LES is Setting the Standards for the IP Industry
WE AREN’T JUST PART OF THE IP INDUSTRY,
WE ARE REDEFINING AND ADVANCING IT.
Licensing Executives Society, U.S.A. and Canada (LES) is an ANSI-accredited standards developer for IP-related business process standards intended to enhance the quality, efficiency, and ethics in commercial transactions involving intellectual property.
Published Standards Available for Purchase Now
IP Valuation
NEW Oct. 2025
Intellectual Capital in the Boardroom
Management System for Protection of IP in the Supply Chain
- Multi-tiered, scenario-based standards for selecting and applying IP valuation approaches for a wide variety of situations
- Single ($125) or Group licenses available
- Concise common-language for professionals of different backgrounds to communicate and understand each other.
- Tools to understand what additional, related intellectual capital can enhance existing value and mitigate risk at a level material to board oversight.
- 5-step process to teach and evidence adequate for board director oversight of intellectual capital material to
- Single licenses ($125) or Group licenses available
- Guidance for developing and implementing your own Intellectual Property Protection Management System (IPPMS)
- Establish expectations for the IPPMS of the third parties they work with and to assess the maturity of the IPPMS
- Voluntarily contract with a qualified independent organization to assess the maturity of the IPPMS.
- Single licenses ($125) or Group licenses available
THE IMPACT OF STANDARDS FOR IP PROFESSIONALS
“Markets don’t scale without transparency and rules. You don’t get liquidity without those basics. And being in the IP business…it was complicated because there were no references.
There’s no other organization but LES that has that level of trust.”
Michael Pierantozzi
Principal, Andiamo Associates
Help Advance Our Industry
Join our LES Standards Development Organization and help transform the future of IP and Licensing. By bringing together standards professionals, business leaders, subject-matter experts, and cross-sector stakeholders from nearly every industry and society, ANSI membership fosters collaboration, networking, information-exchange, and strategic support.
Standards Membership Opportunities:
Enterprise Membership: $500 annually for as many participants as you like. You may also participate in as many committees as you wish. Enterprise Membership participants get to help set LES Standards Strategies and help shape standards themselves. Get early insight and a head start on compliance and implementation.
Consensus Standards Partnership Membership: $250 annually for a single member of an organization to participate as the final consensus voting body for approval or disapproval of any LES standard. This membership level allows you to vote on standards, but not participate in development of them through committees.
If you have any questions or would like to discuss being part of our Standards Development Organization, please contact our standards coordinator at standards@les.org.
Eight Standards Sub-Committees:
Licensing Executives Society, U.S.A. and Canada (LES) has established eight standards sub-committees to draft standards in the following areas. Alternate/additional committees will be established by the organization.
ISO/TC 279
Innovation Management
IP Protection in the Supply Chain
FRAND Licensing
Intellectual Property Licensing
IP Management for Startups
Intellectual Capital in the Boardroom
Intellectual Property Valuation
Intellectual Property Brokerage
Standards Under Development
LES is currently working on the following standards:
- FRAND Licensing – creating industry-wide business process standards for businesses and professionals engaged in licensing standard essential patents on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms, thereby reducing transaction costs and management expenses.
- Intellectual Capital Management for Startups – developing standards to enhance the value of early-stage enterprises (at funding and at exit) reduce IP risk and reduce costs for entitites that adoopt and practice the standard in connection with securing and protecting their intellectual assets.
- IP Brokerage – creating transaction-centered business process requirements for agents, buyers, and sellers of IP assets.
ABOUT US
LES is a non-profit, non-partisan organization representing the entire innovation ecosystem. We bring IP and licensing professionals in the United States and Canada together to build relationships, encourage growth, advocate and collaborate toward solving the critical issues facing our industry today and for our future.
We are the largest of 32 global affiliated international societies under our parent organization, LES International (LESI). Each of these organizations are making strides in driving strategy, deal-making, and education worldwide to fuel the evolving innovation economy.
Whether you’re new to the industry, a seasoned professional, or anywhere in between, we invite you to join us in advancing IP and licensing globally.
Our members comprise professionals in:
- Corporate licensing and business development
- University and Government Technology Transfer
- Research and Development
- Legal professions
- Valuation and Expert Witness Testimony
- Patent Intelligence and Portfolio Management
- and more
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