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8:15 a.m. — 10:15 a.m.
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Allen Baum, President, LES
Brian Oliver, LES 2007 Spring Meeting Chair
8:30 a.m. — 9:15 a.m.
Licensing Specialty Pharma:
The Views of an Industry Leader
Keynote Speaker: Matthew Emmens, Chief Executive Officer,
Shire Pharmaceuticals
Shire Pharmceuticals supports its growth strategy by
acquiring or in-licensing additional R&D projects and
marketed products. By merging with seven companies
over a ten year period, Shire has been built faster than
many other companies in the industry.
Hear the challenges and victories in in-licensing practices
by a leader in the Health Care industry.
Matthew Emmens joined Shire Pharmaceuticals Group plc as Chief
Executive and member of the board in March 2003. Mr. Emmens
began his career in international pharmaceuticals in 1974 when he
joined Merck & Co. He held a wide range of sales, marketing and
training positions with Merck & Co before moving to help establish
Astra Merck, the joint venture with Astra Pharmaceuticals. He later
became its President and Chief Executive. Astra Merck Inc. became
an independent, top 20 U.S. pharmaceutical company with annual
sales in excess of $4 billion and 4000 employees. In 1999 Matthew joined Merck
KGaA and established EMD Pharmaceuticals, the company's U.S. prescription pharmaceutical
business.
9:15 a.m. — 10:15 a.m.
Beyond the License Agreement:
Revolutionary Intellectual Property Packaging
There are now more alternatives than ever before to generate
a return on IP. From patent auctions to royalty securitizations to
patent pooling to contingent fee litigation to patent-based stock market indexes
to patent accumulation for invention investment... the list seems to be limited
only by the creativity of the people involved in the IP marketplace. Who
is actually doing the deals? Are these revolutionary deal structures more
hype than reality? What do these revolutionary structures mean
for the licensing executive? A panel of experts representing
many of these business models will explore how these systems
provide efficiency and economy to the IP market place.
Moderator
Michael Martin, President, TechTransfer
Associates, Inc.
Michael J. Martin is the President of TechTransfer
Associates, a consulting practice that defines and develops value for intellectual
property in universities, governments, and businesses. He has over 30 years
of business and product development experience. Mike has held positions at
DuPont, PPG Industries, Ciba-Geigy, Michigan State University and Virginia
Tech. He has been appointed as a Trustee of the Licensing Executive Society
(LES), responsible for Tech Transfer Seminars; is the past chair of the E-104
Section of the LES 2002-2003; and was the chair of LES E-04/01 "Polymers
Chemicals and Energy"
2001 - 2002. He has given presentations at a number of LES annual
and seasonal meetings. Mike was granted a Bachelor in Chemical Engineering
from the University of Detroit and a Masters in Business from the
U. of Delaware.
Panelists:
John B. Hall, Managing Director Commercial Finance,
General Electric
John B. Hall Senior Vice President of GE Commercial Finance,
is responsible for leading the Intellectual Property Finance
practice of General Electric. In that capacity he has negotiated
numerous highly structured financings involving a variety of
intangible asset classes, including a previous LES "Deal of
Distinction" award winning transaction for Motorola. Since joining GE
in 2000, Mr. Hall has been utilized by the firm in a variety of roles across
several of it's financial divisions.
Previously, Mr. Hall spent his extensive career in a
number of commercial and investment banking businesses structuring
leveraged financings and complex investment grade products.
Michael
Lasinski, Managing Director, Ocean Tomo
Michael Lasinski is a Managing Director at Ocean Tomo and is in
charge of the company's valuation practice area. Mr. Lasinski serves
clients in the area of strategy, valuation and tax structure analysis.
In the valuation area, he has valued intellectual property and
businesses in the context of licensing, sale, purchase (including
purchase price allocation), corporate spin-outs, joint ventures,
litigation (reasonable royalty and economic damage analyses) and
tax-related transactions. Mr. Lasinski has completed more than 200
valuations during his professional career. He has spoken on the topics of IP
valuation, IP licensing and IP tax strategies throughout the U.S. as well as
internationally.
William Marino, Partner and General Counsel, Altitude
Capital
William Marino has extensive patent litigation experience and
successfully litigated patents, trademarks and other intellectual
property cases in U.S. District Courts. Prior to joining Altitude, he
was a senior attorney at Robins, Kaplan, Miller and Ciresi and Mintz
Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo. Mr. Marino had lead roles in
litigating cases involving a range of technologies including computer
hardware, microprocessors, sub-sea oil drilling equipment, medical
devices and pharmaceuticals. Mr. Marino has also negotiated many
patent licenses and other agreements involving intellectual property.
Mr. Marino is a member of the bars of Massachusetts and the
District of Columbia, and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Federal Circuit, several U.S. District courts, and the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office.
Raymond P. Niro, Jr. , Partner, Niro Scavone, Haller & Niro
Raymond P. Niro, Jr.joined Niro, Scavone, Haller & Niro
in 1991 and has participated in the trial of numerous high-stakes
intellectual property disputes representing both individual
inventors and large corporations. In December 2001, Mr. Niro won
a $2.1 million jury verdict in a patent infringement case in Chicago
as lead trial counsel. This verdict represented a royalty rate of 70%
of defendant's sales. He has been deeply involved in many of the
firm's major trials. In December 2003, Mr. Niro was retained by the
Billy Goat Tavern to protect its famous slogan trademark against
similarly-named Florida franchise that was expanding into the
Chicago area. The verdict permanently enjoined defendants from
opening any locations within a 125 miles of Chicago. Other highprofile
case involvement includes Black & Decker SnakeLight and
the yellow & black DeWalt power tools. Mr. Niro has also argued
before District Courts throughout the country, as well as the ourt
of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, DC.
12:00 P.M. — 1:45 P.M. LUNCHEON
LICENSING FOUNDATION
GRADUATE STUDENT
BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION
AWARDS PRESENTATION
Maximizing Consumer Brand Value
Speaker: G. Spencer Lueders, Jr., Esq.,
Competition and Patent Counsel, NASCAR
From beverage cozies to the latest technology for sound
insulation and automotive safety, NASCAR's licensing
agreements apply to a full spectrum of business and
consumer-focused products.
G. Spencer Leuders, Jr., NASCAR Competition and Patent
Counsel, will discuss the importance of licensing agreements
to the NASCAR business model, and NASCAR's unique
approach to product and technology licensing among their
teams. Leuders will address how licensing products and
innovative technology have played a key role in building and
maintaining the NASCAR brand.
G. Spencer Leuders, Jr., Esq., attended the University of South Carolina
(B.S. Mechanical Engineering) and School of Law, and is a registered
Patent Attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Formerly in
the Charlotte office of Atlanta-based law firm Alston & Bird LLP, Mr. Leuders
is now Competition and Patent Counsel at NASCAR. |
