Our 2013 Seminar: at last, the PowerPoints!

At last, The SPC Blog is delighted to announce that the PowerPoints from this month's seminar are now available for all to enjoy. They may be accessed as a PDF document here or in PowerPoint format here. We hope that you will find them useful and instructive and take this opportunity to thank all of the seminar participants once again for their time and effort.

Several people who attended the seminar have emailed to ask about CPD points. The seminar accrues 2 CPD hours and its SRA Reference is 096/SOLS.

"All you need to know": SPC Blog seminar 2013 now open for booking

This is what the cover of this year's invitation looks like.  For the operative
link to the click-through for further details and registration, read on ...

The SPC Blog is delighted to announce the launch of "SPC Law and Practice 2013: All you need to know" -- the title of this year's seminar. The date is Tuesday, 2 July 2013, when prospects of snow interfering with participants' travel arrangements are low, and once again we are pleased to acknowledge the kind hospitality of Olswang LLP in agreeing to host this event at its London office.

This year's seminar, the fifth, is built around the responses of blog readers to our earlier request for suggestions.  It will be taking a focused look at how national patent offices are implementing the Court of Justice (CJEU) rulings in Neurim and Medeva, the pharmaceutical regulatory process and its interface with SPC law. We'll also review and analyse the pending CJEU referrals and discuss a range of hot topics including the Unified Patent Court (UPC), SPC economics and so-called piggyback SPCs. There will be plenty of time for questions and a drink afterwards.

To view the detailed programme and register your interest please click here. We will confirm acceptances by email, so please hold off from booking your travel arrangements until you have heard back from us that we can squeeze you in. If you require any further information, please contact Natasha Dubes at natasha.dubes@olswang.com

We do hope that you will join us for the usual series of topical presentations and the best Q+A on SPCs anywhere!

This year's SPC Blog seminar: tell us what you want

The annual SPC Blog seminar, which once again will be kindly hosted by Olswang LLP in its London office, has been pencilled in -- but fairly heavily pencilled in -- for Tuesday 2 July, when there is little risk of snow.  We have also compiled a provisional list of topics that seem worthy of careful treatment, ranging from those that are specifically legal and IP-flavoured to those that address more regulatory, competition and policy issues.

Before we set the event in stone, we'd be delighted to hear from you if there are any topics you particularly want to see on the programme.  If you'd like to tell us what you want, just email Rob Stephen here and let him know.