Unsere LESI Veranstaltungen
September 12, 2024
Virtual
5:00pm – 6:30pm CET
On September 12, the LES Italy Young Members Congress (YMC) is organizing a webinar on co-ownership of intellectual property rights.
The meeting will begin with a lectio magistralis given by Dr. Umberto Scotti, President Supreme Court of Cassation – First Civil Section.
This will be followed by Lawyer Mariagrazia Berardo, FVA Law, and Lawyer Giacomo Garbagnati, Garbagnati Law Firm, who will analyze the critical profiles of co-ownership and possible solutions in the light of national, foreign and European legislation.
In conclusion, Eng. Lorenzo Rossi, Italian Institute of Technology, will present the experience of an international profile research center in patent co-ownership.
The webinar will be moderated by Lawyer Emanuela Bianco, Chair of the LES Italy YMC and will be in Italian.
September 12, 2024
Beijing, China
8:30am – 6:00pm CST
LES China are proud to host their 2024 Annual Conference in Beijing, China with the theme „IP Commercialization Drives Sustainable Innovation“ on September 12, 2024.
Join us in:
- Catching the latest trends of global innovation,
- Benefiting from the valuable insights of the policymakers and industry leaders on IP licensing practice,
- Networking with representatives of leading tech-companies and licensing professionals from home and abroad to have a better view of IP commercialization landscape in China, and
- Enjoying the splendid natural and cultural charm of an ancient city that blends tradition with modernity.
An exciting journey starts here…… Don’t miss it!
Registration Fee
LES Member: Free
Non-Member: 250 USD/1 Person
Accommodation
Venue Hotel: Renaissance Beijing Wangfujing Hotel
Address: No. 57, Wangfujing Street, Dongcheng, 100006 Beijing, China
Hotel Website for booking:
Beijing, China Hotels | Renaissance Beijing Wangfujing Hotel (marriott.com)
More hotels can be found within walking distance.
Invitation Letter
If you need an official invitation letter for applying Chinese visa, please send an email to: zhaohui@ccpit-patent.com.cn
Secretariat of LES China
Ms. Zhao
Email: zhaohui@ccpit-patent.com.cn
http://www.leschina.cn/
September 12, 2024
Potomac, MD, USA
7:30am – 9:00am EDT
The Bayh-Dole Act marked a watershed in licensing technology in the United States. The Act, however, has a variety of requirements that must be satisfied, one of which is the manufacturing requirement, meaning manufacturing must be done in the United States. But what are the contours of this requirement? What are the problem areas?
Speakers:
Gillian Fenton, LST Strategies, LLC
Raymond Van Dyke, Attorney, Van Dyke Intellectual Property Law
September 16, 2024
Ottawa, ON, Canada
5:00pm – 7:00pm EDT
Please join for an Ottawa Chapter meet and greet and help re-launch the LES Ottawa Chapter!
September 16, 2024
Virtual
5:00pm – 7:00pm CET
The HTB forums are live online events designed for business decision makers. They are concise one-hour live case-study based sessions with optional one-hour meet-the-speakers sessions. The practical key messages are derived from a global panel of experts, adding the European, North American and Asian perspective. This forum focuses on Open innovation as growing technology convergence and speed to market are driving the need for a broader set of accessible technologies and IP. To remain competitive, technology driven businesses must move from a closed approach to innovation to an open one if they are to succeed in maximising the value of high-growth technology.
Open innovation is a strategic IP management approach that allows firms to have a sophisticated understanding of their future innovation needs based on an integrated approach that combines business, technology and IP strategy.
September 17, 2024
Virtual
11:00am – 12:00pm EDT
Session 1: Grant Clauses
September 17 – 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EASTERN
To kick off the Mechanics of a License series, we’re talking about arguably the most important clause in a licensing agreement: the grant clause. There’s something for everyone in this crash course on what’s conveyed through the execution of a license.
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Session 2: Royalty Clauses
September 19 – 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EASTERN
Most* licensors want to be paid, of course. Other things being equal, licensors like to get as much as they can up front and nonrefundable, to reduce the risk that, for whatever reasons, the licensee won’t be able to execute. For so-called running royalties, licensors don’t want to spend a lot of time and money making sure that they’re not being shorted. Especially when an exclusive license is granted, a licensor will generally want to bargain for minimum quarterly- or annual royalties (or other performance standards). Licensees, on the other hand, generally want to minimize their nonrefundable and up-front payments and their minimum-royalty obligations. For running royalties, licensees want to streamline their ongoing bookkeeping, reporting, and paperwork burdens. Both sides should have in mind that market conditions could change, which might call for change in the arrangements. This session will explore creative ways of addressing the „legitimate needs and greeds“ of both sides of the table, featuring annotated license-agreement clauses based on real-world agreements.
*Not including the software developers who release their code under various flavors of Free / Open-Source Software (FOSS) licenses.
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Session 3: Indemnities and Damages – A Bit of Planning Can Go A Long Way
September 24 – 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EASTERN
Indemnification clauses are sometimes treated as boiler-plate clauses, reserved for a quick glance of the lawyers shortly before the execution of an otherwise negotiated agreement. In this hour, learn why that is almost always a mistake and emerge equipped with an understanding of the various types of contract damages and how thoughtfully drafted indemnification clauses can be an effective tool to manage risk.
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Session 4: Avoiding the „Land Mines“ of Licensing
September 26 – 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EASTERN
If you’re working on a deal for a licensor — or you’re working on a deal for a licensee and want to know what provisions your licensor may ask you for — this fast-paced, one-hour session will share key provisions that you may not have included in your most important deals. Like the previous sessions in this great Mechanics of a License series from the Licensing Executives Society, this session will include specific clauses from real-world licensing documents that you can use in your own deals.
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Session 5: Not to be Glossed Over: Boilerplate Clauses in Licensing Agreements
October 1 – 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EASTERN
Boilerplate clauses generally refer to standard clauses in commercial contracts that aim to ensure the enforceability of the contract, protect each party against performance failures beyond its control, identify the contract’s governing law, and ascertain the mechanism for resolving disputes. Many times, the parties overlook such boilerplate clauses. This session will explain why the parties should pay careful attention to such boilerplate clauses because they can have profound effects in the event of a dispute.
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Session 6: Representations and Warranties
October 3 – 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EASTERN
This module does a deeper dive on Representations and Warranties, starting with a bit of a philosophical, etymological, and/or legal-history lens on what we mean (or meant) separately by a representation versus a warranty, before the modern practice of breezily employing both as a single-phrase unit. Accordingly we go over (e.g.) how representations have a current flavor, as opposed to warranties being a future-oriented guarantee. We also cover the key distinctions between the two in terms of materiality, strict compliance, integration into the contractual fabric, and burden-of-proof as well as remedies in case of breach. We then move to practical implications, including reading some real-world agreements through the lens of both representations and warranties, and critiquing their wording where relevant. In these discussions, we also ensure that we cover other areas of the agreement where representations and warranties (or the disclaiming thereof) can „hide“ in other dark corners of the agreement besides the usual/obvious sections such as Representations and Warranties itself, or Limitation of Liability.
September 17, 2024
Virtual
8:00am – 9:00am CDT
Speaker: Regine Corrado of Regine Corrado Coaching
Regine is an attorney, retiring from a 30+ legal career at the global law firm Baker McKenzie in June of 2020. Her legal practice focused on international corporate transactions and advising US multinationals on doing business internationally.
The last three years of her legal career she served as Managing Partner of their Chicago office. She started a coaching practice to help business executives and leaders develop and become more effective and fulfilled versions of themselves.
She is enrolled in Northwestern University’s Organizational and Leadership Coaching Certificate program to become certified as an executive coach.
September 17, 2024
Virtual
11:00am – 12:40pm CET
The LES Benelux Young Members Committee is thrilled to invite you to our upcoming webinar on 17 September 2024 at 11:00 AM (CET). Whether you are navigating the complexities of IT contracts or exploring solutions for operational resilience, this session is for you!
Agenda:
- Setting the Scene: IT Contracts, Continuity Issues & Operational Resilience
- What is Escrow?
- Key Issues to Consider with Escrow
- Exploring Alternative Solutions
- Concluding Remarks / Q&A
September 23, 2024
Coralville, IA, USA
10:00am – 2:00pm CST
Please join LES USA-Canada’s Iowa Chapter for a session to discuss the intricacies in how Academia and Industry collaborate on technology licensing.
Session 1: Identification of industry technology needs and finding potential academia solutions:
The morning session will be devoted to how Industry identifies gaps in technology and how academia markets their technology. Industry representatives will discuss how they identify technology gaps and academia will discuss how they market technologies. A moderated panel will answer questions about how they typically approach this collaboration with participants from local industry and universities. Audience participation is encouraged.
Session 2: Tips and tactics for successful academia/industry negotiations:
The afternoon session will be devoted to discussing best practices in these licensing transactions. A moderated panel will discuss potential showstoppers in language and how to address them. Items that could help negotiation go more smoothly between the parties. Audience participation is encouraged.
September 25, 2024
New York, NY, USA
6:00pm – 8:00pm EDT
Panel discussion on the common challenges and hurdles that emerge when negotiating and executing IP based deals across technology and life sciences. Panel members will draw from real-life experience based on executed deals and cover a range of topics including:
• Bridging valuation gaps
• What’s critical to address in early term sheets/discussions to avoid lengthy renegotiations, i.e. “I thought we had a deal”, including
• License scope and retained rights of the licensor, i.e. “I didn’t mean to give that away”
• Uncertainty associated with performance milestones and measures
• Negotiation strategies and building in “room to give”
• Cross border issues
September 30, 2024
Virtual
1:00pm – 2:30pm CET
Save the Date for a panel discussion with a moderator and five panelists, of which two UPC judges, two industry representatives and one litigator.
Full details coming soon!
September 30, 2024
Virtual
10:00am – 4:30pm CET
In today’s knowledge-driven economy, it is not a surprise that intangible assets play a crucial role in the performance of companies. Among the latter, IP is one of the most recognized in balance sheets, even if that recognition is most generally not representative of the real IP assets of a given enterprise. Lenders and investors’ interest in IP (where licensing plays a crucial role) are starting to look at it differently than in the past, thus triggering a lot of interest of the worldwide IP community, and the worlds of IP and Finance finally start to collide.
This webinar will be repeated to cover different time zones.
REGISTER HERE for the 10:00am CET session.
REGISTER HERE for the 3:00pm CET session.
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Agenda
- Introduction
Audrey Yap and André Gorius (LESI IP & Finance Task Force)
- „IP & Finance – EU Community Findings“
Prof. Stefano Zambon (WICI Italy)
- “IP Value Realisation – Unlocking the value of IP through IP-backed lending?”
Sunneth Lawrence (AON IP Solutions)
- „Bridging the Gap – WIPO’s Initiatives on IP Finance and Valuation“
Michael Kos (WIPO)
- Conclusions and next steps
Michel Dewolfs (WICI Belgium)
October 8, 2024
Virtual
11:00am – 12:00pm EDT
Director Vidal has been the head of the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) for over two years. In this fireside chat, the Director will talk about her initiatives and various positions that the Office has taken during her tenure, including on AI, the terminal disclaimer rule making proposal, PTAB reforms for the over 230 PTAB judges, fraudulent trademark filings, patent eligibility and thickets, and her efforts to reshape the USPTO and make it robust, reliable and transparent.
October 19, 2024
New Orleans, LA, USA
12:00pm CDT
This course will be hosted by the Finnegan law firm and will go over the essential details of how to draft an intellectual property licensing agreement based on what the two negotiating parties agreed-to. Taught by Finnegan’s Brian Kacedon, a Partner with 20+ years of experience crafting licenses, the course is based on the course that Brian has taught for many years for the Finnegan Patent Resources Group (PRG) and also his intellectual property course that he currently teaches at George Washington University,
The course will have two key modules:
The first one will cover an Introduction to Patent Licensing and cover the craft of Drafting License Agreements, Assignments vs. Licenses, and Types of Licenses
The second will cover Elements of a License Agreement and cover the Opening Part of the Agreement, Definitions, the Grant Clause and Reservations, Grants for Improvements, Releases, Consideration and Royalty Clauses, Protection for Nonexclusive Licensees: Most Favored Licensee Clauses, Third Party Infringement, Best Efforts Clauses, Assignability of License Agreements, Representations and Warranties, Indemnification, Term and Termination, Miscellaneous Clauses, and Execution of Agreements.
October 19, 2024
New Orleans, LA, USA
12:00pm CDT
The Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) credential in intellectual property licensing and commercialization is a valuable career asset. This certification indicates to clients, colleagues and potential employers that you have advanced experience and qualifications in key identified subject areas. This course will provide you with a high-level overview of the major performance domains and content that you may see in your CLP exam so that you feel more prepared to take the certification exam. Applicants are strongly encouraged to fully prepare for taking the exam. For more information on the CLP Exam and ways to study, and to view a copy of the CLP Candidate Handbook, please visit the Certified Licensing Professionals, Inc.
October 19, 2024
New Orleans, LA, USA
9:00am – 1:00pm CDT
This course will build on standard clauses discussed in the Mechanics of a License course, and examine less common, but very useful, terms that can be included in license agreements. The insights provided in this class, including the nuances of when and how to use these provisions, can help you negotiate strong and enduring license agreements.
October 20, 2024
New Orleans, LA, USA
Our program offers something for everyone, including sessions on utilizing the International Trade Commission to enforce your IP rights – exclusion orders etc., branding, IP ownership in Life Sciences, Life Sciences spinouts, the use of data in complex SEP licensing, the U.S. manufacturing requirement of the Bayh-Dole act, using Big Data to improve R&D, negotiations, top licensing mistakes, content specifically focused on Emerging Leaders, career advice for those starting in their licensing career, to more advanced topics at the frontier of AI, partnerships across industries, trends in brand valuation, litigation finance, recent legal and legislative updates from the U.S. and Europe, and MORE!
In addition, the conference dates coincide with the famous annual New Orleans Halloween Parade taking place on Saturday night October 19! The parade is a fun-filled event of floats and cheer that will go right by our Marriott hotel.
New Orleans is world-renowned for its distinctive music, Creole cuisine, unique dialects, and its annual celebrations and festivals, most notably Mardi Gras. The historic heart of the city is the French Quarter, known for its French and Spanish Creole architecture and vibrant nightlife along Bourbon Street.
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Nov 18-19, 2024
Rotterdam
LES Benelux will held its annual Licensing Course on 18 and 19 November at the Hilton Hotel in Rotterdam (NL).
Participants will follow the path of drafting an agreement from start till finish. The course includes presentations relating to key aspects of Licensing Practice such as IP Basics, Due Diligence, Valuation and Competition Law as well as participative workshops on negotiation, IP strategy, and agreement drafting.
Nov 11, 2024
Virtual
Save the Date!
The HTB forums are live online events designed for business decision makers. They are concise one-hour live case-study based sessions with optional one-hour meet-the-speakers sessions. The practical key messages are derived from a global panel of experts, adding the European, North American and Asian perspective. This forum focuses IP strategy and management.
IP strategy is an integral part of corporate business strategy and IP management decisions can have a substantial impact on business performance. Based on a case study the use business principles and strategies to create value through their IP is demonstrated. It focuses on the numerous business aspects and opportunities of IP management relevant to high-growth technology businesses.