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IAP 2018 Activities by Sponsor - Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program -UPOP



What You Claim Is What You Get - Sort Of -A look at some landmark patent fights and how the claims made all the difference

Herbert (Dick) Schulze '67

Add to Calendar Jan/09 Tue 05:45PM-07:15PM 4-145

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/09
Limited to 40 participants

UPOP Mentor, Herbert R. ("Dick") Schulze ’67 presents an informative and engaging exploration into the realm of patents.
 
"We will start by defining patent claims and what they do, (define in one sentence what would infringe the patent) and consider landmark patent lawsuits that turned on abstractness: O’Reilly v. Morse (telegraph case), Gottschalk v Benson (ATT BCD-to-binary case), Alice v CLS Bank (implementing known process on a computer) and look at recent cases defining “obvious”. We'll explore how, in each case, the wording of the claims made all the difference."

A graduate of MIT (electrical engineering) and the University of Chicago law school, Dick is licensed to practice law in California, Colorado, Nevada, and South Dakota, and before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Following service as an Air Force JAG and as a law clerk, he practiced general law in San Diego then specialized in intellectual property. He was with Hewlett-Packard Co. then Agilent Technologies as Managing Counsel in Intellectual Property for 19 years. He later became Of Counsel to Holland & Hart in Reno and Special Counsel to Evergreen Valley Law Group of Bangalore, India.  Dick has two grown children and five grandchildren. When not practicing law, he can be found passionately pursuing his second profession as a snowboard instructor at Northstar CA ski resort or cruising the twistiest roads of America on his Triumph Rocket 3.

To register:http://upop-portal.mit.edu/events/view/?id=985

 

Sponsor(s): Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program -UPOP
Contact: Kate Moynihan, 1-123-B, 617 253-0041, KATEJM@MIT.EDU