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The San Diego Chapter of the Licensing Executives Society
&
The Intellectual Property Special Interest Group of
ComNexus San Diego

invite you to join us for our upcoming joint meeting on  

Tuesday, January 10, 2005  

Technology Standards and Their Impact on Valuation and Licensing Revenues

FEATURED PANELISTS:

Marty Foltyn – Moderator  BitSprings Systems
Ron Katznelson -   Founder Broadband Innovations, Inc.
Howard Asher - Life Sciences Information Technology Institute
Dave Kemper - IBM Software Americas

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
Having your company’s technology adopted as an industry standard can catapult the potential value and success of your company from a struggling start up to a Fortune 100. Companies like Qualcomm and others built incredibly successful businesses by carefully protecting their intellectual property, successfully lobbying the standards bodies to adopt their technology as an industry standard and then setting up licensing toll booths to fund further development, lobbying, protection and growth. Join our distinguished panel for a timely discussion of how companies manage to get their technology adopted as standards in an industry, how standards bodies operate, how to challenge companies who are successful at getting their technology adopted and the impact these issues can have on company valuation and licensing revenues.  

DATE: Tuesday January 10th

TIME : 7:30 am* – 8:00 am Registration and Networking
8:00 am – 8:10 am Chapter Business
8:10 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Panel Discussion

*please note the morning meeting time

LOCATION: The Forum Hall is located at Westfield Shoppingtown UTC
4545 La Jolla Village Drive

Directions:

From the I-5, exit La Jolla Village Dr
Go East on La Jolla Village Drive
Make a right onto Executive WAY (into UTC parking lot)
Make a right turn at the stop sign to use the parking across from Nordstrom
Walk to the stairs to the right of Wells Fargo Bank
The Forum Hall is at the top of the stairs on the left

From the I-805, exit La Jolla Village Dr ( Miramar Rd),  go West on La Jolla Village Drive to Executive Drive.  Make a left onto Executive WAY (into UTC parking lot).

COST AND REGISTRATION OPTIONS:

Pre-Register by 12 noon on Friday, January 6, 2006

Pre-registration not only guarantees you a seat, but it also saves you $10. 

REGISTRATION:

You have the option of registering online and paying either by credit card OR check

$10 Members by Friday, January 6, $20 at the door (cash or check only)
$15 Non-Members by Friday, January 6, $25 at the door (cash or check only)

Continental breakfast will be served. Seating is limited and will be on a first come, first served basis. Please note that we will still need to receive your check by January 6, to guarantee your registration. The address to mail your check to is:

Ross A. Epstein
LES San Diego
c/o Nath & Associates
12264 El Camino Real, Suit 400
San Diego , CA 92130

For additional information, please contact:
Ross A. Epstein, Chair
Tel.  (858) 792-8211
Fax  (858) 792-8946
e-mail: repstein@nathlaw.com

or

Kasia A. Epstein, Event Coordinator
Tel. (619) 944-1628
e-mail: Kasia-Epstein@sbcglobal.net

NOTE : This presentation will qualify for MCLE credit.

Participant biographies:

Marty Foltyn – BitSprings Systems   Moderator

As President of BitSprings Systems (http://www.bitsprings.com/), Marty Foltyn has guided strategic planning, product marketing, and marketing communications activities for companies involved in a broad variety of industries including technology, healthcare, financial services, and education.  She works with her clients to successfully position their companies, develop and launch new products and programs, promote their vision to the marketplace, and manage day-to-day marketing activities.  Along with her focus on client project collaborations, Foltyn is involved in promoting technology initatives and stardards to manufacturers, resellers and the IT community.  She leads strategic and marketing efforts for a cross section of technology companies to communicate their technologies’ focus on standards and product interoperability to the IT marketplace.  Foltyn is also a successful author, writing online newsletters on technology issues and columns on information technology and applications for technology trade journals. 

Foltyn is a graduate of University of Maryland with a BA in History and English, and holds a MBA from Pepperdine University.  She is involved in a variety of community activities and serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations.

Ron D. Katznelson, Ph.D., Broadband Innovations -Panelist
           
Dr. Katznelson is the founder of Broadband Innovations, Inc. (BI), serving as its Chief Technology Officer and Chairman of the Board.  He has over 30 years of experience in electronics related technologies as well as intellectual property and standards related work.   Among his other responsibilities at BI, Dr. Katznelson was recently responsible for the acceptance by CableLabs®, a cable company consortium, of BI’s technical RF specification proposals for adoption in DOCSIS, the industry standard for cable modem applications. 
 
Prior to founding BI in 1990, Dr. Katznelson was with the VideoCipher Division of General Instrument Corporation (GIC), where he served as Director, New Technology Development.  In this capacity, Dr. Katznelson directed several R&D projects in the areas of Advanced Television Systems. That work led to DigiCipher®, GIC's video compression technology that now forms the core of MPEG-2 and a basis for the Grand-Alliance ATSC High Definition Television broadcast standard.
           
Dr. Katznelson joined GIC as part of the acquisition of the VideoCipher Division from M/A-COM Linkabit in 1986 by GIC.  At Linkabit, Dr. Katznelson worked on design, development and De-Facto standardization of the VideoCipher® satellite video transmission system. As M/COM Linkabit’s representative, he was responsible for the defeat of the competing B-MAC system from being adopted as the transmission standard by the Direct Broadcast Satellite Association.
           
Prior to joining Linkabit in 1983, Dr. Katznelson was a full time Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).   In his academic career, Ron Katznelson received a dual Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Physics and an M.Sc. in Solid State Physics in 1975 and 1977 respectively, both from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.  He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering (Communication Theory and Systems) from the University of California, San Diego in 1982.  He has co-authored a book and authored numerous technical publications in areas including semiconductor device physics, signal processing, satellite television transmission techniques, and HDTV transmission systems.  Dr. Katznelson holds over 25 patents and patent applications.  He is a licensed private pilot and a licensed ham radio operator.

Howard began his career in life sciences in 1969 with Pfizer. He continued his marketing, sales and product development work with Baxter and Bayer until 1979. Late in 1979 he founded Advanced Bioresearch Associates (ABA) which grew to be the premier Life Sciences ~ FDA Regulatory Affairs consulting firm for Life Science company clients, worldwide. ABA strategically focused to make business sense of developing medical products in a heavily regulated environment. Howard served as President, CEO and Chairman of ABA for 20 years, securing regulatory approval for hundreds of medical products, including drugs, biotherapeutics, medical devices and in-vitro diagnostics. With a vision of alleviating, through IT innovation, some of the life science industry’s pain by reducing this time and cost within the highly regulated life science industry, Howard founded BioQ Inc. in 1999.

Howard served as President, CEO and Board Director of this software development company
dedicated to creating a significantly innovative smart automated system to expedite the medical
product development process and developed significant IT intellectual property focused on
managing unstructured data in any language. Howard recently served Sun Microsystems, Inc, as
its Group Director of Global Life Sciences.

While at Sun, Howard founded the LSIT Global Institute (http://www.LSIT.org). To establish open source, trusted Life Sciences – IT architectural references Howard utilizes his 24 years as successful CEO by participating on many Boards over the years, including BIOCOM, a leading life sciences industrial association, Quorex Pharmaceuticals, and Stryker Corp., Howmedica, Osteonics and many others. Howard also remains active in the industry as a keynote speaker, panel moderator, focused on the IT convergence into the Life Sciences Industry, Computational Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine. In 1996 he led the formation and played a significant role in designing the worlds first Master in Regulatory Affairs (MRA) degree program with the US-FDA and California State University, which was the first to offer an accredited curriculum on this very complicated subject.

Sandra M. Kos BCS Alliance Advocate IBM Americas Software

Sandra Kos is responsible for managing alliance relationships with consulting services for the IBM Software Group. Prior to this she was the Solutions Executive, for IBM Healthcare Science applications and Life Sciences, integrating IBM solutions with Healthcare and Life Science Applications. She is active in supporting and collaborating with industry organization groups which include the Proteome Society and BioCom, San Diego. She has over 15 years experience in sales and marketing management within the Biotechnology market place.  Sandra received her bachelors degrees in both Microbiology and Economics from the University of California, San Diego and her MBA from the  Graduate School of  Management, University of California, Irvine.