Who Should Attend?
- 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!
A History of Topics
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.