Events
Duane Morris Partner Sharon Caffrey to Speak at the American Conference Institute's FDA Boot Camp
September 27, 2010 | Boston
| Seaport Hotel
Duane Morris partner Sharon L. Caffrey will be speaking at the American Conference Institute's (ACI) FDA Boot Camp: Basic Training for Products Liability and Patent Lawyers, to be held on September 27-28, 2010, in Boston, Massachusetts.
Ms. Caffrey will present on the topic of "Preemption Fundamentals" on Tuesday, September 28, at 9:15 a.m. She will address the following areas of interest in her discussion: defining express and implied preemption, recognizing the basis for drug and device preemption, uncovering how the presumption against preemption has been applied in drug and device litigation, recognizing the interplay between preemption and the FDA regulatory process, emerging precedents: Riegel v. Medtronic and Wyeth v. Levine and Circuit decisions applying them, and understanding the "parallel requirements" exception to preemption.
About ACI's FDA Boot Camp
The FDA Boot Camp is the industry standard in providing non-regulatory professionals with a regulatory background. It has been designed to give products or patent litigators, as well as patent prosecutors and life sciences investment and securities insiders, a strong working knowledge of core FDA regulatory competencies.
For more information or to register to attend, please visit the ACI website.
