In this episode, guest host Stephanie Sanders, Global Patent Operations Chief at Kilpatrick Townsend, speaks with two professional development experts about how to become the CEO of your legal career....more
Stephanie Sanders is currently the global patent operations chief at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton. In this role, Stephanie is responsible for ensuring that the firm’s IP teams continually improve their patent prosecution...more
Data, like bacon, is a wonderful thing. It is universally loved, and goes well with everything. But for both data and bacon, you need to be careful that you don’t end up with too much of a good thing.
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Starting June 6th, companies can use the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs to protect industrial designs in Mexico. The Hague Agreement provides a mechanism for protecting an...more
At the Licensing Executives Society (LES) 2019 Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Kilpatrick Townsend’s Global Patent Operations Chief Stephanie Sanders participated in a panel discussion titled “Best Practices in IP Operations.” The...more
At its 2019 Vegas Institute in May 2019, the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) debuted a new intellectual property (IP) core competencies model, which provides a practice-specific lens through which legal...more
On April 25, 2019, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) once again hosted Design Day at its Alexandria, Virginia headquarters. The event was also streamed live to the USPTO Regional Offices and, for the first time,...more
The USPTO is implementing the long-awaited Access to Relevant Prior Art Initiative (“RPA Initiative”) with a first phase that begins on November 1, 2018. The RPA Initiative will allow the USPTO to leverage its electronic...more