| LICENSING: SEIZING OPPORTUNITIES AND MITIGATING RISKS
Responding to Recent Changes
Sponsored with:
The Licensing Executives Society (U.S.A. and Canada), Inc
Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C., Boston, MA
Duff & Phelps, LLC, Boston, MA
Suffolk University Law School Intellectual Property Law Concentration
| Thank you to our co-sponsors for supporting this conference through their substantive and financial contributions |
Please Note: This course has already
been held.
Date: Friday, November 09, 2007
Location: Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont St., Boston, MA
Time: 09:00 AM - 04:45 PM
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In today’s post-industrial economy, business value is no longer found in bricks and mortar but rather in intangibles, such as those we call “technology” or “digital content.” This shift emphasizes the importance of licensing – the buying and selling of rights to control publication and use of intangible items. Most business transactions now involve some element of licensing, and those involved in such transactions cannot afford to underestimate the significance of licensing. The effective and carefully planned and executed exchange of rights in intangibles is a core requirement for some businesses to survive.
Taking a pragmatic view of licensing developments, this conference focuses on recent changes that are most likely to effect business practices. Changes in the law that could impact licensing relationships will be explained from both a legal and business perspective. Consideration of these topics will cross international borders and even physical borders, covering issues related to both international licensing and licensing in the virtual world.
Licensing professionals, business people and lawyers who attend this program will gain insight into recent changes in licensing law and the advantages and pitfalls those changes create when engaged in licensing transactions, as well as guidance for forming successful licensing and collaborative relationships.
Attend and Learn:
- How licensees taking advantage of recent changes in the law enable wider challenges through declaratory judgment action and how should licensors react
- Whether courts’ refusal to block actions as anticompetitive gives licensors a green light for more restrictive license terms
- What is different about international licensing transactions
- What new licensing issues are arising from developments in cyberspace
- How licensing lawyers improve the chances for a licensing or technology collaboration to succeed
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Steven J. Henry, Esq., Co-Chair
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Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C., Boston, MA |
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Edmund J. Walsh, Esq., Co-Chair
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Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C., Boston, MA |
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Michael J. Cavaretta, Esq.
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Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton, P.C., Waltham MA |
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Joseph J. Cote, Jr.
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Licensing Consultant & Vice President
Product Genesis, Cambridge, MA |
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Professor Stacey Dogan
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Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, MA |
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Maryanne Fenerjian, PhD, JD
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Director of Development
Harvard Medical School, Office of Technology Development
Boston, MA |
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Christopher Gibson
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Professor and Associate Dean
Suffolk University Law School |
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Susan G. L. Glovsky, Esq.
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Hamilton Brook Smith & Reynolds, Concord, MA |
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J. Dana Hubbard, Esq.
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Chief Patent Counsel, Millipore Corporation, Billerica, MA |
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James M. Kennedy
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Executive Vice President
THQ Inc., Agoura Hills, CA |
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Gerald Quirk, Esq.
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General Cousel
Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA |
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M. Andrea Ryan
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Johnson & Johnson Services, Inc.
TransForm Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Lexington, MA |
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Lynne Weber, Ph.D.
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Managing Director
Duff & Phelps, East Palo Alto, CA |
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Douglas R. Wolf, Esq.
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Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C., Boston, MA |
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| S C H E D U L E / A G E N D A |
| 9:00 |
Welcome and Introductions |
| Co-Chairs: Steven Henry & Edmund Walsh
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| 9:10 |
Getting from Here to There |
- Approaching prospective licensees after SanDisk v. ST
- Responding to license offers after SanDisk v. ST
- Holding the advantage of a deal after Medlmmune
- Challenging a license
Michael J. Cavaretta, Esq. and Susan G. L. Glovsky
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| 9:55 |
Re-evaluating the Limites of Restrictive License Terms |
- What more can be done without a presumption of market power?
- Resale Price Maintenance: What more can be done without a per se rule?
Stacey Dogan
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| 10:50 |
Valuing a License |
- Valuation models
- Negotiating valuation
- Litigation lessons
- Incorporating uncertainty in the income approach to valuing IP
Lynne Weber
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| 11:35 |
Real World View: How Changes in the Legal Climate Affect Practice |
Moderator: Edmund Walsh
Joseph J.Cote, Jr., Maryanne Fenerjian & M. Andrea Ryan
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| 12:30 |
Luncheon and Keynote Speaker |
“The Serious Business of Games”
James M. Kennedy, Executive Vice President at THQ, Inc.
Luncheon sponsored by Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
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| 2:00 |
Licensing in the Virtual World: Practice & Infringement |
| James M. Kennedy & Douglas R. Wolf
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| 2:45 |
International Licensing Practice: Focus on Asia and Europe |
| Christopher Gibson & J. Dana Hubbard
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| 3:45 |
Licensing Relationships |
- The “right parties”
- Deal structure
- Preparing for termination, divorce & complications
Steven Henry and Gerald Quirk
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| 5:00 |
Networking Reception |
| Reception immediately following sponsored by Licensing Executives Society.
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| Date: |
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Friday, November 09, 2007 |
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Tuition is $249; $199 for Suffolk alumni, attorneys admitted to the Bar after 2004 and members of LES. Tuition includes breakfast, lunch, reception and course book.
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Space is limited. Registrations at the door are welcome, but please register in advance to reserve a seat and your written course materials or call to confirm space availability.
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Written requests for cancellations received via fax or email 24 hours prior to the program will be granted a refund, minus a $15charge. If you cannot attend, you can send a substitute, otherwise you will receive the written course materials.
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Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont St., Boston, MA
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Approved for CLE Credit in RI, NH, VT & ME
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If you have special needs addressed by the Americans with Disabilities Act, please notify us as soon as possible.
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