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Navigating the US Manufacturing Requirement of the Bayh-Dole Act: Practice, Policy, and Pitfalls
hosted by the Washington, DC Chapter
Thursday, September 12, 2024
7:30 am - 9:00 am ET
at
Shulman Rogers
12505 Park Potomac Avenue
Potomac, MD 20854
parking is located in Willis Tower, just off I-270 on Montrose Avenue
Networking & Breakfast 7:30am - 8:00am
Presentation 8:00am - 9:00am COST: FREE
Continental breakfast fare will be served
Program:
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
Gillian M. Fenton, Esq., CLP has been a member of the Licensing Executives Society (LES, USA & Canada) since 1992, and served as the society President in 2020-2021. Gillian’s contributions to LES and to the field of licensing were recognized with the society’s Frank Barnes Award in October 2022 and with listing in the IAM 300 in October 2023. She presently serves as U.S. Counsel to LESI and is a member of the LES USA & Canada Public Policy Committee and Course Chair for IP Licensing Basics.
Gillian is the founder and executive director of LST Strategies LLC, a solo law practice dedicated to life science transactions. For the prior 8 years, she was GSK Vaccines Special Counsel for Innovation and Government Collaborations. At GSK, she supported a wide variety of business development transactions, R&D collaborations and U.S. Government Contracts including agreements with NIH/NIAID, BARDA, DARPA, CARB-X and NIIMBL. Before joining GSK, Gillian was VP, Associate General Counsel & Chief Intellectual Property Counsel at Emergent BioSolutions Inc., where she founded the IP department and supported all IP aspects of the company’s IPO and subsequent 9 years of growth through M&A in the vaccines, biodefense, and global health fields. Gillian also spent over ten years in private practice at law firms in Boston, MA and Washington, DC.
Education: J.D. cum laude, Suffolk University Law School; B.Sc. Biochemistry, Trinity College. Admissions: MA, MD, DC. Registered U.S. Patent Attorney. | 
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Raymond Van Dyke, Attorney, Van Dyke Intellectual Property Law
Raymond
Van Dyke is an IP/Patent Attorney and Educator. In his practice he
helps a variety of clients in their IP matters. He specializes in patent
and trademark matters in various technologies, litigation, licensing,
and procurement. After being a partner in big firms, he started his own
IP consultancy in Washington, DC, with diverse domestic and
international clientele and technologies, handling matters at the USPTO,
Federal Circuit and local State and Federal courts. He is an Adjunct
Professor at George Washington University, and teaches IP courses for
engineers, business people and other professionals at the University of
Maryland and George Mason University, also teaching about the history
and philosophy of IP, history of technology, famous inventors and deals,
etc. He has also taught at Southern Methodist University, American
University, and across the world. Ray also teaches at NIH and other
institutions. He is the Senior Vice President of Special Events at LES
and Chair of the LES DC Chapter; an AIPLA Fellow and former Chair of a
number of Committees; Chair of the Montgomery County Bar Association IP
Section, former Board Member of the DC Chapter of the ACM, former Board
Member of ITechLaw (Computer Law Association); and continues his
involvement in IPO, the MSBA, AIPPI, ABA, BIO, IEEE and other legal and
technical organizations. Ray got his BS, MS in Computer Science and law
degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is
licensed to practice in DC, MD, NY, NJ and TX, as well as the USPTO, and
is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court, Federal, Second, Third, Fourth
and Fifth Circuit Courts and a number of District Courts, Court of
International Trade and Federal Court of Claims. Ray also continues in
his efforts to fight on behalf of the small inventor community in
protecting the principles of the patent system. |
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