The world of patent law is complex and rapidly changing. Between the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Stanford v. Roche and the pending America Invents Act, what should medtech and biotech companies know?
Join us for this interactive webinar where Robert Taylor, Kara Daniels and Kristen Riemenschneider of Arnold & Porter LLP will discuss the changing face of patent law. Time will be set aside at the end of the presentation to ask questions.
Topics to be Discussed:
- The Bayh-Dole Act and how accepting Government funds may impact your patent rights
- Stanford v. Roche and best practices for managing relationships among multiple institutions
- The status of patent law reform in the United States
Who Should Attend:
- Research Facilities
- In-house counsel
- CEOs
- General counsel and directors
- Pharmaceutical and medtech processionals
- Regulatory affairs professionals
- Consultants
Robert Taylor (Senior Counsel)
Robert Taylor concentrates his practice on intellectual property, antitrust, and related fields of law. He has tried a number of such cases to juries and before the International Trade Commission. He has briefed and argued most of the appeals in such cases.
For more than 30 years, Mr. Taylor has served as lead counsel in patent cases involving a broad spectrum of technologies and industries, including semiconductor manufacturing equipment and processes, microprocessors, liquid chromatography devices, DNA arrays, gene sequencing, genetic expression of proteins, electronic design automation, network switching equipment, digital memory devices, accelerator chips used in high-speed computer graphics, microfiltration devices, elastomeric chemistry, digitally programmable hearing aids, processes and catalysts for making polypropylene, automotive electronic products, zeolite desiccants, surgical devices, communications satellites, and contact lenses, among others.
He has also served as lead counsel in copyright cases involving software, video games, fabric design, and time management organizers.
Mr. Taylor has also served as lead counsel in trade secret cases involving software, artificial arterial and venous grafts, and clean incineration technology, among others. He has advised clients, written, and lectured for more than 30 years on antitrust and patent law problems, including the legal relationships between antitrust law and intellectual property rights.
Kara Daniels (Counsel)
Kara L. Daniels is a member of Arnold & Porter LLP’s government contracts practice group. She handles bid protests, claims and related litigation, as well as counseling clients on diverse government contracts issues.
Ms. Daniels's bid protest experience involves federal civilian and defense agencies in cases before the Government Accountability Office, the FAA's Office of Dispute Resolution for Acquisition, and the United States Court of Federal Claims. She has represented contractors in many industries, including health care, defense, information technology, electronic markets, construction, energy, and manufacturing. Ms. Daniels also has defended and challenged related CICA-stay override decisions.
Ms. Daniels's claims cases against federal and municipal governments have involved a variety of issues, including improper terminations for default, out-of-scope or changed work, wrongful determination of noncompliance with Cost Accounting Standards, the non-appropriated fund instrumentality doctrine, and improper use of proprietary information. She also litigates commercial disputes for government contractors, including contractual, intellectual property, and other business-related matters. Ms. Daniels has represented clients before a number of forums, including the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth and Federal Circuits, the United States Court of Federal Claims, the District of Columbia Contract Appeals Board, and other federal district and state courts.
Ms. Daniels also counsels clients regarding the many unique issues impacting the government contracting industry, including (among other issues): data and computer software rights, prime and subcontractor relations, the government contractor defense, organizational conflicts of interest, the SAFETY Act, the Anti-Deficiency Act and other appropriation issues, post-government employment restrictions, the False Claims Act, and cost and pricing matters. She also drafts and evaluates transactional products, such as teaming agreements, nondisclosure agreements, subcontracts, and purchase orders.
Prior to entering private practice, Ms. Daniels clerked for the Honorable Ellen L. Hollander, Associate Judge of the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.
Kristen Riemenschneider (Associate)
Kristen Riemenschneider is an associate in Arnold & Porter LLP's intellectual property and government contracts practice groups, focusing on the broad range of legal issues facing technology companies, including federal government contractors. Ms. Riemenschneider is a registered patent attorney.
Her experience includes assisting clients in developing global patent strategies and prosecuting utility and design patents in the software, electrical, and mechanical arts; drafting agreements for the commercialization of intellectual property and technology, including licensing, partnering and product development arrangements, service and development contracts, and federal subcontracts; and matters arising in connection with the intellectual property regime associated with federal government contracting, such as the role of data rights in federal procurements and the Bayh-Dole Act.
Ms. Riemenschneider joined Arnold & Porter following her clerkship for the Honorable Francis M. Allegra at the United States Court of Federal Claims. She is a 2006 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, where she served as a managing editor of the Virginia Journal of International Law and as an editor of the Virginia Journal of Law and Technology. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Riemenschneider worked as an electrical engineer, researching and developing novel biometric authentication and personal security technologies.
