In This Issue Return to LES Home Are You an Experienced Licensing Professional? Become a CLP President's Message: Global Excellence In Licensing And Acquisition Through Certification Foundation Focus Grad Student Business Plan Competition Goes Global Ted Cross Receives The 2007 Frank Barnes Mentor Award 2007 Annual Survey Of The Licensing Industry Mark Your Calendars For Foundation Day 2008 LES Foundation Board President Retires What the Heck is Mentoring? Annual Meeting Recap Vancouver Local Chapter Plays Key Role In Meeting 2007 Deals of Distinction Awarded At Annual Meeting: Consumer Products Chemicals, Energy and Materials High Technology Healthcare Industry/University & Government Laboratories (IUGT) About the LES Deals of Distinction Awards Program Traveler’s Guide: The Local Chapters Calgary Ottawa Toronto LES 2008 Spring Meeting & LESI Conference: Licensing Without Borders LES Calendar of Events		Licensing Without Borders LES 2008 Spring Meeting & LES International Conference    May 4-7, 2008 • Chicago, IL In some sense, the world is coming to Chicago! The LES (USA & Canada) Spring Meeting will be combined with the 2008 International Conference welcomed by LESI President Chkao Fukuda. The synergistic effect of this combination is expected to draw record attendance to an event with varied and rich program content and unsurpassed networking opportunities. Be sure to mark your calendar. Chicago’s skyscrapers looking through signature Millennium Park. This unprecedented meeting comes during an important time in the history of licensing. Programming will address fundamental changes in the legal and legislative environment for IP, as well as the importance of IP as a contributor to corporate value. LES President Thomas Picone and International Conference Chair James Sobieraj will oversee a meeting designed to highlight: The latest developments in licensing legal and business issues. Key decision makers from some of the most influential technology-driven corporations participating in The Leaders of Corporate Licensing Panel. Industry-sector specific mini-plenary sessions designed to explore marketplace issues in detail. Timely licensing issues and wide-range audience participation discussion on LES Zeitgeist (spirit of the time). This groundbreaking meeting will take place at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, surrounded by Chicago’s world-class cultural and recreational amenities. Look for further information in upcoming issues of LES Viewpoints.
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