EDTX Bench/Bar – Day 2

Originally published by Michael C. Smith.

Unlike yesterday, the bench bar didn't start off with a bang. (ba-da-bing).  But so far we've had:

• EDTX Women's Lawyers breakfast – women taking the lead role at trial
• Opening remarks
• Discussion of the patent system – PTO Director Michelle Lee
• The panel up now is discussing how judges and businesses make decisions in the current unsettled legal environment, with CAFC Judge O'Malley D Del Chief Judge Stark, EDTX Judge Gilstrap, and corporate counsel Tina Chappell from Intel and Ken Korea with Samsung, moderated by former EDTX Judge Leonard Davis.

The day is a monster one, programmatically speaking, with the rest of the morning having:

• social media in selecting juries
• does the patent system need fixin' or putting the fix in?

After lunch we'll have:

• Conversation with CAFC Chief Judge Sharon Prost
• diversity and youth in trial teams
• Defending smaller patent cases under the new federal rules
• pros and cons of special patent courts
• trials with magistrate judges
• General Michael Hayden providing the keynote address on cybersecurity issues, followed by a panel on the issue.

The evening closes with Emerald City providing music for dancing with made to order ice cream sundaes.

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