The Second Annual Law Seminars International Conference: Running the Race With Biotechnology will take place on November 17-18, 2005 at the Hilton Torrey Pines in La Jolla, California, and will provide an overview of current legal issues in the biotech industry.

California’s Healthcare Policy Forum, sponsored by the California Healthcare Institute, will be held November 17-18, 2005 in San Francisco, and will bring together executives from biomedical device and pharmaceutical companies, leaders from academic research institutions in California, and state policymakers to discuss public policy challenges facing the bioscience community’s work and needs.

The event The Checkered Past and Promising Future of Antibody Therapeutics will be held at on Wednesday, November 16, 2005 at 6:00 p.m. in the Clarion Hotel, 401 East Millbrae Avenue, Millbrae, California. C. Geoff Davis, Ph.D., Senior Vice President of Research at Abgenix will speak, examining the technological breakthroughs that have elevated monoclonal antibodies to the forefront of biologics.

The event U.S.-India Synergy in Life Sciences will be held on Saturday, November 12th from 7:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Clarion Hotel, 401 E. Millbrae Avenue, Millbrae, CA 94030. The one day symposium will address cost and value arbitrage in the therapeutics and diagnostics areas related to reseach and development, manufacturing, clinical development, and market opportunities.

The event Biotechnology Law 2005 will be held November 15, 2005 at the PLI California Center in San Francisco, CA. The event will address the latest developments in patents, as well as advice on structuring biotech startups, the proper valuation of biotech and pharma inventions, tax implications for biotech deals, and critical ethical issues in biotechnology today.

The BayBio Pantheon Awards will be presented on November 10, 2006 at 6:30 at Herbst Pavilion at Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA. The awards ceremony will recognize excellence in the local biotech community.

The Biotech Investing Conference will take place on November 2-3, 2005 at the Westin San Francisco Airport at 1 Bayshore Highway, Millbrae, CA 94030, and will address such issues as investing opportunities in the current biotech market, opportunities in biotech deal flow, and new models for funding R & D/university spinouts.

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.

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.

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.