21st Advanced Summit on Life Sciences Patents

Intellectual Property partner Dorothy Auth will speak at the 21st Advanced Summit on Life Sciences Patents. She will present on the panel, "The Freedom to Operate: Evaluating Current Strategies to Avoid Future Findings of Infringement."

Thursday, May 18

Attorney Name  

The Freedom to Operate: Evaluating Current Strategies to Avoid Future Findings of Infringement

4:45 PM

Dorothy AuthPartner, Intellectual Property

Discussion topics include:

  • Understanding how extensive search sequencing should be during FTO
  • Evaluating the most effective process for FTO analysis
    • Should it be in the hands of inhouse or outside counsel?
  • Understanding patent exclusivity vs regulatory exclusivity
  • Analyzing when during R&D third party patents discovered through FTO should be of concern
  • Seeking out the current capabilities of FTO relating to biologic patents