TRIAL BY JURY OF PATENT CASES
Friday, September 30
Lipton Hall, 108 West Third Street, New York, NY 10012
Agenda
8:15-9:00am Breakfast Reception and Registration
9:00-9:15am Brief Opening Remarks and Introduction of Keynote Speaker
9:05-9:45am Keynote Address
Honorable Kathleen M. O’Malley
9:45-10:45am Scholars Debate: Does the 7th Amendment guarantee a jury trial in patent litigation?
Renee Lerner (GW Law)
Jeanne Fromer (NYU School of Law) (Moderator)
Summary of Patent Jury Trial Statistics
10:45-11:00am Break
11:00-11:30am Update on Rush to Judgment? Trial Length and Outcomes in Patent Cases
Mark Lemley (Stanford Law)
11:30-12:30pm Judges Roundtable
Hon. William Conley (W.D. Wi.)
Hon. Rodney Gilstrap (EDTX)
Hon. Leonard Stark (D. Del)
Hon. William Young (D. MA)
Scott Hemphill (NYU School of Law) (Moderator)
12:30-1:15pm Lunch
1:15-2:15pm Scholars Roundtable
Colleen Chien (Santa Clara Law)
Mark Lemley (Stanford Law)
David Schwartz (Northwestern Law)
Rochelle Dreyfuss (NYU School of Law) (Moderator)
2:15-3:15pm Practitioners Roundtable on U.S. District Courts and the PTAB
Juanita Brooks (Fish & Richardson)
Douglas Cawley (McKool Smith)
John Desmarais ’88 (Desmarais LLP)
William Lee (WilmerHale)
Steve Susman (Susman & Godfrey) (Moderator)
3:15pm Closing Remarks and Conference Ends
Patent Trial Judges Oppose Posner’s Push For Neutral Experts by Cara Salvatore, Law360
No Joke: Aversion to Jury Duty a Serious Threat to Justice by Brandon Lowrey, Law360
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