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6 J. High Tech. L. i (2006)

handle is hein.journals/jhtl6 and id is 1 raw text is: Resolving Uncertainty in Biotechnology Patent Law: Foreword to the Second Annual Journal of High Technology Law Symposium Andrew Beckerman-Rodaul & Michael L. Rustad2 Cite as: 6 J. High Tech L i. On November 18, 2005, Suffolk University Law School's Advanced Legal Studies program presented a conference entitled: Safe Harbour/Experimental Use, Inherency, Obviousness, and Utility: Resolving Uncertainty in Biotechnology Patent Law. The conference was co-sponsored by the Intellectual Property Law Concentration at Suffolk University Law School, the Boston Patent Law Association, Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C., and the Journal of High Technology Law (JHTL). The conference brought together distinguished patent attorneys, corporate counsel for biotechnology companies, and officials from the United States Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia. As advisors to the JHTL and Directors of the Intellectual Property Law Concentration at Suffolk University Law School, we are pleased to introduce the Second Annual JHTL Symposium issue. The articles in this issue, first presented at the above conference, are doctrinal, policy-driven, and reform-minded. Together, they offer insightful commentary on recent Supreme Court and Federal Circuit decisions that affect both the patentability and the scope of protection afforded biotechnology innovations. The title of the symposium issue reflects the dilemmas faced by the biotechnology industry in light of unclear messages from the federal judiciary. The articles focus on important biotechnology patent law issues such as the statutory safe harbor exemption, common law experimental use, utility, written description, nonobviousness and anticipation. This introduction will briefly review the four articles comprising this Symposium issue. 1. Professor of Law & Co-Director of Intellectual Property Law Concentration, Suffolk University Law School Boston, Massachusetts. 2. Thomas F. Lambert Jr. Professor of Law & Co-Director of Intellectual Property Law Concentration, Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts.

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