Shareholders of the Vedder Price IP team will co-chair and present at PLI’s “Patent Fundamentals Bootcamp 2017: An Introduction to Patent Drafting, Prosecution, and Litigation” in Chicago on May 9–11. The program will focus on teaching the basics of claim drafting, patent application preparation and prosecution, and also provide a review of recent developments in the law. The seminars will provide a unique combination of patent prosecution lectures and mentoring, where attendees will learn to prepare a patent application that satisfies the statutory requirements for patentability, prosecute an application to obtain allowance of an enforceable patent and interview an examiner among other skills.

Shareholder Angelo J. Bufalino will again Co-Chair the program. Shareholder Michael J. Turgeon will act as one of the clinic instructors, working with the attendees on an amendment problem relating to a sample invention. The clinic serves as a unique supplement to the lectures and will provide the kind of hands-on mentoring that senior attorneys are hard-pressed to provide on a day-to-day basis.

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