New Workshop Covers Successful Patents in the US and Worldwide - January 15, 2008 - HPTB is pleased to announce that its partner Christopher J. Palermo is Program Co-Chair, with Larry Nixon of Nixon Vanderhye, for Successful Multilateral Patents Workshop, a one-day conference by Law Seminars International. The workshop will focus on drafting the same patent specification for successful prosecution in the US, Europe, Japan, Australia, and China, with speakers from those countries. Please join us at the Hilton Crystal City at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia April 7, 2008 for this essential session for patent practitioners. Click here for the official conference website. This program will be repeated in San Francisco on June 23, 2008.

HPTB ANNOUNCES PARTNER PROMOTIONS
Kirk D. Wong, Christian A. Nicholes Promoted - December 17, 2007 Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP, a Silicon Valley law firm focused on patent preparation and prosecution, today announced the promotion of Kirk D. Wong to capital partner and Christian A. Nicholes to income partner. -read more-

HPTB continues expansion with three patent attorneys - September, 2007 - HPTB recently welcomed Howard Louie, Karl T. Rees, and Adam Stone as attorneys in its San Jose Office. HPTB now has 21 attorneys and agents including 6 partners and 15 associate attorneys or agents.

New publication - Strategies for Continuations and Claims, by Christopher J. Palermo and Brian D. Hickman. Provides a summary of the USPTO's final rules on continuations and claims of August 21, 2007, with suggestions on responsive strategies, immediate action, and new prosecution tasks. Presented by Christopher J. Palermo to the San Francisco Intellectual Property Law Association on September 13, 2007.

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