| WEDNESDAY, MAY 16 |
| 7:30 a.m. - 6:00
p.m. |
Registration |
| 7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast for
Add-On Attendees |
| 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
Add-On 1
(Industry University & Government Laboratory Transactions) - Entrepreneurship
101: How to Commercialize Intellectual Property in Start-ups |
| 10:00 a.m. |
Networking Coffee Breaks for Add-on Attendees
|
| 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. |
Luncheon for Add-On Attendees |
| 12:00 p.m. - 6:00
p.m. |
Licensing Foundation Graduate Student Business Plan Competition Presentations |
| 3:00 p.m. |
Networking Coffee Breaks for Add-on Attendees
|
| 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
Add-On 2 (Legal / Valuation) - Strategic
Intellectual Property Due Diligence |
| 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. |
Health Care Sector Reception
High Technology Sector Reception
IUGT/CEMC Sectors Reception |
| 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. |
Welcome Reception |
| 7:30 p.m. |
Sector Dinners |
| THURSDAY, MAY 17 |
| 7:00 a.m. - 5:30
p.m. |
Registration |
| 7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. |
Committee Meetings - Continental Breakfast (Peachtree Foyer)
2007 Annual Committee Meeting (Peachtree)
CEMC Sector (Lenox 1)
CLP Planning Meeting (Lenox 2)
|
| 8:15 a.m. -
10:15 a.m. |
Plenary Session |
| 8:15 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. |
Welcome and Opening
Remarks,
Allen
Baum, President, LES and Brian Oliver, Chair, LES Spring Meeting |
| 8:30 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. |
Keynote Address: Licensing
Specialty Pharma: The Values of an Industry Leader,
Matthew Emmens, Chief Executive Officer, Shire Pharmaceuticals |
| 9:15 a.m. - 10:15
a.m. |
Beyond the License Agreement: Revolutionary
Intellectual Property Packaging
Michael Martin, President, TechTransfer Associates, Inc.
William
Marino, Partner and General Counsel, Altitude Capital Partners
John B. Hall, Managing Director Commercial Finance, General Electric
Michael Lasinski, Managing Director, Ocean Tomo
Raymond P. Niro Jr., Partner, Niro, Scavone, Haller & Niro
|
| 10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. |
Networking Break
|
| 10:45 a.m. -
12:00 p.m. |
Workshop Session
1
1-A Health Care - Overcoming Challenging Circumstances in Telling
your Business Development Story
1-B High Tech - Stopping the Money Hemorrhage: How to Get Valuable Intellectual
Property Protection Overseas
1-C Legal - Top 10 Changes in Patent Litigation Affecting Licensing
1-D Consumer Products - Innovative Business Models
1-E Industry, University and Government Labs - Intellectual Property 'Clustering:'
Adding Value and Efficiency to University Intellectual Property |
| 12:00 p.m. -
1:45 p.m. |
Luncheon
Licensing Foundation Student Business Plan Competition Awards Presentation
Maximizing Consumer Brand Value
Speaker: G. Spencer Leuders, Jr., Esq., NASCAR |
| 1:30 p.m. -
5:30 p.m. |
Tech Fair |
| 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. |
New Member Reception |
| 2:00 p.m. - 3:15
p.m |
Workshop Session
2
2-A Health Care - Global Partnering for Life Sciences Companies: A Case Study with BioSouth, Part I
2-B High Tech - Revolution: New Resources to Commercialize Licensable Intellectual
Property
2-C Legal - Changes From the Top: A Review of Supreme Court
Patent Jurisprudence 2006-2007
2-D Consumer Products - From Brand Licensing to Brand Leveraging: The Next Level
of a Licensing Program |
| 2:00 p.m. -
5:00 p.m. |
LES PDS Workshop 203 (Valuation) |
| 3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. |
Networking Break
|
| 3:45 p.m. -
5:00 p.m. |
Workshop Session
3
3-A Health Care - Global Partnering for Life Sciences Companies: A Case Study with BioSouth, Part II
3-B High Tech - Complexities
in Commercializing Intellectual Property in the Transportation, Aerospace & Defense
Industry
3-C Legal - Avoiding Compulsory
Licenses in the Post-eBay Era
3-D High Tech - The 10 Things Every Licensing Practitioner Should Know about
Counterfeiting and Piracy |
| 6:00 p.m. |
Reception and Dinner |
| FRIDAY, MAY 18 |
| 7:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
Registration |
| 7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. |
Committee Meetings - Continental
Breakfast (Peachtree Foyer)
Consumer Products Sector (Lenox 2)
2008 Annual Meeting Committee (Piedmont 1)
HTS Biomedical Devices (Piedmont 2)
|
| 8:30 a.m. -
10:15 a.m. |
Plenary Session |
| 8:30 a.m. -
9:00 a.m. |
A New Model in Research University Economic
Development,
G. Wayne Clough, President, Georgia Institute of Technology
|
| 9:00 a.m. -
9:30 a.m. |
Licensing in the New Media Age
Hank Barry, Director, Business Development, Howard Rice Nemerovski
Canady Falk & Rabkin
|
| 9:30 a.m. -
10: 15 a.m. |
LES Specialty Pharma Summit: Financing, Finding Deals, and IP Protection for Recycled
Products
David Pierson, Life Science Investment Team, Intersouth Partners
Daniel White, Vice President of Corporate Development, Alimera
Sciences
Michael Yeomans, Senior Vice-President,
Global Business Development & Licensing, Bayer Healthcare
Pharmaceuticals
Joseph Zakrzewski, Chief Executive Officer, Xcellerex, Inc.
|
| 10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. |
Networking Break
|
| 10:45 a.m. -
12:00 p.m. |
Workshop Session 4
4-A Health Care/Consumer Products - P&G's
New Approach to Health Care Innovation
4-B High Tech - Patent Reform: A Help or Hindrance to High Tech Innovation?
4-C Industry, University & Government Labs/High Tech - Beyond SBIR
and STTR: State Initiatives to Promote Nanotechnology
4-D Consumer Products - Strategic Intellectual Property Assessment
for Open Innovation
4-E Chemicals, Energy and Materials - Initiatives
and Challenges in "Green Chemistry and Energy"
4-F Foundation - How to Write a Compelling Business
Plan Involving Substantial IP Licensing Issues
4-G Legal - Negotiating Licenses After Medimmune and Sandisk: How
to Negotiate Without Being Forced to Litigate
|
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
2008 Spring/LESI Meeting Committee (Atlanta) |
| 12:00 p.m. |
Box Lunch Available |
| 2:00 p.m. -
5:00 p.m. |
LES PDS Workshop 204 (Ethics) |
