Best Practices Executive Seminar Series
Available onsite at your location...
Courses are geared to anyone for or involved in the creation,
maintenance, and protection of intellectual property and
associated assets. Concepts discussed in the courses include but
are not limited to patents, trade secrets, trademarks, and
copyright protection as well as the process of achieving and
maintaining that protection during research and development,
technology transfer, and commercialization.
IP▪InSource instructors approach the subject matter in light of the
business aspects of generating and maintaining corporate value.
Gordon Smith,
renowned valuation
professional and
Adjunct Professor at
the Franklin Pierce
Law Center, defines
the Business
Enterprise as
Monetary Assets +
Tangible Assets +
Intangible Assets,
with intangible assets
comprising rights,
relationships,
undefined
intangibles, and
intellectual property*.
The goal of IP asset
management best
practices is to create
and maintain the
highest possible
value of an entity's
intellectual property
and the intellectual
assets supporting it.
*Valuation of
Intellectual Property
and Intangible
Assets, 3rd Ed.,
Wiley, Gordon V.
Smith, Russell L.
Parr, pg 15.
Current Offerings...
Managing Intellectual Property for Greater Corporate Value:
Methods and Techniques for Finding and Patching IP Exposure
Points at Start-Up, On-Going, Re-Organization, and Exit
Stages
Approach and Objective: Your ideas, inventions, and processes
may have the elements of a great breakthrough. If you plan on
commercializing them you need to know how to protect the
entire development process from exposure points that can
diminish or negate the value of your intellectual property. These
points include but are not limited to questions of who are the
inventors and who owns the invention; affect of marriage
dissolution and status of personal estate of executive and
technical IP owners during the corporate start-up process; hiring
and firing personnel; information disclosure/non-disclosure;
trade regulation compliance; accidental franchises; mergers,
acquisitions, asset sale, and bankruptcy; and proof of the
invention process.
Geared toward entrepreneurs, inventors, innovators, managers,
marketeers, and financiers, this course highlights the every day
business and product development scenarios during which the
patentability and/or commercialization of ideas, know-how, trade
secrets, and inventions can be compromised. Using real-world
case studies, this seminar examines solutions for managing
those exposure points. Attendees will be able to identify
potential exposure from pre-corporate R&D through corporate
start-up re-organization and exit strategies. This course gives
attendees a leg-up in protecting their invention and
commercialization process, and the process of working with legal
and financial advisers to protect and expand the value of
intellectual property assets.
Implementing Your IP Management and Commercialization
Program
Approach and Objective: This course provides a framework for
creating, implementing, and monitoring an IP management
program for the start-up or going-concern. Topics include
processes and procedures for identifying, valuing, protecting,
and commercializing intellectual property, as well as the
concerns of monitoring licensed-in and licensed-out IP.
Attendees should be able to use the suggestions and case
studies outlined in this course to set up a new or improve their
current IP management program.
Building the IP-Centric Organization: Licensing Strategies for
the Technical Start-Up
Approach and Objective: This course examines technology
commercialization via licensing strategies and associated
business strategies for creating and maintaining the IP-centric
organization.
Anatomy of a License: Nuts & Bolts of the Technology License
Approach and Objective: This course provides a detailed
examination of the issues and elements of technical agreements
-- everything from employment agreements to mutual
nondisclosure agreements for partnership building to licensing
agreements. We'll look at real-world scenarios and the different
ways that agreements, policies, and procedures are used to
start, continue, monitor, and as necessary, end the licensing of
intellectual assets. We'll consider the pros and cons of hybrid
licenses. Attendees will have a better understanding of what it
takes to construct the needed technology agreements and the
types of clauses that should be included.


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