CIPLA

[Mark A Montana]

Please note that we have some limited spots available for the meeting on Thursday at the ACC.  Here is the outline of the presentation.  If you want to attend but have not yet sent an RSVP, please let me know.

Intellectual Property due diligence at M&A activity  
--focus on Impact of AIA on Patent Due Diligence
 
1.       Ownership/Transferability
a.       Inventorship
b.      Ownership issues
                                                               i.      Impact of Stanford v. Roche  (recent US Supreme Court decision)
1.       Present conveyance or more??
c.       Carve-out provisions
d.      Post-AIA Diligence—Impact of AIA
                                                               i.      Oath/Declaration
                                                             ii.      ADS-related issues
                                                            iii.      Inventor v. Applicant
                                                           iv.      New formality requirements
2.       Freedom to Operate (Intellectual Property Sufficiency??)
a.       Focus of the FTO—litigation or defensive purposes
b.      Impact of 3^rd party’s patent
c.       FTO show stoppers
d.      Dealing with patent infringement
                                                               i.      Representation/warranties/indemnity
3.       Validity/enforcement
a.       Objectives/stages of investigation
b.      Coverage & protection
                                                               i.      Claim scope
                                                             ii.      Specification definitiveness
c.       Prior Art Under AIA
                                                               i.      Effectively filed v. Effective filing data
d.      Representative v. Warranties
                                                               i.      Effective scope
4.       Insurance


Mark A. Montana
Senior Counsel
614 790-4684

ASHLAND INC.

Law Department
5200 Blazer Parkway
Dublin, Ohio 43017

F: 614 790-1252

ashland.com

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