Tuesday, February 24 |
| 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | PDS Instructor Qualification Workshop -
Train the Trainer |
Wednesday, February 25 |
| 7:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. | Registration |
| 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast for Add-on Attendees |
| 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. | Add-on Seminar 1 - Growing a Knowledge Based Economy in San Antonio - Moved to Thursday 10:45 a.m. Roundtable Discussions |
| 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Add-on Seminar 2 - PDS 100: Introductory Workshop on the Commercialization of IP through Licensing |
| 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. | New Members' Reception (by invitation) |
| 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. | Welcome to San Antonio Reception |
| 7:30 p.m. | Industry Sector Dinners
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Thursday, February 26 |
| 7:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. | Registration |
| 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
| 7:00 a.m. – 7:50 a.m. | Committee Meetings 2009 Annual Meeting Committee
Education Committee
Chemicals, Energy, Environmental and Materials Sector
2010 Winter Meeting Committee
High Technology Sector |
| 8:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. | Plenary Session |
| 8:00 a.m. | Welcome and Introductions |
| 8:15 a.m. | Keith McDowell, Ph.D., Vice Chancellor for Research and Technology Transfer Office, The University of Texas System |
| 8:45 a.m. | Don Merino, General Manager Acquisitions, Intellectual Ventures |
| 9:15 a.m. | Panel Discussion: Licensing Achievement Award Winners |
| | Luis R. Mejia, Senior Associate, Office of Technology Licensing, Stanford University |
| | Jeff Weedman, Vice President, External Business Development, Procter & Gamble |
| | James Allan, Group Director, Business Development and Global Alliances, Pfizer Animal Health |
| | Cheryl Cejka, Director of Technology Commercialization, Battelle and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy |
| | Lawrence Shay, Executive Vice President,
Intellectual Property, InterDigital |
| | Moderator: Michael J. Martin, CLP™, TechTransfer Associates, Inc. |
| 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Accompanying Persons Breakfast |
| 10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | Networking Coffee Break |
| 10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Roundtable Discussions |
| 12:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. | Luncheon with Keynote Speaker, Robert Perry, Vice President, Deepwater Facilities Technology, BP America, Inc. |
| 1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Tech Fair |
| 2:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. | Workshop Session 1 |
| | 1-A (CEEM) Licensing Issues Relating To Bio-Ethanol Energy Generation |
| | 1-B (LSS/IUGI) 10 Tips for Navigating from the Laboratory to the Market Place |
| | 1-C (IUGI) New Computer Tools for IP Assessment and Marketing |
| | 1-D (HTS) Detecting Patent Infringement |
| | 1-E (LGL) Due Diligence in the Patent Evolution Era |
| 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | PDS Intermediate Workshop (LEGAL) Working the System: Inside the USPTO |
| 3:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. | Networking Coffee Break in the Tech Fair |
| 3:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Workshop Session 2 |
| | 2-A (CEEM) Cashing in on Science (Innovation beyond Invention) |
| | 2-B (LSS) How to Protect in Vitro Diagnostics Inventions in Light of In re Bilski |
| | 2-C (IUGI) Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven, but Nobody Wants to Die |
| | 2-D (HTS) High Tech IP Indemnification |
| | 2-E (HTS) Why Haven't High Tech Firms Embraced Open Innovation? |
| 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. | Reception and Dinner |
Friday, February 27 |
| 7:15 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
| 7:15 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. | Committee Meetings High Tech Sector Clean Tech Committee
2009 Spring Meeting Committee
2010 Annual Meeting Committee |
| 7:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Registration |
| 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Workshop Session 3 |
| | 5-A (CEEM) Advanced Energy Consortium: Joint Research in Nanotechnology Applications to the Explorations and Production of Oil and Gas |
| | 3-B (LSS) Overcoming Regulatory Obstacles in the Biomedical Device Field - Cancelled |
| | 3-C (IUGI) Effect of Quanta on University and Corporate Licensing Strategy |
| | 3-D (HTS) Patent Pools: Still relevant after all these years? |
| | 3-E (HTS) Surveying the Patent Landscape |
| 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Networking Break |
| 10:30 a.m. –12:00 p.m. | Workshop Session 4 |
| | 3-A (CEEM) Using Technology Landscaping to Identify Global Licensing Partners |
| | 4-B (LSS) Building a Licensing Team: Optimization of the Deal Process by Assembling Cross-disciplinary Expertise |
| | 4-C (CLP™) Certified Licensing Professional and You: Q&A Workshop |
| | 4-D (HTS) The Nature and Impact of U.S. Export Controls on Technology Transfer and Licensing |
| | 4-E (LGL) Legal Mediation of Patent Disputes |
| 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Chapter Chair Luncheon |
| 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Networking Luncheon |
| 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Workshop Session 5 |
| | 5-B (LSS) Telemedicine as a Mainstream Paradigm for Healthcare Delivery |
| | 5-C (IUGI) Common License Agreement Compliance Issues and How To Avoid 'Em |
| | 5-D (HTS) Licensing Strategies In Standards Developing Organizations |
| | 5-E (CEEM) Alternative Energy - Cancelled |
| 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | PDS Intermediate Workshop (IA STRATEGY) Portfolio Analysis/Risk Assessment |
| 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | LES Strategic Planning Dialogue & Reception - New |
| 6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. | Board of Trustees Reception and Dinner |