Upcoming Events at the San Diego Chapter!

San Diego LES Chapter Upcoming Event

The San Diego Chapter of the Licensing Executives Society invites you to join us for our upcoming May meeting on Tuesday, May 10 th.

TOPIC:
Harnessing Federal Dollars for Technology Commercialization

FEATURED SPEAKER:
Robert P. Cogan, a Partner in the San Diego office of Nath & Associates and Louis G. Kelly, President of Lockheed Martin’s Orincon Technologies, Inc., and President of The Security Network

Download the Presentations Here:
CCAT Overview
Licensing Basics in Government Contracts

DATE:
Tuesday, May 10 th, 2005

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. Presentation

LOCATION:
La Jolla Marriott
Salons F & G – Second Flr
4240 La Jolla Village Drive
San Diego , CA 92037

REGISTRATION:
$35 Members by May 9th at 5:00 p.m.; $45 at the door (cash or check only)
$40 Non-Members by May 9th at 5:00 p.m.; $50 at the door (cash or check only)

If you are a member of LES, click here to register online with your credit card.
If you are not a member of LES, click here to register online with your credit card.

To reserve a guaranteed space, please register online by May 9 th, at 5:00 p.m . You now have the option of registering online and paying either by credit card OR check. Please note that we will need to receive your check by May 9 th to guarantee your registration.

The address to mail your check to is:

Mary Jo Farrell
LES
c/o SAIC
10260 Campus Point Drive , M/S D-7A
San Diego , CA 92121

Seating is limited and will be on a first come, first served basis.

NOTE: This presentation will qualify for MCLE credit.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
Government investment in technical innovation is growing dramatically, especially in high-technology areas such as Homeland Security and Bio-Terrorism Defense. A significant portion of the government’s effort in these areas is through funding research by private companies, which companies can frequently use the research results for their own commercial purposes and make attractive profits. The Department of Defense has made considerable effort to make its contracting system more user friendly to innovative companies wary of losing their unique technical niches. San Diego’s local SPAWAR (Space and Naval Warfare Command) has implemented a pro-active plan, including commercialization grants, to help small businesses, and it works to share in its $5 billion budget with small and large contractors in the area.

This LES Program brings together two complementing viewpoints of how government commercialization efforts can help local businesses:

Robert Cogan will address the basic licensing “rules of the road” in government licensing and how to navigate the system safely to exploit new opportunities and funding sources, while avoiding the pitfalls and “gotchas” of dealing with Federal procurement rules.

Lou Kelly will describe San Diego’s own Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technologies [C-CAT], a DOD-funded incubator which makes grants to and provides mentoring for companies seeking to commercialize defense- and security-related technologies.

This promises to be an exciting program, combining the Rules of the Road for government-funded commercial innovation with some Practical Implementation mechanisms, opportunities and examples.

SPEAKER BIOS:
ROBERT P. COGAN is a Partner in the San Diego office of Nath & Associates, a Washington, DC intellectual property firm. Mr. Cogan 's practice includes all aspects of intellectual property law, including development and enforcement of intellectual property portfolios, commercial technology transactions, software licensing and government contracting. Mr. Cogan began government contracting work while at General Electric, and now helps small and large technology businesses deal with the Federal Acquisition Regulation. He has done extensive work with Department of Defense, NASA, Department of Energy and other US agencies, as well as with Canadian, British and Australian agencies.

LOUIS G. KELLY is President of Lockheed Martin’s Orincon Technologies, Inc., and also President of The Security Network, a federal/state/local non-profit consortium focused, with industry, on creating strategies and businesses for the security of the nation. He also serves as Chair of C-CAT, a consortium of government, industry and academia dedicated to funding and facilitating commercialization of federally-funded technologies in the San Diego area.

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