Viewpoints: LES 2025 Annual Meeting – Boston, MA – October 19-22, 2025

Dear Friends,

Join us at the LES Annual Meeting to celebrate Strategic Partnerships for IP Development and Market Growth in Boston, Massachusetts, October 19-22, 2025, at the Boston Marriott Copley Place! Beantown is an excellent location for connecting with our worldwide IP and business professionals from operating companies, industry, academia, government, law firms, and other professional organizations. We invite you to attend the distinguished keynote and plenary sessions, over 30 panel sessions, and more than 15 roundtable discussions. We anticipate over 500 attendees from around the world.

We are planning a program that will enable our meeting attendees to expand their knowledge and share experiences on issues confronting dealmaking and licensing professionals, both now and in the future. The meeting will feature networking and global deal-making opportunities, exceptional programming, and professional development courses taught by licensing experts.

Whether you are a CEO, CTO, Business Development, IP Attorney, Patent Agent, or Tech Transfer professional, our program offers something for everyone. Sessions include LES Life Sciences Royalty Rate and Global Deal Terms Survey Review, Brands as Unique Assets, Global Strategic Partnerships, FLIPspace Program, Electric Vehicle Licensing Ecosystem, Physical Sciences Battery Seminar, Dupes of Hazard, AI in Pharma Licensing, Maximizing Your Royalties, Trademark Treasures, Closing the Patent Gap, and more.

What fun we had in Boston at the 2018 Annual Meeting! Here are the winning teams at the Sector Feud Games, patterned after Family Feud. Join us for more good times this year at the LES Annual Meeting 2025!

Check out the agenda highlights:

Friday, October 17, 2025

  • LES Academy: Business Development OR Dealmaking

Saturday, October 18, 2025

  • LES Academy: Business Development OR Dealmaking

Sunday, October 19, 2025

  • LES Academy: Business Development OR Dealmaking
  • Emerging Leaders panel sessions, Industry Leaders Forum, IP Owners Reception, New Members Reception, Welcome Reception, and Young Members’ Congress After-Party

 Monday, October 20, 2025

  • Plenary Panel: USPTO and CIPO; Plenary Panel: Creating Value; Deals of Distinction Awards and Business Lunch; Workshops and Roundtable Discussions, Exhibits, Evening Networking Reception at the View Boston Prudential Center

 Tuesday, October 21, 2025

  • Keynote: Dr. Giovanni Traverso, MIT; Belonging in Licensing Breakfast, Workshops, Roundtable Discussions; Jorge A. Goldstein-Patenting Life; Sector Lunch Meetings; Top 10 Legal Decisions Affecting Licensing; Networking at Closing Reception

 Wednesday, October 22, 2025

  • Education – LES CLP Exam Review Course
  • Extended Program – Innovation and Commercialization in 2026 and Beyond
    Join us for a special add-on program (FREE to conference attendees) where we will break down the new policy issues at the federal level toward funding science and technology, ongoing court battles and the ever-changing politics impacting licensing. The four panels, featuring 20 industry experts, will talk about licensing, contracting, leadership, and commercialization in today’s environment. This non-partisan program on innovation and commercialization is free to attendees of the LES annual meeting, but registration is required. Save your seat now.

We look forward to seeing you in Boston!  Please don’t hesitate to contact lesam@northernnetworking.co.uk for further information.

Best regards,

    • Arpi Siyahian, Ph.D, Co-Chair LES 2025 Annual Meeting Co-Chair LES 2025 Annual Meeting
    • David Powsner, Esq., Co-Chair LES 2025 Annual Meeting
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