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LES CLP Exam Review - Virtual Course - March 2026

 Export to Your Calendar 3/3/2026 to 3/4/2026
When: March 3-4
11:00 am -1:00 pm ET and 2:00 pm - 5:00pm ET
Where: Virtual Event
United States
Presenter: Course Chair: Michele Riley, CLP
Contact: Brooke Weldon
bweldon@les.org
(703) 468-8540


Online registration is available until: 3/3/2026
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LES CLP Exam Review - Virtual Course

March 3 - 4, 2026

March 3- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm EASTERN

March 4 - 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm EASTERN

Please note: We do not provide recordings of our professional development courses - attendance is expected.

GENERAL 201

Level: Advanced – More experience required, typically >3 years.

Description:

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.

Disclaimer: This course is not intended or meant to replace exam study and professional experience.

Modules:

  • Intellectual Property Protection
  • Opportunity Assessment, Development, and Valuation
  • Negotiation
  • Agreement Development & Drafting
  • Agreement Management

You will review the following:

  • Principles and concepts from each of the five established CLP exam modules listed above
  • Interactive sample questions from the CLP Sample Exam

What previous attendees have said: 

  • “All of the instructors provided personal professional experience as examples for the educational material which was greatly helpful to visualize the information and quickly get the point across.”
  • “I thought it was a great overview of the material, and I feel much more confident going into the CLP exam than prior to taking the class.”
  • “I realize that this course was advertised as being a refresher, however, it was a lot of information that went into detail in a very short period of time.”
  • “A fun learning experience that validates your licensing expertise!”

Recommended LES courses to take in advance or equivalent experience:

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Course Creators & Contributors:

Thank you to our course chair, past course chairs and content contributors who have developed and improved this course over time including:

 

Pricing: $799

 

Faculty

Jonathon K. Hance, Esq., CLP, Partner, Bracewell LLP

Jonathon 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.

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Bob Held, CLP, President, Held Intellectual Property LLC

With 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.

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Nathan Jensen, CLP, Senior Manager SABIC

Nathan Jensen is an intellectual property attorney with thirty years of experience in the IP field. His work experience has included time in a law firm and as a patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He has held IP-related in-house positions at Rockwell Collins (now Collins Aerospace) and ExxonMobil. Currently, he works for SABIC in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Brigham Young University (USA) and a Juris Doctor with Honors from the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University (USA). Nathan is an enthusiastic advocate for the Certified Licensed Professional credential. He enjoys woodturning, family history, traveling, and creating fractal art.

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Michele Riley, CLP, Senior Advisor, Stout Risius Ross LLC

Michele Riley is a Senior Advisor in Stout’s Disputes, Compliance and Investigations group. Michele has a focus on intellectual property damages and valuation, and has testified regarding damages in patent, trademark and copyright infringement, as well as trade secret misappropriation cases. She has performed valuations of intellectual property for arms-length licensing and litigation matters, and negotiated agreements for the purchase, sale and licensing of intellectual property. In addition, she has audited royalty streams on technology licenses for clients in a number of industries.
Michele has been named in the IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Professionals each year from 2014 to the present. She is a past board member (Treasurer) of the Licensing Executives Society (USA & Canada), and serves on the advisory board for the Accounting and Information Assurance department at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.
Michele holds an MBA from the University of Maryland and a BA in Physics from Emory University. She is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified in Financial Forensics. She is also a Certified Fraud Examiner, and a Certified Licensing Professional.

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Graham Rogers, CLP, Partner, Eisner Advisory Group LLC

Graham Rogers is a Principal in the Forensic, Litigation, and Valuation Services. His professional career spans more than 30 years. For more than 20 of these years, Graham has been assisting clients with their intellectual property needs. He has been retained as an expert to determine economic damages in a variety of litigation matters including patent infringement, trademark infringement, theft of trade secrets, and copyright infringement disputes.  Graham has testified in several federal jurisdictions as well as various state courts.
Prior to joining EisnerAmper, Graham operated his own firm, for more than nine years. Prior to that, Graham held senior leadership positions at national and regional accounting firms. While at these firms, Graham assisted clients with their litigation support and valuation needs. His prior experience has provided him the practical foundation (economic modeling, discovery assistance, financial statement review and industry/market research) required to successfully handle expert witness needs, valuation matters, and intellectual asset management needs.

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CANCELLATION and REFUND POLICY:

No refunds will be granted for this education session.

LES regrets that refunds will not be given for no-shows.

A transfer of your full registration to another individual is permitted prior to the course by submitting written request to education@les.org. The individual submitting the transfer request is responsible for all financial obligations (any balance due) associated with that substitution. Funds from this program cannot be transferred to another education session without prior management approval.

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