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LES-Rochester Meeting – December 6, 2006

DATE and TIME:
Wednesday, December 6, 2006         
Noon – 1:15 PM

SPEAKER: Phyl Speser, J.D., Ph.D., Founder, Foresight Science & Technology

TOPIC: Technology Transfer and Licensing as a Global Supply Chain Problem

Using examples like the zipper, the horseshoe, and sliced bread (Why do we say something is the best thing since sliced bread?), as well as current cutting edge technologies from recent work by Foresight Science & Technology, Phyl will explain how to quickly identify and quantify viable markets and licensees, how to determine the value of a technology, and how to use the data collected to structure win-win term sheets and negotiation strategies.  A question and answer session will take place after Phyl’s talk.

SCHEDULE:
Meeting, lunch and networking starts at 12 noon followed by a 12:30 talk.  We will adjourn at 1:15 PM.

REGISTRATION:  Please send your request for a reservation to Kathy Manczuk,  kmanczuk@hiscockbarclay.com  

CHECKS:  $15 made payable to LES Rochester (includes lunch).

LOCATION:
Thomas R. FitzGerald
Hiscock & Barclay, LLP
2000 HSBC Plaza
100 Chestnut Street
Rochester, NY 14604-2404
585-325-7550

DIRECTIONS to Hiscock & Barclay, LLP
http://www.hiscockbarclay.com/firm/directions.asp?City=rochester&submit=true

Parking (for a fee) is located underneath the HSBC building. To enter the parking garage proceed to the intersection of Court and Broad Streets, taking an extreme sharp u-turn onto Broad Street. The entrance to the underground garage is immediately on the left as you turn onto Broad Street. After parking beneath the building, take the parking garage elevator to the 1st floor (main lobby) and take the main elevator to our offices on the 20th floor.  Metered spaces may be available in the vicinity of the building.

Biography
Phyl Speser has been called by Ashley Stevens, Director of the Office of Technology Transfer at Boston University, “one of the pioneers of the modern practice of technology transfer.” Phyl has supported commercialization of technologies in all fields of science and technology and across a wide range of industries. In April of this year, Phyl’s most recent book, The Art and Science of Technology Transfer, was released by John Wiley and Sons this year as part of its Intellectual Property Series.  Noted as an engaging and humorous speaker able to bring life to what is too often seen as a dry subject, Phyl will share insights, examples and methods for commercialization from this book with us.

Dr. Speser has been on all sides of technology transfer and commercialization. Phyl was the lead lobbyist for the Small Business Innovation Development Act, developer of the STTR concept with Roland Tibbetts, and a lobbyist for the Technology Transfer Act of 1989. Phyl served two terms on the Board of the Technology Transfer Society, is a recipient of the Society's Certificate of Appreciation (1991), was Chairman of its Task Force on National Technology Transfer Policy (1989-1991) and received Best Paper, Annual Meeting (1987). Dr. Speser was a gubernatorial appointment to the Board of the Washington Technology Center from 1994 to 1997 and is a member of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia, the Association of University Technology Managers (on the Public Policy and Executive Forum Committees), the Licensing Executives Society, and the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, and has been listed for years in numerous Who's Who publications. A frequently presenter, this year Phyl spoke on action networks and the application of game theory to deal making at the AUTM Executive Forum. Phyl also has been developing games for teaching technology transfer, one of which was played at the Executive Forum.