SFIPLA event on March 13

[RJ]

Good Afternoon IPLA,

Attached, please find a flyer for an event put on by the San Francisco
Intellectual Property Lawyer's Association and hosted by Kilpatrick
Townsend & Stockton LLP.

David Walker, a former Administrative Patent Judge, will be discussing
the the appeals process before the Board of Patent Appeals.

The event take place on Tuesday, March 13, 2012 from noon to 1:30 PM
(lunch will be served) and will take place at Kilpatrick Townsend.
Cost to students is only $15. This sounds like it will be an excellent
panel and I encourage everyone to attend.

RSVP at in...@sfipla.com. Please include name, firm/company, state bar
number, telephone number and e-mail address.

Thanks,

RJ Pal
Vice President of IPLA



Please join Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP and the SFIPLA in
welcoming



David Walker
for a presentation on:

Patent Appeals

David Walker, a former Administrative Patent Judge on the Board of
Patent Appeals and Interferences at the U.S. Patent
andTrademarkOffice, will join us to share his thoughts on best
practices for appeals before the Board. In particular, he will
discuss the composition and organization of the Board, when to Appeal,
whether or not to request a pre-appeal brief conference, the pros and
cons of requesting an oral hearing, how to frame the issues to improve
opportunity for success and why an appeal to the Board should not be
treated as just a continuation of prosecution as usual.

David Walker previously served as an Administrative Patent Judge on
the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences at the U.S. Patent
andTrademarkOffice, where he decided over 400 patent appeals and
authored over 100 opinions addressing the full range of patent
validity issues in a wide range of technologies. Prior to serving on
the Board, Dave served as Chief Patent Counsel for the NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center, where he managed the intellectual property
portfolio for NASA's premier earth and space science center, a major
hub for earth-space communications. Dave is now a partner at Barceló,
Harrison & Walker, LLP, where he represents high technology clients in
intellectual property matters and government contracts. He assists
clients in patent matters in aerospace and defense, satellite design
and operations, nuclear engineering, communication networks, signal
processing, mechanical, electrical, electronic, medical device,
Internet, software, and business methods technologies. David
received his J.D. fromStanfordLawSchool, his M.S.A.A.
fromStanfordUniversity, and his B.S.A.E. from the U.S. Naval Academy.



WHEN: Tuesday, March 13, 2012

TIME: 12 noon - 1:30 pm – Lunch will be served

WHERE: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton Llp

Two Embarcadero Center, 8th Floor

San Francisco,CA 94111



COST: $35 - members

$40 - non-members

$15 - students



Registration is required, as space is limited. Please send your check
to the SFIPLA (see below), or use PayPal via our website
(www.sfipla.com, click on "Monthly Programs" link).



To RSVP, contact the SFIPLA Administrator at in...@sfipla.com. Please
include name, firm/company, state bar number, telephone number and e-
mail address.