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Agenda
Day 2 July 21, 2006
8:00 am
Registration & Networking
Sponsored by Kimberly-Clark Corporation
8:30 am
The Impact of IP Assets on Shareholder Value
Costs of litigation
Devaluation of brand equity
o What should board members know
Reserves
Concessions
Variation in perception of intellectual firepower
Sarbanes - Oxley
Litigation alternatives
FASB 141 and 142 (impairment)
Speakers: John C. Tang, Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP
Anthony I. Fenwick, Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP
9:15 am
The Roles and Responsibilities of Chief Intellectual Property Officers
Licensing as a profit center vs. integrating licensing practices throughout the business lines
Setting
strategy with senior management
Coordinating with business development team
Maintaining inventory of IP
Keeping abreast of product lifecycles to develop licensing calendar
Working with R&D to file for patents regularly
Moderator: David Wanetick, Managing Director, IncreMental Advantage and
Chief Intellectual Property Officer
Panelists: Cheryl Perkins, Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer,
Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Damon C. Matteo, VP - Intellectual Property Management & Commercialization,
Palo Alto Research Center
Allen Lo, VP - Intellectual Property,
Juniper Networks
10:00 am
Networking Break
10:20 am
IP Asset Management An Overview of Best Practices
Understanding the IP portfolio in a business context
Patent "triage"
o Insight into licensing based on expected cash flow and earnings power
Deploying known IP assets wisely
Determining the need for and type of licensing
Measuring IP performance with and without licensing
Tailoring IP strategy by: industry, company and corporate culture
Managing trademarks, brand and reputation worldwide
Generating returns on foreign filings
Managing patent costs - redundant prior arts searches, centralized filing, litigation, dispute
resolution
Moderator: Derek Nuhn, Sr. Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Semiconductor Insights
Panelists: Kevin Luo, PhD, Senior Counsel & Former Director of Licensing, Microsoft
Panelists: William B.
Heming, Deputy General Counsel & General Patent Counsel, Caterpillar Inc.
Panelists: Dan Alderman, Senior Intellectual Capital Manager, Dow Chemical
Panelists:
Nicholas Leach, Vice
President and Chief Patent Counsel, Kimberly-Clark Corporation
11:10 am
IP Risks Associated with Doing Business in China: Negotiating IP Agreements with China and
Other Developing Nations
Getting IP out of China as a condition of doing business there
Knowing when and how to take enforcement action
Leveraging business opportunities abroad to seek IP compliance in China
Adequately describing key ingredients
Meeting novelty requirement
Government signaling that it is OK to violate patents
Speakers: The Honorable Bruce Lehman, Senior Counsel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer &
Feld, LLP
& Chairman of the International Intellectual Property Institute &
former US
Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks
James Maccoun, Senior Intellectual Property Counsel, Hewlett-Packard
12:00 pm
Adjournment
*agenda subject to change
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