Vancouver Chapter Prior Events

LES Vancouver Chapter Meeting

The Vancouver chapter of the LICENSING EXECUTIVES SOCIETY invites all LES members and friends to a presentation entitled "ADR Clauses in License Agreements".

DATE: Wed., May 3, 2006

TIME: 12:00 to 1:30 - Lunch, presentation, and questions.

PLACE: Bull, Housser & Tupper, 3000 Royal Centre, 1055 W. Georgia St., Vancouver

SPEAKER: Bruce O’Connor, Seattle

While in active practice over a period of 40 years, Bruce O’Connor represented a broad range of clients located in the US, Canada, the UK, Switzerland, Sweden, Japan, Taiwan, China, and other countries, in a broad range of IP matters worldwide that include the obtaining of statutory IP rights, transactional work, and litigation and ADR work.  Currently, his practice is limited to intellectual property counseling and management, expert witnessing, and acting as a neutral in alternative dispute resolution.  He is a member of the Commercial, Domain Name, Large Complex Case, and National IP Panels of the American Arbitration Association, the Domain Name Panel of the World Intellectual Property Association, the Domain Name and Intellectual Property Panels of the National Arbitration Forum, the International Panel of National Arbitration and Mediation, and the Commercial Panel of the Commercial Arbitration Association of Taiwan.

Mr. O'Connor received a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati (1965) and a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. (1969). Active in the Seattle community, Mr. O'Connor has served on the Board of Trustees of Seattle Opera and as general counsel for Seattle Symphony. 

SUBJECT:        Mr. O’Connor will discuss the effective use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) (eg. mediation, arbitration, etc.) in intellectual property cases, and appropriate ADR clauses in license agreements.

COST: $20 for LES members, $30 for non members
$15 for full-time students at a post-secondary institution

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 Friday, April 28, 2006 to:

Lorraine Duke, Assistant to Hilton W.C. Sue
Oyen Wiggs Green & Mutala LLP
Suite 480 - The Station
601 West Cordova St.
Vancouver, BC V6B 1G1

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.

THE LES VANCOUVER CHAPTER:

The LES local chapter executive consists of Hilton Sue of Oyen Wiggs Green & Mutala LLP; Ron Simmer of Patex/PATSCAN; Herb Regehr of Bull, Housser & Tupper LLP; Jim Hendry, Program Head, Bachelor of Technology, Technology Management of BCIT; David Todd, President of Isentient; Timothy Briggs of Smart & Biggar / Fetherstonhaugh; John Pearson of McCarthy Tetrault, LLP; and Susan Tees of OncoGenex Technologies Inc.  For more information about the Vancouver Chapter (and contact info for our executive committee), see www.usa-canada.les.org/chapters/vancouver.