Kilpatrick Stockton partner and co-chair of the patent litigation group Steve Gardner will discuss important patent cases from 2009 and what opinions in those cases mean to in-house counsel and intellectual property managers.

Topics to include:

• the impact of the Federal Circuit's decision in In re Bilski;
• developments in claim construction law;
• developments in the law of damages;
• developments in the "written description" requirement;
• inequitable conduct, standing, licensing;
• and others.