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Course Information
  • smart_display Format

    On-Demand

  • signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level

  • work Practice Area

    Patent

Date & Time
  • event Date

    Tuesday, August 2, 2022

  • schedule Time

    1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT

  • timer Program Length

    90 minutes

Credit Information

  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.

$347.00
CLE
ALL

This CLE webinar will guide patent counsel on patent protection in the metaverse. The panel will discuss the challenges of getting patents, subject matter eligibility, and the novelty and non-obviousness requirements. The panel will also discuss using design patents to protect innovations in the metaverse. The panel will offer best practices for protecting innovation in the metaverse.

Faculty

Christine M. Morgan
Partner
Reed Smith

Ms. Morgan is an intellectual property and complex commercial trial lawyer with repeated successes for companies accused of infringing computer hardware and software patents. She has achieved cost-effective wins for clients in several industries including video game publishing, Fintech, ride sharing, consumer hardware and electronics, Wi-Fi semiconductors,  mobile printers, healthcare software and hardware, wireless security cameras, Bluetooth-enabled tracking devices, cloud content management, and electronic loyalty programs. Where cases cannot be resolved short of trial, Ms. Morgan tries them. Over the past seven years, she has tried seven patent cases in the Eastern District of Texas, the Northern District of California, the Eastern District of Virginia, the International Trade Commission, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, two as first chair.

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Joseph Wolfe
Attorney
DLA Piper

Mr. Wolfe concentrates his practice on intellectual property, including domestic and foreign patent prosecution and preparation, patent validity and infringement analysis, and due diligence. His work includes preparing and prosecuting patent applications in a wide variety of technology areas, among them computer software and hardware, artificial intelligence, financial technologies (business methods/blockchain), virtualization technology, electrical products and integrated circuits, semiconductor manufacturing equipment and processes, and mechanical fields. Mr. Wolfe also assists with due diligence and opinion work relating to patentability, infringement, validity, and freedom to operate.

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Description

The metaverse is shared interactive and collaborative virtual 3D worlds where people can work and play. Many companies are developing innovations to be used in the metaverse. Seeking patents for these innovations will help ensure they protect their IP rights. As with patent applications for real-world innovations, innovations in the metaverse must meet the subject matter eligibility requirements to get patent protection.

Patent applicants must also meet the requirements of novelty and non-obviousness. One consideration should be whether there is something equivalent outside the metaverse. If where the innovation is used (metaverse vs. non-metaverse) is the only difference between the patent application and another invention, the applicant will face a difficult hurdle to overcome.

Inventors, companies, and their counsel who fail to secure their patent rights for innovations in the metaverse may find it challenging to combat infringement and enforce their patent rights in the metaverse.

Listen as our authoritative panel of IP attorneys examines patent protection in the metaverse. The panel will discuss the challenges of getting patents, subject matter eligibility, and the novelty and non-obviousness requirements. The panel will also discuss using design patents to protect innovations in the metaverse. The panel will offer best practices for protecting innovation in the metaverse.

Outline

  1. Patenting innovation in the metaverse
    • Subject matter eligibility
    • Novelty
    • Non-obviousness
  2. Use of design patents
  3. Strategies for protecting innovation in the metaverse
    • Monitoring
    • Enforcement

Benefits

The panel will review these and other vital issues:

  • How should counsel use patent laws to protect innovation in the metaverse?
  • What are the hurdles to protecting innovations in the metaverse?
  • What best practices should counsel employ to protect innovations and enforce patents in the metaverse?