Conferences

CNCF launches Cloud-Native Heroes Challenge with Unified Patents

On November 13, 2024, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced the Cloud Native Heroes Challenge at their KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America 2024 conference. This challenge will be a series of crowdsourced prior art contests utilizing Unified Patents’ PATROLL website. To learn more, visit www.cncf.io/heroes and read about the inaugural contest here.

PATROLL is the world’s first crowd-sourced prior art contest forum where Unified Patents puts a monetary bounty on PAE- and NPE-owned patents. We engage the general public to submit prior art to improve overall patent quality. All submissions are reviewed by Unified's legal team to identify winning prior art, and we provide the invalidity claim chart to the world on the PATROLL portal.

CNCF is co-hosting this program with Unified Patents, the Linux Foundation’s partner in patent troll deterrence since 2019. Unified Patents is the only organization that uses offensive community-driven strategies to deter patent trolls.

Find more information on CNCF and the inaugural challenge within the links below:

Adamson & Partners and Unified host over 200 for 2024 Munich IP Forum

Annual Event Drew an International Crowd and Prominent IP and Legal Speakers

Adamson & Partners and Unified Patents, a member-based organization whose goal is promoting innovation by protecting against frivolous patent litigation and reducing the number of non-practicing entity patent assertions, hosted over 200 IP and legal practitioners in Munich. The annual event, which is in its eighth year, was held on September 23 and 24, 2024.

Combining thought-leadership with Bavarian hospitality, the Munich IP Forum connected leaders in the IP & Legal sectors from industries including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, high-tech, automotive, and more to network and share the latest industry insights.

The agenda from this last year’s event, as well as a selection of photographs can be found here.

A highlight video from this year’s event can be found here.

To learn more about next year’s event, tentatively scheduled for 22 & 23 September 2025, visit munichipforum.com.

Unified Patents represented at WIPO Assemblies 2024

Jonathan Stroud, General Counsel of Unified Patents, joined others as a panelist at an event hosted by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) during the Assemblies of the Member States of WIPO 2024. The panel, “Investor-funded Litigation as a Threat to the Patent System,” was moderated by Vishal Amin, Chair of ICC Global IP Commission. Among the many great speakers and panelists, Lisa Jorgenson, Deputy Director General of Patents & Technology at WIPO, gave the introduction and Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office, was the keynote speaker.


Hundreds of delegates from WIPO’s 193 Member States joined the July 9-17 WIPO Assemblies to negotiate the future of the global intellectual property (IP) ecosystem and WIPO’s activities in promoting the economic, social and cultural development of all countries.

2023 Corporate IP Strategy Conference was a success!

The 2023 Corporate IP Strategy Conference (CIPSC) was attended by over 200 IP professionals, attorneys, and consultants with several presentations and discussions on the most thought-provoking IP issues of our current times. Find the presentations below over Brattle Groups recently concluded Wi-Fi 6 expert economic report, the meteoric rise of litigation finance and exotic insurance products, Portal updates, and slides regarding international patent strategy topics.

Our next event will be the 12th Annual Patent Administrative Law Conference (PALC) on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Washington, DC. We will have more information soon!

GW Law to host PTAB Roundtable Discussion, September 28

GW Law is pleased to invite you to our in-person annual PTAB roundtable. Please join us on Thursday, September 28, 2023, for a dynamic discussion on recent PTAB and IPR developments. Join patent leaders for a half-day program discussing the post-grant practice at the PTAB, recent developments, proposed rules and legislation, trends, policy considerations, and more. A casual lunch will be provided before the program and a reception will follow afterwards. The event is complimentary.

EVENT INFORMATION

Thursday, September 28, 2023

Lunch: 11:30 am ET
Program: 1:00 - 5:00 pm ET
Reception: 5:00 - 6:30 pm ET

2000 H Street, NW., Washington, DC 20052

PANELISTS INCLUDE:

  • Honorable Robert W. (Trey) Schroeder III, U.S. District Court Judge, Eastern District of Texas

  • Honorable Christopher J. Burke, U.S. Magistrate Judge, District of Delaware

  • Honorable Bryan Moore, Administrative Law Judge, USITC

  • Honorable Jacqueline Bonilla, Deputy Chief Administrative Patent Judge and Senior Legal Advisor, USPTO

  • Honorable Kal Deshpande, Vice Chief Administrative Patent Judge, USPTO

  • Teresa Rea (former Acting Director / Deputy Director, USPTO), Partner, Crowell & Moring

  • David Cavanaugh, Chair, Post-Grant Proceedings Group and Partner, WilmerHale

  • Sarah Geers, Co-Chair of PTAB Litigation Practice and Partner, Jones Day

  • Charles Haake, Vice President and General Counsel, Alliance for Automotive Innovation

  • Gabrielle Higgins, Partner, Desmarais

  • Kevin Laurence, Partner, Laurence & Phillips IP Law

  • Naveen Modi, Global Co-Chair of Intellectual Property and Partner, Paul Hastings

  • Lissi Mojica, Managing Director, Answers IP

  • Courtney Quish, Managing Director, Intellectual Property, Fortress Investments Group

  • Corey Salsberg, Vice President, Global Head of IP Affairs, Novartis

  • Hans Sauer, Deputy General Counsel and Vice President for Intellectual Property, BIO

  • Laura Sheridan, Head of Patent Policy, Google

  • Jonathan Stroud, General Counsel, Unified Patents

  • Jay Thomas, Professor of Law, Georgetown University

  • John Whealan, Associate Dean for IP, George Washington University