Ottawa Chapter Meeting

DATE & TIME:
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
5:0 PM – 7:00 PM

TITLE
The Inside Scoop on the Nortel Patent Auction

SPEAKER
John Veschi, Rockstar Consortium

DESCRIPTION
Last year's auction of Nortel's patent portfolio, which resulted in a winning bid of $4.5B by the Rockstar Consortium has significantly raised the profile of patents in the business community as well as the mainstream press and has made IP practitioners sit up and revisit how patent assets should be evaluated and monetized. Subsequent high value patent transactions in the industry underline the ongoing significance of the Nortel transaction.

This presentation will provide insight into the multi-year transformation of Nortel's IP organization that set the stage for this historic result by touching on topics such as: the Nortel patent portfolio; the building of an IP business; the bankruptcy process and the role of IP; and the eventual auction of the patent portfolio.

LOCATION
Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
Main Boardroom
2600-160 Elgin Street, Ottawa, ON, K1P 1C3
(613) 233-1781
www.gowlings.com

SCHEDULE
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM Reception
5:30 PM Presentation Begins

COST:
$15.00 per person

SPACE IS LIMITED SO PLEASE MAKE RESERVATIONS:

Please RSVP with Michael Crichton's assistant, Gloria Gyorgy, by telephone at (613) 786-0200 (ext. 57604) or email at gloria.gyorgy@gowlings.com by Friday, February 4, 2012.  We ask that you forward payment (cheques payable to the Licensing Executives Society, not to "LES Ottawa") to Michael Crichton, c/o Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, 160 Elgin Street, Suite 2600, Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 1C3.  Cheques or cash on site are acceptable.  Receipts available upon request.

SPEAKER BIO
John Veschi is the former Chief Intellectual Property Officer at Nortel Networks and played a major role in the $4.5B sale of Nortel's patent assets. Previously he was Chief IP Counsel at LSI and Vice President and General Manager of LSI's IP Business which generated hundreds of millions of dollars of licensing revenue under his leadership. Mr. Veschi held a similar executive position at Agere Systems, before it was acquired by LSI. Mr. Veschi is now at Rockstar, leading and building the former Nortel IP team as it manages the former Nortel patent portfolio. He also served on the Board of Directors of MOSAID Technologies, an Ottawa-based patent licensing firm which was recently taken private by Sterling.