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DATE and TIME:
Tuesday, April 20th, 2004
5:30 - 8:00 pm

LOCATION:
Clifford Chances' 53rd floor conference room
200 Park Avenue at 45th St
New York, NY
212-867-9550

SCHEDULE:
Meeting starts at 5:30 pm with a networking session (hors d'oeuvres and open bar) followed by a 6:15 pm presentation.

SPEAKER:
Gus Orphanides, Ph.D., Director, IAM and Licensing, Air Products and Chemicals

TOPIC:
"Making Licensing Part of the Business"

"Making licensing part of the business" is a challenging task in an operating business that traditionally has extracted value by selling products and investing in capital assets to manufacture them. Such a business' intellectual assets, more often than not, were created to defend those hard assets and to be kept close in and not to be shared by others. Top management's support is absolutely essential in adding licensing as an additional arm of the business, but it is not enough. Changing behaviors and business practices requires 'change management' to overcome the inertia to change and to effect the desired outcome where licensing becomes another business practice to help the business grow profitably.

REGISTRATION:
1) E-mail your contact information (name, title, company, phone, e-mail) to harry@quid.com with the subject line: "LES-NYC Registration"

2) Mail check for $50, payable to NYC Licensing Executives Society to:
Dennis Ellison
Clifford Chance
200 Park Avenue at 45th St
New York, NY 10166

Cost:
The event fee is $50 in advance / $60 at the door. (Sorry, no charge cards, we do accept corporate and personal checks, and cash.)

DIRECTIONS TO 200 PARK AVENUE:
Clifford Chances' 53rd floor conference room is conveniently located in the Met Life Building (200 Park Ave.) which is adjacent to the north side of Grand Central Station on 45th and Park Avenue and readily accessible by mass transit. Park Avenue splits into Vanderbilt Ave. and Depuy Place between 42nd and 45th streets. The Met Life Building is on 45th between Vanderbilt Ave. and Depuy Place which merge at 45th to become Park Avenue again.

FUTURE MEETING DATES:
May 12-14, LES 2004 Spring Meeting: "Liberty and Leverage Through Licensing", Marriott Marquis