Scholarly Commons @ IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law

The Changing Landscape of Patent Law: At the USPTO, the Supreme Court and the Federal Circuit?

Richard Linn, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

A Conversation With Industry Patent Experts

Jim Trussell, BP America
Karen Nelson, AbbVie
Jon Wood, Bridgestone Americas
Paul Rodriguez, RR Donnelley
Stephen Auten, ANDA & Biologics Practice Group, Cozen O'Connor

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Plenary Session

Mark Lemley, Stanford Law School
James Malackowski, Ocean Tomo, LLC
David Abrams, University of Pennsylvania Law School

10:50 AM - 12:40 PM

Debate About the Patent System

Richard Posner, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Richard Epstein, New York University School of Law, University of Chicago Law School

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM