IP Licensing Basics - Virtual CourseJuly 23-24, 2024July 23 - 11:00 am - 1:00 pm EASTERN and 3:00-6:00 pm EASTERN July 24 - 11:00 am - 1:00 pm EASTERN and 3:00-6:00 pm EASTERN Please note: We do not provide recordings of our professional development courses - attendance is expected. There is more emphasis now than ever before on commercialization, company formation, and job creation from the billions of dollars invested annually in research and development at America's universities, government laboratories, and small businesses. Whether you are an entrepreneur in the making, a principal investigator or student at any level who wants a better grasp of the basics, or an aspiring technology transfer professional, this course will give you the tools you need to understand and participate effectively in the process of protecting IP and facilitating its commercialization. Delivered over 2 days, this course consists of 4 modules:
- IP Basics
- IP Commercialization Basics
- Licensing Fees & Royalty Rates
- Managing Risk
Pricing
Member Rate - $199.00
Non-Member Rate - $299.00
Student Rate - $79.00 Group rates available for parties of 3 or more. Contact education@les.org for information. Instructors
Gillian M. Fenton, Esq., CLP, Special Counsel, GSK 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. Connect on LinkedIn Jennifer Vanderhart, Ph.D., Managing Director, SecretariatJennifer is a Managing Director at Secretariat. As a Ph.D. Economist based in Washington, D.C., she provides a range of services, including litigation support services and economic consulting. Dr. Vanderhart has more than 25 years’ experience in the evaluation and quantification of economic damages including claims arising from patent, copyright and trademark infringement, trade secret misappropriation, and contract disputes. She has also assisted companies in patent and trademark licensing negotiations, royalty investigations and calculations, and intellectual property asset valuations. Jennifer has published on the subjects of valuation, damages, and intellectual property, and frequently speaks on these topics at conferences and lectures. She is listed in the IAM Patent 1000 and has been recognized in Who’s Who Legal as a Thought Leader in the area Quantum of Damages.
Connect on LinkedIn Louise Levien, Ph.D., CLP, Executive Director, LES USA and CanadaLouise Levien has a PhD in Geochemistry and worked for 35+ years for ExxonMobil Upstream Research before retiring. She spent the first third of her career as a research scientist, the middle third as a supervisor and in various planning roles and the final third in the IP & licensing group. In that role, she often acted as the liaison between scientists and attorneys, as well as between ExxonMobil and companies or Technology Transfer Offices. During that time, she negotiated hundreds of agreements with IP terms, earned the CLP designation, and became the inventor of two patents. Since retirement, she has done some consulting work, but mostly volunteered. She is on the Board of Directors and an active instructor for LES, a venture mentor for MD Anderson and the Univ. of TX, a mentor for the Woman’s Launchpad at Brown University and a marketing volunteer for College Money Matters. Connect on LinkedIn Hemant Bhimnathwala, Ph.D., Senior Manager, Argonne National Laboratory Hemant is a Senior Innovation and Commercialization Manager at Argonne National Laboratory. His primary areas of focus are Argonne’s Energy Systems and Nuclear Engineering divisions. He joined Argonne in 2016. Hemant has nearly 20 years of experience working in finance in various roles, including structured finance, venture capital, corporate strategy, mergers & acquisitions and hedge funds. Hemant is an activist and has personally litigated for equal parental rights, including petitions to the US Supreme Court. His efforts have earned him recognition in Marquis Who’s Who in America. Hemant holds an MBA from New York University, a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Connect on LinkedIn Bob Held, CLP, President, Held Intellectual Property LLCWith over 20 years of experience as a licensing executive, Bob Held has extensive experience in all facets of intellectual property (IP), including monetization, management, acquisitions, expert witness, contracts, negotiations, IP in government contracting & the FAR/DFAR, people management, budgets, valuation, marketing, strategic agreements, university & government agreements, IP issues in M&A, IP training & public speaking and strategic and tactical input on all IP matters. Bob has been a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) since the inception of the CLP program in 2008. Since 2015 Bob has been nominated and received the honor of being named an Intellectual Asset Magazine (IAM) 300 World's Leading IP Strategists. Connect on LinkedIn Jonathon K. Hance, Partner, Bracewell LLCJonathon Hance is both a litigator and an intellectual property lawyer. As a litigator, Jonathon is at home in the court room, where he represents both plaintiffs and defendants and works hard to enforce his clients' intellectual property rights and data confidentiality rights, to protect his clients' brands, to bring value to his clients in the restructuring context, and to resolve complex commercial disputes in the design and construction, real estate, energy, healthcare, and technology industries. Connect on LinkedIn CANCELLATION and REFUND POLICY:
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