported.

Women in IP Law

Public Education - Member Service The Committee continues to seek out opportunities to share its expertise with AIPLA as a whole by means of CLE programs, such as that conducted at the 2012 Annual Meeting. Further, the Committee continues to maintain and cultivate open communications with the Trial Division concerning issues pertaining to the Committeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s activities.

Vision, Mission & Values

In keeping with its charter and as a continuation of its efforts as outlined above, the Committee held an in-person meeting at the AIPLA Annual Meeting in Washington DC, on Friday,

The Women in IP Law Committee is dedicated to serving our members through programs at the stated meetings and webinars between meetings, and by participating in public

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outreach through the Women in IP Law national networking receptions. Advocacy The Advancement and Retention Subcommittee provides ongoing input into the Association’s membership surveys to further the Association’s efforts related to women’s advocacy issues. Public Education In the past year the Committee has hosted two free webinars and has additional webinars planned on educational and development topics of interest to our Committee members. One of the upcoming webinars is a joint effort with the Diversity Committee. Member Service In addition to the webinars described above, the Committee hosts an annual networking event in over 27 cities across the United States, Canada, and even Asia. These events are free of charge to AIPLA and non-AIPLA members and provide an opportunity for our Committee members to meet other women in IP in their local areas. The receptions also serve as membership and leadership building opportunities for the organization. Global Outreach The Committee’s main outreach activities are the webinars and networking receptions described above. However, the Committee also maintains several social media sites for global outreach and dialogue among our members and we distribute a Committee newsletter as well. Subcommittees: Communications and Electronic Outreach (Randi Karpinia), Retention and Advancement (Meg Boulware); National Networking Event (Carine Doyle)

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The following applications for membership are being published as of December 17, 2012 in accordance with Article II of the By-Laws. We welcome all of our new members. REGULAR Alden Francis Abbott Washington, DC Robyn Adams Seattle, WA Atulya R. Agarwal San Francisco, CA Ashima Aggarwal Hoboken, NJ Aisha Ahmad Laurel, MD Joseph Y. Ahmad Houston, TX David lban Charlotte, NC Jeffrey C. Aldridge New York, NY Michael J. Allan Washington, DC Benjamin Allen Reston, VA Ryan Alley Arlington, VA Scott Allison Shelton, CT Richard Almon Washington, DC Dax D. Anderson Salt Lake City, UT Paige Christopher Anderson Cleveland, OH Arthur M. Antonelli Washington, DC

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David T. Blonder Washington, DC

David J. Cerveny Bedford, MA

Benjamin Askew St. Louis, MO

David Bonham Great Falls, VA

Andrew C. Chien New York, NY

Reynold Aust Washington, DC

Joel H. Bootzin Chicago, IL

Gregory Clinton Arlington, VA

Anthony Azure Redmond, WA

Tracy Bornman Overland Park, KS

Daniel W. Collins Foster City, CA

Aldo A. Badini New York, NY

Erica Bristol Universal City, CA

Daniel Collopy Singapore, Singapore

Mary Ann Ball New York, NY

Nancy K. Britt Alexandria, VA

Daniel Conrad Dallas, TX

Rick Barnes Knoxville, TN

Samuel Scott Broda Sunnyvale, CA

Mary S. Consalvi New York, NY

David Barron Lexington, MA

Wayne Benjamin Brown San Jan Capistrano, CA

Shruti Costales Washington, DC

Michael Barry Natick, MA

Karen A. Buchanan Providence, RI

Patricia M. Costanzo Elma, NY

Darin E. Bartholomew Moline, IL

Robert Burtzlaff San Jose, CA

Steven Crocker Santa Clara, CA

Harry Barton New Orleans, LA

Matthew Bussan Cary, IL

Mark P. Crockett Knoxville, TN

Neal C. Belgam Wilmington, DE

Katherine Butler San Ramon, CA

Peter J. Cuomo Boston, MA

Christopher J. Belter Buffalo, NY

Jaye S. Campbell Washington, DC

Vincent M. DeLuca Washington, DC

Edward Benes Castle Rock, CO

James R. Carpenter Washington, DC

Lawrence K. DeMeo Boston, MA

Abby Bhattacharyya Baltimore, MD

Michael F. Carr Palo Alto, CA

James DeZazzo San Diego, CA

Janis Biksa Sant Rosa, CA

James Carter Seattle, WA

Melissa S. Dillenbeck Chciago, IL

Max Bishop Washington, DC

Meredith L. Carter Bala Cynwyd, PA

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Matthew Fox Middleburg, FL

Robert E. Goozner Alexndria, VA

Edward Howard Fort Washington, PA

Kevin T. Duncan Louisville, KY

Robert O. Fox Knoxville, TN

Mary Goulet Reston, VA

Dennis Michael Hubbs Scottsdale, AZ

Thomas A. Dye West Palm Beach, FL

James Franckowiak Provo, UT

Mary B. Grant Research Triangle Park, NC

Kumiko Ide Washington, DC

James Alan Dyer Dayton, OH

William S. Francos Wyomissing, PA

Timothy E. Grimsrud Minneapolis, MN

Pam Jacobson Seattle, WA

Lawrence C. Edelman East Brunswick, NJ

Jeff Frantz Houston, TX

Robert Groover Lewisville, TX

Grant A. Johnson Rochester, MN

Brian Elias Springboro, OH

Lawrence G. Fridman Clifton, NJ

Laura Grunzinger Richmond, VA

William Johnson Alpharetta, GA

Joan Ellis Washington, DC

David A. Frijouf Tampa, FL

Maneesh Gulati Boston, MA

Jordan Trent Jones Menlo Park, CA

Josephine Escalante Boston, MA

Jane L. Froyd Palo Alto, CA

Zarema Gunnels Washington, DC

Aaron Kamlay Washington, DC

William Eshelman Front Royal, VA

Jennifer Furey Boston, MA

Jane T. Gunnison New York, NY

Sharon R. Kantor Danville, CA

Bryan Failing Morgan Hill, CA

Carlos Garritano Akron, OH

Harry Gwinnell Reston, VA

Kim Kanzaki Redwood Shores, CA

Calvin Fan San Diego, CA

Tony A. Gayoso Reston, VA

Aubrey Haddach San Diego, CA

David R. Kemeny Alexandria, VA

Stacey J. Farmer Munich, Germany

Kenneth Germain Cincinnati, OH

Steven M. Haines Cupertino, CA

John T. Kennedy Denver, CO

Kevin M. Farrell Portsmouth, NH

George A. Gilbert Plainsboro, NJ

Brian D. Hancock Orlando, FL

Omar Khan New York, NY

Jeffrey A. Fehervari San Francisco, CA

Lawrence N. Ginsberg Newport Beach, CA

Carlos L. Hanze San Ramon, CA

Alexander J. Kim Minneapolis, MN

Michael L. Feinstein Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Antoinette G. Giugliano Beverly, MA

Jason D. Harrier Washington, DC

John Kim Seoul, South Korea

Ronald S. Fernando Palo Alto, CA

Jonathan David Gonce Knoxville, TN

James F. Harrington Syosset, NY

Nam H. Kim San Diego, CA

Peter Flanagan Vienna, VA

William B. Gont Naperville, IL

James M. Harrington Concord, NC

James Kipling Cincinnati, OH

Angela Fox London, United Kingdom

Chellis Gonzalez Dulles, VA

Bria Harrod Hudson, OH

Charles S. Knobloch Houston, TX

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William Loginov Concord, NH

Douglas M. McAllister Monroe, CT

Ken H. Ohriner Los Angeles, CA

Lisa Kobialka Menlo Park, CA

David Long Washington, DC

Meghan A. Mcgovern Alexandria, VA

Sam C. Olive Bellevue, WA

Bruce Koch New York, NY

James A. Long Taipei, Taiwan

Philip John McKay Monterey, CA

Timothy J. Olson Windsor, CT

Joseph A. Kolasch Falls Church, VA

David Loretto Madrid, Spain

Thomas McMasters Santa Clara, CA

Tony R. Orsi Toronto, ON, Canada

Jeffie A. Kopczynski Mountain View, CA

Carol Bordas Loutzenhiser Sewickley, PA

Pablo Meles Weston, FL

Douglas M. Owens Melville, NY

Thomas G. Krivulka Scottsdale, AZ

Thomas William Lynch El Segundo, CA

Srikumaran Melethil Perrysburg, OH

Ronald J. Pabis Washington, DC

Lois Kwasigroch Thousand Oaks, CA

Gary M. Machetta Spring, TX

Deborah A. Miller Cambridge, MA

Jonathan C. Parks Pittsburgh, PA

Pet Lalos Washington, DC

Cliff Maier Palo Alto, CA

Mark T. Mitchell Austin, TX

Alicia Passerin Pittsburgh, PA

Carol Larcher Dyer, IN

L. Patricia Makle-Smith Port Tobacco, MD

John Monocello Pittsburgh, PA

Amee Patel Washington, DC

Mike D. Lazzara Pittsburgh, PA

Mark Malin Santa Clara, CA

Gary Morris Washington, DC

Kay Patterson Fairfax, VA

Michael David Le Blanc League City, TX

Morgan Malino Mount Pleasant, SC

Jeffrey L. Moyer Wilmington, DE

Michael Pattillo Washington, DC

Brian D. Ledahl Los Angeles, CA

Jennie S Malloy Miami, FL

Lisa L. Mueller Chicago, IL

Deborah Peacock Albuquerque, NM

Marti LeFevour Chicago, IL

A. John P. Mancini New York, NY

Amy K. Mugherini Boston, MA

Nicholas T. Peters Chicago, IL

Janae E. Lehman Bell Johnston, IA

Michelle Manning Madison, WI

Douglas A. Mullen Phoenix, AZ

Laura W. Phillips Washington, DC

Kevin M. Lemley Little Rock, AR

Fabio Marazzi Bergamo, Italy

Joseph Francis Murphy New York, NY Ireland

N. Scott Pierce Concord, MA

John Letchford Haddonfield, NJ

Alice O. Martin Chicago, IL

Seanan Murphy Arlington, MA

Nelson S. Pierce Concord, MA

Elliott D. Light Rockville, MD

Joshua M. Masur Mountain View, CA

Arlene P. Neal Manassas, VA

Jonathan G. Polak Indianapolis, IN

David R. Lipson Rockville, MD

Eli Mazour Fairfax, VA

Kristin Mazany Nevins Bryn Mawr, PA

Philip B. Polster Foster City, CA

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Aaron Anthony Schutzer Seattle, WA

Christiana State Mountain View, CA

Philip Warrick Portland, OR

Catherine Prody Morgantown, WV

Andrew D. Sedlock Las Vegas, NV

Alan W. Steele Boston, MA

Ishan Weerakoon Washington, DC

Gene Quinn Leesburg, VA

John Seurynck Ada, MI

Julie A. Stephenson San Jose, CA

Leigh Ann Weiland Milpitas, CA

Gerard Reinhardt Manhasset, NY

Michael Seymour Barberton, OH

Duane A. Stewart Pittsburgh, PA

Laurence A. Weinberger Exton, PA

Pamela Riewerts Towson, MD

William C. Shearouse St. Paul, MN

Tom Strouse Sparta, NJ

Seth M. Weinfeld Garden City, NY

Gary J. Rinkerman Washington, DC

Carolin Shining Sherman Oaks, CA

Erik Carl Swanson Orlando, FL

Gary Seth Weinstein Minneapolis, MN

Joanna Romano Miami, FL

James Shore Seattle, WA

Jennifer Cozeolino Tempesta New York, NY

Jill G. Welytok Milwaukee, WI

Marcia Ireland Rosenfeld Indianapolis, IN

Ronald Lee Sigworth Washington, DC

John Edward Thomas Rochester, NY

Jason C. White Chicago, IL

Lewis Rowell Greensboro, NC

Aaron Y. Silverstein Amesbury, MA

Tate L. Tischner Webster, NY

Wilson L. White Mountain View, CA

Edward K. Runyan Chciago, IL

Andrew H. Simpson Irvine, CA

Julie Travers Watsonville, CA

Gregg Wisdom Bellevue, WA

Edward Sackman Manchester, NH

Dawn Sims Oro Valley, AZ

Kathryn Tsirigotis Phoenix, AZ

Frederick E. Wolf Alexandria, VA

Jeffrey M. Sakoi Seattle, WA

Jiri Francis Smetana Plano, TX

Darlene Vanstone Westford, MA

Steven Wong Atlanta, GA

Margaret Joyce Sampson Austin, TX

Eric J. Snustad Minneapolis, MN

Edna Vassilovski North Charleston, SC

Susan Yee San Jose, CA

Gary Savitt San Jose, CA

David Sofge Miami, FL

Hoang Vo Baton Rouge, LA

Carmine R. Zarlenga Washington, DC

Arthur Schaier Waterbury, CT

Surjit P. Soni Pasadena, CA

David H. Voorhees Alexandria, VA

Lei Zhou Washington, DC

Thorsten Schmidt New York, NY

Deborah Spencer Research Triangle Park, NC

Rachel M. Vorbeck Chicago, IL

Xiaochun Zhu Garden City, NY

Andrew Schroeder Hiawatha, IA

Alexander H. Spiegler Cliffside Park, NJ

Mark Wallerson Severn, MD

Ken Zwicker Bellingham, MA

Rob G. Schuler Columbus, OH

Christopher M. Spletzer Fort Washington, PA

Anne K. Walsh Washington, DC

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ACADEMIC Jerome Anderson Washington, DC

FOREIGN Rhiannon Adams Edmonton, AB, Canada

Alex Ferdinand S. Fider Taguig, Phillipines

Lauren Lodenquai Toronto, ON, Canada

Eve Joy Brown Boston, MA

Christopher Archer Accra, Ghana

Tarun Gandhi New Delhi, India

Sarah Burstein Norman, OK

David A. Aylen Moscow, Russia

Serena Gitto Roma, Italy

Jonathan David Michael Lucas Auckland, New Zealand

Sean M. Flynn Washington, DC

Russell Bagnall Pretoria, Republic of South Africa

Keven Godin Quebec, QC, Canada

Christopher Frerking Concord, NH William Reynolds Hubbard Baltimore, MD Megan M. La Belle Washington, DC Willajeanne F. McLean Hartford, CT Jane O’Connell Austin, TX Susan K. Pocchiari Bethel, CT Brenda Reddix-Smalls Durham, NC Jacob H. Rooksby Pittsburgh, PA Tina I. Schindler Irvine, CA Christal A. Sheppard Lincoln, NE Robert S. Smith Manchester, CT Will Tress Baltimore, MD John Michael Whealan Chevy Chase, MD Michelle Wu Washington, DC 60

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James Baker Ottawa, ON, Canada Diane Beylier Tokyo, Japan

Jorge Gomez Mexico City, Mexico Jean-Charles Grégoire Ottawa, ON, Canada

Robert Brouillette Montreal, QC, Canada

Howard Hao Beijing, Peoples’ Republic of China

Jane Calvert Wellington, New Zealand

Alisse Houweling Toronto, ON, Canada

Francois Cartier Montreal, QC, Canada

Jiachen Ji Shanghai, Peoples’ Republic of China

Paul Casbon Warlingham, United Kingdom Spring Chang Beijing, Peoples’ Republic of China Colin Climie Toronto, ON, Canada Cesar Cruz Cruz Makati, Phillipines Alexandre Daoust Quebec, QC, Canada Pauline De Bruyn Melbourne, Australia Juan Pablo Egana Las Condes, Santiago, Chile Ligia Ferreira Marcondes Rocha Sao Paulo-SP, Brazil

Koichiro Jin Tokyo, Japan Elizabeth Louise Jones London, United Kingdom John Jones Leamington Spa, United Kingdom

David James Macaskill Hamilton, New Zealand Martin Meng Beijing, Peoples’ Republic of China Guru Nataraj Delhi, India Maura O’Connell Dublin, Ireland Toshifumi Onuki Tokyo, Japan Andrea Perronace Roma, Italy Liangxuan Qian Shanghai, Peoples’ Republic of China Augusto Rodríguez Ramírez Mexico City, Mexico Jose Antonio Romero-Mirana Mexico City, Mexico Ricardo Sanchez Gil Mexico, D.F., Mexico

Junko Kamiguri Reston, VA

Abhishek Saxena New Delhi, India

Takayoshi Kawai Tokyo, Japan

Frits Schut The Hague, Netherlands

Steven N. Kennedy Toronto, ON, Canada

Nobuo Sekine Tokyo, Japan

Claus Krebs Santiago, Chile

Jaime Silva Santiago, Chile

Young Mo Kwon Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea

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Santosh Mandal Singh Bangalore, India

A. J. Kelly Little Rock, AR

Sonya Wright Arlington, VA

Johan O. Brag Westport, CT

Jose Ramon Trigueros Mexico City, Mexico

Francis Kub Arnold, MD

Scott Zare Sylvania, OH

Dmitry Brant Rockville, MD

Vladislav Ugryumov Moscow, Russia

Hyuk Jung Kwon McLean, VA

James Fearon Brown Seattle, WA

Anders Valentin Hellerup, Denmark

Christos S. Kyriakou Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

JUNIOR Scott Arthur Allen Washington, DC

Margarita Valladares Lima, Peru

David Evan Lotter Arlington, VA

Rahul Vartak Mumbai, India

Alan Melrose Summer Hill, Australia

David Wood Calgary, AB, Canada

Portia L. Miller Pittsburgh, PA

Ian C. Wood London, United Kingdom

David R. Nicholson Albany, CA

Natalia Zakharova Moscow, Russia

Adaku Nwachukwu Ashburn, VA

GOVERNMENT Robert Barlow Springfield, VA

Conrad Pack Woodbridge, VA

Jasemine C. Chambers Bethesda, MD Ethan D. Civan Plymouth Meeting, PA Robert J. Decker Charlottesville, VA Chris DeVore Fairfax, VA Christopher O. Edwards Greenbelt, MD Timothy Finnegan Durham, NH Elizabeth Gwartney Alexandria, VA Cheryl Johnson Los Angeles, CA 2012 Annual Meeting Issue

Ajit Pai Arlington, VA Pankti Patel Arlington, VA Cheryl Power Ottawa, ON, Canada Lorelei Ritchie Los Angeles, CA Donald Townsend Dulles, VA Brian Wathen Alexandria, VA Maurice Williams Alexandria, VA John R. Wright Lansing, MI

Jude Andre Spring, TX Dmitriy Andreyev Boston, MA Laura N. Arneson Minneapolis, MN Brian W. Avery Cleveland, OH Peter Ball Baltimore, MD Shanay Ball Wayne, PA William Brad Barger Salt Lake City, UT Sharon F. Barkume Jericho, NY Rhett V. Barney Liberty Lake, WA Jason Becker Wasington, DC Adam Beckstrom Salt Lake City, UT Kerry Begley Washington, DC George Cox Beighley Columbia, SC Suzanna Marie Bergner Saint Louis, MO Thaddeus J. Blenke Chicago, IL

Michael Rocco Brunelle Fishers, IN Robert E. Bugg New York, NY Adam Vaughan Burks Reston, VA Brian H. Burks Reston, VA Julia Busono Seattle, WA Stephen R. Bylciw Cary, NC Krystil Carter New York City, NY Michael Carton Milwaukee, WI Anita Cepuritis Chicago, IL Adam H. Chapin Arlington, VA Jaysen S. Chung San Diego, CA Julia C. Colarusso Washington, DC Sheena Conners Manitowoc, WI Kyle M. Costello Milwaukee, WI Daniel Coughlin Sabetha, KS

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Matthew M. Googe Knoxville, TN

Taffie Jones Philadelphia, PA

Lisa M. Mandrusiak Alexandria, VA

Peter A. Cummings Grand Rapids, MI

Robert Gordon Maple Shade, NJ

Christina Jordan New York, NY

Naphtali Matlis Falls Church, VA

Steven D. Czajkowski Pittsburgh, PA

Sejal Gosalia Washington, DC

Neil Kardos Arlington, VA

Kevin C. Mcgrath Somerville, MA

Michael Czarnecki Seattle, WA

Meph Jia Gui Beijing, Peoples’ Republic of China

Wayne S. Kauffman Farmington, MI

Jessica Morton Philadelphia, PA

Amanda L. Keys Rochester, NY

Marcia Belinda MoulonAtherley Rennes, France

Andrew Diamond Jakarta, Indonesia Allison Williams Dobson Winston-Salem, NC Andrea Dorigo Lexington, MA Steven A. Driskill Fairfax, VA William J. Dukes Jackson, MS Harland Clark Duncan Mendon, MA Joshua Engel Denver, CO Justen Fauth Falls Church, VA Justin K. Flanagan Salt Lake City, UT Jesse McCoy Flores Salt Lake City, UT Robert E. Ford Farmington Hills, MI Amy Fowler Salt Lake City, UT Thomas A. Froats Alexandria, VA Ian W. Gillies San Diego, CA 62

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Pratibha Khanduri Washington, DC Do Kim Dallas, TX Anna King Chicago, IL Darlene K. Kondo Boulder, CO Katherine A.D. Krueger Bloomington, MN Andrew O. Larsen New York, NY Albert Jongman Lee San Jose, CA Jae Bok Lee Washington, DC Yangyang Li Kansas City, MO Flann Lippincott Ringoes, NJ Loretta Lucas Minneapolis, MN J. Bradley Luchsinger Troy, MI Scott Mandir Vienna, VA

Daniel Albert Murray Irving, TX Jorge I. Negron Washington, DC Jana Nelson Alexandria, VA Yama David Nezam Menlo Park, CA Jamie Nguyen Alexandria, VA Wade Orr Knoxville, TN Baldine Brunel Paul Washington, DC Vanessa Perez-Ramos Aldie, VA Nathan Pollard Washington, DC John Porrazza Philadelphia, PA Dominik Rabiej Boston, MA Thomas Rafferty Cincinnati, OH Dipti Ramnarain Boston, MA 2012 Annual Meeting Issue

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Jon Phillip Spiers Houston, TX

Kun Wang San Diego, CA

Ann-Mari Koss Philadelphia, PA

Victor Manuel RodriguezReyes San Juan, PR

Warunee Srisiri West Valley City, UT

Margaret M. Welsh Washington, DC

Christian Mannino Costa Mesa, CA

Theresa Stadheim Minneapolis, MN

Christopher Worrel Toledo, OH

Karen R. Markowicz Washington, DC

Tara C. Stuart Atlanta, GA

Li Wu Brighton, MA

Susan Myers Fitch Menlo Park, CA

Eileen Sun Seattle, WA

Cnristopher H. Yaen Washington, DC

Claude F. Purchase Midland, MI

John B. Swingle Virginia Beach, VA

Xin Yang Wilsonville, OR

Eric Satermo Seal Beach, CA

Stefan J. Szpajda Palo Alto, CA

Alysa N. Youngson Tysons Corner, VA

Gene Scott Irvine, CA

Robert K. Takara La Jolla, CA

Anis Zerriny West Windsor, NJ

Wendy M. Slade Alexandria, VA

Janelle Tanganyika Kansas City, MO

Gaynne Zimmerman Washington, DC

Shyam Vangala Somerset, NJ

James David Tario Sunnyvale, CA

PATENT AGENT Leticia Reyes Block Santa Clara, CA

Larry Williams Santa Rosa, CA

Gregory Allen Royal Alexandria, VA Lawrence F. Rozsnyai Millbrae, CA Daniel J. Ryan Orlando, FL Michael S. Ryan Philadelphia, PA Reza Sadr Boston, MA Kevin Schadick Westlake, OH Jonathan Schlaifer Washington, DC Joseph Shapiro Salt Lake City, UT Ryan J. Shin Hauppauge, NY Jessica Jane Sibley Charlotte, NC Benjamin James Siders Saint Louis, MO Brianna Lynn Silverstein Washington, DC Roshni Sitapara Derwood, MD Isaac T. Slutsky Bloomfield Hills, MI Rachel Smith Bloomfield Hills, MI Kevin Soules Albuquerque, NM 2012 Annual Meeting Issue

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Stacy H. Combs Oakland, CA

Yiding Wu Half Moon Bay, CA

Jeff Eder Bellevue, WA

PATENT AGENT–JUNIOR Gaurav Asthana Washington, DC

Fiona Ferguson Canton, OH

Ethan Brody Brooklyn, NY

Tomas Friend Helsingborg, Sweden

Awa Carole Diop Montreal, QC, Canada

Charles A. Garris Washington, DC

Emily C. Dugan Doylestown, PA

Karin M. Gerstin La Jolla, CA

Robert David Eisler Irvine, CA

Donna Johnson Gressler San Francisco, CA

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Christopher J. White Avon, NY

Kelly Frazier Fort Collins, CO

Daniel Young Hingham, MA

Amy S. Garber Ottawa Hills, OH

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Michael F. Gross Washington, DC Cindy Hanna New Brunswick, NJ Ben Hitt Portland, OR Brandon Hudder Atlanta, GA Lawrence T. Kale Moon Township, PA Shinji Kondo Brisbane, CA Christopher Lambrecht Goleta, CA Paul D. Levin Pittsburgh, PA Ainslie Little Toronto, ON, Canada Robert Luzzi Pleasanton, CA Edgardo J. Mantilla Malden, MA Edward J. Mayle Washington, DC Clyde Steven Miller St. Louis, MO Leonard R. Rockett Washington, DC George (Guosheng) Wang Orrville, OH 64â&#x20AC;&#x192;

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Tommas Balducci New York Law School New York, NY Griffin Barnett American University, Washington College of Law Arlington, VA Kyle Barringer Southern Illinois University School of Law Murphysboro, IL Vanessa Bell University of Southern California School of Law Los Angeles, CA Victoria Jade Bennett Yeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Brooklyn, NY Cristin Berkey Boston College Law School Boston, MA Eb Bernazard Duke University School of Law Durham, NC Raymond W. Berry University of California, Hastings College of the Law Irvine, CA Kulwant S. Boora Thomas M. Cooley Law School Temperance, MI Carlton Bowers Charleston School of Law Charleston, SC Jasmine Braxton University of California, Hastings College of the Law El Sobrante, CA Ken Brooks University of Detroit Mercy School of Law Shelby Township, MI

Asa Daniel Brown Florida State University College of Law Tallahassee, FL Alexansder K. Bussey Fordham University School of Law Brooklyn, NY Amy W. Byrd University of Virginia School of Law Charlottesville, VA Robert Caison Washington and Lee University School of Law Selma, NC Deontrea Campbell George Washington University National Law Center Washington, DC Randy R. Cardoza Florida A&M University College of Law Orlando, FL Michael Carrozza John Marshall Law School Harwood Heights, IL Laura Carvalho Georgetown University Law Center Washington, DC Christine Casaceli American University, Washington College of Law Washington, DC Sofia Castillo American University, Washington College of Law Bethesda, MD David Cauble Suffolk University Law School Cambridge, MA

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Kristina Danielle Chavis George Washington University National Law Center Arlington, VA

Benjamin Christoff University of Dayton School of Law Dayton, OH

Christopher Ryan Dandridge University of Akron, C. Blake McDowell Law Center Cuyahoga Falls, OH

Joseph Drish Northwestern University School of Law Chicago, IL

Beichen Chen University of Connecticut School of Law Hartford, CT

Allard Chu George Washington University National Law Center Washington, DC

Kimberly Anne Davis Washington and Lee University School of Law Lexington, VA

Anthony Michael Duncan Howard University School of Law Washington, DC

Diana Cheng University of Maryland School of Law Ellicott City, MD

Lana Ciaramella Pace University School of Law Yonkers, NY

Laura de las Casas George Washington University National Law Center Washington, DC

Tyler Dutton Emory University School of Law Atlanta, GA

Rhojonda A. Debrow Cornett The University of Alabama School of Law Tuscaloosa, AL

Esther Earbin University of North Carolina School of Law Chapel Hill, NC

Nichole Brittany DeJulio George Washington University National Law Center Arlington, VA

Samuel Van Eichner Yeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law New York, NY

William J. Delfs William Mitchell College of Law Fridley, MN

Christa Elizabeth Ellis Franklin Pierce Law Center Nashville, TN

Daniel Cherry Thomas M. Cooley Law School Detroit, MI

Jessica Michelle Ciminero Florida International College of Law Miami, FL

Victor Cheung George Mason University School of Law Falls Church, VA

Adam College Georgetown University Law Center Arlington, VA

Nicholas Joseph Chidiac George Washington University National Law Center Alexandria, VA

Carlo Mario Colussi George Washington University National Law Center Segrate, Italy

Scott Joseph Chmielecki University of Akron, C. Blake McDowell Law Center Fairfax, VA

Adrienne Cormier University of Maryland School of Law Severn, MD

Dorothy (Donghua) Deng College of William and Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law Williamsburg, VA

John Thomas Ellwood Seton Hall University School of Law Astoria, NY

Lydia Choi Fordham University School of Law Coram, NY

John D. Cravero Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Law Chicago, IL

Seth Owen Dennis American University, Washington College of Law Washington, DC

Katherine Eppley University of Akron, C. Blake McDowell Law Center Stow, OH

Benjamin Chojnacki University of Toledo College of Law Toledo, OH

K. Cuneo George Washington University National Law Center Star, ID

Sam Dillon George Washington University National Law Center Alexandria, VA

Robert Erdman University of Florida College of Law Deltona, FL

Elvina Chow Stanford Law School Stanford, CA

Jamie Marie Curtis Capital University Law School Columbus, OH

Chandrika Christie Saint Louis University School of Law Saint Louis, MO

Jessica DaFonte University of Florida College of Law Gainesville, FL

Christopher Dombkowski University of Santa Clara School of Law Palo Alto, CA

Daniel Filstrup George Washington University National Law Center Arlington, VA

Kevin M. Donnelly University of California, Hastings College of the Law San Francisco, CA

Harrison Richard Fink Charleston School of Law Mount Pleasant, SC

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Suzanne Fitzgerald Duke University School of Law Raleigh, NC Brian Joseph Focarino College of William and Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law Fairfax Station, VA Brianna Ford American University, Washington College of Law Washington, DC Colin Fowler The University of Tulsa College of Law San Jose, CA Daniel Fraley Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law Dallas, TX

Neal Gibeault University of San Diego School of Law San Diego, CA Tanya Gillis George Washington University National Law Center Washington, DC Raquel Goldstein Fordham University School of Law Jericho, NY Sarah Greibrok George Washington University National Law Center Washington, DC William Gros John Marshall Law School Hinsdale, IL

LaToya Franklin Southern University Law Center Amite, LA

Jayita Guhaniyogi Rutgers University School of Law – Newark Hilsborough, NJ

Zhenhai Fu Santa Clara University School of Law Fremont, CA

Amrit Gupta Boston University School of Law Boston, MA

Yazmin Galindo Fordham University School of Law Grabada Hills, CA

Utsav Gupta Georgetown University Law Center Washington, DC

Claudia Garcia Golden Gate University School of Law San Francisco, CA

Galina Gurok George Washington University National Law Center Washington, DC

Justus Getty Georgetown University Law Center Washington, DC

Michael B. Gutierrez Drexel University School of Law Forked River, NJ

David Ghorbanpoor DePaul University College of Law Chicago, IL

Austin R. Gwynn Valparaiso University School of Law Valparaiso, IN

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William Habdas University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law Las Vegas, NV Brendan Haberle University of Arizona College of Law Vail, AZ Selene Ava Haedi University of North Carolina School of Law Chapel Hill, NC Brent Hagen New York University School of Law Brooklyn, NY Keith Harden Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law Carrolton, TX Ali Harrison Syracuse University College of Law Jamesville, NY Jared Hartzman George Washington University National Law Center Washington, DC Sean Hickey Boston College Law School Boston, MA Pamela Hill University of Miami School of Law Miami, FL Tammi Hill University of Chicago Law School Irvine, CA Stephanie Marie Hilstrom William Mitchell College of Law Brooklyn Center, MN

John Hodge Albany Law School, Union University Lincoln, NE Sarah Homenchuk Notre Dame Law School Niles, MI Nzingha Hooker George Washington University National Law Center Washington, DC Sean Lawrence Hyberg George Washington University National Law Center Washington, DC Kwangho Jang George Washington University National Law Center Washington, DC Christopher C. Johns George Washington University National Law Center Arlington, VA Paul A. Juergensen Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center North Babylon, NY Meera Kamath Boston University School of Law Allston, MA Peter Karalis The Catholic University of America School of Law Bethesda, MD Robert Eric Kent University of Houston Law Center Houston, TX Fria Kermani George Washington University National Law Center Columbia, MD 2012 Annual Meeting Issue

Laura Kieffer The Catholic University of America School of Law Clifton, VA ‘ Grace Kim William Mitchell College of Law Minneapolis, MN Shawn Kim McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific Pacifica, CA Max Kolar Michigan State University College of Law East Lansing, MI Benjamin Koopferstock Washington & Lee University School of Law Lexington, VA Christopher M. Kornak Boston University School of Law North Bethesda, MD Jason Kuntz Drexel University School of Law Lancaster, PA Jonathan Kwok Rutgers, State University of New Jersey School of Law New York, NY Dennis Lazarev Yeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law New York, NY Bradley Harris Lazear Charleston School of Law Mount Pleasant, SC Corey Leggett Capital University Law School Columbus, OH

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Daniel Leo University of Baltimore School of Law Baltimore, MD

Stephen A. Maniscalco St. John’s University School of Law Howard Beach, NY

Felipe Montoya Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of Law State College, PA

Choi Li Harvard University Law School Cambridge, MA

Richard Mason Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law Rockwall, TX

Stewart Moore Seattle University School of Law Seattle, WA

Qihui Li George Washington University National Law Center Washington, DC

Svetlana Matt University of California, Hastings College of the Law Washington, DC

John Morrissett University of Richmond School of Law Reston, VA

Ying Li George Washington University National Law Center Washington, DC

Joshua McCoy University of Maine School of Law Portland, ME

Ryan M. Mott The University of Michigan Law School Hoboken, NJ

Song Liu George Washington University National Law Center Washington, DC

Elizabeth Ann McGovern New York Law School Naples, FL

Daniel Munro University of Oregon School of Law Springfield, OR

Oren Livne New York University School of Law Princeton, NJ Alyssa L. Locus Loyola University - Chicago Law School Chicago, IL Theodore Daniel Logan Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington Bloomington, IN Abhinav Lohia George Washington University National Law Center Washington, DC Jonathan Lombardo Villanova University School of Law Philadelphia, PA Andrea Longworth Tulane University School of Law New Orleans, LA

Dan McManus Villanova University School of Law Philadelphia, PA Jacob D. Merrill George Mason University School of Law Alexandria, VA Jean Christian Michel Duke University School of Law Durham, NC Steven Jay Miller Phoenix School of Law Phoenix, AZ Kyu Min Santa Clara University School of Law San Jose, CA Kakoli Mitra George Washington University National Law Center Silver Spring, MD Kristen Mogavero Pace University School of Law Eastchester, NY

Kaili Marie Mutka University of Toledo College of Law Toledo, OH Anna Myers George Washington University National Law Center Washington, DC Stephen Nagy George Washington University National Law Center Washington, DC Amanda S. Naoufal American University, Washington College of Law Washington, DC Genevieve Aimee Napolitano University of Miami School of Law Miami, FL Khashayar Nezami Naraghi Washington University School of Law Saint Louis, MO aipla bulletin

Jason R. Nehmer George Washington University National Law Center Alexandria, VA

Adam Pouilliard George Washington University National Law Center Washington, DC

Derrick Rowe George Washington University National Law Center Fairfax, VA

Matthew Newman Notre Dame Law School Centreville, VA

William C. Powell Seattle University School of Law Seattle, WA

Steven Rushing Vanderbilt University School of Law Reston, VA

Rachael Price Capital University Law School Columbus, OH

Benjamin Wham Ryan Washington University School of Law Saint Louis, MO

Christopher Nofal Northwestern University School of Law Washington, DC Koji Noguchi John Marshall Law School Atlanta, GA Seth Olson Franklin Pierce Law Center Concord, NH Suchismita Pahi University of Houston Law Center Kingwood, Tx Rajiv Jason Pal Golden Gate University School of Law San Francisco, CA Thomas Parisi George Mason University School of Law Arlington, VA Jun Jeong Park Georgetown University Law Center Vienna, VA Sung Won Park George Washington University National Law Center Washington, DC Henry Andrews Peacor Loyola Law School Los Angeles, CA Selin Pehlivan George Washington University National Law Center Washington, DC

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Nicole E. Prunetti George Washington University National Law Center Washington, DC Melanie Raubeson University of Connecticut School of Law Northford, CT Kim Ray Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington Cary, NC Jenne Relucio Michigan State University College of Law Stockton, CA Ilizete C. Rhine American University, Washington College of Law Mclean, VA Kevin Richards University of Virginia School of Law Charlottesville, VA Andrew Patrick Ritter Suffolk University Law School Holliston, MA Steven G. Rizk Fordham University School of Law Jersey City, NJ

Jaime Z. Saavedra Santa Clara University School of Law Salinas, CA Stephano Daniel Salani Florida International College of Law Miami, FL Michael Edward Samuels George Washington University National Law Center Washington, DC Michelle Elizabeth Sawyer University of North Carolina School of Law Reunion, FL Olivia Scheuer University of Buffalo Law School Tonawanda, NY Ryan Schneer American University, Washington College of Law Bethesda, MD John Henry Scott Louisiana State University Law Center Ashville, OH Laura Lee Sennewald Syracuse University College of Law Syracuse, NY

Aras Shahabi Loyola Law School Irvine, CA Rebecca Shaw Franklin Pierce Law Center Manchester, NH Christopher P. Sherwin West Virginia University College of Law Pittsburgh, PA Karla Sittnick Quinnipiac University School of Law East Haven, CT Meme Smith Thomas M. Cooley Law School Grand Rapids, MI Patrick Soon Whittier Law School Costa Mesa, CA Jared Michael Stipelman George Washington University National Law Center Washington, DC Richard Strakosch University of North Carolina School of Law Raleigh, NC Jonathan Rudolph Kominek Stroud American University, Washington College of Law Washington, DC Frederik Struve William Mitchell College of Law Minneapolis, MN Andrew Benjamin Symns John Marshall Law School La Grange, IL Jason Patrick Tejani Wayne State University Law School Royal Oak, MI 2012 Annual Meeting Issue

Ryan Thelen Western New England College School of Law East Windsor, CT Tasha Thomas George Washington University National Law Center Washington, DC Daniel F. Thornton University of Virginia School of Law Charlottesville, VA Patrick Tool George Washington University National Law Center Orinda, CA Shari Devon Trahan Southern University Law Center Baton Rouge, LA Lane Tuttle Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis Carmel, IN Olga Vinogradova University of Chicago Law School Evanston, IL Denille Wachtenheim Yeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law New York, NY Michael Wagner University of Colorado School of Law Boulder, CO Erika Wallace Suffolk University Law School Boston, MA

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I-Chu Wang Franklin Pierce Law Center Arlington, VA Qiong (Joan) Wang University of Texas School of Law Austin, TX Shuqi Wang George Washington University National Law Center Washington, DC Yi-Kai Wang Valparaiso University School of Law Valparaiso, IN Zheng Wang George Mason University School of Law Alexandria, VA Kiley White George Washington University National Law Center Alexandria, VA Lynda Whitmire University of San Francisco School of Law Half Moon Bay, CA Bryce Whitworth Stetson University College of Law South Pasadena, FL Andrew Wilson George Washington University National Law Center Washington, DC Jane W. Wise American University, Washington College of Law Arlington, VA

Mary Witzel George Washington University National Law Center Washington, DC

Huaning Zhang George Washington University National Law Center Washington, DC

Shehla Wynne George Washington University National Law Center Washington, DC

Jacob S. Zodieru Southwestern University School of Law Los Angeles, CA

Nadya Xie The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law Palo Alto, CA Minchul Yang University of Maryland School of Law Laurel, MD Ryan Yu Yang The University of Michigan Law School Ann Arbor, MI Yieyie Yang George Washington University National Law Center Washington, DC Kana Yasue Franklin Pierce Law Center Concord, NH Matthew Harrison Yuen Franklin Pierce Law Center Concord, NH Caren Yusem Chicago-Kent College of Law Chicago, IL Matthew Zarghouni Phoenix School of Law Phoenix, AZ Furong Zhang George Washington University National Law Center Washington, DC

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AIPLA—

2013 Spring Meeting May 1-3, 2013

Session Topics Include: • • • • • • • • • •

America Invents Act One Year In ITC & Discovery Section 101 Post Prometheus & Myriad Protecting Designs from Smartphone to Red Shoes The Impact of Counterfeit Products Mid-year Case Law Reviews Computer Fraud & Abuse Act The Current State of gTLDs IP Exhaustion International Issues in Trade Agreements and Antitrust Law

First-Inventor-to-File goes into effect in March. Plan to attend to hear how it will affect you and your clients.

Scan the QR code with your downloaded QR app to view the Spring Meeting Website, or visit: www.aipla.org/SM13

The Westin Seattle 1900 5th Avenue 70 aipla bulletin Seattle, WA

Room Rate: $209 (single/double) Cut-Off Date for Room Block: April 15, 2013 2012 Annual Meeting Issue Call 888- 627-8513 or 206-728-1000 and ask for the AIPLA Group Rate.