MBHB Partner Donald L. Zuhn, Ph.D., to speak at ACI’s Pharma/Biotech Patent Claim Drafting & Prosecution Workshop

MBHB Partner Don Zuhn will be speaking on Day 2 of the ACI workshop “Pharma/Biotech Patent Claim Construction and Prosecution”. Dr. Zuhn will be discussing “Getting it Right the First Time: Best Practices for Demonstrating Utility”. Issues his 45 minute talk will address include:

• Ensuring specific assertions of utility are included in the application
• What constitutes acceptable support for establishing that the utility is credible?
• What is currently considered not sufficiently substantial?

• methods for treating unspecified disorders

• gene probes

• chromosome markers

• further research

• Overcoming utility rejections with genomics

Additional details and registration information are available in this PDF brochure.