LES Global News June 2015 Preview

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LES NEWS GLOBAL

Highlights

A d v a n c i n g

Meetings

Societies’ News

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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

Welcoming LES Thailand To The Family

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Presentation of the LES flag to LES Thailand after approval. All the available participants in the process to approval are shown along with the President of LESI and LES Thailand.

Sumiko Kobayashi, Chair of the Membership Committee, approves LES Thailand’s bylaws and recommends approval of their membership in LESI.

Wilaiporn Chetanachan, President of LES Thailand, Arnaud Michel, President of LESI (center) and Yvonne Chua, PastPresident, presenting an LESI pen.

LES Society Presidents and LESI Board Members welcome LES Thailand to the family.

bout three years ago it was recognized that Thailand was an excellent candidate to be the 33rd Society of LESI. There was an established organization in the country, Licensing Association Thailand (LAT), and an active business environment. Yvonne Chua approached LES Japan to be the mentor society for this effort, as they had experience in this type of activity. The Membership Committee of LESI had the responsibility for guiding and approving new members, being sure that they can comply with LESI’s bylaws and rules. The LAT presented a first draft of their future bylaws to the committee and by the fifth draft, their document was accepted. LAT was accepted as LES Thailand by a unanimous vote of the delegates at the International Management and Delegates Meeting in Brussels. This vote came at the IMDM which was held before the LESI Annual Conference in Brussels, April 10, 2015. After reports by Sumiko Kobyashi, Chair of the Membership Committee, and Ichiro Nakatomi, President of LES Japan, the mentoring society, acceptance was recommended.

The key players For LESI in this activity were Yvonne Chua, LES Japan, the Membership Committee, Patricia Bunye (President-elect LESI), and Heinz Goddar.

LES Thailand currently has 52 members, with 40% professionals, 30% industry and 30% academic and public organizations. They have an active plan for seminars, meeting, education and attendance at LESI and regional functions, and membership growth in the coming years.

The President of the Society is Dr. Wilaiporn Chetanachan.

A warm and hearty welcome to LES Thailand from all the LESI family. ■

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Focusing On The LESI Value Proposition

Inside LES Global News Highlights –Pages 1-7, 9

By James Sobieraj, President, LES International

Society News, Committee Reports –Pages 10-18

Meetings & Delegates, Advertisers –Pages 8, 19, 22-25

New Members —Page 20

Book Review —Page 21

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y goal as the president of LESI for the next year is to focus on the LESI value proposition, i.e., the LESI deliverables that attract new members and retain existing members.

This project actually began several months ago during the Winter Planning Meeting held in Cancun, Mexico. While a bright sun was warming the beaches on Sunday, January 25th, thirty-five members of the LESI leadership team spent the entire day in a windowless conference room working on ways to improve the LESI value proposition. The attendees included the LESI Board, several past presidents, national presidents and committee chairs. The agenda for this Winter Planning Meeting was threefold: first, to review the various deliverables (i.e., a service or benefit that LESI offers to its members) that make up the LESI value proposition; second, to prioritize those deliverables; and third, to identify specific things we can do to improve the four deliverables of the LESI value proposition that have the highest priority.

During the morning, a current or past committee chair or board member led a discussion on a specific deliverable that is part of the overall LESI value proposition. We addressed eleven different deliverables that LESI provides to its members. We then spent 15-20 minutes discussing how each different deliverable contributes to the LESI value proposition for existing and prospective LES members.

At the end of the morning session, each attendee completed a ballot containing a list of each deliverable discussed. The attendee could assign a ranking from one to ten (ten being the highest) for each deliverable. After all of the votes were tallied, the total scores for each deliverable reflected its respective priority. The four highest ranked deliverables would help us answer the question, “What should be the focus of our limited time and money during the next LESI year?”

After the votes were counted, the deliverables with the highest vote tallies were meetings, publications, communications and eduation. The attendees then spent the afternoon exchanging ideas on how LESI can improve on these deliverables.

Over the next 12 months, the chairs of the Meetings, Publications, Communications and Education Committees and the LESI Board will focus on action items to improve our value proposition in these four high-priority deliverables. I plan to report on progress in future editions of this publication.

Our primary focus on meetings, publications, communications and education does not mean that we will ignore the other deliverables that LESI provides. On that note, April 26 is World IP Day. John Paul and Gary Keller are coordinating with our 33 societies in organizing a program in conjunction with World IP Day. I hope that you find a way to do something special in connection with World IP Day with your local society.

Speaking of societies, I would like to congratulate and welcome our newest society, LES Thailand. The LESI Board of Delegates officially approved the admission of LES Thailand on April 12, 2015 at the Annual International Delegates Meeting in Brussels, Belgium. LES Thailand has a great leadership team, and a solid foundation for a vibrant LES chapter. It is great to have them as part of the LES family.

I also want to congratulate LES Benelux for organizing an outstanding LES International Annual Conference in Belgium on April 12-15, 2015. Another exceptional LESI Annual Conference is planned for May 15-18, 2016, in Beijing, China. Please mark your calendars. You will not want to miss this one.

I am very proud to be the president of LES International. I count it as one of the highest honors of my professional career because LES is such a prestigious organization of highly accomplished IP professionals. I am very grateful for all the help and support I received from many past-presidents, board members and other LES members along the way, and most of all from my wife and best friend, Jacki. ■

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Opinion

Reducing The Uncertainty Around Ownership Of IP Rights

By Fadi Micaelian

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magine a world where there was no real property deed of trust.

What would happen if after you bought your house, someone else could challenge your ownership and have you kicked out? That would certainly have a disastrous impact on the real estate property industry.

The basis of a solid economy is confidence; the confidence that if you invest and own a property, it is yours. Fuzzy ownership rights are not a basis for a solid economy.

Unfortunately, in the IP world, the balance has shifted too far to the side of fuzzy ownership.

It has become far too easy to challenge the exclusivity rights granted by the USPTO. In addition, it seems that judges shy away from issuing injunctions, which would be the equivalent of an eviction of squatters in real estate.

The economy of the future depends on invention and innovation, and it is our responsibility to build a system that offers less uncertainty, in order for our economy to prosper.

How Do We Do That?

The U.S. has recently switched from a first to invent to a first to file system.

This means that the USPTO has acknowledged that they would award exclusivity only to inventions that are filed. In other words, in order to claim their rights inventors must file their inventions. This means that if they do not file an invention, they implicitly forfeit their rights to that invention.

As a result, when a patent is challenged for prior art, it should only be challenged with the existing body of inventions recognized by the USPTO; this is the body of patents filed at the USPTO. Not a paper that was written or a research that was made or any other form of evidence that was never claimed. It is the first to file/claim who is granted the exclusivity.

The implication of that reform, is considerably positive: 1. It would further encourage inventors to share their inventions by filing with the USPTO. 2. It would make it easier for examiner to check for prior art. As they would only need to search the USPTO database.

3. It would reduce the sources that can be sought to challenge a granted patent based on prior art.

As a result, such a reform, would significantly reduce the uncertainty attached to an intellectual property, and thus bolster our invention economy.

I further believe that in order to challenge a patent using another one, the challenger should have a stake in the patent used to challenge. In other words, using the real estate analogy, you cannot ask for an eviction of a squatter unless you have a claim to the given property either through ownership (assignee) or through rent (licensee).

I realize it takes a village to make “simple” changes, and that there are serious implications especially at the international level. However, such changes would bolster a U.S. economy driven by innovations. ■

LESI Past President’s Council (PPC) Meet At Conference In Brussels

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he LESI Past Presidents Council is an ad hoc Committee that was formed in January 2011, during Jim Malackowski’s LESI Presidency. The Chair of this Committee is the immediate Past President. The PPC was formed to allow the Society to continue to benefit from the experience and LESI institutional knowledge of the Past Presidents. Patrick O’Reilley was the first Chair. The Mission of the PPC is: (i) to informally gather Past Presidents in attendance at each major LESI conference or planning meeting to discuss potential suggestions to the Board to further the mission of the Society and (ii) to assist the President and President Elect as requested on an ad-hoc basis. Such assistance varies from the simple offering of sage advice to active participation in a particular project not otherwise within the domain of the traditional Board or Committee agenda. ■

LESI Past-Presidents and accompanying persons. Front Row (L): Dr. Chistiane Blankenstein, Yvonne Chua, Kazuko Fukuda, Chikao Fukuda. Second Row (L): Jonas Gulliksson, Heinz Goddar, Beate Chrocziel, Elisabeth de Cazotte-Michel. Back Row (L): Peter Chrocziel, Arnaud Michel, Ron Grudziecki and Patrick O’Reilley.

PPC Tagline(s): “Ask not what LESI can do for you but what you can do for LESI” or “Time to saddle up one more time!”

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LES Global News—Highlights

Creating Value in Tomorrow’s Smart Economy—Towards 2020 and Beyond The 2015 LESI Annual Meeting was held April 12-15 in the beautiful Steigenberger Hotel in Brussels, Belgium

By Laura MacDonald and Jean-Christophe Troussel

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erhaps the meeting’s success, both in numbers and enthusiastic responses, was due in no small part to the relevance of the theme, which enabled sessions covering new technology trends, their IP and patent implications and of course the business of licensing and its role in our ever smarter and connected societies.

This concept of a smart economy combines successful elements of the enterprise economy and the innovation or ‘ideas’ economy, while promoting a high-quality living environment, improving energy, environment, security and promoting social cohesion. “Smart economy” has the objective of harnessing the ingenuity and creativity of people to drive research, innovation and commercialization. It has, at its core, the creation of an exemplary research, innovation and commercialization ecosystem. It is, therefore in the DNA of what LES is about and of what its members work at on a daily basis.

• Brussels hosted 498 registered people from 48 countries who shared interest and expertise in this theme and were welcomed by our LESI President, Arnaud Michel, and the LES Benelux President, Jean-Christophe Troussel.

• We were entertained by and learned a great deal from our keynote speaker, André Kuipers, medical

Entrance to conference.

Meeting organizer, Lex van Wijk.

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doctor, engineer and general handyman capable of rebuilding everything on a space shuttle as he fulfilled his role as an astronaut. He described in fascinating detail his training for and time spent on the international space station. A whole universe of challenges and innovation came to life for us, all with impact, of course, on our world.

• The plenary speakers also drew large crowds as they shared their inspiration, from Professor Sir Henry Markram leading the global endeavour to map the human brain, to the complex reality of 3D printing products and processes for all sectors, as delivered

by Fred Vancraen, CEO of Materialise. The in triguing current and future world of the Internet of things was shared with us all thanks to Luc van den hove of IMEC and Stephen Mellor of the Industrial Internet Consortium, where global industry shares its uses and plans for utilising the Internet in delivering our daily technologies and products. The phoenix-like world of failure and success in life sciences was also presented by David Dodd, from his global pharma leadership and entre- preneurial track records.

Panel discussions each day with high level representatives

Arnaud Michel gives opening comments.

LESI Board and Delegates at IMDM.

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Networking before the Bozar dinner.

LESI leaders listen to opening remarks.

Kara Selke speaks on Smart Cities.

LES Global News—Highlights of industry, government and intergovernmental agencies ensured a stimulating choice each morning after the keynote speakers. We heard from the EU Commission, EPO, OHIM on IP Policy in Europe, while industrial leaders from GE Healthcare, Philips, UCB and GSK shared practical insights into the crossover of Life Sciences and ICT. Energetic visions from today’s smart societies were also presented in a series of panels covering sectors such as transportation, energy and urban planning. We were also honoured to host an illustrious panel of IP judges covering U.S., European and Asian perspectives, willing to face questions from participants.

With 24 workshops on offer, including enthusiastic and effective contributions from all the LESI Committees, some participants claimed to have been tempted to clone themselves in order to attend sessions in parallel. The extensive program was also much appreciated, as indicated in the following snippets received in response to the question: What topic or theme was the most interesting for you at the conference? ­“The mock license negotiation was entertaining and instructive at the same time.’’

“Alliance management, negotiation tactics, lessons learned, networking.’’

“Relations between academics and industries (from an industry point of view).’’

“I found the guest speakers to be very interesting and I really enjoyed the fact that you had managed to get such inspiring speakers, well done! I found meeting the judges and the (workshop) regarding copyright to be the most interesting.’’

One additional feature of LESI 2015 was the parallel

LESI leaders enjoy dinner.

Andre Kuipers, Medical Doctor and Astronaut who spent 193 days in space on Mission PromISSe.

scheduling of the 4th Global Technology Impact Forum, usually hosted in Switzerland. Given its mutual interest for many LESI participants, it was held in the Steigenberger on Tuesday afternoon, enabling LESI participants to attend.

The hotel premises made networking among participants very easy and convenient. The Belgian taste for good food, good wine and good fun was also featured. Guests enjoyed the beautiful setting of the Monday dinner at Bozar and dancers stayed tuned until the end with live Beatles’ songs after the gala dinner. The sunny weather added a final touch in a hotel that benefits from a lot of daylight.

From Jean-Christophe Troussel, “As President of LES Benelux I would like to thank LESI Past-President Arnaud Michel, and his exquisite wife Elisabeth, for their vibrant support to the whole conference and Fiona Nicolson of the Meetings Committee for her very professional supervision of the whole process of organising this LESI event in Brussels. As I said during the Conference, nothing would be possible without our sponsors, and we are truly grateful to all of them. The success of this Conference is the result of the hard work and professional insight of a core team of ten dedicated individuals. They were applauded during the gala dinner and they hugely deserved it. The team was led by Laura MacDonald (Head of the Program Committee) and Lex van Wijk (Organisation Committee). Much credit goes to them. I immensely enjoyed working closely with them during these last 18 months. The whole crew is proud and extremely happy to hear and read that participants hugely enjoyed this successful Conference, and we look forward to many more enriching LESI Conferences around the world. (See photo, Page 7).■

Smart Women panel at Global Technology Impact Forum (GTIF).

Mock Mediation led by Russell Levine.

Jean-Christophe Troussel, President of LES Benelux, opening the Conference.

Transferring the gavel to the new LESI President, Jim Sobieraj, from the outgoing President, Arnaud Michel.

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Young Members Congress Events At The LESI Annual Meeting In Brussels

By Thomas Adocker

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there were more YMC Events than ever at the Annual LESI Conference in Brussels.

Starting on Sunday evening, after the Welcome Reception, about 60-70 Young Members continued the evening in a nice pub with food and drinks.

On Tuesday in the afternoon, Young Members organized a “Speed Networking Event” (pretty much like speed dating but for professional purposes). Around 30 Young Members took part and had lots of fun and used this opportunity to intensify their contacts.

On Tuesday evening, the YMC Dinner took place in a wonderful restaurant at Sablon, “L´entrée des Artistes.” More than 70 Young Members enjoyed the excellent food and drinks. A big part of them continued the Thomas Adocker, Chair of the YMC, encourages participation in the Mentoring Program at the Conference.

Young Members participate in the “Speed Networking Event.”

evening with a pub-crawl in the city—the hard core Young Members stayed out until sunrise.

Beside the social events, YMC members volunteered as social media supervisors and presented helpful information about the social media activities of LESI and YMC to participants of the Conference.

Furthermore, a YMC booth created great interest where Young Member activities—in particular the Mentoring Program—were presented and an outlook was given for future YMC Conferences. This year there will be specific YMC Conferences in Munich on July 3 and in Chicago on September 11. Both conferences will be one-day events followed by a dedicated evening program. ■

More Photos From The LESI Annual Meeting...

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Meeting organizers at work.

LESI leaders enjoy the Welcome Reception.

International Management & Delegates Meeting.

Networking at the Welcome Reception.

Mock Licensing Negotiation Workshop.

Mapping the Human Brain plenary presentation,

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LESI Board 2015-2016

Brussels Organizing Committee

LES International Board of Directors 2015-2016: Omer Hiziroglu (left), Fiona Nicolson, John Paul, Arnaud Michel, François Painchaud, Jim Sobieraj, Patricia A.O. Bunye, Eduardo de Souza, and Audrey Yap.

LES Benelux Organizing and Program Committee Members getting congratulations from Arnaud Michel. Back row (left): Patricia Cappuyns, Achim Krebs, Laura MacDonald, Patrice Vanderbeeken, Peter Buro, Lex van Wijk. Front row (left): Andre Clerix and Bruno Vandermeulen.

Not pictured: Jean-Christophe Troussel, LES Benelux President.

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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

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les Nouvelles is published quarterly by the Licensing Executives Society International (LESI). LESI is an association of 32 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$200/year. Please contact the Editor for further details.

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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Secretary

Enrique Berckholtz Nabil Salamé Ignacio Maria Bereterbide Jeff BERGMAN Sabine FEHRINGER Achim KREBS Gisela GLISSMAN Robin NOTT Hermes Torres Rosita LI Yibin FENG Horng-Dar Lin Alena Kodrasova Catherine Lafarge Klaus Haft Katalin DERZSI Sunil KRISHNA Dalit SAGIV Corrado Borsano Kiyotaka WATANABE Hyoseon CHOI Michelle LOI CHOI JOKE Carlos Trujillo May CANIBA-LLONA Monica Kaczmarska Velery MEDVEDEV Olli Pekonen Wern-Lee Song Darren MARGO José Miguel LISSÉN Stefan KOHLER Samir Deliormanli Paul ROBERTS

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July 3–4 LES Japan 2015 Annual Conference Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan July 27 LES University Chicago, Illinois USA September 6–8 LES Scandinavia 2015 Annual Conference Grand Hotel Oslo, Norway

LESI Management Committees Chairs & Co-Chairs Audit Awards

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Communications Education

May 16–18 LESI Annual Meeting Beijing, China

Endowment External Relations Investment IP Maintenance Legal

May 13–15 LESI Delegates Meeting Beijing, China

October 23–26 LES (USA & Canada) 2016 Annual Meeting Vancouver, Canada

September 30–October 2 LES Asia Pacific Regional Conference Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Peter Hess Peter Chrocziel Ron Grudziecki Shawn Jacka Allen Baum Martin Schneider Art Rose Philipp Dreier Pat O’Reilley Giovanni Grippiotti Michael Lechter Junichi Yamazaki Russell Levine Sergey Dorofeev Audrey Yap Felix Grether Arnaud Michel Sun Kim

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