Preventing Patent Harassment in the U.S.

Given the ongoing significant global importance of the U.S. market, European companies, their legal counsel and IP practitioners, in particular in the field of patents, need to have a keen sense of strategic and legal opportunities and threats when doing business with the U.S. This seminar will provide useful insights and solutions for business relations with the U.S. involving products that are new to the U.S. market.
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Participants will learn about the strategic aspects of risk management as well as a range of specific options for addressing common situations. They will also have the opportunity to discuss transatlantic patent infringement risk management with seasoned veterans in the field of international contract negotiations.

Themen

- Procuring affordable patent infringement defense insurance
- Structuring transactions to transfer risk of infringement
- Establishing a prior use defense under the America Invents Act (AIA)
- New tools to preemptively challenge U.S. patents coming under the AIA
- Preventing undue risk exposure from one's own patents