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- Jim Nelson will be speaking at SMI Conference's "Generics, Supergenerics and Patent Strategies" conference in London, May 12-13, with contributing commentary from Gary Speier. SLW is also a sponsor of the conference. For more information, visit http://www.smi-online.co.uk
- Rochelle Seide will be speaking at the Cambridge Health Institute's "RNA Interference Conference," a part of "Beyond Genome 2008," in San Francisco, June 9-11.
- Warren Woessner will be speaking on patent strategies for stem cell technology at the AUTM Central Regional Meeting in Boston on July 23.
- SLW will be an exhibitor at the BIO International Conference again this year, as part of the Minnesota pavilion (Booth 801). The conference will be in San Diego from June 17-20.
- SLW is pleased to announce that Dr. Rochelle K. Seide has joined the firm as Senior Counsel.
- Warren Woessner spoke at the ACI program "Pharma/Biotech Claim Drafting & Prosecution" in New York on February 25, 2008.
- Warren Woessner was part of a panel of licensing experts judging the new quiz show "Analyze That Contract!" at the AUTM Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA on February 29th and March 1st, 2008.
- Ted McCullough was recently appointed Vice Chair of the Intellectual Property Owner's Open Source Committee.
- Following a successful year in speaking on patent law issues in Europe, Japan and Korea, Tim Clise was again invited to speak at the C5 Conference Patents & Standards in the Communications Industry in London.
- Dan Kluth, one of our founding shareholders, has retired. We appreciate everything Dan has done to help our firm grow and wish him all the best in the future. With Dan's retirement comes a change - our firm name is now Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A. Our addresses and phone numbers will stay the same.
- The following were named Minnesota "Super Lawyers" in the August 2007 issue of Twin Cities Business Monthly: Tim Bianchi, Eduardo Drake, Brad Forrest, Steve Lundberg, Micheal Schwegman, and Warren Woessner. "Super Lawyers" are the top 5 percent of attorneys in each state, as chosen by their peers and through independent research done by Law and Politics magazine.
- On September 17th, 2007, Warren Woessner spoke on "Strategies for Patenting Stem Cell Technology" at the C5 Conference "Biotech Patenting" in London.
- Ann McCrackin was a speaker at the Practicing Law Institute's program "Advanced Patent Prosecution Workshop" July 23-24, 2007 in New York City.
- Ann McCrackin co-authored a chapter in the following book: Intellectual Property Management in Health and Agricultural Innovation: A Handbook of Best Practices. The book is a result of a collaboration between the Centre for the Management of Intellectual Property in Health Research & Development (MIHR) and the Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture (PIPRA) and was showcased during a press conference at the BIO convention in Boston on May 6th. The book is just over 2000 pages with two volumes and 157 chapters. Ann’s chapter in the book is "A Guide to International Patent Protection."
- Warren Woessner has been invited to become a Fellow of the American Intellectual Property Law Association. The Fellows provide counsel to the Board of Directors in scholarly, educational and research matters, and support scholarships and other honoraria for contributions to intellectual property law as authorized by the Board.
- According to the USPTO, SLW was the first law firm to file a real patent application using the USPTO's new web-based e-filing system. The new system is fast and easy to use, and filings are not limited to patent applications, but also include almost everything that is routinely filed.


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