The event The Patenting of Life Forms: 25 Years since the Chakrabarty Patent will be held on Wednesday, October 26th from 6:00-8:00 at Palo Alto Research Center (“PARC”) , 3333 Coyote Hill Rd., Palo Alto, CA. The speakers will include Mark E. Andrews, BioTech Nation, National Public Radio; Mark Bosse, Gilead Sciences; Dr. Ananda Chakrabarty, University of Illinois at Chicago; George Elliot, Technology Center 1600, USPTO; Elizabeth Howard,Orrick, Herrington, and Sutcliffe LLP.

The event Trans-National License Patenting, sponsored by the Silicon Valley Chapter of the Licensing Executives Society (“LES”), will be held on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 from 11:30-1:30 PM at Cooley Godward LLP, 3175 Hanover Road in Palo Alto, CA.

BioNetwork 2005 will be held on October 24-26th at the Ritz Carlton, Laguna Niguel, CA, and will address current issues in corporate partnering for the biotech industry. The event is also intended to facilitate potential corporate partnership opportunities.

The BioInvestor Forum 2005 will be held on October 19-20 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, CA, and will explore current trends in and opportunities in the biotech industry.

The Bioscience Forum will be held on Tuesday, October 18th through Thursday, October 20th, 2005 at two California Locations, the Clarion Hotel in San Francisco at 401 East Millbrae Avenue, Millbrae, CA and at the University of San Diego, Institute of Peace and Justice. The Symposium will present the latest information from the USPTO Examining Group 1600, which deals with Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, and Organic Chemistry, and will provide the most current information from the USPTO regarding a variety of issues, including registration practice, electronic filing of patent applications, sequence listings, and other matters.

A roundtable event for BIO and Bay Bio members on regulatory and reimbursement policy will be held on Monday, October 17th at 5:00-7:00 p.m. at the BayBio Offices at 395 Oyster Point Blvd., Suite 117, South San Francisco, CA 94080. The roundtable will focus on the industry’s policy agenda in Washington and BIO’s capital formation agenda with a specific focus on Sarbanes-Oxley and stock option expensing as well as its comprehensive tax legislation. For more information contact Jodie Rothschild or Laura Cornachio at BIO, 1225 Eye Street, Suite 400, NW, Washington, D.C. 20005, 202.962.6630.

The Life Sciences Entrepreneur & Investors Rountables will be held on October 11, 2005 from 5:30 to 9:30 at the Crowne Plaza Cabana, 4290 El Caminor Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306. The event will promote networking between bioscience entrepreneurs and investors.

The Life Sciences Entrepreneur & Investors Rountables will be held on October 11, 2005 from 5:30 to 9:30 at the Crowne Plaza Cabana, 4290 El Caminor Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306. The event will promote networking between bioscience entrepreneurs and investors.

The event Biotech in San Francisco: Development Issues and Opportunities will be held on Tuesday, October 4, 2005 at 6:00 p.m. at Genentech Hall (Mission Bay) at the Main Auditorium, 600 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94143. The speakers will include Jesse Blout, the Executive Director of the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Workforce and Economic Development, Warren S. Browner, M.D., M.P.H, the Vice President Academic Affairs and Scientific Director for the Research Institute at California Pacific Medical Center, and Gail Maderis, Five Prime Therapeutics, Inc. The panel will discuss the future for biotech in the Bay Area and some of the advantages for biotech development in the Bay Area. The event is sponsored by Foley & Lardner.

The event Stem Cell Research: Charting New Directions for California will be held October 1-2, 2005 at the Renaissance Parc 55, San Francisco.