Monday, August 18, 2025
Hot Topics in Chemistry & the Law
Time: 8:00 AM – 12:00 pm ET
Room: University of DC (Marriott Marquis Washington)
Presiders: Gabriel Ferrante and Richard Bone
8:00-8:25 AM 4278553 – Rising influence of chemophobia and scientific distrust on emerging chemical legislation and litigation by Peter Coneski
9:15-9:40 AM 4314992 – Double edged sword: Advances and challenges in contemporary forensic chemistry by Raychelle Burks, American University
9:40-10:05AM 4319055 – From standing at the bench to Standing in Court by Jonathan Underwood
10:05-10:30AM 4320461 – Freedom-to-operate analysis: Ensuring a clear path for chemical innovations by Jie Lu
10:30-10:55AM 4325793 – From discovery to dollars: Winning strategies for attracting investors by Annaka Nava
10:55-11:20AM 4326646 – From academia to IP litigation by Lihui Bai
11:20-11:45AM 4335400 – Considerations for maximizing a therapeutic product’s value based on patent strategies by Miho Kaneko, Goodwin Procter
11:45-12:00PM 4313304 – Hydrofunctionalization of unsaturated compounds using Ca precatalysts with or without irradiation by Moniruzzaman Moniruzzaman
CHAL, CHAS & SCHB Social
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Chemistry Inside the Beltway: Live Policy Issues in Chemistry
Time: 8:00 AM – 11:20 AM ET
Room: George Washington University (Marriott Marquis Washington)
Presiders: Gabriel Ferrante and Richard Bone
8:00-8:25AM 4278762 – Synopsis of federal science funding by Alessandra Zimmermann
8:25-8:50AM 4279551 – U.S. federal policy on critical materials: An overview by Matthew Diasio
8:50-9:15AM 4305177 – Policy and funding to aid DNA analysts in meeting training standards in forensic science by Kelly Elkins, Towson University
9:15-9:40AM 4311708 – Big “C” in trade and tariffs: Chemicals by Samantha De Carlo
9:40-10:05AM 4319659 – National security is threatened by supply of chemical additives for polymer and rubber industries by Irene Yurovskaya
10:30-10:55AM 4327792 – Science and public policy: How scientists can shape the regulatory environment following the Supreme Court’s holding in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo by Roger Hanshaw
10:55-11:20AM 4336643 – IP Policy in 2025 by Gabriel Ferrante, Goodwin Procter LLP
International Aspects of Intellectual Property Law
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:40 PM ET
Room: University of DC (Marriott Marquis Washington)
Presiders: Gabriel Ferrante and Richard Bone
2:00-2:25PM 4283916 – Inventorship and patentability of AI-related inventions: Comparative insights from IP5 guidelines and recent case study by Dongyan Yu
2:25-2:50PM 4291334 – Fate of patents with broad functional claims in the U.S. and in Europe: A discussion of Amgen v. Sanofi by Holger Tostmann
2:50-3:15PM 4320511 – Perspectives from two years into the European Unified Patent Court (UPC) by Joseph Lenthall
3:15-3:40PM 4324088 – Secret commercial use and grace periods in Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia by John Landells
3:40-4:05PM 4388334 – Global IP Trends Facing the Chemical Sector by Mary Critharis
Thursday, August 21, 2025
Patents, Chemical Information, and AI
Time: 8:00 AM – 11:20 AM ET
Room: East Salon B (Walter E. Washington Convention Center)
Presiders: Andrew Berks and Richard Bone
8:00-8:05 AM Introductory remarks
8:05-8:25AM 4304105 – Exploring relationships between chemicals, genes, proteins, diseases, and organisms in PubChem using analysis of their co-occurrences in patents by Leonid Zaslavsky
8:25-8:45AM 4317751 – Patent peekaboo: Uncovering reactions hidden in analogy by Rachael Pirie
8:45-9:05AM 4319031 – Mapping safer chemical space using a benign chemical database by Tobias Muellers
9:05-9:25AM 4322457 – Mining the outputs of AI drug discovery from patents by Christopher Southan
9:25-9:45AM 4322572 – Extracting comprehensive organic reaction data from over 4000 papers: A multi-modal AI approach by Samuel Munday, University of Southampton
9:45-10:05AM 4325079 – CAS SciFinder with customer data: A personalized solution for our users by Brinda Ramasubramanian
10:15-10:35AM 4325916 – Celebrating 40 years of ChemDraw: evolution and innovation in chemical drawing by Lindsey Rickershauser and Nicolas Triballeau
10:35-10:55AM 4326137 – Harnessing the power of large language models in compuational chemistry by Qianyi Cheng
10:55-11:15AM 4326249 – Evaluation of saagar descriptors for cheminformatics applications by Alexander Sedykh
11:15-11:35AM 4326495 – Advancing molecular design: Leveraging language models for modular de novo compound generation by Ruchir Shah
11:35-11:55AM 4326909 – Advances in substructure search of chemical databases (from patents) by Roger Sayle
11:55-12:00AM Closing remarks