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LES-Los Angeles Chapter Lunch Seminar

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Title: "What Every Licensor Should Know About Royalty Auditing"

The discussion will focus on:

Should you conduct a royalty audit - does it make economic and business sense?
The licensor's roles and responsibilities during a royalty audit
Why licensee's underreport - and they all do......
Leading terms and conditions that should be in each license agreement related to the right to audit and cost recovery
You've got the audit report, now what do you do?

Speaker: Mr. Sydney Blum, Partner, KPMG, LLP
Mr. Blum is a Partner with KPMG. Sid is globally recognized as a leader in contract compliance engagements. His national team of fully dedicated professionals provide a wide range of services from enforcing right-to-audit clauses to assisting in the establishment of contract administration for all types of 3rd party agreements such as royalty, distribution, 3rd party vendor, most favored nation, co-promotion, advertising, manufacturing, construction, revenue sharing and joint venture. His clients have included the world's licensing leaders in entertainment, technology, software, communications, biotechnology, healthcare, consumer products and toys in addition to many other contract arrangements. While personally traveling to over 25 countries, he and his teams have secured findings in excess of $200 million with findings exceeding costs over 95% of the time.

Title: "IP Management and Royalty Tracking Solutions"

Learn how you can utilize advanced technology solutions to better manage your IP assets and inbound/outbound licensing deals.
Discuss the value of IP management solutions for end-users and decision makers.
Find out what other companies are doing to improve control of their IP and related contractual relationships.

Speaker:
Mr. Kent Perkocha, Director, Nextance, Inc.
Mr. Perkocha is a Director with Nextance. Nextance is a provider of enterprise software for managing contracts and Intellectual Property. At Nextance, Kent has worked with some of the largest licensing organizations in Manufacturing, Entertainment, Technology, and Life Sciences Industries. During these engagements, Kent has coupled Nextance's domain expertise in licensing best practices with Nextance software and services to provide business applications that address key business issues for licensing organizations. Nextance currently works with customer such as Boeing, Wyeth Pharmaceutical, Houghton Mifflin and Hewlett Packard.

Date:
March 16, 2004

Time:
11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Registration: 11:45 a.m.
Lunch: 12:00

Mr. Blum's presentation begins at 12:00 p.m.
Mr. Perkocha's presentation begins at 1:00 p.m.

Location:
Los Angeles Athletic Club
431 West 7th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90014
Telephone: 213-625-2211

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Registration:
Fax: (714) 693-9293
E-Mail: lachapterles@sbcglobal.net

Cost:
$35 for LES members
$40 for Non-members
Parking at LAAC is $4.50.

Advance registration due by March 12, 2004. Prices increase by $5 after advance registration deadline, space permitting.

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