IP MONETIZATION: Silicon Valley 2015
Intellectual property has now become one of an organization’s most valuable business assets – with heavy pressure for IP leaders to create strong ROI from patent portfolios. IP owners are also facing broader challenges such as new federal legislation, increased threats from NPEs, and educating and collaborating across their organization.
The IP Monetization: Silicon Valley Summit 2015 brings together IP thought leaders from a wide range of industries to benchmark and develop successful monetization strategies for valuating, accounting for and commercializing IP assets in order to deliver consistent and long-term revenues.
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- Portfolio Evaluation & Management – The First Step in Harvesting your IP
- IP Valuation – What is your Portfolio Worth
- Running an Operating Company’s Licensing Program
- Monetization for Operating Companies in a Post AIA World
- Identifying patents of value in any portfolio (not just your own)
- Enforcement & Monetization – Paper Tigers Beware!
- Patent Prosecution & Monetization – Ensuring future revenue stream
- Selling Your Patents – When Does it Makes Sense?
- Chief IP Counsel
- VP & Director of IP Strategy
- Chief, Deputy and Associate General Counsel
- Intellectual Property, Trademark and Copyright Counsel
- Head of Litigation
- Director of Business and Legal Affairs
- Director/VP of Intellectual Property
- Director/VP of Licensing
- IP Counsel
- Patent Counsel
- VP & Director of Intellectual Asset Management
Libby has engineered and lawyered in the tech world for the past two decades, working at the intersection of technology, business, and law.
Libby focuses her practice on Intellectual Property law, patent protection, and licensing. She is a former engineer in the field of semiconductor manufacturing, and has spent the past 13 years as in-house counsel for IBM and Apple. In this capacity, she mitigated IP exposure and supported business units in the form of client counseling, contract negotiation and drafting, global patent portfolio management, invention mining, infringement and validity analyses, IP monetization via licensing, open source and standards participation, and formulating and executing robust programs in various aspects of IP Law.
Outside of tech, she serves on the Boards of organizations that support childhood education and public libraries.
Libby earned a J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law, a master’s degree in Industrial & Management Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research from U.C. Berkeley. She is an active member of the California and New York bars, and is registered to practice with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.
VP-TS Intellectual Property, Cypress Semiconductor An IP strategist with a combination of technical, business and legal expertise, currently transforming the management of a portfolio of 3000+ patents and applications into a self-funding, business-driven, cross-corporate function delivering entitled ROI. David is also a prolific inventor with over 130 patents granted and pending, and a Patent Agent licensed to practice before the USPTO, reg # 69932. Daivd is responsible for management of a portfolio of ~2000 patents, ~1000 pending applications and the process of IP protection, generation and monetization. Directing systematic review processes to ensure comprehensive and cost-effective protection of strategic IP as it is created. Ensuring maximum ROI on IP$ by implementing systematic reviews of applications against business objectives. Creation, implementation and direction of processes to create and protect strategic IP in emerging technology areas adjacent to existing product lines and technologies.
James Kovacs is the Director of Licensing and lead’s Intel’s Patent Licensing Group, which focuses on counseling and advising in connection with worldwide patent transactions, such as licenses, cross-licenses, acquisitions and sales, as well as related corporate patent strategy. Prior to joining Intel, James was in private practice at leading Chicago law firms, focusing his work on technology transactions and outsourcing. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and psychology from the University of Michigan and a law degree from Harvard Law School.
