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President's Message
This year's theme is "change"—and specifically
the forces of change impacting the business of licensing. This was a somewhat
risky theme because the whole year could go by without anything significant
happening and no real change.
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CLP Design Team Seeks Your Input
"Change" is our theme for LES (USA & Canada) this year and our full
Board of Trustees is working hard with LES Education on the delivery of a critical
strategic development in professional certification.
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New Alliances Lead To Breakthrough Webinars
In order to take the benefits of LES education to new audiences, Vice President
of Adminstration Peggy Moizel is forging innovative alliances with the U.S.
Department of Commerce and the State Department. The result?
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Mass Collaboration In Licensing: Is Wikinomics For You?
The authors of Wikinomics (Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, 2006, Portfolio
Publishing)
make a simple, straightforward assertion: the more your company invites
outsiders to offer insights about your products and services, the more new
ideas you'll have for the pipeline, the more new products and services
you will develop, and the more problems you will solve.
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San Francisco Recap
Changes in licensing by the Supreme Court provided interesting and timely
topics for discussion among attendees at the LES (USA & Canada) Winter
Meeting held in February at San Francisco's elegant Palace Hotel.
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Julius Vida Honored With Mentor Award
Julius Vida, Ph.D., has spent a significant
part of his career dedicated to the field of licensing.
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Minnesota: A Member Friendly Chapter
The LES Minnesota Chapter aims to please. They have hit the mark by holding
meetings in a central venue, providing CLE credits, offering varied topics
and rotating chapter leadership.
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Microsoft VP Issues A Call To Arms For New Voices
In The IP Reform Debate
Titans took the stage March 14th for the 6th Annual Licensing Foundation
Day in Washington, where they spoke frankly about pivotal issues facing
the industry during this revolutionary time of change—patent system
reform, open innovation
and internationalization of patent procedures and protections.
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PTO is calling...
The Patent and Trademark Office needs your help. They are about to open up the process
of reviewing patents to the world's favorite forum: the Internet.
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Change And The New Deal
Join us for "The New Deal: Competing in a Global Economy" in beautiful
Vancouver,
British Columbia. LES members and associates will gather October 14-17 at the
Vancouver Convention Center for our Annual Meeting.
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LES Calendar of Events
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This month's feature
Hot
IP Topics Featured In Atlanta
LES Spring Meeting • Atlanta, Georgia • May
16-18, 2007
 Something hot is happening in Atlanta this spring: hot topics, dynamic dealmaking,
innovative education and lively networking. Join licensing executives from
around the U.S. and Canada in Atlanta, Georgia, for the LES Spring Meeting,
May 16-18. The theme, "Licensing in the Era of Intellectual Property Revolution," will
focus on the role intellectual property plays in society.
Meeting Chair Brian Oliver says, "The quality of the program—from
plenary speakers to add-ons to workshops—
is first class and provides something for everybody." The Program Committee,
comprised of Ross Epstein, Les Goff, Bob Goldman and Mike Martin, has put
together a world-class learning event that begins with valuable industry
focused Add-On Seminars and continues with plenary sessions and workshops
that will take your understanding of licensing to a new level. In addition,
the Licensing Foundation Graduate Student Competition will be in full swing
and the anticipated Tech Fair will highlight the latest products and services
available from fellow LES members and their firms.
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Sector Spotlight
Chemicals, Energy and Materials Sector
CEMC Activities At LES Winter Meeting
Les Goff and I extend our many thanks to the CEMC members that attended
and helped with the 2007 Spring Meeting.
On February 22, the LES Chemicals, Energy and Materials Committee held
a morning meeting during which we reviewed our plans for the upcoming Spring
Meeting and continued planning for Vancouver. This nicely complimented
our Sector
conference call earlier that month. Later that day we held a roundtable
on financing chemical startups. The funny thing about roundtables is that
you often do not know what you are going to learn since a group discussion
depends so much on the group. This one turned out to be fun and thought
provoking with contributions from all walks of industry, academia and law.
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High Technology Sector
New Digital Content Committee Kicks Off At Winter
Meeting
The LES Winter Meeting in San Francisco proved to be a great location for
kicking off LES' new Digital Content Committee and recruiting interested
parties from the consumer
products, software, university, copyright/publishing and biomedical areas.
At the encouragement of Don Jarrell, Chair of the LES High Tech Sector,
the Digital Content Committee in the High Tech Sector was founded in December
2006 to stimulate discussion in the dynamic area of digitized content and
to promote sharing of best practices and new ideas.
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Biomedical Devices Committee Inaugural Meeting In San Francisco
Many thanks from the Biomedical Devices Committee
(BMDC) to the LES members who attended the inaugural meeting in San Francisco
and made it a success. The meeting was very well attended—at 7:00 a.m.
no less! The attendees included Chad Coberly of Zassi Medical Evolutions,
Nicole Schumacher of Technology Catalysts, Dan O'Neill of PowerZ Holdings,
LLC, Dr. John Bashkin, Joseph Walker of MDInnovators LLC, Teresa Colella
of Johns Hopkins,
Norman Jacobs, and Edna Mae Rewers of MED Institute Inc. among others. For
those of you who could not attend, there will be another opportunity to participate
in Atlanta on Friday, May 18.
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Healthcare Sector:
Reality Check: What Has Pharma Really Been Paying
For Alliances?
Biotechnology companies that are publicly traded on stock exchanges in
the United States are required by the United States Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) to file material documents. Biotechnology companies have
historically interpreted this requirement conservatively and often filed
their contracts involving alliances with commercialization partners, as
well as upstream licenses with universities and other technology
providers.
Recap's Alliances Database contains copies of over 20,000 research,
development, license, supply, co-development, distribution
and similar alliances commenced since 1973. Recap analysts collect these
agreements from the SEC filings of approximately
1,400 companies, the vast majority of which consist of biotechnology companies
engaged in pharmaceutical discovery
and development.
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Do You Have A Licensing Award Candidate?
The LES Licensing Achievement Award is one of the crown jewels of LES (USA & Canada).
Past recipients include Stanford University, Pfizer Inc., IBM, the U.S. Department
of Energy, Genentech, and Interdigital Corp.It is now time to consider nominees
for an award presentation to be held at our next LES Annual Meeting scheduled
this Fall in Vancouver, BC. Do you have a candidate? We particularly encourage
nominations from our Industry Sectors and Chapters. Consider the criteria below
and submit your nomination.
- 1. The Award may be granted to an organization that has made an outstanding
contribution to licensing or other technology transfer activity.
- All types of licensing
and technology transfer subject matter will be considered, and the selection
criteria will include:
- Contribution to the progress or recognition of licensing as a business
activity,
- Long-term licensing success,
- Innovative licensing programs,
- Distinguished licensing success as
compared to peers.
- The Award is extraordinary
and is granted from time to time to a deserving candidate,
as determined solely by the Trustees of the Society.
Information should be as complete and comprehensive as possible to support
the nomination in view of the criteria. Nominations should be sent to the LES
Office in Alexandria, Virginia, before August 15, 2007 with a copy sent to
Immediate Past-President
Dwight Olson (dolson@taeus.com), who chairs the award process.
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