I've been looking forward to this week's trip to Asia, where I'll be getting together with other speakers at the first IP transaction focused conference in China. Marshall Phelps, Corporate VP for IP Policy and Strategy at Microsoft,  Joff Wild, Editor of IAM Magazine, and Duncan Bucknell, CEO, IP Strategist, Lawyer & Patent Attorney, coincidentally our featured guest blogger here on IP.com's corporate blog, Securing Innovation, are among the global IP leaders speaking at this conference.

This conference is mainly focused on Intellectual Property transaction issues, including IP strategies, IP portfolio management, diversified IP transaction methods, IP valuation approaches and database applications.

Unlike other IP conferences focused on legal issues, this event deals more with the strategic concerns within a company rather than just protection issues. Not only are IP counsels and patent counsels being invited to this event, corporate CEOs, Vice Presidents and General Counsels are all expected to join this exciting conference.

Director of SIPA, Mr. Guoqiang Lv, will make the opening address for this event and deliver a presentation as the curtain raiser for CIPB 2009. Former Supreme Court Judge, Mr. Jiang Zhipei will also deliver a speech on the current IP business background, especially in China.

120 companies from different industries will join this event. Among them, this conference has gathered over 30 Global IP Leaders and IP Strategists to brainstorm the IP strategies and transaction issues in this booming China market, including, Philips IP&S, Microsoft, Nokia, SAP, Bosch, Sanofi-Aventis, Agilent Technologies, Alibaba, Alcatel Lucent Shanghai Bell, and TSMC. Leading Chinese firms will also present on site, including ZTE, BYD and TCL.

Thomson Reuters, IP.com, TechInsights, Finnegan, Property Corp. and RPX Corporation have engaged this event as its honored sponsors. Mr. David Liu, the Managing Director of China from Thomson Reuters will make a toast during the first day's lunch.

This conference is problem solution driven and each company who has the need to extract more value from their IP assets will find a suitable solution for them and find potential business partners either during the conference or after the conference. Hope to see you there.

You can log on the event website for more information: http://www.cipbusiness.com

If you're attending CIPB 2009, as well, or would like to get together while I'm in China, please contact me by email tcolson [at] ip.com either in advance or during the conference, and we'll set something up.

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Johnson Kong, here, in South Korea where IP.com is exhibiting at PATINEX 2009. This is not the first year we've participated in this conference. Last year, Tom Colson, CEO of IP.com,  addressed this gathering of IP professionals and business leaders from around the world on Advanced Enterprise Innovation Management and IP Strategies.

PATINEX offers insight into various facade of IP information and latest cutting edge developments of new tools and services for protecting, enforcing and exploiting a company's IP.

Conference host, Jung-Sik Koh, Commissioner, Korean Intellectual Property Office has welcomed us back again this year, and we're having very productive meetings here and enjoying the conference program.

This year, we're featuring IP.com's InnovationQ enterprise solution for organizations with significant portfolios of intellectual property to manage throughout the IP life-cycle.

Also of great interest at this conference is the Prior Art Database, the world's leading repository and registry of prior art.

The IP.com Prior Art Database is a unique database dedicated to the publication of technical disclosure documents. The IP.com Prior Art Database contains content that cannot be found anywhere else, and is an essential source of non-patent prior art data for intellectual property professionals, research and development (R&D) staff, corporate library staff, and individual inventors wishing to research prior art. The IP.com Prior Art Database is home to a wide array of technical disclosures from many Fortune 500 companies. While many publish anonymously to prevent competitive intelligence, you will also find many disclosures published with full authorship information from innovative companies such as IBM, Motorola, and Siemens. The IP.com Prior Art Database is also the exclusive location for new IBM-TDB (Technical Disclosure Bulletin) documents on the Web.

Recently, the Korean Intellectual Propery Office (KIPO) showed its leadership in fast-tracking green patent applications. 

On 1 October 2009, the Korean Patent Office (KIPO) launched its "super speed examination system" for green technology. The system is available for green technologies that minimise the discharge of pollutants, as well as those which have received funding or authentication for green growth. Applicants can apply for super speed examination by requesting a prior art search from one of three agencies authorised to conduct such searches on behalf of KIPO (the Korea Institute of Patent Information (KIPI), WIPS Co. Ltd. or IP Solution Co. Ltd.) and submitting the results of the search to KIPO.

Details of the application procedure for super speed examination and the documents required, etc. are posted on KIPO's website in the News section (article no. 688, published on 2 October 2009): http://www.kipo.go.kr

As Executive Vice President of IP.com and head of the company's Asia Pacific operations, I look forward to working with KIPO and other leading governmental agencies and business organizations to increase efficiencies in management of patent systems. Look for IP.com in the exhibition hall at PATINEX 2009, or contact me personally by email jkong@ip.com at your convenience, and see how we can help.

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November 9th is Inventors' Day, marking the birthday of Hedy Lamarr a famous Hollywood glamour girl of the 1940's, who is now recognized as one of the leading women inventors of the 20th century.

"Any girl can be glamorous," Hedy Lamarr once said. "All she has to do is stand still and look stupid." The film star belied her own apothegm by hiding a brilliant, inventive mind beneath her photogenic exterior. In 1942, at the height of her Hollywood career, she patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was two decades ahead of its time.

We've still got a ways to go when it comes to removing gender stereotypes, but we've come a long way, baby. It's encouraging, today, to see fashion magazines recognize women for their brains, not just their beauty. This week, Glamour magazine named Google's Marissa Mayer a 2009 Woman of the Year.

“It’s pretty hard to overstate her impact,” says Google CEO Eric Schmidt. “She built the team that designs the products we all use.” With a wardrobe that’s strong on Oscar de la Renta and Armani, Mayer cuts a striking figure on the company campus. “When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night,” Mayer jokes. “I do code all night! I am the stereotype, but I also break the stereotype.” Among her goals: to bring more women into technology and teach them to take chances. “Get in a bit over your head,” she says. “That’s how you grow and learn and stretch yourself.”

These are important life lessons for our children and, as the father of three young girls and an author of children's books that dispel gender stereotypes, I'll be telling stories about women like Marissa Mayer, Hedy Lamarr, and other famous women inventors. For our girls, these women are real-world superheroes.

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Thanks to David Pogue, New York Times technology columnist and CNBC tech dude, for tweeting this week about German innovation in automobile manufacturing.

And linking from his Twitter stream @Pogue to this very interesting YouTube video giving us a good look inside Volkswagen's "transparent factory" in Dresden, Germany.

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Internet pioneer and UCLA computer science professor Leonard Kleinrock discusses the process of connecting the first host computer to the fledgling Internet, then known as the ARPANET, in September 1969, and sending the first host-to-host message a month later on October 29, 1969.

UCLA became the first node of the ARPANET on Sept. 2, 1969, when 35-year-old Leonard Kleinrock led a group of computer scientists in establishing the first network connection between two machines on campus. Two months later, on Oct. 29, Kleinrock and his team, working out of a small space in the engineering school's Boelter Hall, succeeded in sending the first host-to-host message from UCLA to the Stanford Research Institute hundreds of miles away, signaling the birth of the Internet.

While the initial message was intended to be "LOGIN," the team managed only partial success. "We succeeded in transmitting the 'L' and the 'O'," Kleinrock recalled, "and then the system crashed. Hence, the first message on the Internet was 'LO' — as in 'Lo and behold!' We didn't plan it, but we couldn't have come up with a better message: short and prophetic."

Kleinrock, the architect of the groundbreaking packet-switching method that made the Internet possible, has been widely honored for his contributions to world-transforming technologies. He continues to work out of a modest office down the hall from the room where the Internet began and across from a storage closet containing the Internet's first router.

In honor of the 40th anniversary of the birth of the Internet at UCLA, the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science presents a daylong celebration and forum featuring some of the most influential Internet leaders, activists and analysts, who will offer valuable insights on the online opportunities and challenges that lie ahead.

Where do we go from here?

Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions a radically changed internet five years from now: dominated by Chinese-language and social media content, delivered over super-fast bandwidth in real time.

What do you think the internet will look like in the future?

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"Innovation, really, is the magic that makes imagination become reality," says Padmasree Warrior, Chief Technology Officer at Cisco Systems, speaking at Google.

As CTO, Padmasree Warrior helps define Ciscos technological strategy and helps drive innovation across the company, working closely with the senior executive team and board of directors. As an evangelist for what's possible, she pushes the organization to stretch beyond its current capabilities not just in technology, but also in its strategic partnerships and new business models.

She says, "The debate is not really about content ownership, anymore. How do you consume content more in a community, and make that more of a community experience."

This is a very interesting talk, touching on many areas of interest to us: innovation, leadership, education, generations, communcation, and technology. Take a few minutes to hear what Padmasree Warrior shares from her experience at Motorola and at Cisco. Fascinating, really.

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Did you know? We are currently preparing students for jobs that don't yet exist, using technologies that haven't been invented, in order to solve problems we don't even know are problems yet.

So what does it all mean? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

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As IP.com Inc.'s Executive Vice President and head of Asia Pacific operations for the company, I've been in China for several years, discussing with leading companies and governmental agencies how this emerging superpower of technological innovation--not just manufacturing powerhouse--will adapt the best practices of other global economic leaders to develop and manage intellectual property in China.

As the whole world is witnessing China’s booming economy in recent years, Chinese corporations are becoming aware how critical indigenous innovation is for domestic businesses to survive the international competition in the wake of economic globalization. Eager to improve the present intellectual property service system, which is less efficient and not well supervised as compared with those of industrialized countries, governments at all levels in China are struggling to strengthen the construction of developed, powerful service channels to further boost a sustainable development, especially during the current global recession, by cooperating with relevant oversea companies and institutions as well as on their own.

As part of the effort to achieve this goal, the 5th International Conference on Corporate Intellectual Property Strategy, co-hosted by the Intellectual Property Development Research Center of the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO), the National Science & Technology Infrastructure Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Science & Technology Office and the IP Office of Henan Province will be held on the end of October, 2009 in Zhengzhou, Henan Province of China. A variety of professionals, managers and experts related to intellectual property and technology innovation, from IP service organizations, enterprises and research institutions home and abroad, will be invited. Topics include the construction of both Chinese and foreign IP service platforms,

IP.com is honored to be among the international companies invited to the 5th International Conference on Corporate Intellectual Property Strategy to share ideas, strategies, and technologies for the effective management of intellectual property by global corporations and governments. For many years, IP.com has worked closely with its clients, like IBM, as well as with governmental agencies, including the USPTO, to facilitate access to technical disclosure documents and the worldwide prior art database.

The conference includes the following panels:

Panel One: Innovation and IP Service System Construction

• The support of IP services to industry upgrading and economic development

• Introduction to the construction of IP service system in China

• Introduction to the construction of innovation service system in China Science Park

• Introduction to the status of European IP service system

• Introduction to the patent information service system in Europe

• Introduction to the technology transfer platform in the U.S

• One-stop IP service platform for small & medium enterprises

• Dialog: Constructing the innovation and IP service system with Chinese characteristics

Panel Two: IP Service in Innovation Cycle

Part 1) IP Services in Major National Science and Technology Projects (MNSTP) and economic activities

• Ideas on the overall IP management in MNSTP

• The practice of IP management in MNSTP assessment & implementation

• The support of IP services to the innovation, technology import and transfer of the major projects.

• Dialog: The support of IP services to national technology innovation and industry upgrading

Part 2 ） IP services in enterprises' innovation cycle

IP management in enterprises’ innovation cycle and its support services

Innovation

• Market and IP oriented innovation project setting and its support services

• Solutions and information services to enterprises’ innovation projects

• Effective utilization of patent information

IP Management

• Setting effective patent application strategy, maximizing the IP value

• Enterprises’ IP strategy and IP management system construction

• Intelligent innovation management system construction

IP Protection

• Techniques of IP protection and infringement prevention

• How to deal with patent infringement litigation

IP Commercialization

• Introduction to the IP commercialization service system in China

• IP evaluation, insurance, financing and commercializing services in the US

• Patent portfolio management and licensing services

• Dialog: Discussion on the key questions relevant to enterprises’ innovation cycle and the effective IP service modes.

If you're going to be at the 5th International Conference on Corporate Intellectual Property Strategy, or would like to set up a meeting with me at another convenient location in China, please don't hesitate to contact me by email at jkong@ip.com and we'll be happy to spend some time with you and your colleagues discussing how we might work together to develop the best intellectual property management systems and methods for your organization in China.

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Wow, that WaterCar is definitely not your father's Amphicar.

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While all the world took leave of their senses, following news of the Balloon Boy on mainstream media, around the blogosphere and across the twitterverse, Dennis Crouch at Patently-O kept his head about him, blogging and tweeting prior art.

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Established in 1965, the Licensing Executives Society (U.S.A. and Canada), Inc. (LES) is a professional society comprised of over 6,000 members engaged in the transfer, use, development, manufacture and marketing of intellectual property.

The LES membership includes a wide range of professionals, including business executives, lawyers, licensing consultants, engineers, academicians, scientists and government officials. Many large corporations, professional firms, and universities comprise the Society's membership.

Licensing Executives Society (U.S.A. and Canada), Inc. is a member society of the Licensing Executives Society International, Inc. (LESI), with a worldwide membership of over 12,000 members in 30 national societies, representing over 80 countries.

This year, the annual meeting of the Licensing Executives Society (U.S.A. and Canada) is in San Francisco from October 18h to the 22nd.

I will be attending LES in San Francisco next week from Monday through Thursday morning. I am planning to meet with various companies and tech transfer professionals to discuss their intellectual property strategies.

For organizations, I am trying to get a better sense of their current intellectual property management processes and discuss potential areas of improvement. Since IP.com focuses on best practices for innovation management, I am trying to identify if our search services or configurable workflow solutions would be beneficial to specific organizations.

For tech transfer professionals much of their focus is on improving early-stage marketability analysis, increasing exposure of their portfolio of available technologies, and successfully securing licensing engagements. IP.com has robust IP tools and services to assist with these initiatives – my ultimate objective is to determine if there is sufficient interest to continue discussions and demonstrate some of our capabilities and see how we can help.

If you'd like to meetup when we're at LES in San Francisco next week, just send an email to mdidas at ip.com with your contact information and we'll arrange to get together. There's going to be hundreds, maybe thousands, of members attending this year's annual meeting, which will be both interesting and challenging to make the right connections. Hope to see you there!

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Congratulations to  Peter Vanderheyden and our friends and associates at LexisNexis on the launch of their transparent semantic search technology announced today in this press release: 

LexisNexis, a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions, today announced the availability of transparent semantic search technology for its full complement of intellectual property (IP) research products – enabling users to find the most precise and relevant patent search results.

Through a development alliance with Dallas-based Pure Discovery, LexisNexis has become the first provider of legal information services to integrate the power of semantic search technology with familiar Boolean search technology, giving the user greater control over the patent research process via a simple, streamlined user interface that matches their typical daily workflow.

Semantic search uses the science of meaning in language ("semantics”) to produce highly relevant search results. While semantic search engines are not uncommon, most contain limitations – including lack of transparency and user control – which can ultimately undermine the overall value of results. For example, they typically do not show precisely how search results are generated and the user must simply trust that the right relevance between the original query and the semantic application are, in fact, appropriate to the intent of the searcher.

The new semantic search solution from LexisNexis and Pure Discovery, however, overcomes such challenges to accomplish four breakthrough objectives in online search:

• Transparency: Each query is enhanced by the machine intelligence and shown to the user for their complete understanding and engagement.
• Increased control: Not only is the semantic search transparent, but users are in control with the ability to add, delete, increase or decrease the importance of all query words (concepts) in a unique visual query interface called a "querycloud.”
• Fully federated: While LexisNexis maintains one of the largest full-text patent and non-patent literature databases in the world, its semantic search platform can associate semantic searches to virtually any index, whether it resides internally or on the web.
• Scalability: The LexisNexis index includes semantic intelligence from more than 10 million full-text patent documents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s patent index, as well as Elsevier journal articles and other documents.

"With semantic search technology we have changed the very nature of online patent research by providing users with an additional means of researching patent and non-patent prior art,” said Peter Vanderheyden, LexisNexis vice president of Global Intellectual Property. "This alliance will provide users with tools to create more meaningful queries, allowing them to obtain more precise results by using semantic technology to enhance their Boolean search strategies.”

The new technology is now available through the patent research and retrieval service LexisNexis® TotalPatent™ and the automated patent application and analysis product LexisNexis® PatentOptimizer™. In addition, the functionality is also available through lexis.com®, the flagship online legal research service from LexisNexis, for full-text non-patent prior art and other patent-related content.

Technical Disclosures from IP.com's Prior Art Database are also accessible to users of LexisNexis.

New Content for Patent Research: Technical Disclosures from IP.com and Research Disclosure!

Two premium sources for non-patent prior art research have been added to "Select a Source > Law by Topic > Prior Art/Non-Patent". Why are technical disclosures important to patent researchers? Obtaining a patent is very expensive.

Only a small number of possible inventions are worth such a large investment. An innovation that is not patented is in danger of being patented by a competitor. The only way to prevent this is to prove that the idea already existed and was available to the public. When an innovation is published as a technical disclosure, it is no longer at risk of being patented by others. Publishing the innovation establishes a clear trail of evidence that the inventor originated the idea and made it available to the public. The inventor, in effect, retains the right to use his or her own innovation, without the difficulty and expense of obtaining patent protection.

LexisNexis is the only platform where the full text of both IP.com and Research Disclosure Technical Disclosures can be found! A searcher on LexisNexis® TotalPatent™ can highlight a patent claim and launch a Freestyle search directly into IP.com or Research Disclosure Technical Disclosures on lexis.com®.

LexisNexis Toolbar users may activate access to IP.com and research Disclosure Technical Disclosures by re-downloading the Toolbar. Just click this link: "Download the LexisNexis Toolbar Today."

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On Sept. 25, 2009, experts from academia, legal practice, and the trial and appellate benches will gather at Santa Clara Law to examine sources of uncertainty in patent litigation today. The one-day event, "Sources of Uncertainty in Patent Litigation,” is co-sponsored by the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara Law and the Federal Circuit Bar Association.

"We are thrilled to be offering a first-rate lineup of speakers talking about some of the thorniest problems in patent law,” says Eric Goldman, associate professor and academic director of the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara Law. "This event is drawing experts from every sector of our local patent community, so we anticipate a very sophisticated audience will participate in the conversation.”

 Two Federal Circuit Court Judges will participate—Judge Randall R. Rader and Judge Richard Linn. In addition, the event will feature three district court judges—Judge Jeremy Fogel, Northern District of California; Judge Andrew J. Guilford, Central District of California; and Judge Ronald M. Whyte, Northern District of California.

The event also features panel discussions with academics and litigators. Participating academics include Colleen Chien, Santa Clara Law; Dennis Crouch, University of Missouri School of Law; John Duffy, George Washington University Law School; Peter Menell, U.C. Berkeley School of Law; and Arti Rai, Duke University School of Law. Participating litigators include Joe Re, Knobbe Martens; David Larson, McDermott Will & Emery; Daryl Joseffer, King & Spalding; Craig Kaufman, Orrick; Ed Reines, Weil Gotshal; and Bill Rooklidge, Howrey LLP.

Cartoon courtesy of LawComix.com

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With over 80 in-house counsel registered, the Social Media Risks & Rewards attendee list of  legal leaders in business today, gathering in New York City at the Harvard Club for a conference presented by ALM Events and sponsored by Corporate Counsel Magazine.

• 1-800-Flowers.com, Inc.
• A. J. O'Connor & Associates
• AAA Mid-Atlantic Inc.
• Adobe Systems Incorporated
• Aflac
• aimClear
• Alcatel-Lucent
• ALSAC/St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
• American Express
• Beacon Capital Partners, LLC.
• Best Buy Co., Inc.
• Boy Scouts of America
• Bristol Myers Squibb
• Chandler Chicco Companies
• CNN Worldwide
• Crawford & Company
• Erie County Department of Social Services
• Fingerhut Direct Marketing
• Foot Locker, Inc.
• Forrester Research, Inc.
• GE Consumer & Industrial
• Georgia-Pacific LLC
• Goodrich Corporation
• Health Management Resources
• ING DIRECT
• iVillage Networks
• Jabil Circuit, Inc.
• Johnson & Johnson
• Jones Apparel Group, Inc.
• Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
• MasterCard Worldwide
• Mayo Clinic
• Meda Pharmaceuticals
• Medco Health Solutions, Inc.
• Medtronic
• Metropolitan Regional Information Systems, Inc.
• MLB Advanced Media
• MTV Networks
• National Football League
• National Foundation for Debt Management
• NBC Universal
• NBTY, Inc.
• North Jersey Media Group
• Northrop Grumman Corporation
• NuVox
• NYCERS
• PBS Kids Sprout
• Pearson Education, Inc.
• PEPCO Holdings, Inc.
• Progress Software Corporation
• Prudential Insurance Company of America
• R.H. Donnelley Inc.
• R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
• Realogy Corporation
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Saint Raphael Healthcare System, Inc.
• Sanofi-Aventis
• Shell Oil Company
• Shiseido Americas Corporation
• Sotheby’s
• Spirit Jump
• Starwood Hotels
• The Coca-Cola Company
• The Donna Karan Company LLC
• The Estee Lauder Corporation
• The Juilliard School
• The Nielsen Company
• The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C.
• Toys “R” Us
• TripAdvisor Media Group
• Tyco International
• United States Tennis Association
• U.S. Global Investors Inc.
• Walmart
• WebVisible, Inc.
• Weinberger Counsel
• Wells Fargo & Company
• WIT Strategy
• WNET.ORG

If you can't join these companies at the Social Media Risks & Rewards conference in New York City, you can follow the event on Twitter @LawSocialMedia and those in attendance live-tweeting the event with the hashtag #LSMC.

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Tom Colson, captain of the ship at IP.com, lead the team on a top-secret training exercise on the high seas of the Niagara River. No intellectual property pirates were encountered along the border, but we're ready for anything.

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According to the Just a Patent Examiner Blog, USPTO Director David Kappos has started a blog. For the time being, it's only hosted on the internal USPTO servers. However, according to the blog, "we plan to make the blog available to the public in the coming weeks."

Once the blog is made public, hopefully, the United States Patent and Trademark Office will reach out to its followers via Twitter, as well, @USPTO thanks to the foresight of @jmattbuchanan at Promote the Progress, who continues to hold that username for the USPTO to utilize as soon as the leadership is ready to take full advantage of this new communication channel as has the President and so many other government departments and agencies.

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IP.com Inc.'s Michael Inglisa will be in Chicago for the annual meeting of the Intellectual Property Owners Association.

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO), established in 1972, is a trade association for owners of patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets.

IPO is the only association in the U.S. that serves all intellectual property owners in all industries and all fields of technology. The association advocates effective and affordable IP ownership rights and provides a wide array of services to members. It concentrates on: supporting member interests relating to legislative and international issues; analyzing current IP issues; providing information and educational services; and disseminating information to the general public on the importance of intellectual property rights.

This year's meeting has a great program, announced by IPO President Steven W. Miller of Procter & Gamble,  with Greg Brown, President and Co-CEO of Motorola,Inc., as Monday’s keynote speaker.

Michael Inglisa of IP.com says he's especially interested in the first session.

BUILDING, PROTECTING AND GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR IP PORTFOLIO IN TODAY’S ECONOMIC CLIMATE: A NEW QUALITY-AND-COST PARADIGM

The importance of well-defined processes, sound judgment and senior-level engagement in making the many thousands of individual decisions required to build and maintain valuable portfolios, as well as opportunities to exploit the current economy by finding bargain-priced assets and services, and mistakes to avoid.

Moderator: Casey Hill, Research in Motion, Ltd., Rolling Meadows, IL
John J. Cheek, Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL
Jonathan E. Retsky, Howrey LLP, Chicago, IL
Pradip “Pete” Sahu, USG, Chicago, IL
J. Bruce Schelkopf, Cummins, Inc., Indianapolis, IN

This year, the annual meeting is followed by a special one-day program.

Aligning your PATENT STRATEGY with your GLOBAL CORPORATE BUSINESS PLAN

The address on Wednesday will be given by Manny W. Schecter, IBM Corp., Armonk, NY. Manny W. Schecter is Associate General Counsel and Managing Attorney, Intellectual Property Law, at IBM. A graduate of Cornell University and the George Washington University Law School, Mr. Schecter advises on IBM intellectual property legislation, strategy, and policy and guides IBM’s worldwide intellectual property law organization on all budget, personnel, and management matters. He has been employed by IBM for over 20 years. Mr. Schecter has organized several patent quality initiatives, one of which became the Peer-to-Patent initiative, and he serves on the Steering Committee for Peer-to-Patent. Mr. Schecter recently served on the IPO Patent Quality Metrics Task Force.

For more information, download a pdf of the full conference brochure here.

If you're in Chicago, and want to meet with IP.com, you can reach Michael Inglisa by email to minglisa at ip.com to make arrangements to get together.

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Padmasree Warrior is Cisco Systems' Chief Technology Officer. As CTO, she is responsible for helping drive the company's technological innovations and strategy, and works closely with its senior executive team and board of directors to align these efforts with Cisco's corporate goals. As an evangelist for what's possible, she pushes the organization to stretch beyond its current capabilities – not just in technology, but also in its strategic partnerships and new business models.

We @ipdotcom are among over a million followers of her on Twitter @Padmasree.

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Recently, we added this banner graphic link on the home page of our company website, providing visitors with quicker and easier access to IP Newsflash from IP.com. Great internet real estate, we know. Over 3,000 visitors from www.ip.com and over a thousand more from the landing page of ip.com and our Securing Innovation blog, have checked it out.

See the list of the top 50 links by visitors sent to IP Newsflash.

IP.com's linking to IP Newsflash reflects the value we see in aggregating the latest news and information about intellectual property for our readers, our clients, and ourselves, as IP professionals. We've also added a large vertical banner link in the sidebar of this blog (scroll down) pointing to IP Newsflash, which is a helpful reminder to us and an easy link for our readers to find the latest breaking news about intellectual property...and some handy IP Tools.

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