LES Global News September 2015 Preview

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September 2015

LES NEWS GLOBAL

Highlights

Meetings

Societies’ News

A d v a n c i n g

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B u s i n e s s

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New Members

I n t e l l e c t u a l

P r o p e r t y

Reviews G l o ba l l y

Booming Licensing On The Silk Road LESI 2016 Annual Conference China Grand Hotel • Beijing, China • May 15-18, 2016

By Linda Corcoran

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ome and experience the new China! It has been 22 years since LESI held its last Annual Conference in Beijing, and since then China has seen marked developments economically as well as legally, especially on the IP front. Make plans now to attend the LESI 2016 Annual Conference in Beijing, May 15-18, at the China Grand Hotel in Beijing.

The lure of China is in its history of over 3,000 years, its artifacts and its culture; at the epicenter of China’s past is the infamous Silk Road, the renowned trade and cultural route that connected countries in Asia as well as the rest of the world. It is only fitting that the theme for the 2016 Conference is “Booming Licensing On The Silk Road.”

The conference will showcase deals, collaborations, licensing and technology transfer between China and the world—a modern Silk Road, for sure. At the center of today’s transactions is China’s focus on promoting innovation and IP commercialization. And you, as an LESI participant, are invited to take this journey!

“This is a very opportune time to meet in Beijing,” says LESI President Jim Sobieraj as he invites participation in the Conference. “The importance of China to the world economy continues to grow as China focuses on promoting innovation and IP commercialization.”

Over 500 licensing professionals will be on hand, including business executives and lawyers from around the world. Networking will be outstanding, and quite interesting as social events are planned to allow you to experience the fascinating local culture of Beijing. And, Booming Licensing, continued on Page 3

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Don’t Wait: Register Now!

ake the journey to a place that you won’t soon forget: Beijing, China. LESI welcomes you to the 2016 Annual Conference, May 15-18, at the five-star China Grand Hotel. Meeting registration is now open online at www.lesi2016.org/registration.php.

Your registration fee includes admission to all sessions, workshops and exhibitions; coffee breaks and lunches; one accompanying person; cultural night dinner for the registrant and their guest; and a farewell night dinner for the registrant and their guest.

Hotel reservations can be made directly with the China World Hotel at China World Trade Center: www.shangri-la.com/beijing/chinaworld/.

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Moving Forward On The LESI Value Proposition

Inside LES Global News Highlights –Pages 1-10, 20, 21 Society News, Committee Reports –Pages 11, 12, 14-19, 28-39

Meetings & Delegates, Advertisers –Pages 13, 22, 23, 26, 27, 40, 41

New Members, Memoriam —Page 24

Book Review —Page 25

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Call For Content We request contributions from all societies and individuals about important events, changes in the law in your country or region, conferences, annual meetings, board changes, and the like from your society. You can submit articles or announcements to the editor or use the form on the website at the following address: www.lesi.org/les-societies/lesglobal-news/submission-form.

Deadlines: January 15, April 15, July 15 and October 15 Editor: Larry Plonsker, 10580 Northgreen Dr., Wellington, FL 33449 • Email: editor@LESI.org

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By James Sobieraj, President, LES International

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n my last column, I explained that the Board this term will focus on the LESI value proposition, i.e., the LESI deliverables that attract new members and retain existing members, and that at our Winter Planning Meeting we determined that the highest priority deliverables are meetings, publications, communications and education.

Since the Board’s current term began in April, we have been moving forward on each of these deliverables. The chairs of the Meetings, Publications, Communications and Education Committees have been formulating plans that have been submitted to the Board for review and discussion during our monthly conference calls. The next step is to convert plans into action, and I am pleased to report that is already occurring.

For example, the Education Committee, chaired by Martin Schneider and Allen Baum, have identified twelve different action items, a timeline for completing each one and the person(s) with primary responsibility for each one.

Progress on each item also is being tracked.

One action item is to prepare a unified education calendar, and make it available on the LESI website so members can easily find out what education programs are being offered around the world by our various societies, and the date and other details for each event. With the help of Martin and Allen, I sent a letter to all national society presidents requesting information about the education programs they have planned for the next year. We already have received responses and are posting them in the upcoming courses column of the education committee web page (www.lesi.org/committees-community/lesi-committeesoverview/management-committees-overview/education-committee).

The Education Committee also is reevaluating the delivery and content of our IAM 100, 200 and Train-the-Trainer courses at annual and regional meetings. Martin and Allen met with the meeting chair for the 2016 International Conference Beijing, and plan to offer Train-the-Trainer and IAM 100 Basics courses in Beijing next May. In future columns, I plan to provide updates on the other key deliverables—meetings, publications and communications, as well as further updates on education.

I also welcome your input on how LESI can improve these four key deliverables. Please send your suggestions to me at Jim.Sobieraj@lesi.org.

Society Visits Since my term has started, I have had the privilege to attend the annual meetings of LES Britain & Ireland, Switzerland and Japan. All of the meetings offered cutting edge content and excellent networking, and all done in a way that was unique to their country’s culture. We can learn a lot from each of our fellow societies around the globe. I encourage you to take advantage of opportunities to attend meetings of other societies. I think you will find it to be a rewarding experience.

I look forward to several more society visits this year, including meetings in Oslo, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, New York and Hamburg.

I hope to see you at one of these meetings. ■

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International Global Prize Awarded To Student Entrepreneurs From University Of Waterloo

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mong competitors from Europe, Asia, India and Africa, entrepreneurs from University of Waterloo (Canada) distinguished themselves by capturing the $5,000 LES International Global Award at the Grand Final Round of the Licensing Executives Society (LES) Foundation 2015 International Graduate Student Business Plan Competition for their company, Maieutic. These entrepreneurs presented their global business plan for PinPress, a self-adjusting, programmable surface that seeks to reduce manufacturing downtime by allowing manufacturers to change what they are producing with the press of a button.

The Foundation’s $10,000 Grand Prize was awarded to Waave Stream from the University of Houston for their water filtration nanotechnology plan. The first-ever Member’s Choice Award, accompanied by $3,000, was presented to TriboTEX from Washington State University. Each runner up team received $1,000 and all eight finalist teams received cash and in-kind prizes worth over $100,000, designed to assist with their business needs.

The LES Foundation, with support from LES (USA & Canada) and LES International, has hosted the International Graduate Student Business Plan Competition for the past twelve years.

The Competition uniquely focuses on sound strategies for commercializing intellectual assets to achieve business objectives.

The final round of this year’s Competition was held by virtual connection and hosted at the offices of Knobbe, Martens, Olson and Bear in San Diego, California. The Member’s Choice Award was voted on via the Internet and from a view and vote kiosk at the LES (USA & Canada) Spring Meeting in La Jolla, CA. As in past years, business plan submissions to the Competition represented countries around the world. The LESI Global Award is presented annually to the team whose plan best deals with IP rights and their use in the global business environment. This year’s winning team, Maieutic, was led by Asif Khan, a software engineering graduate student at University of Waterloo, Canada. He comments, “The Business Plan CompeLES Foundation, continued on Page 6

of course there will be rich and flexible programs and sightseeing tours before, during and after the conference for individuals and families, including a trip to the Great Wall.

Meeting participants will be immersed in LESI education and sharing of best practices while finding themselves in a city that houses the highest IP administrative and judicial authorities in China, the most enterprises in China, and a vibrant IP community. The Conference will focus on trends, insights and practical tips as it features a comprehensive program with five keynote speakers, six mini-plenary sessions, and twenty workshops.

World-class speakers will grace the Conference with a worldview of transactions in China and IP progress today. Speakers who have already been confirmed include: • Judge from the Supreme People’s Court of China • Official from the Ministry of Commerce of China • Director of IP Licensing, Microsoft • Executive Director, Business Development

and Licensing, Merck • Senior IP Counsel, Alibaba • Global Head of IP, Novartis • Vice President, IP, LG Electronics • IP Director of BOE Technology Group • Head of IP Licensing, Asia Pacific, IBM • Open Innovation Director of Unilever, China • Director of IP and Innovation, Aramco Entrepreneurship The Conference venue is the China World Hotel at China World Trade Center in the heart of Beijing. Stepping into the lobby of the hotel, you will feel as if you’ve just walked into a miniature Forbidden City. Filled with Ming and Qing era style artwork, the red and gold chamber welcomes you with a grandeur worthy of royalty. The hotel anchors the prestigious China World Trade Centre, Central Business District, and is attached to the China World Mall.

Li Yong, President of LES China invites all members to Beijing as he remarks, “We aim at making the 2016 Conference a focal point for staging the great progress of IP in China and in Asia, as well as the effective cooperation of China with the rest of the world.” He punctuates his comments with, “Beijing 2016 is expecting you!” ■ September 2015

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39 Professionals Earn Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) Credential In April

By Cynthia Allen

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ertified Licensing Professionals, Inc. (CLP) announced today that 39 professionals in licensing and technology transfer passed the CLP exam and earned the credential during the April 2015 exam window.

“We are thrilled to welcome this new group of CLP certificants and congratulate them on their achievement,” said Robin Rasor, MS, CLP, chair of the CLP Board of Governors and Managing Director of Licensing at the University of Michigan.

“The CLP distinction is a mark of a licensing professional’s skill set and knowledge base and signals to the wider industry a greater commitment to the field.”

In addition to the United States, candidates from Belgium, Canada, China, Germany, The Netherlands, Singapore, Slovenia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom took the exam.

“We are seeing a growing interest in CLP certification from Europe and other regions of the world as word about the value of CLP certification spreads,” Rasor said.

The individuals who passed the CLP exam have demonstrated their knowledge and skill by meeting strict eligibility requirements, including experience and education, and passing a rigorous examination containing 150 multiple-choice questions covering a variety of topics. The individuals earning the CLP credential in April represented a variety of companies, institutions and sectors within the industry.

Said Ms. Rasor, “We hope more industry and academic leaders will encourage their employees to consider sitting for the CLP exam. Earning CLP certification provides a natural pathway for professional development, a benchmark of industry standards and knowledge, and can assist companies and institutions locate motivated and skilled professionals to fill vacant positions.”

For those companies or institutions interested in locating a CLP, a registry of those holding the credential is available on the CLP website at www.licensingcertification.org. ■

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Young Members Congress— First Pan-American YMC Event To Be Held In Chicago

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e are pleased to announce the 1st Pan-American YMC Event.

Please share this message with your Society members.

The event will be held in Chicago, Illinois on Friday, September 11th. The registration is free, but space is limited. Please register through the LESI website: https://netforum.avectra.com/eWeb/DynamicPage.aspx?Site=LES&WebCode=EventDetail &&evt_key=d8709b5c-8e32-4f5c-af134ffb05622953 The event will feature panels on: • Discussion of U.S. and Canada Trade Secret Protection and the recent EU Directive for the Protection of Trade Secrets; • Best and Ethical Practices for Licensing Inside Out: A Panel Discussion featuring professionals from private practice and in-house; • Patent Reform with Judge Holderman of the Northern District of Illinois; • Non-Practicing Entities: What is on the horizon and how will that change the business model?; • Interactive Workshop: Negotiation of a Patent License Agreement; Panel sessions will be followed by a dinner reception event.

For a full agenda and speaker information, please see: https://www.lesi.org/docs/default-source/ young-persons-congress/download-ymc-panamerica-2015-agenda.pdf For more information, please contact Sherry Rollo at srollo@hahnlaw.com.

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Be part of something BIGGER than yourself, in a city LARGER than life!

‘The Future of Innovation and Licensing in the Americas’ Chicago | September 11, 2015 Hear from Experts – Learn & Network – Dinner & Pub Event More at www.lesi.org

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LES Foundation, continued from Page 1 tition helped us better develop our business plan by pointing out weaknesses, as well as determining viable IP licensing strategies for our current IP and how it could be developed further. Also, LES has introduced us to a whole new network that we were not aware of and that we hope to pursue.”

Grand Prize Winner Wavve Stream Inc. was led by CEO Eric Beydoun, a graduate from the Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship, C.T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston. Beydoun states that his company is looking to enhance the quality of water around the world by significantly improving the capabilities of existing water filters with a liquid solution and integrated beads than can be applied to water filtration systems.

TriboTEX took home the Member’s Choice Award.

This clean-tech startup leverages a proprietary, ecofriendly nanoparticle product that has two functionally different sides to effectively recondition moving parts during normal operation.

The 2015 finalist teams also included: Akabotics, Uni-

versity of Hawaii, USA; Enlightened Diagnostics, University of Notre Dame, USA; Guardian, Delhi Technological University, India; Opticent Health, Northwestern University, USA; Phytosys, Rutgers University, USA; Sozo Innovations, Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore.

The Foundation expresses deep gratitude to its 2015 sponsors and donors including Bracewell & Giuliani, DLA Piper, Intellectual Property Market Advisory Partners (IPMAP), Baker Hostetler, Knobbe Martens, ASQ Consulting, Betts Patterson Mines, Collective IP, IP Checkups, Questel, Relecura, TechPats, Thomson Reuters, Traklight, as well as to Platinum Individual Donors and the hundreds of LES members who donated anonymously.

For more information on the LES Foundation and the Competition, visit www.lesfoundation.org. ■ Annemarie Meike, Director, LES Foundation International Graduate Student Business Plan Competition Gary Fedorochko, LES Foundation President

Sun Kim Receives President’s Award

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t the Brussels 2015 IMDM, a special presentation was made. President Arnaud Michel awarded Sun Kim (LES Korea) the LESI’s President’s Award for “her outstanding dedication and service to the success of LESI. We are truly grateful for your exceptional gifts.”

We certainly agree. Please join us in congratulating Sun for her award and thanking her for her many contributions to LESI.

Barnes Mentor Award

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he 2015 Frank Barnes Mentor Award was awarded to Licensing Pioneer Lawrence J. Udell.

Read more... http://www.lesfoundation.org/awards/index.html

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LES Global News— LESI Delegates Officers President President-Elect Past-President Vice-President ® Vice-President Vice-President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Counsel Counsel

Jim Sobieraj Patricia A.O. Bunye Arnaud Michel Omer Hiziroglu Fiona Nicolson John Paul Audrey Yap François Painchaud Eduardo de Souza Michael Lechter Junichi Yamazaki

les Nouvelles Editorial Review Board Chair: Rodney DeBoos, Melbourne, Australia Lex van Wijk, Amersfoort, Netherlands Heinz Goddar, Munich, Germany Norm Jacobs, Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.A. Sun-Ryung Kim, Seoul, Korea Masato Kobayashi, Tokyo, Japan Kenneth D. McKay, Toronto, Canada Thomas Bereuter, Vienna, Austria Frank Tietze, Cambridge, UK Eduardo C.A. de Mello e Souza, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Chris J. Katopis, Executive Administrator Larry Plonsker, Editor 10580 Northgreen Dr., Wellington, FL 33449 Tel: +1-561-432-8814 E-mail: editor@lesi.org Carla J. Blackman, Design Interface Inc.

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les Nouvelles is published quarterly by the Licensing Executives Society International (LESI). LESI is an association of 33 National and Regional Societies, each composed of individual members who are engaged in the profession of licensing and other aspects of transferring or profiting from intellectual property. Subscription to the journal is included in the membership dues paid by all members.

Subscription for the print publication is available to nonmembers for US$250/year. Please contact the Editor for further details or go to www.lesi.org/les-nouvelles/aboutles-nouvelles/non-member-subscription The articles published in les Nouvelles reflect the views of the authors and not of the Society as an association or its officers. Material printed in the journal is covered by copyright. No parts of this publication may be reproduced, displayed or transmitted in any form, without prior permission from the Editor or Board of LESI. A peer review and evaluation system is used to maintain the scholarly nature of the material published in this journal. All articles submitted for publication are reviewed and evaluated by members of the Editorial Review Board (ERB). The ERB members are chosen for their expertise in the fields of licensing and intellectual property. All evaluations are reviewed in a double-blind fashion to remove any bias in the results. The final decision on publication rests with the editor.

A guideline for authors can be found on our Web site at the following address: www.lesi.org/lesnouvelles/advertise. asp#submission Copyright ©2015 Licensing Executives Society International.

DEADLINES FOR les Nouvelles: Copy for publication in les Nouvelles should be received by the Editor-in-Chief as far as possible in advance of the final deadlines, January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1. Articles for the white pages are reviewed by the LES Editorial Review Board, and they are published as soon as possible after acceptance. All materials are to be submitted electronically in either MS Word or Text Only format.

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Licensing And Intellectual Property Organizations Meetings For more information on LESI Meetings, go to www.lesi.org November 27 LES Modul VII: Technology Transfer and Licensing in Europe, China, India and USA Munich, Germany

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September 6–8 LES Scandinavia 2015 Annual Conference Grand Hotel Oslo, Norway September 11 1st Pan-American Young Members Congress (YMC) Event Chicago, Illinois, USA

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