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The Licensing Executives Society (LES) USA-Canada annual meeting is taking place in San Diego from October 18-21, 2026. Three members of the NIH Technology Transfer Community will be speaking. NIH Office of Technology Transfer Director Tara Kirby will be speaking on the panel Evolving Best Practices

In Merck KGaA v. Integra Lifesciences I, Ltd., 125 S. Ct. 2372 (Jun. 13, 2005), the Supreme Court considered the scope of the exemption from patent infringement embodied in 35 U.S.C. § 271(e)(1). Under §271(e)(1), also referred to as the safe harbor provision, "[i]t shall not be an act of