An impressive group of speakers, sponsors and supporters, led by USPTO Director and Undersecretary of Commerce, Andrei Iancu, will be featured at the 11th global Intellectual Property Business Congress in San Francisco, June 10-12 at the Palace Hotel.
Director Iancu has indicated that he will support the long-awaited move to greater certainty in the 
U.S. patent system. In a recent speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce he said that “reclaiming our (U.S.) patent leadership is within reach.”
Attendees will be eager to hear about Director Iancu’s strategy for attaining this and other goals.
IPBC Global 2018 plenary’s and panels include:
- Will the U.S. Continue to Lead in IP?
- CIPO Scenarios: The Good, Bad and Ugly
IP CloseUp editor, Bruce Berman (that’s me), will be a member of the patent quality panel:
- Is patent quality a distraction? – all that really matters is patent eligibility
-What is a quality patent?
-Controversy around eligibility
-The importance of predictability
For the AI panel, participants will include Bart Eppenauer, former Chief Patent Counsel at Microsoft and William LaFontaine, General Manager, IP, IBM.
- The World of Artificial Intelligence
For the IPBC Global 2018 program, go here.
For the full list of speakers and their biographies, go here.
To register, go here.
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