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"Patent Cross-Licenses:  
Traps for the Unwary"

This meeting will be held on

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
6:00-8:00 p.m.

THE JANUARY MEETING WILL BE HELD AT THE HILTON LA JOLLA TORREY PINES

SPEAKER:
Eric M. Reifschneider, Partner, Cooley Godward Kronish, LLP, Palo Alto Office

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
Patent licenses present many traps for the unwary.  Anyone drafting or negotiating a patent license agreement must be careful to avoid these potential pitfalls, which run the gamut from not including related patents to failing to address patent exhaustion issues.  Eric Reifschneider, the head of Cooley Godward Kronish's Technology Transactions practice, will identify many of these traps and explain how he has dealt with them in his years of experience doing high-stakes patent licenses.

Sponsored by:

FOLEY & LARDNER, LLP

To learn more, please join us on Tuesday, January 15th at the Licensing Executives Society (LES) Meeting at the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines.

DATE:
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

TIME:
6:00 p.m. – 6:50 Registration, Networking, Cocktails and Appetizers
6:50 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Chapter Business
7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Speaker Presentation

LOCATION:
Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines
10950 North Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA  92037

COST:
Members $45 at the door (cash or check only)
Non-Members $50 at the door (cash or check only)

$20 Member Student Rate
$25 Non-Member Student Rate

For additional information, please contact:

Sam K. Tahmassebi, Chair
Tel: 619-203-2579
Fax:  858-350-9691
e-mail: sam@biotechnologylawgroup.com

NOTE:   This presentation will qualify for MCLE credit

SPEAKER’S BIOGRAPHY

Eric M. Reifschneider is a partner in the Palo Alto office of Cooley Godward Kronish, LLP.  His practice focuses on transactions involving the acquisition, development and commercialization of technology. His clients include Fortune 500 companies and start-ups financed by venture capital firms in the semiconductor, software, hardware and wireless communications industries. He has prepared and negotiated agreements for strategic alliances, intellectual property asset acquisitions and patent cross-licenses, as well as commercial transactions such as business process outsourcing, software licenses, contract manufacturing and technology escrows. He is also an expert in the intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions.  Before joining Cooley, Mr. Reifschneider worked at Motorola, Inc. in Schaumburg, Illinois. Previously, Mr. Reifschneider practiced corporate law at Katten, Muchin & Zavis in Chicago.  Mr. Reifschneider graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1992, where he served as executive editor of the Harvard Law Review and was the primary editor of the casebook "Sports and the Law." He has Bachelor of Science degrees in Physics and Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he graduated first in his class and was named the top Scholar-Athlete in his senior class.