Full PDF of the Conference Here
November 6-8, 2013
What if one of these approaches was your strategy?
The 2013 ipCG Thought Leadership Conference will focus on the rapidly growing importance of IP as a unique and separate asset class and integrates the latest thinking on how to maximize ROI from the use of IP.
The Thought Leadership Conference will examine:
- ways to use IP to protect existing businesses;
- ways to amplify IP to accelerate growth;
- ways to use IP to create sustainable market disruptions that will block competitors;
- ways to monetize IP.
Wednesday, November 6th
3:00-6:00pm Registration and Resort Check-In
6:00-7:00pm Wine & Vermont Artisan Cheese Reception (Tamarack A&B)
7:00-8:30pm Welcome Dinner (Oak / Alder / Sugar Maple / Mountain Birch Rooms)
Thursday, November 7th
7:15-8:45am Networking Breakfast
9:00-10:00am ipAmplification™ to Increase Shareholder Value-
GraphOn/HopTo: A Case Study
Steve Ledger - Speaker
Chairman of the Board, hopTo
John Cronin - Facilitator
Managing Director & Chairman, ipCapital Group
10:00-10:30am Networking Break
10:30-11:30am Patents Arrive on the Stagecoach -
Wells Fargo’s Approach to Building an Enterprise Patent Office
Michael Gallagher - Speaker
Head of the Enterprise Patent Office, Wells Fargo
Joe Long - Speaker
Managing Counsel, Wells Fargo
Rob Glance - Speaker
Glance Law Group
Adam Bulakowski - Facilitator
Director, ipCapital Group
11:30-12:30pm Leveraging Portfolios To Address Changing Business Needs
Steve McGrath - Speaker
Associate General Counsel, Microsoft
Adam Bulakowski - Facilitator
12:30-1:45pm Networking Lunch
1:45-2:45pm You’ve been Hacked - IP Security in the Digital Domain
Kelly Shortridge - Speaker
Investment Banking Analyst in Data Security, Intelligence & Analytics, Teneo
John Cronin - Facilitator
2:45-3:45pm Using IP as an Investment Vehicle
Richard Fields - Speaker
Chairman & CEO, Juridica Capital Management
Pete Conley - Facilitator
COO, ipCreate
3:45-4:10pm Networking Break
4:10-5:10pm Using IP to Create Strategic Advantage
Marshall Phelps - Speaker
Board Member, ipCreate
Nancy Cronin - Facilitator
Partner, ipCapital Group
5:10-6:15pm Networking Break
6:15-7:15pm Cocktail Reception
7:15-8:30pm Dinner
Friday, November 8th
7:15-8:45am Networking Breakfast
9:00-10:00am How to Maximize Business Results Using IP To:
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Protect Existing Business
Increase Shareholder Value
Create Disruption in Existing Markets
John Cronin - Speaker
Managing Director & Chairman, ipCapital Group
Robert McDonald - Facilitator
Managing Director & President, ipCapital Group
10:30-11:00am Networking Break
11:00-12:30pm Vermont’s New Patent Abuse Law: Empty Vessel or National Model for Targeting Bad Faith Patent Claims?
Peter Kunin - Speaker
Deputy Managing Partner, Intellectual Property Attorney,
Downs Rachlin Martin
Mr. Kunin was Instrumental in developing the legal approach that is codified in the new Vermont Anti-Patent Troll Law legislation
William Sorrell - Speaker
Attorney General of Vermont
John Cronin - Facilitator
12:30-1:30pm Closing Luncheon
Specialty Add-on the the Thought Leadership Conference:
Wednesday, November 6, 2013 1PM - 5PM
(Approved for 4 CLE credit hours in Vermont, Georgia, Ohio and Oregon. Washington pending)
“IP Strategy Beyond the Basics”
When considering IP strategy, many people think that just concerns patents. However, it is very important to plan on using the full range of intellectual assets for maximum protection and value creation. This seminar will go deeper into when should you use trade secrets, design patents, defensive publications, trademarks, and brand as well as utility patents. We will discuss how to watch for infringement or misappropriation and the options for enforcing your intellectual property rights.
Questions answered in the seminar include:
- When should you develop an IP strategy?
- IP strategy through the product life cycle - should it change?
- Are design patents worth the effort?
- How do you protect trade secrets?
- When should you enforce your intellectual property rights?
- What options should you consider when intellectual assets outlive their usefulness?
IP strategy - Practical Guide
- Why develop an IP strategy?
- How to develop an IP strategy?
- When to develop the strategy & when to start filing?
- How has the America Invents Act changed IP strategy implementation?
- IP strategy through product life cycle - should it change?
- What actions are necessary to implement IP strategy?
- How to conduct meaningful competitive tracking and landscaping?
Asset Classes and when/how do you use them? How do you enforce them?
- Utility Patents
- Defensive publications
- Design Patents, EU Design registrations & Brand
- Trade Secrets
- Know-how
- Trademarks, non-traditional marks
Portfolio Management, treating your IP as an asset
- How to be most effective with filings and filing strategy
- Use of US provisional’s and CIP’s for US and global impact while building a portfolio
- Need for continued diligence during prosecution and lifetime maintenance
- Organizing assets into business-centric groupings (value chain, other)
- Product marking (virtual marking)
- What options to consider when assets outlive their usefulness?
- How to demonstrate the value of your portfolio?
Specialty Add-on the the Thought Leadership Conference:
Leveraging IP Creation across the Spectrum of Monetization
and an Introduction to ipCreate Inc.
When considering intellectual property (IP) creation, many companies fail to consider how to monetize their IP or to weigh the full spectrum of monetization options available. Newly launched IP creation, acquisition and development company ipCreate Inc. and related companies ipCapital Group (ipCG) and ipCapital Licensing Company (ipCLC) will team up to lead a roundtable discussion with other industry leaders. Discussions will provide insight into the growing importance of IP creation, the role of IP acquisition, how they relate to each other and to the spectrum of monetization as well as how a Patent Factory can be designed to meet these needs.
ipCreate, ipCLC, ipCG and other roundtable participants will discuss innovative paths to IP creation, such as how to choose innovative areas to explore, how to develop new IP, how to document and obtain valuable patents and how to do this in volume. Participants will consider questions regarding what is the right number of patents to trigger higher value monetization as well as what types of patents are best suited for monetization. Participants will also discuss what IP monetization strategies work best, including sale, licensing, litigation or creation of joint ventures and spin-off companies.
Topics addressed in the seminar include:
- How to choose areas to innovate
- How to develop new high quality patents at low cost with the spectrum of monetization in mind
- How IP creation adds to the monetization spectrum and changes monetization paths
- What is the right number of patents and what types of patents drive monetization
- IP as the basis for forming a new company
- Relationship between IP acquisition and creation
- How the current patent landscape (less valuable IP available and America Invents Act) makes IP creation essential
Attendees will include representatives from:
- IP law firms
- IP investment funds
- IP-focused microcaps
- IP aggregators
- IP creation companies
- IP licensing and assertion firms
Full PDF of the Conference Here
