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	03/10/2011 McAndrews, Held & Malloy Shareholder Christopher V. Carani Invited to Speak at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for Design Day 2011
	McAndrews, Held & Malloy Shareholder Christopher V. Carani will be presenting the topic, "Post-Egyptian Goddess Case Law Analysis - Where do things stand? Infringement, Claim Construction and Validity," at the 2011 USPTO Design Day on April 5, 2011. Design Day 2011 – The World of Designs: Design Practice and the International Marketplace – will discuss current issues in Design Patent Law, including the critical role that U.S. Design Patent Applications play in a global patent strategy, design appeals before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, and how recent trends in industrial design will impact design patent prosecution and defense. For program and registration information, visit www.aipla.org. Christopher V. Carani, Esq. is a shareholder at the intellectual property law firm of McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd. based in Chicago, Illinois. He is nationally recognized in the field of Design Law, which covers design patents, trade dress and 3D copyrights. He has litigated numerous disputes, lectured and published extensively, counseled clients on a wide range of strategic design protection and enforcement issues, and served as consultant and expert witness in design law cases. He recently completed his four-year term as chair of the Industrial Design Committee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA). In Egyptian Goddess, the Federal Circuit's landmark design patent case, he authored amicus briefs on behalf of the AIPLA at both the petition and en banc stages. He also authored amicus briefs for AIPLA in Richardson v. Stanley and Lawman v. Winner.