Brody Berman Associates, Inc. is the leading consulting and communications firm for intellectual property owners and advisors. 
Since 1988, Brody / Berman has been providing strategy and perspective to innovative businesses, investors and intellectual assets. 
Areas of focus include information technology, science, law and finance. 
For more information visit the company website at:http://www.brodyberman.com/

Gold Sponsors:

Brown Raysman

Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner LLP has built on its international reputation as a leader in the area of technology and intellectual property law to emerge in the new millennium as a renowned general practice law firm. Today, the focus of the firm extends from technology and intellectual property law to corporate finance, securities, mergers and acquisitions, commercial litigation, real estate, bankruptcy, media, life sciences, health care, trusts and estates, and employment law. The firm advises clients through an integrated network of offices located in New York, Los Angeles, Hartford, and Morristown. 
For more information visit the company website at: http://www.brownraysman.com/

CPA

CPA has managed IP for over 35 years. With approximately 40,000 clients, they perform over one million renewals annually. CPA probably processes more patent, design and trademark renewals for more clients, in more countries than anyone else. Founded by patent attorneys in 1969, their heritage dictates an intimate knowledge of the workings of IP. Patent analytics is CPA's latest service, with patent, design and trademark, trademark searching, trademark watching, domain name management and IP management software forming an extensive portfolio of products and services. 
For more information visit the company website at: www.cpaglobal.com

GE Commercial Finance

GE Commercial Finance is one of General Electric's largest "growth engines". With lending products, growth capital, revolving lines of credit, equipment leasing of every kind, cash flow programs, asset financing, and more, GE Commercial Finance plays a key role for client businesses in over 35 countries. The industries served include healthcare, manufacturing, fleet management, communications, construction, energy, aviation, infrastructure and equipment, as well as many others. GE Commercial Finance has assets of over US$217 billion and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, USA. 
For more information visit the company website at: http://www.gecommercialfinance.com/

Fish & Richardson
Fish & Richardson P.C. is a national law firm with over 300 lawyers in eight offices: Boston, Dallas, Delaware, New York, San Diego, Silicon Valley, Twin Cities, and Washington, DC. The firm is one of the largest firms practicing intellectual property, litigation, and corporate law and the only firm with a truly national intellectual property practice. Founded in 1878, the firm represented Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and the Wright Brothers.
For more information visit the company's website at: http://www.fishrichardson.com/

Kenyon & Kenyon
Throughout Kenyon & Kenyon's 125-year history, we have resolved Complicated IP issues for our clients, designing intellectual property strategies when it mattered most. Consistently ranked by peers and in-house counsel as one of the top tier firms for IP, we provide our worldwide clientele with litigation, prosecution, licensing and counseling services. New York, Washington, DC, San Jose. 
For more information visit the company's website at: http://www.kenyon.com/

Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, a New York corporate law firm with more than 300 lawyers, offers legal counsel in general corporate law (including securities, investment management, asset-based lending, structured finance, banking, mergers and acquisitions and business reorganization); litigation, real estate, intellectual property, trusts and estates, employment and employee benefits, tax, and environmental law.
For more information visit the company's website at: http://www.srz.com/.

Silver Sponsors:

Goodwin Procter
Goodwin Procter is one of the nation's leading law firms, with a team of 575 attorneys serving clients through offices in Boston, New York, New Jersey and Washington, D.C.
For more information visit the company's website at: 
http://www.goodwinprocter.com/

ipCapital Group, Inc
ipCapital Group, Inc. (ipCG) offers professional consulting services to assist in the development and execution of intellectual property (IP) strategies. We help companies realize the value of their ideas, inventions and technology. ipCG focuses on providing companies with strategic revenue-generating solutions that address their IP and business needs. We help companies leverage their IP to attain the following competitive advantages: 
- Generate licensing revenue 
- Protect new products 
- Capture new business opportunities 
- Solve complex IP business issues
For more information visit the company's website at: http://www.ipcg.com/home/home.htm

Taeus
Taeus is an engineering consulting company specializing in reverse engineering for the intellectual property community. To understand and compare the technical aspects of a patent's claims versus products on the market today, you need a company that specializes in extracting and explaining technical details to the intellectual property industry.

Trenwith Valuation, LLC

The Trenwith Group, LLC is a privately held company formed for the purpose of owning and operating a diversified group of financial service companies. The Trenwith Group currently operates two wholly owned subsidiaries: Trenwith Securities, LLC, a licensed broker dealer which provides a complete range of investment banking and institutional asset management services, and Trenwith Valuation, LLC, a provider of corporate valuation services.
For more information visit the company's website at: http://www.trenwith.com/valuation/index.asp

Media Sponsors:

BusinessWire
Business Wire's worldwide team of experts has built the most comprehensive news network ever assembled. With access to more than 60 leading news agencies throughout the world in addition to our proprietary network technology, Business Wire ensures that news is delivered to audiences in each market via their preferred manner and in their preferred language. Our members direct where they want their news disseminated, specifying the geographic markets, industry audiences and editorial desks most appropriate for the announcements. 
For more information visit the company's website at: http://home.businesswire.com

Intellectual Asset Management
Intellectual property is the business issue of the 21st Century. But until now, no publication has focused on intellectual property from a business point of view. Published six times a year, Intellectual Asset Management is a major magazine that meets this need. 
IAM is specifically designed to give its readers the inside track on how companies can ensure they extract the maximum value from the patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets they own, as well as the know-how inside their employees' heads.
IAM is unique because it treats IP as a business asset and tool.
For more information visit the company's website at: http://www.iam-magazine.com/

Managing Intellectual Property
Managing Intellectual Property is the premier source of global information for companies at the heart of the IP boom. Providing up-to-date news and in-depth features on all global issues, and helping rights owners develop strategies to achieve commercial success
For more information visit the company's website at: http://www.legalmediagroup.com/mip/
 

Patent Cafe
For more information visit the company's website at:
http://www.patentcafe.com/

vFinance Investments, Inc

vFinance, Inc. is a rapidly growing financial services company that provides personalized investment banking and brokerage services, through its wholly owned broker dealer subsidiary vFinance Investments, Inc., to more than 10,000 corporate and private clients worldwide. The firm has offices in New York, Chicago, San Jose, Houston, Boca Raton and 22 other cities. vFinance Investments is registered as a broker-dealer with the SEC and is a member of the NASD.
For more information visit the company's website at: http://www.vfinance.com/