In This Issue LES Spring Meeting: President's Message: CLP Design Team Seeks Your Input New Alliances Lead To Breakthrough Webinars Sector Spotlight High Technology Sector: Biomedical Devices Committee Inaugural Meeting In San Francisco Healthcare Sector: Mass Collaboration In Licensing: Is Wikinomics For You? LES Winter Meeting: LES Local Chapter Julius Vida Honored With Mentor Award Microsoft VP Issues A Call To Arms For New Voices In The IP Reform Debate LES Annual Meeting: |
Certified Licensing Professional
(CLP)
"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. Whether managing an evolving deal, licensing in an era of intellectual property revolution, or using owner's intellectual property to globally compete, skill and competency help licensing professionals win. Your education, experience and real-deal knowledge help create substantial value for IP owners by reducing deal cycle time (faster royalty onset), designing practical license designs (sustainable structure, less structural cost), and edifying the essential profession of licensing (greater authority through trust). LES is championing and funding the development of the Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) at a time when intellectual property owners face unparalleled complexity and greater need for efficiency, trust and expert guidance. The CLP Design Team is an active subcommittee of the Board of Trustees and consists of four broad workstreams: CLP Legal (Ernie Posner, Chair), CLP Operations (Bill Fields, Chair), CLP Marketing & Communications (Catherine Vorvald and Peter Ross, Co-Chairs), and CLP Standards (Michael Lee, Chair). Each of these teams has been working hard since the Annual Meeting in New York to construct and execute a coordinated start-up plan for this strategic development. For example, the Legal Team must research and inform the Design Team and the Board with respect to formal structure and risk/governance issues. Operations must evaluate and recommend both start-up and sustaining resources to manage complicated business processes such as applications, testing, certification maintenance and renewal, and data management. The Marketing & Communications effort is essential in building awareness, recognition and enthusiasm while managing branding and unity with existing Society plans. The Standards Team must design appropriate but challenging specifications for assessments in the areas of Licensing Executive education, experience and knowledge. These must uphold an array of professional attributes that map to a high standard for both achievement and capability. Our Society and Education Directors (Schoppmann and Hancock) are providing excellent oversight and connection to other associations and societies for operations advice. Lastly, our five Past-Presidents (Olson, O'Reilley, Denis, Malackowski, Sobieraj) are serving as the initial CLP Board of Governors. I encourage you to reach out to these work stream leaders if you have advice, comments or wish to participate in a workstream. The path to CLP, as envisioned by the Design Team, involves an assessment of a combination of achievements and active work in the field. The CLP exhibits mastery in the design of licensing strategies and performs business-critical tasks using knowledge, skills and competencies acquired from education and experience in the complex fields of business/finance, technology and law. Individuals awarded the CLP maintain a commitment to the highest standards in the Licensing Profession including compliance with laws and regulations, ethical negotiation, effective bilateral transactions, value-based intellectual asset management, and efficient technology transfer. The CLP is recognized by peers, employers and the public for contributions to business success and stakeholder value creation. The vision for CLP value is classic and consistent with certifications in other fields requiring high professional breadth and depth. Among many personal rewards, the LES CLP seeks to bring the Licensing Executive more credibility, image enhancement and peer recognition; improve career opportunities and diversity of responsibilities; drive education, skills, and knowledge development; and enhance earnings potential. From the view of the IP owner, a CLP brings a higher level of ability to get the complicated work of licensing done in an ethical, practical, profitable way that fulfills strategy and furthers the cause of innovation, technology and rights transfer. Our request to LES Members is to receive your ideas and comments now! LES Education has opened a collaborative Web site (www.lesclp.org) to capture your input and help guide this strategic development going forward. Our timeline is aggressive but exciting! This blog for comments will be open for several weeks in order to capture representative thoughts from members and non-member professionals. By the end of September, we will finalize standards, testing and operations. Vancouver is our venue for launch!
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