When To Deal: Implications Of A Model For Optimal Timing
Gautam AggarwalCampbell Alliance, Senior Practice Executive, Raleigh, NC Christopher ApolitoCampbell Alliance, Associate Practice Executive, Raleigh, NC Ben BonifantCampbell Alliance, Senior VP and Practice Area Leader, Raleigh, NC When licensing a pharmaceutical technology, there is no clear consensus on the best time to do the deal. With varying stakeholder interests and numerous factors to consider, the […]
Use Of Small Business Innovation (SBIR) Program In Support Of Technology Transfer
Clara AsmailNational Institute of Standards and Technology, SBIR Program Manager, Gaithersburg, MD The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has pioneered a new methodology for U.S. small businesses to spin-out commercially-viable technologies emerging from NIST’s focused research. Using its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program funds, NIST incentivizes small U.S. companies to create financially […]
The Archaeology And History Of Intellectual Property
Richard Nicholas BrownDe Sola Pate & Brown, Partner, Caracas, Venezuela This review of the archaeology and history of Intellectual Property should be of general interest to LESI members and of use in increasing understanding in our field. An attempt will be made to show how slavery, mystics, primogeniture, social status, anathema, domination, religion, forceps, economics, […]
Technology Royalty Rates In SEC Filings
Thomas R. VarnerVice-President, Economists Inc., Emeryville, CA Previous studies of technology license agreements have been limited either to analyzing relatively small sets of agreements or to analyzing a mix of complete agreements and general descriptions of agreements from a variety of sources. This study is unique in that it considers a large number of complete, […]
Submission to EPO on Computer-Implemented Inventions
LESI written statements in accordance with Article 10 of the Rules of Procedure of the Enlarged Board of Appeal on the case G3/08
Report of Study on Distribution Channels, Part “Safe Medicines through Parallel Trade”
In 2006, DG Enterprise and Industry launched a study to assess aspects of patient safety related to parallel trade with medicines. An external contractor, Europe Economics, has now presented results of the study to the European Commission after Member States and stakeholders had the opportunity to provide data and views. The report includes a contribution […]
Recent Trends And Developments in Italian Patent Law
Giulio Enrico SironiStudio Legale Vanzetti e Associati, Partner, Milan, Italy It may at times be noted by those who work in the patent field that a perception exists, above all outside Italy, that Italian legislation and jurisprudential praxis in this matter are unsatisfactory or, at any rate, not completely sound. In actual fact, this perception […]
Recommended Resources for Licensing Professionals
John T. Ramsay, Q.C.sGowling LaFleur Henderson, LLP Barristers & Solicitors, Partner, Calgary, Alberta, Canada The Recommended Resources Subcommittee of the Licensing Executives Society (USA and Canada), Inc., Education Committee has completed this list of resources (books and articles) that they as business and legal practitioners with extensive experience in developing, managing, protecting and commercialization intellectual […]
Poppet International Wins LESI Global Award In Grad Student Competition
Poppet wins $5,000 for plan to develop single-use infant beverage closure incorporating a sterile infant nipple Graduate students from Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) received the Licensing Executives Society International’s (LESI) prestigious Global Award for their plan to bring safe, ready-to-drink infant beverages to the globe using a revolutionary packaging system. Poppet International is a […]
Patent Litigation Report
The Commission sets out next steps for creation of unified patent litigation system.