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DC Chapter Upcoming Event The LES-Greater Washington, DC chapter is pleased to present the following luncheon presentation: Date: Time: Speaker: Topic: Jim Wallace will address the extraterritorial issues presented in the NTP v RIM BlackBerry litigation and the different approaches taken by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) respecting system and method claims. He will give examples of how thoughtful patent claim drafting can overcome some of the negative impact the CAFC decision has on method claims when one or more of the method steps are performed outside the country. Jim Wallace has more than 30 years of experience litigating patents in the fields of communications satellites, data transmission, network interface devices, Internet business methods, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and semiconductors. A founding partner of the firm, he was named by Legal Times as a "Leading Intellectual Property Attorney" and has been recognized as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” in intellectual property law. Most recently, he was the lead attorney for NTP and secured on their behalf a $612.5 million patent infringement settlement with Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), the maker of the popular BlackBerry wireless email devices. In addition, he has litigated numerous pharmaceutical patent cases, including loratadine (Claritin®), omeprazole (Prilosec®), oxybutynin (Ditropan XL®), carbidopa/levodopa, tamoxifen (Nolvadex®), allopurinol and t-PA (Activase®). Location: Cost and Registration:
For more information about these programs and participating in future programs, please contact the Greater Washington, DC Chapter Chair, Raymond Van Dyke at vandyke@acm.org
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