With innovation today driving global economic growth, a company’s ability to leverage its intellectual assets is often the key to financial success. The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), the World Intellectual Property Organization’s international patent filing system, has a strategic place in the intellectual asset management process as an effective and efficient tool for obtaining patent rights worldwide. In light of the central role played by the PCT in the international patent system, William Mitchell College of Law is convening a one-day intellectual property symposium to explore the benefits of the PCT, as well as its challenges, and to place the PCT in its proper international patent context.
William
Mitchell's PCT Symposium 2006
is sponsored by Fredrikson & Byron.
The
symposium's proceedings will be transcribed and published in Volume
32, Issue 4 of the William
Mitchell
Law Review and made available for no charge to
symposium attendees.