Biotechnology/Chemical/Pharmaceutical Customer Partnership

Biotechnology and Chemical Pharmaceutical Customer Partnership Meeting
Wednesday, June 13, 2007

United States Patent and Trademark Office
Madison Auditorium North
600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, Virginia

The most recent quarterly meeting for the Biotechnology and Chemical Pharmaceutical Customer Partnership was held on March 7, 2007 at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The Biotechnology and Chemical Pharmaceutical Customer Partnership is designed and developed to be a forum to share ideas, experiences, and insights between individual users and the USPTO. The USPTO does not intend to use these customer partnership groups to arrive at any consensus. Invitations to participate will indicate that individual opinions are sought, rather than a group consensus and that the meetings are intended to be informal in nature and have varying participants. These customer partnership groups are formed with full recognition of the USPTO's responsibility under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), and that these customer partnership groups are not established as FACA compliant committees.

This meeting is also available on-line. Participation is limited to the first 200 individual registrants; so, if you are interested in attending this meeting, please click on the link below to register:

On-Line Registration

We value our customers in obtaining feedback from individual participants is important in our efforts to continuously improve the quality of our products and services. Your willing participation is helpful in providing us with insights and experiences in this informal process to assist us.

The next meeting of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Biotechnology and Chemical Pharmaceutical Customer Partnership is scheduled for Tuesday, June 13, 2007 from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm at Auditorium North in Madison Building, 600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, Virginia.

For information of future meetings and presentations, please go to http://www.cabic.com/bcp/.

Please contact Cecilia Tsang at 571-272-0562, or by fax at 571-273-0562, or email Cecilia.Tsang@uspto.gov to decline or confirm your attendance by June 7, 2007.

Time	Morning Session	Presenter
9:00-9:20	Greetings and Overview	John LeGuyader, Bruce Kisliuk, Christopher Low, Directors, Technology Center 1600
9:20-10:00	Peer Review Pilot	Jack Harvey, Director, TC2100
10:00-10:40	Suite of Products	Andy Faile, Director, TC2600
10:40-10:55	Break
10:55-12:00	Restriction Between Product and Process Inventions	Bruce Campell, Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 1648
12:00-1:15	Lunch

Time	Afternoon Session	Presenter
1:15-2:00	Enablement Issues in the Examination of Antibody	Larry Helms, Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 1643
2:00-2:45	RNAI Patent Space	James Schultz, Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 1635
2:45-3:00	Break
3:00-3:45	Guidance on Routine Optimization	Jean Wiz and Dave Nguyen, tQASs, TC1600
3:45-4:00	Closing Remarks/Discussion	John LeGuyader, Bruce Kisliuk, Christopher Low, Directors, Technology Center 1600