• In-house counsel, technical advisors, and IP Coordinators from Japanese law firms and companies working in the medical technology and/or healthcare field, with a specialization in intellectual property focusing on medical-related inventions with a significant mechanical, electrical or data processing component. 
• Japanese Patent Attorneys, agents, and students who are interested in gaining a deeper understanding of how to prosecute patent applications in the medical technology field. 

*IMPORTANT: This webinar is intended for Japanese audiences, or those with a professional understanding of the Japanese language, as half of the webinar will be presented in Japanese! 

This is BSKB's fourth year of presenting this free webinar to Japanese parties. In previous years, this was a closed event, where participation was by invitation only. We were so pleased with the turnout, that we have now opened our webinar to the public. Previously, discussion topics have been:

• U.S. Supreme Court in Amgen v. Sanofi examining the enablement standard;
• Best Medical International, Inc. v. Elekta Inc. (Fed. Cir. August 26, 2022) regarding experts and the level of skill in the art in a case relating to radiation therapy of tumors;
• PTAB cases to consider obviousness issues in OsteoMed LLC v. Stryker European Operations Holdings LLC, relating to a bone plate patent, and Alcon Inc. v. AMO Development LLC, relating to cataract surgery patents;
• Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc., regarding analogous art relating to a drug delivery device;
• Moving outside of patent law, we also discussed how copyright law can be applied to medical devices in Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance v. Library of Congress from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.