IP Litigation & Patent Strategy for Polymer Engineers

How polymer patents are written, construed, and challenged — ITC, PTAB, and federal courts — from a practitioner's perspective.

Private cohorts & on-site
Format: 2-day (8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.)
Level: Advanced
Location: Scheduled on demand · on-site at your facility or a regional venue
Date(s): Not yet scheduled for open enrollment. Get notified when it is, or book it privately for your team.
Includes: Certificate of Completion · printed slide binder · take-home reference text

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Faculty

Faculty details for this seminar will be announced with the full schedule.

Fees

Early: $1,895 (payment 4+ weeks ahead)
Standard: $2,095 (check/ACH) · $2,165 (card)

Group discount: $200 off per attendee for 3+ from the same organization.

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  • Corporate on-site delivery at your facility
  • Private cohort sessions
  • Digital curriculum licensing

Seminar Overview

Patent disputes in polymers are decided by engineering evidence — claim construction, validity, infringement of formulations and process claims — and engineers who can read and challenge that evidence control the outcome. Built on an affiliated engineering firm's high-volume IP practice (ITC, PTAB, and federal cases), this seminar teaches polymer engineers how polymer patents are written, how claims are construed, what makes a formulation claim valid or invalid, and the evidence that proves or defeats infringement. It is the practical bridge from lab bench to the IP war room.

Ideal Learner

  • R&D scientists and materials engineers whose work generates patents
  • In-house counsel and IP professionals needing technical depth
  • Engineers supporting litigation as fact or technical witnesses
  • Polymer compounders and formulators protecting composition-of-matter claims
  • Product engineers facing patent disputes on their components

Learning Objectives

  • Read a polymer patent's claims and identify the technical boundaries
  • Explain claim construction from the technologist's side
  • Evaluate validity of composition- and process-of-matter claims
  • Assemble technical evidence of infringement or invalidity
  • Convey technical findings clearly in the IP litigation context

Consulting Sessions

Seminar attendees can sign up for individual consulting sessions with the instructor. Sessions are free for registered attendees, first-come first-served — sign up when registering by calling 248-539-0473 or during the seminar.

Seminar Outline

  • Claims structure: independent vs. dependent, composition vs. process vs. article
  • The role of the specification and examples
  • Common polymer claim types: ranges, Markush groups, process steps
  • How courts and PTAB construe terms
  • The specification as a dictionary, and its limits
  • Where technical nuance decides construction disputes
  • Applying prior art to a polymer claim
  • Obviousness of compositions: combinations, substitutions, predictable results
  • Enablement and written-description challenges to broad claims
  • Claim-by-claim analysis of a formulation
  • Analytical evidence: spectroscopy, composition, process first principles
  • The experimentalist's role in infringement proofs
  • Section 337 (ITC) discovery and remedy mechanics
  • Inter partes review at the PTAB
  • Defending and attacking technical positions across forums
  • Attendees analyze a supplied polymer claim set
  • Build a technical case statement
  • Receive feedback on technical evidence quality

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