Licensing Executives Society

Licensing Executives Society International

The Licensing Executives Society International (LESI) is an association of 32 national and regional societies, each composed of men and women who have an interest in the transfer of technology, or licensing of intellectual property rights - from technical know how and patented inventions to software, copyright and trademarks.

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LESI Annual Meeting 2008 

Detailed Calendar of Events


For information about the graduate student
business plan competition, Please visit
2008 LES Foundation Graduate Student Business Plan Competition

For more information about Train-the-Trainer at the
conclusion of the 2008 LESI Conference & LES USA/Canada Spring Meeting,
please see the Train-the-Trainer Schedule for 2008

Announcements 

1. The LES 2008 Annual Meeting Program Committee is now accepting workshop, mini-plenary and add-on proposals for "Global Excellence in Licensing and Acquisition through Certification." To submit your proposal, please click here or here.

2. Members: If you have an existing account with login credentials, but can't successfully recreate your account, please contact the secretary of your local Society for assistance.



Article of the Week 

The Article of the Week column will be a regular feature of our web site. The purpose is to recognize the contributions of the authors to our scholarly journal, les Nouvelles and to have a dialogue with them regarding the content of their article. We will feature a new article each week.
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Gus G. Orphanides, Samuel F. Baldwin, Ph.D., Peter Dobson, Ph.D., Norma Formanek, Andrew R. Barron, Ph.D., Stanley Gembicki, Ph.D., Simon Hobbs, M. Rashid Khan, Ph.D., Carsten Heide
Global Energy: Challenges to Technology and Opportunities for Licensing

At the fall 2006 LES annual meeting in New York City, the Chemicals, Energy and the Environmental Committee of LES International and the Chemicals, Energy and Materials Committee of LES (USA and Canada) sponsored a mini-plenary session on global energy. Leaders from government, industry and funded institutes presented facts, figures, insights, challenges and hopeful options that society is relying on to solve one of the greatest, if not the greatest, challenges to our way of life: having enough energy to spur and sustain economic growth and development without strangling humanity in a noose of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. Just about all conceivable energy source challenges and options were covered at the session, as was the realization that licensing was going to figure into the solution as a mechanism to ally interested parties into collaborations and ventures that can solve the problem and motivate the committed participants.

What follows is a collection of presentation excerpts by each of the presenters who are as follows:
• Samuel F. Baldwin, Ph.D., US Department of Energy: Chief Technology Officer and Member, Board of Directors, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
• Peter Dobson, Ph.D., Professor, Oxford University and Oxonica
• Norma Formanek, Vice-President and General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Electric Power and Research Institute.
• Andrew R. Barron, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Industry Interactions and Technology Transfer in the Weiss School of Natural Sciences, Rice University
• Stanley Gembicki Ph.D., Vice-President, UOP and Simon Hobbs, Business Development Director, UOP
• M. Rashid Khan, Ph.D., Intellectual Assets Management and Technology Consultant of Saudi Aramco (current assignment to King Abdullah University of Science & Technology)
• Carsten Heide, Associate Director, University of North Dakota Energy and Environmental Research Center.


About the Author/s: Director of Licensing, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.;
US Department of Energy: Chief Technology Officer and Member, Board of Directors, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy;
Professor, Oxford University and Oxonica;
Business Development Director, UOP;
Vice-President and General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Electric Power and Research Institute;
Associate Dean for Industry Interactions and Technology Transfer in the Weiss School of Natural Sciences, Rice University;
Vice-President, UOP and Simon Hobbs, Business Development Director, UOP ;
Intellectual Assets Management and Technology Consultant of Saudi Aramco (current assignment to King Abdullah University of Science & Technology);
Associate Director, University of North Dakota Energy and Environmental Research Center;

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