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LES View Points Article from CEEM Sector December 2008

Name Change – We are Now the Chemicals Energy Environment & Materials (CEEM) Sector!
We have expanded our Sector’s name to now include the environment.  Not only is this area ripe with licensing opportunities, it is a key issue of concern globally.  With the name change, we are now more closely aligned with the objectives of LESI’s CEE Committee and understand that importance of looking not only at issues from a USA/Canada perspective but on an international basis too.  It also fits well within practice areas our membership base, who are already involved in or moving towards environmentally related business concerns.

LES 2009 Annual Meeting: CEEM Sector Highlights
Thanks to everyone who attended the annual LES Meeting in Orlando. It was a productive meeting for learning, networking and providing feedback into CEEM’s membership needs.  We want to personally thank everyone who attended the CEEM Sector meeting and participated in the brainstorming session to help us highlight issues in which our members would like the Sector to focus.

As you know, our Sector is very broad and diverse, and throughout the year we try to cover the key areas our members show interest.  For the Annual Meeting workshops, some of the highlights included the mini-plenary on open innovation as it relates to our Sector as well as partnering strategies for emerging biofuels.   We extend many thanks to all of our speakers for their efforts and presentations.

CEEM Royalty Rate Study
We are pleased to announce our Sector’s roll out of a royalty rate study by our members for our members. The results will be available free of charge to all LES members and will be based on CEEM royalty rate information gathered for the years 2007 and 2008.

This study will be staffed by a team of CEEM volunteers, lead by CEEM member David Leathers.  The team is currently in the process of defining the framework for the project, which will involve developing the study scope and objectives, survey questions, marketing/recruitment of members to participate and data analysis.

We want to extend many thanks to Glenn Wheeler and Jim McCarthy for advice and assistance in getting the study off the ground.  Jim is chair of the Healthcare Royalty Rate Study, first published in 2008, and Glenn is a volunteer for the same as well as a LES Trustee.

If you are interested in volunteering or would like more information about the study, please contact David Leathers at dleathers@huronconsultinggroup.com.

Upcoming Winter Meeting – San Antonio, February 25-27.
Please make sure you to attend the LES Winter Meeting in San Antonio, February 25-27, 2009.  The industry focus for the meeting will be "High Technology, Chemicals and Energy" and we have a great line up of speakers presenting on the following topics: "Licensing Issues Relating To Bio-Ethanol Energy Generation”, "Cashing in on Science (Innovation beyond Invention)”, "Advanced Energy Consortium: Joint Research in Nanotechnology Applications to the Exploration and Production of Oil and Gas”, and "Using Technology Landscaping to Identify Global Licensing Partners”.

Call for Volunteers

The CEEM Sector has ambitious plans for better meeting our members’ needs in the coming year through many different initiatives and programs.  Please consider volunteering for activities listed below or any other area in which your participation might enrich our Sector.

Openings – contact Sector-Co Chair, Andrea Cohen, at acohen@nanogram.com

Chapter Liaisons (West-Central-East) – we need 3 regional volunteers to interface between local chapters and Sector level.

Deal of distinction Delegates -  consider volunteering to select the 2009 Deal of Distinction for the CEEM Sector based on 2008 deals.  We need 1 more volunteer to join Bob Payne of IP Licensing Advisors as a Deal of Distinction Delegate.

CEEM Content/Programming Chairs for Future Meetings – the 2010 Winter Meeting in Arizona (February), 2010 Spring Meeting (May) and the 2010 Annual Meeting in Chicago (September) are closer than you think.  If you are interesting in enriching, organizing and managing program content for any of the following meetings, please volunteer.

Sector Co-Chairs for ’09/’10

Other Opportunities

CEEM Membership Committee - consider volunteering to reach out to existing members for feedback as well as approaching potential new members.  Contact the CEEM Membership Chair, Cynthia Canady at cannady@ipseva.com

CEEM Royalty Rate Study –  see above for more information.  Contact the CEEM Royalty Rate Study Chair, David Leathers at dleathers@huronconsultinggroup.com

2009 LES Annual Meeting CEEM Content/Programming – consider assisting with content for the 2009 LES Annual Meeting in San Francisco.  Contact the CEEM Annual Meeting Content Chair, Ida Shum at shum3@lnll.gov

CEEM Website – have ideas on how to make our website better?  Contact our Website Manager, David Gibson at gibsondave@verizon.net

Prior Communications

December 11, 2008
October 9, 2008