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Vancouver Chapter Prior Event LES Vancouver Chapter Meeting The Vancouver chapter of the LICENSING EXECUTIVES SOCIETYinvites all LES members and friends to a presentation entitled "From Ideas to Products and Profit$ - How effective intellectual property management can help you prosper". DATE: Thurs., March 2, 2006 TIME: 12:00 to 1:30 - Lunch, presentation, interactive workshop and questions. PLACE: Bull, Housser & Tupper, Boardroom SPEAKER: Dave Tyrrell, P. Eng.; President and Founder, Vertex Intellectual Property Strategies Inc., Toronto, Ontario (www.vertexips.com) Dave Tyrrell founded Vertex Intellectual Property Strategies Inc. in 1998 in order to provide intellectual property and licensing consulting services to businesses and government technology development departments. Vertex bridges the gap between the skills of business managers and technology developers, and legal practitioners. Vertex's mission is to Help Businesses Profit From Technology and Know-How. Dave has broadly-based engineering and business management experiences and successes in areas which include: product engineering, product development, sales and marketing, profit-centre management and international licensing. This experience has been combined with several years of independent consulting in the field of intellectual property management and licensing to provide the foundation for Vertex. Vertex's past clients include major Canadian corporations, utilities, small and medium size businesses, government laboratories and not-for-profit organizations. Dave has a B.Sc. (Civil Engineering) from Queen's University. He is a member of a number of organizations including the Licensing Executives Society, where he has served as the Toronto Chapter Co-chair for many years. SUBJECT: Dave’s presentation is entitled: “From Ideas to Products and Profit$ - How effective intellectual property management can help you prosper”. The presentation and discussion will utilize Vertex’s Technology Commercialization Roadmap to identify and explore the important role that intellectual asset management and intellectual property protection plays at every stage of the technology commercialization process – Idea Creation, Technology Development, IP Protection and Exploitation. COST: $20 for LES members, $30 for non members. Please make cheques payable to the LES Vancouver Chapter, and send payment in advance to Lorraine Duke at the address below. PLEASE RSVP (with payment) no later than Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2006 to: Lorraine
Duke, Assistant to Hilton W.C. Sue Tel: 604-669-3432 ext. 8960 Fax: 604-681-4081 Email: lduke@patentable.com WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Professionals with an interest in high technology licensing, technology transfer, and intellectual property administration. THE LICENSING EXECUTIVES SOCIETY: The LES membership includes a wide range of professionals, including business executives, lawyers, licensing consultants, engineers, academicians, scientists and government officials. The Vancouver chapter of LES (U.S.A. and Canada) strives to provide professional development opportunities for members of our local technology transfer community. For more information, see www.usa-canada.les.org.
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