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    There will be a one day conference in Washington on December 3, 1992,
dealing with the US Patent Office.  The conference is titled "Patent and
Trademark Office Day 1992", and is sponsored by the Intellectual Property
Owners organization.  The registration fee is $250. Here's the agenda:

    COFFEE AND REGISTRATION				7:45am

    MORNING SESSION					8:30am - 11:30am
    Introduction:	Richard White
    			President, Intellectual Property Owners
    Moderator:		Edward Kubasiewicz
    			Counselor to the Patent Commissioner

         "CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN TRADEMARK PRACTICE"
         Jeffrey Samuels, Assistant Commissioner for Trademarks

	 "PATENT REEXAMINATION: CURRENT PRACTICE AND PROPOSALS FOR CHANGE"
	 Rene Tegtmeyer, Fish & Richardson, Washington, DC

	 "CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN DESIGN PATENT PRACTICE"
	 Robert Garret, Director Design Patent Examining Group
	 J. William Frank, S.C. Johnson & Son, Racine, WI

	 "RECENT COURT DECISIONS AFFECTING PTO PRACTICE"
	 Donald Chisum, Morrison & Foerster, Seattle, WA


     RECEPTION						11:30 am - noon

     LUNCHEON						noon

     Luncheon Address  "NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE"
     Douglas Comer, Act.Asst.Secr. of Commerce and Commissioner of the PTO


     BREAKOUT SESSIONS  (these sessions held in parallel, some twice)
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     BREAKOUT A   "TIPS ON IMPROVING YOUR PATENT PRACTICE BEFORE THE PTO"
     							one session only
							1:30pm to 3:00pm

     Moderator: Stephen Kunin, Deputy Assistant Commissioner for Patents

          "PTO ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES"
	  Theresa Brelsford, Asst.Comm. for Public Services and Administration

	  "PRACTICING BEFORE THE PATENT EXAMINING CORPS"
	  Al Lawrence Smith, Director, Patent Examining Group

	  "PETITIONS TO THE COMMISSIONER"
	  Jeffrey Nase, Director, Office of Petitions



     BREAKOUT B   "PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY"
     		   PRACTITIONERS
     							one session only
							3:15pm to 5:15pm

     Moderator: Harry Manbeck, Morgan and Finnegan, Washington, DC

          "WHAT THE PRACTITIONER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE PTO'S CODE OF"
	   PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS
	  Cameron Weiffenbach, Director, Office of Enrollment and Discipline

	  "NEW RULES ON THE DUTY OF DISCLOSURE IN PATENT CASES"
	  J. Michael Thesz, Editor, Manual of Patent Examining Procedure

	  "DUTY OF DISCLOSURE DECISIONS OF THE FEDERAL CIRCUIT:"
	   PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
	  Ray Lupo, Willian Brinks Olds Hofer, Washington, DC

	  "CONTROLLING THE EXPENSE OF COMPLYING WITH THE DUTY OF DISCLOSURE"
	  Herbert Wamsley, Exec.Dir.,Intellectual Property Owners



     BREAKOUT C   "HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR PATENT PRACTICE IN THE FIELD OF"
     		   COMPUTER RELATED INVENTIONS
							1:30pm to 3:00pm
							3:15pm to 4:45pm

     Moderator: John McDonnell, ATT, Basking Ridge, NJ

          "PATENTABILITY ISSUES AFFECTING COMPUTER-RELATED INVENTIONS:"
	   POINT - COUNTERPOINT
	  Michael Fleming, Supervisory Patent Examiner
	  R. Lewis Gable, Welsh and Katz, Arlington, VA

	  "HOW TO DO PRIOR ART SEARCHING FOR COMPUTER-RELATED INVENTIONS"
	 Jeffrey Forman, IBM, Arlington, VA



     BREAKOUT D   "HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR CHEMICAL AND BIOTECHNOLOGY"
     		   PATENT PRACTICE
							1:30pm to 3:00pm
							3:15pm to 4:45pm

     Moderator: John Klocko, E.I. du Pont de Nemours, Wilmington, DE

          "CURRENT ISSUES IN CHEMICAL PATENT OFFICE"
	  John Terapane, Director, Patent Examining Group

	  "CURRENT ISSUES IN BIOTECHNOLOGY PATENT PRACTICE"
	  Charles Van Horn, Patent Policy and Projects Administrator

	  "A CORPORATE VIEWPOINT ON PTO CHEMICAL AND BIOTECHNOLOGY PRACTICE"
	  Alphonse Noe, American Cyanamid, Stamford, CT


     ADJOURNMENT					5:15pm

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Also, the day before, Wednesday December 2, the Intellectual Property Owners
organization will be having their annual meeting, which costs $125 to attend.

For more information about the conference, contact:
		Intellectual Property Owners
		1255 Twenty-Third Street, NW #850
		Washington, DC  20037
		202-466-2396          fax: 202-833-3636

(Note: I have no ties to this group. I'm posting this message because I
thought people would be interested).

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Gregory Aharonian
Source Translation & Optimization