Technology Transfer Seminars

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Michael H. Baniak, J.D., CLP
Russell Bishop
Michael J. Dansky, CLP
Michael James Lasinski, MBA, CLP
Russell E. Levine, P.C., CLP
Jane Moores, Ph.D.
Brian R. Oliver, MBA
Arthur S. Rose, J.D., CLP

Michael H. Baniak, J.D., CLP
Partner, McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
Partner of McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP, a law firm with offices in Chicago and Washington state specializing in the practice of intellectual property law, Michael H. Baniak spends the majority of his time litigating on behalf of U.S. and international clients in all courts and tribunals in the United States.  He has been trial counsel in over 150 patent, trademark, trade secret and copyright suits.  Providing counsel on protecting and exploiting intellectual property, including prosecution of patent, trademark and copyright applications, and negotiations of licenses and other technology-transfer agreements, forms the bulk of the rest of his legal practice.  His legal practice has included a broad range of technical fields for a wide spectrum of clients.

Mr. Baniak is a regular lecturer for state and national legal organizations on copyright, trade secret and patent law.  He is an annual speaker for the Licensing Executives Society at its Technology Transfer Seminar, and has chaired this multi-day fact-intensive seminar for many years.  He has been an expert witness in the field of U.S. patent law and prosecution, and trade secret law.

Mr. Baniak is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law, where he has taught Patent and Copyright Law since 1986.

He received a Bachelor of Science degree (cum laude) in physics from the University of Dayton (1977).  His Juris Doctorate (cum laude) was awarded from the Indiana University School of Law (1980).  Mr. Baniak is a member of the bar in the State of Illinois (1985) and Ohio (1980), and has been admitted to, inter alia, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (general bar and trial bar), United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (Reg. No. 30,608).

Mr. Baniak is a member of, among other organizations, the American Bar Association, Chicago Bar Association, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Chicago Inn of Court, American Intellectual Property Law Association and the Licensing Executives Society.

Russell Bishop
Vantage Partners, Brighton Landing West
Russell Bishop is a Senior Consultant with Vantage Partners.  An expert in negotiation and relationship management, Russell has worked around the world with Fortune 500 companies in aerospace, healthcare, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas.

Russell brings 30 years of consulting and operating experience to his practice, helping companies in how they plan, form, operate, review and adjust critical partnerships.  His work focuses primarily on two key areas of partnering:  how organizations form and manage strategic alliances and how they manage key supplier relationships.

Russell has been a thought leader in the implementation of strategy for 25 years. Prior to joining Vantage Partners, he was an Associate Partner at Andersen Consulting focusing on the implementation of complex change strategies.  He co-founded the Productivity Development Group, a management consulting firm specializing in the implementation of strategic change initiatives, co-founded Insight Seminars, a human relations training organization, and co-founded Actioneer, a software development company specializing in browser-less Web access and messaging.

In addition to his consulting practice, he has lectured on productivity for the executive MBA programs at UCLA, University of Texas and Washington University in St. Louis. Russell previously served on the Board of Directors for the University of Santa Monica and was a charter member of the Advisory Board for the Points of Light Foundation. Russell currently resides in Santa Barbara, California with his wife, Valerie, and is an avid golfer and amateur chef.

Russell received a Master's degree in Educational Psychology from the Davis Campus of the University of California.

Michael J. Dansky, CLP
Principal, The Brattle Group
Mike recently joined the Brattle Group as a Principal and stockholder.   For more that 20 years Mike has been focused on assisting companies in assessing, valuing, managing and licensing intellectual property assets.  As a corporate executive and in his consulting career, Mike has both managed and provided expert services in a wide range of technology-related matters involving patents, copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks and other intangible assets. He has structured and negotiated a wide range of transactions throughout the world including company and asset purchases and sales, technology licenses and joint ventures, and a range of financing transactions. Mike has been involved in the structuring, management and execution of a number of spin-out companies including public and private placements.  Mike has also testified in Federal and State Courts and administrative agencies as an expert on a range of valuation and transactional issues.

Prior to joining Brattle, Mike operated his own intellectual property consulting firm and was an Officer in a publicly traded consulting firm, assisting clients in valuing, managing and executing transactions involving a wide range of intangible and tangible assets.  Mike previously held senior corporate positions with Polaroid, Xerox Corporation and Amoco Corporation and has been a partner at two other international consulting firms.  At Polaroid, Mike was Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Business Development where he was responsible for technology licensing, intellectual property strategy, the management and resolution of intellectual property disputes and negotiation of major international corporate transactions with Polaroid partners. Mike had similar responsibilities during his tenure at both Xerox and Amoco, where he had corporate responsibility for intellectual property, licensing and the negotiation of major transactions.

Michael James Lasinski, MBA, CLP
Managing Director, Ocean Tomo
Mike Lasinski is a Managing Director at Ocean Tomo and is responsible for its Valuation Business Unit.  Mike has managed numerous engagements focused on helping clients extract value from their intellectual property portfolios.  These have included both valuation and strategy assignments.  In the valuation area, Mike has valued intellectual property and businesses in the context of licensing, sale, purchase (purchase price allocation), corporate spin-outs, joint ventures, litigation (reasonable royalty and economic damage analyses) and tax-related transactions.  He has spoken on the topics of IP valuation, IP licensing and IP tax strategies throughout the U.S. as well as internationally.

In the strategy area, Mike has helped his clients establish intellectual property management subsidiaries, licensing departments and intellectual asset management groups.  He has also performed inventories of company IP (including patents, trademarks, software, trade secrets and other IP).  In fulfilling such responsibilities, Mike has developed strategies for clients surrounding licensing, sale, donation and abandonment of IP.

Mike is currently the Treasurer and a former co-chair of the Valuation and Taxation Committee of the Licensing Executives Society (LES).  He is the current Vice Chair of the Valuation and Taxation Committee of the Intellectual Property Owners Organization.  He holds both a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering (Summa Cum Laude) and a M.B.A. (with High Honors) from The University of Michigan.  Prior to the Center for Applied Innovation, Mike worked for InteCap, a subsidiary of Charles River Associates, Coopers & Lybrand (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers) and Ford Motor Company.

Russell E. Levine, P.C., CLP
Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Mr. Levine is a Partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in the firm's Chicago office.  He specializes in patent infringement litigation and patent licensing and has written and lectured on these legal topics.  His practice also includes Section 337 litigation before the U.S. International Trade Commission.

Mr. Levine is Vice-Chair of the LESI Patent and Technology Licensing Committee and he is a LES  International Delegate.  He is past co-chair of the LES Laws and Government Action Committee and past chair of the LES Litigation Committee.  He is also a member of the ABA, the AIPLA, the Federal Circuit Bar Association, the International Bar Association and the International Trade Commission Trial Lawyers Association.

He holds a B.S. in Interdisciplinary Engineering and a B.S. in Economics, both degrees from the University of Michigan.  He received a law degree from the University of Chicago, and he is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.   He is admitted to the bars of Illinois, New York, the U.S. Supreme Court, the Federal and 7th Circuits, the Northern District of Illinois, the Eastern District of Wisconsin and the Eastern District of Michigan.

Jane Moores, Ph.D.
Assistant Vice Chancellor, TechTIPS, University of California San Diego
Jane holds B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in microbiology from University College, London. She performed post-doctoral research at UCSD in the Chemistry Department, where she was involved in cloning bacterial genes, and in the School of Medicine, where she helped to develop retroviral vectors for gene therapy.

After completing her postdoctoral fellowships, Jane spent several years at Stratagene working as a bench scientist, as liaison between engineers and biologists and in various aspects of business development.

Jane joined the UCSD TechTIPS office at the end of 1999 and has focused on licensing inventions in the life science and biomedical arena with occasional forays into engineering. In January 2007, Jane was appointed Interim Director of TechTIPS, and subsequently named Assistant Vice Chancellor for Intellectual Property in October 2007.

Brian R. Oliver, MBA
Director, Business Development – Intellectual Property, CME Group, Inc.
Brian is Director, Business Development - Intellectual Property at CME Group, Inc., a CME/Chicago Board of Trade Company (CME), the world's largest and most diverse financial exchange, offering futures and options on futures primarily in four product areas:  interest rates, stock indexes, foreign exchange and commodities.  In this role, Brian is working with others at the CME in developing and maintaining CME's overall intellectual property (IP) program, including identifying areas of need and opportunity for CME to develop or acquire IP assets, developing and strengthening processes for identifying CME's IP assets, implementing licensing strategies and serving as the business owner for critical licensing relationships, and playing an active role in evaluating and pursuing acquisition opportunities that may benefit CME in terms of IP.

Prior to CME, Brian was a Vice President for CRA International, an economics, finance and business consulting firm.  At CRA, Brian was responsible for representing clients in all aspects of IP-driven transactions and improving IP business operations.  While at CRA, Brian worked on several projects for CME, including the successful renegotiation of its Standard & Poor’s license agreement.  Brian has also held past positions in investment banking and corporate finance. Brian holds a BS from Indiana University and an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.

Arthur S. Rose, J.D., CLP
Partner, Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear

Arthur S. Rose is a partner in the law firm of Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear in the Irvine, California office.  Art specializes in patent procurement for medical devices, software and business methods, copyright protection and enforcement and preparation of and disputes relating to technology licensing agreements. Mr. Rose was a Patent Examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from 1976-1981 working in the Medical Arts. Mr. Rose obtained his juris doctorate, with honors, from George Washington University Law Center in 1981 and then clerked with Judge Colaianni in the U.S. Court of Claims in Washington, D.C. Mr. Rose has a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering with a concentration in electronics from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has served on the Board of Trustees for the Licensing Executives Society (LES) since 1998. Art is currently serving as President of LES Foundation Inc. of the Licensing Executives Society (LES) Foundation Board.