Oral Advocacy at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
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This Course
If you are an inexperienced attorney who needs to learn the basics of oral advocacy in federal district court hearings and appellate courts, you need to attend this program. We will use one federal administrative court, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), as a teaching example.
The PTAB combines elements of trial and appellate court oral advocacy, and of remote and in person presentation, in a single forum. Discussions will include the fundamentals of oral advocacy (highlighting effective and ineffective examples), making successful visual and audio presentations in a virtual forum, an introduction to oral advocacy in federal district court hearings, the format of a typical argument, and best practices when presenting to administrative law judges at the PTAB.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the fundamentals of oral advocacy
- Discover virtual oral advocacy
- Explore oral advocacy in federal district court hearings
- Investigate appellate oral advocacy
- Delineate the differences in presenting to trial court judges versus administrative law judges
About the Presenters
Chris J. Coulson, Esq.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates
Practice Area: Intellectual Property
Chris Coulson represents technology, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and other companies in a wide range of intellectual property and commercial litigation matters. He has extensive experience handling cases in federal courts and before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.Prior to joining Skadden, Mr. Coulson served as a trial attorney at the Department of Justice and as an associate at other major law firms.Mr. Coulson dedicates a portion of his practice to pro bono matters. Mr. Coulson recently first-chaired a Section 1983 civil rights trial in the Southern District of New York. Earlier in his ...
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