2025 Schedule of Events Overview

Last Updated, July 31, 2025

Here is what you can expect to see and do while attending BIO's Intellectual Property Conference in Palm Springs. Please check back to this page regularly as we get closer to the conference in November for more session and speaker details. 

Monday
Nov 17
November 17, 2025 ・ 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM

 

1:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Registration open

12:00 PM - 2:50 PM

IPC Business Meeting & Luncheon*

*Open to IP Counsels Committee Company Members Only

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Refreshment Break

3:30 PM - 4: 45 PM

Navigating the Road of Joint Inventorship

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Welcome Reception

   Sponsored by: dfmp

 

*Open to IP Counsel Committee company members only

Tuesday
Nov 18
November 18, 2025 ・ 8:00 AM - 8:30 PM

 

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Breakfast

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Public Disclosures and Patent Risks: US vs EP Perspectives

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM

Refreshment Break

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Details Coming Soon

11:45 AM - 1:00 PM

Networking Lunch Buffet

* Lunch Fireside Chat: How to Work with Academics in IP Policy Research.

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM

Antibody Inventions:  The Life and Times of the Genus Claim

2:15 PM - 2:30 PM

Refreshment Break

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

BPCIA Litigation Update: Key Cases, Trends, and Takeaways from 2024–2025

3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Happy Hour

           5:30 PM - 8:30 PM 

  Networking Activity & Dinner Reception
  Sponsored by Venable

 

Wednesday
Nov 19
November 19, 2025 ・ 8:00 AM - 11:15 AM

 

8:00 AM - 8:45 AM

Breakfast

8:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Using AI In Patent Practice: Practical and Ethical Issues

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM

Refreshment Break

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM

How to Talk to Policymakers about Biopharma Patent Portfolios: A Conversation Under Chatham House Rules

11:15 AM

Program Adjourns