Morgan & Finnegan is a certified New York State Continuing Legal Education provider. We manage a customized program that offers continuous formal training and seminars that develop professional skills. Firm attorneys and industry professionals address a wide range of topics at regularly scheduled CLE luncheon seminars. Scientific and technical advisors also can take advantage of many of the same opportunities for professional development and training that exist for attorneys; often courses and seminars address topics of particular relevance to advisors, such as procedures for patent examining.
Recent topics presented by firm partners include Trying a Patent Case to a Jury and the Federal Circuit at the Same Tim; Opening and Closing Statements to a Jury in a Patent Infringement Litigation and Ethical Considerations in Presenting Evidence to the Jury; Litigating IP in the ITC; Patent Damages; Minimizing the Risk of Patent Antitrust; Rule 11; The Art of Taking and Defending Depositions; Electronic Discovery in Patent Litigation; Inequitable Conduct and Other Ethical Issues; Recent Developments in the Federal Circuit; Best Practices in the Preparation of Freedom to Practice Opinions; Due Diligence Issues Concerning Licensing; The IP System of China; Internet Law -Protection of Copyrights and Trademarks; Avoiding the Pitfalls of PCT Practice: Form over Substance; Good Practices in Patent Prosecution and Ethics.
Industry leaders have been invited to present on topics such as Legal Writing Skills; Legal Research Strategies; Practice and Procedure in the Federal District Court of Delaware; Electronic Evidence; Demonstrative Evidence; Patent Litigation in Europe; Australian Patent Practice; Japanese Patents on Dialog; Patent Prosecution and Enforcement in Europe; Software and Business Method Patents in Europe; Chemical Structure Searching; and Trademark, Domain Name and Common Law Searching.
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