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Joint Holiday Meeting
of the
Maryland and District of Columbia Local Chapters
December 14, 2004
at
The Historic Savage Mill Manor House
Savage, MD

5:30 - 8:30 pm

Bring your holiday cheer and join friends and colleagues for the MD/DC Joint Holiday Event at the Historic Savage Mill Manor. This event should prove to be a very special night as J. Gregory Townsend, Associate Director, Commercial Development in DuPont's Intellectual Assets and Licensing Department will share his experience in growing DuPont's licensing business and offer specific examples from their end-user licensing program for the OncoMouse® technology which has found broad commercial interest in current oncology drug discovery and development.

Topic: "Mining and Extracting Value from Intellectual Property: Growth from DuPont's Intellectual Assets and Licensing Business"

Speaker Introduction:
Greg recently assumed responsibility for Finance and Planning in DuPont's Growth Initiatives Strategic Business Unit, which includes DuPont's technology licensing business and corporate new ventures group. Prior to his current role, he was Associate Director of DuPont's Intellectual Assets and Licensing Business, handling outlicensing of technologies to pharmaceutical and biotech companies. He joined DuPont's licensing business during its formation in 1999 as Financial Manager, following over ten years of diverse assignments in product management, business finance and planning with DuPont's Packaging and Industrial Polymers businesses, including elastomers, vinyls, and ethylene copolymers. His experience prior to DuPont includes business roles at Air Products and Chemicals and process research and development at Sunoco. He holds BS and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware and Carnegie-Mellon University, and he earned an MBA degree from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Location:
The Historic Savage Mill Manor
8502 Fair St.
Savage, MD 20763
(301) 362-9900

The Historic Savage Mill Manor is a beautiful Victorian home located near the Savage Mill Antiques Mall. It will be dressed up for the holidays, so as to get us all in the holiday spirit.

Directions: www.savagemill.com/directions.html
Overflow parking: Turn Left on to Fair St. and you will find a lot in approx. 1/2 block.

Meeting Format:
5.30 - 6:30 pm - Social Hour
6:30 - 7:30 pm - Presentation and Q&A session
7:30 - 8:30 pm - Coffee and Dessert

Registration Fees: $40

To Reserve a Space:
Choose one of the following options to reserve your space by Friday, December 10:

1) Register online with your credit card. Please complete a separate online registration for each attendee.

2) Complete the registration form (one per person) and send with a check (payable to Licensing Executives Society) to:

Licensing Executives Society c/o Catherine E. Vorwald
Johns Hopkins University, Licensing and Technology Development
100 N. Charles St. Fifth Floor
Baltimore, MD 21201

Include your Name, Title, Company, Phone & E-mail Address (The more complete information we receive, the more useful the Meeting Attendee List.)

Please put event date in the "For" line in the lower left corner of the check.

Policy on Registration Fees and Cancellations:
$40.00 in advance - received by close-of-business Friday, December 10
$50.00 after December 10 and at-the-door
Cancellations made after close-of-business December 10 cannot be reimbursed, but substitutions are welcome!

Dress Code:
Business Casual, Santa Hats encouraged!

For more information, please contact:
Catherine E. Vorwald
e-mail: cvorwal1@jhmi.edu
phone: (410) 516-4964