The Fall season brings not only football, changing leaves and pumpkins, but also many program opportunities on your favorite legal issues — ours being standard essential patents.  Here are some program opportunities in the coming weeks to consider:

Today, Tuesday Oct. 13 at 2pm – 3pm Eastern, Intellectual Property Owners Association IP Chat Channel

This coming Thursday, October 30, 2014, Law Seminars International will be hosting in Seattle (and over webcast) a one-day seminar on FRAND Obligations from 8:30 am to 5pm Pacific.  Here is a link to the program: FRAND Obligations.  Topics to be discussed include the following, including a topic presented by our own David Long:

Reminder (and correcting some email notices) that the Essential Patent Blog and Kelley Drye & Warren LLP will host a complimentary webinar on Thursday, Oct. 17 at 12pm Eastern to discuss the import of Judge Holderman’s Oct. 3 RAND opinion in the Innovatio IP Ventures Patent Litigation and comparison with Judge Robart’s RAND methodology from

Please join the Essential Patent Blog and Kelley Drye & Warren LLP for a complimentary webinar on Thursday, Oct. 17 at 12:00pm Eastern to discuss the import of Judge Holderman’s recent RAND decision in the In re Innovatio IP Ventures, LLC Patent Litigation.  Judge Holderman’s October 3rd decision is only the second U.S. district