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• Venue: At your desk: On your Laptop/PC or Phone
• Date: 18 Sept 2012
• Time: 9:00 am PDT/11:00 am CDT/12:00 pm EDT
• Duration: 60 minutes including Q & A

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Presenters

	Linda K. Biel Vice President, Business Development Allied Security Trust USA
Linda's brief biography Linda's brief biography Linda Biel has more than 20 years of experience in high technology, specializing in business development, marketing and sales. She is responsible for new member recruitment and managing the relationships between Allied Security Trust and sellers of patent portfolios, including patent brokers and direct sellers. Previously, she was a founder and Director of Customer Relations for PatentFreedom, and before that served in a variety of customer and partner interfacing roles at IBM, including assignments in both Asia and Europe. Linda received a M.S. magna cum laude in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University.
	Donal O'Connel Managing Director Chawton Innovation Services Limited UK
Donal's brief biography Donal's brief biography Donal O’Connell is the Managing Director of Chawton Innovation Services Limited. The company offers consultancy in the areas of innovation and intellectual property management. In the past year, the client base has included leading Universities, a global IP service provider, a selection of major IP Firms, a global telecoms company, a compliance firm and some global chemical companies. There has also been a global food and beverages company, a global heavy engineering company, one of the big four financial services companies, plus a variety of SMEs. Donal graduated from NIHE Limerick (now The University of Limerick) in Ireland in 1985, with a Degree in Electronic Engineering. Donal had a long career at Nokia for 21 years and has a wide and varied experience in the wireless telecoms industry, having worked for periods in The Netherlands, UK, USA, Finland, and HK. Donal is a former VP of R&D and Director of IP at Nokia. In the US he was manager of Nokia R&D in Texas from 1997 to 2003, growing the site from scratch by recruiting and developing more than 600 engineers and developing and launching many successful products. More recently, from 2003 to 2009, Donal was a Director of IP at Nokia and was the leader of Nokia's Patent Creation team. Donal has been a member of the Executive Board of the Eco Patent Commons initiative as well as Chair of the CPA Global Memotech IUG.

Agenda

• Patent management processes - planning, execution, and reviewing
• Identification of patents to protect, hold, abandon, or monetize
• How to assemble and manage a portfolio
• Developing IP strategies that are both offensive and defensive
• Optimized return with multi-approach strategies
• Outlining IP governance, strategy and management
• Increase the ROI of your patent portfolio
• How do your legal protection activities, e.g. by patents, support your factual protection strategies, e.g. technology leadership?
• To what extend do your patent activities support your competitiveness (securing action of freedom; blocking competitors; licensing)?
• Do, and if so, how support your patent activities your product and product/technology competences?
• What are the critical success factors for strategically managing patents?

Who Should Attend?

This webinar is designed for:

• Buyers of legal outsourcing services – law firm partners, counsels, IP counsels and IP lawyers, solo practitioners based in US, UK and other markets;
• Service Providers of legal outsourcing services – LPO executives, emerging LPOs from vendor locations in Asia, Africa, UK/Europe, America and others;
• Investors, Software Vendors, Researchers, Academicians and other interested stake holders of LPO industry

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