Licensing Executives (USA & Canada) Meetup
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!



