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LES France audience at one of their many conferences.
2011—A Successful Year With A Full And Interesting Program Of Conferences
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ES France organized a number of important conferences in 2011, aimed at broadening the subjects of interest to our members and to cover topics concerning very specialized subjects as well as larger ones with an international dimension. Furthermore, throughout 2011, LES France members have actively participated in International Delegates Meetings and LESI Committees. The LES France program started in January with a very successful conference concerning Royalties Funds. The subject was covered by two different fund representatives, Walter Flame Baum of Paul Capital Healthcare Fund, and Paul Maruani of IdVectoR Science & Technology Fund. They descriabed new innovative models they developed to support technology development financing. In March, an IAM 100 licensing course was organized for the second time and took place in Lyon. The 25 attendees were very interested in the program and particularly appreciated the numerous practical examples 6
provided by trainers to illustrate the course. The licensing game provided the opportunity of very dynamic exchanges and lessons to learn. To participate in the World IP day, in April, an exciting conference was organized by LES France. A summary of this event is presented in a separate article. The next conference was held in June in association with IRPI (the French National Institute for Research in Intellectual Property) and was a very interesting and practical conference concerning French-Brazil exchanges. Partnering with Brazil appears today inescapable, and very useful information was provided to improve commercial development in this very dynamic country with an emphasis on optimizing IP use. Participants included Gustavo de Freitas Morais of Danneman and Charles-Henri Chenut of Chenut Oliveira Santagio. At the end of September a conference was organized in partnership with ASAP France (Alliance Management Society), aimed at Licensing and Alliance Management players.
Licensing Executives Society International
This subject was presented using different examples, with first a presentation of Sanofi Pasteur case (by Hélène Santacruz, Director Corporate Development and Antoine Alarcon, Director alliance Management ), then the example of Alcatel Lucent was presented (by Jean-Paul AMELINE, Senior IP Counsel & Lead), and finally the case of Sm2D was described (by Michel Salomon, CEO and Maurice Bonaz, CFO). In a second step, two lecturers from French universities, Fabien Blanchot, Maître de Conferences, Paris-Dauphine University and Pascal Corbel, Maître de Conferences, Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, specializing in IP and Alliances Management Conferences, led a very enthusiastic roundtable with the audience. And finally our Annual General Assembly in last December was, like each year, an opportunity to have a full day of presentations to draw attention to some 2011 “hot topics” including: LES France, continued on page 8