PCT Advanced Training Seminar
Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner invites you to join us on January 25, 2011 for PCT Training with Carol Bidwell and David Reed, both US Consultants to WIPO on PCT Matters. Ms. Bidwell and Mr. Reed have traveled extensively lecturing on PCT practice and procedures. SLW will apply for California CLE credit.
Date: January 25, 2011
Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with a break of lunch (box lunches will be provided)
Place: Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, California
Cost: Free of charge
RSVP: By Wednesday, January 12, 2011 to Mary Hirsch
Advanced PCT Seminar Topics
- Overview of the PCT System
- Using Rule 4.17 Declarations
- Priority under the Paris Convention
- Procedural Safeguards
- Supplementary International Search
- Recent and Upcoming Changes
- The PCT from an Applicant’s View
- Strategies for Entering the National Phase
- US National Stage Entry under 35 USC 371 vs. By-pass Continuation Route
- Help in Deciding Where to Enter the National Phase
- Questions and Answers
Carol Bidwell
US Consultant to WIPO on PCT Matters,
Tucson, AZ
Ms. Carol Bidwell became a consultant on PCT matters for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in January 2006. Prior to accepting this position, she had been employed at the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office as a patent examiner in the Biotechnology Group, a special programs examiner in the PCT Special Programs Office and finally as the supervisor of the Office of PCT Legal Administration from March 1997 until she left the federal service in December 2005. Over the last twelve years, Ms. Bidwell lectured extensively on PCT practice and procedure to audiences throughout the U.S. as well as teaching PCT seminars in Canada and Mexico.
During her career at the USPTO, Ms. Bidwell was awarded a U.S. Department of Commerce Silver Medal for development of U.S. regulations and international standards for the submission of sequence listings in patent applications and a Department of Commerce Bronze Medal for developing and implementing the PCT International Search and Preliminary Examination Guidelines.
David Reed
US Consultant to WIPO on PCT Matters, Cincinnati, OH
T. David Reed, a retiree from Intellectual Property Division of The Procter & Gamble Company, is a consultant on international patent procurement and practice doing business under the name of TDR Patents. He is also a consultant for WIPO in the United States on matters relating to the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
For almost half of Mr. Reed's 40 years of service with The Procter & Gamble Company, he managed the international patent filing and prosecution area. David joined P&G in 1966 as a Product Development Engineer upon graduation from Northwestern University. Following a variety of assignments in Product Development, he was admitted to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office as a Patent Agent in 1988 and assumed his position in the Intellectual Property Division.
IIn 1990, Mr. Reed led the investigation of, and the decision to begin, a practice under the PCT. David managed the transition from a direct national patent filing practice, and helped build Procter & Gamble’s PCT practice into one of the largest in the world. Additionally he has had the pleasure of teaching and speaking around the globe for WIPO and others regarding the PCT and P&G's practice under the PCT as well as other issues relating to international patent practice.
