From 3 to 4 December 2015, the CASRIP Conference “Future of Innovation in Medicine: Incentives for New Medical Treatments and Global Health” will take place in Seattle at the University of Washington, School of Law. Here, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner and patent lawyer, Dr Ute Kilger will participate in the second day of the event, speaking on the panel “Patentability and Patent Extension of New Use and New Dosage Regimen for Existing Drugs”. The panel will be hosted by Dr Andrew Serafini, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton. Further experts on the panel are: Hon. Peter Meier-Beck, Federal Supreme Court; Shinjiro Ono, Yuasa & Hara, Tokyo, Japan, Former Japan Patent Office Deputy Commissioner; Robert Stoll, Drinker Biddle & Reath, Former USPTO Commissioner as well as Nicola Dagg, Allen & Overy.