TRATON HEADLINE: CincyBIO 2011 to Bring Together Innovators and Intellectual Property Professionals

Cincinnati Intellectual Property Law Association (CincyIP) and Proctor & Gamble (P&G) sponsor CincyBIO 2011, what they call "the bioscience event" for innovators and intellectual property (IP) professionals. This year the event is held on Tuesday, 2011 March 8, at the Phoenix Cincinnati.

Bringing together bioscience professionals with varied backgrounds, the event provides opportunities for innovators to connect with IP professionals, and also allows IP attorneys to receive continuing legal education (CLE) credits. The line-up looks promising, with Sam Han (University of Dayton) kicking off the event and Tom Irving (Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett, and Dunner) closing the event. The specific schedule is:

8:00-8:15am – Introductions

• Lindsey L. Jaeger, Esq., S.S.B.B., Patent Attorney, Wolfe, LPA and President of CincyIP
• Kelly McDow, Associate General Counsel – Legal Division, The Procter & Gamble Company and Chair of CincyBIO Steering Committee

8:15-9:00am – Man v. Nature: Patentability of Second-Generation Biological Organisms

• Sam S. Han, Esq., Ph.D. (University of Dayton)

9:00-9:45am – Making Sensible Patent Investments

• Bob MacWright, Esq., Ph.D. (Executive Director of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Office of Technology Development)

10:00-10:45am – USPTO’s Green Technology Initiative

• Esther Kepplinger (Chief Patent Counselor at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and former Deputy Commissioner for Patents at the USPTO)

10:45-11:45am – Biosimilars Legislation and the Biosimilar Approval Pathway

• Kevin Noonan, Esq., Ph.D. (McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff, LLP and Patent Docs Weblog)

11:45 to 12:45 – Lunch sponsored by Frost Brown Todd, LLC
12:45 – 2:15pm – IP Considerations for Medical Devices from Start-ups to Fortune 500 Companies

• Panel Discussion moderated by Mary Beth Privitera (M.Design, University of Cincinnati) featuring Dan Kincaid (BIOSTART), Joseph E. Topmiller (Zimmer, Inc.), and Sam Privitera

2:30-3:30pm – FDA Regulation for Medical Devices

• Elsa Abruzzo (President of ARAC)

3:30-4:15pm – How Statements to the FDA Can Create Some Real Challenges in Patent Prosecution and Enforcement

• Tom Irving, Esq. (Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP)

Many have indicated that they look forward to the event.

More information and registration information can be found at Cincy-IP's website.

Reporting for Traton News,

Morley Moore