BPLA Newsletter Spring 2021

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Message from the President Daniel Young

Medical Devices Committee event on Best Practices for Patent Clearances and Opinions

Message from the Editor

Mindfulness Meditation: Easing the grip of stress

How to Prevent a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day for Your Life Sciences Startup

An Update from the Committee on Diversity and Inclusion

Priority Entitlement in Europe – Current Best Practice

Announcement of Chief Judge Transition at the Federal Circuit

After-Final Consideration and Upstop Pilot Programs

List of Officers and Board of Governors and Committees

Nonfungible Tokens and Copyright: Diligence Issues to Consider

Job Listings

Boston Patent Law Association Response to RFC on Expanding American Innovation

Community Calendar

NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE

Volume 52, Issue 2

SPRING 2021 NEWSLETTER

Volume 52, Issue 2

By Daniel Young

President's Message

Message from the Editor

Dear Colleagues,

Thank you for reading the Spring issue of the BPLA newsletter. In this issue, we have several articles on substantive IP law topics, more sage advice about wellness from Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers (LCL), and news about our organization.

Please join me in learning more about nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and copyright and entitlement to priority in Europe. We also have a very entertaining article on how to present a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day for your life sciences startup and an article on multiple after final strategies for patent prosecution.

This issue also includes an article on mindfulness and stress, an update from the ad hoc Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, and the BPLA’s Comments on the National Strategy for Expanding American Innovation, and event updates from the Medical Device Committee and the Patent Office Practice Committee.

I would like to thank BPLA’s administrator, Constance Brennan, and the staff of Readz for their help in preparing this newsletter. If you have suggestions, requests, or submissions for a future issue, please feel free to reach out to me at vice-president@bpla.org.

The future for our community looks bright. The USPTO is studying how to promote diversity in inventors and within the patent bar, Judge Kimberly Moore will assume the role of chief judge of the Federal Circuit on May 22nd, replacing Chief Judge Sharon Prost, and President Biden has nominated Ms. Tiffany Cunningham, a patent litigation partner at Perkins Coie in Chicago, to the Federal Circuit. We are glad to keep in touch with you through virtual programming and this newsletter, but we look forward to a return to in person programing.

Rebecca McNeill Editor

By Ron Dreben, Morgan Lewis, Amelia Pennington, Morgan Lewis

Nonfungible Tokens and Copyright: Diligence Issues to Consider

Chad Shear, Fish & Richardson, Teresa Lavoie, Treeline Biosciences

How to Prevent a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day for Your Life Sciences Startup

By Tracey Meyers, LCL MA

Mindfulness Meditation: Easing the grip of stress

Marc Wilkinson, JA Kemp

Priority Entitlement in Europe – Current Best Practice