Whatever your business, there is a good chance that your intellectual property may be an untapped source of revenue. Our panel of intellectual property thought leaders will share their diverse perspectives and experiences on how to leverage your ideas and products through licensing. They will address issues such as how to:

• Identify intellectual property that would be of value to another business, without giving away trade secrets
• Define the target market of a licensing deal and locate potential customers
• Avoid pitfalls when structuring a licensing deal

Significant time will be dedicated to discussing audience questions.

Moderator
Hollie Baker, Vice Chair, Intellectual Property Department, Hale and Dorr LLP
Hollie Baker counsels clients on patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, and unfair competition law, with a specialized focus on patent, licensing, and litigation matters relating to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry. Ms. Baker has written several articles on biotechnology patent practice and licensing that have been published in professional journals.

Panelists
Marina Hatsopolous, Co-Founder and CEO of Z Corporation
Marina Hatsopoulos negotiated the license to MIT's 3D Printing technology and co-founded Z Corporation in 1994. Z Corporation sells 3D Printers that make physical, three-dimensional models directly from a computer design file. The Company had revenues of $11.3 million in 2001. Z Corporation was first place winner of the elite "New England Technology Fast 50" for 2001, a ranking of the 50 fastest-growing technology companies in the region, and she was honored with Mass. High Tech's All-Star Award for Hardware in 2001.

Evan Kaplan
Evan Kaplan has representing various technology, manufacturing, educational and publishing companies for more than a decade, including most recently the Princeton University Press and Harcourt's educational, scientific, medical, and trade publishing divisions. Evan is the former Chairperson of the Association of American Publisher's Copyright Education Committee and was a recent guest panelist at the National Association of College and University Attorneys' Convention. In addition to his intellectual property background, Evan has a broad range of corporate, licensing and transactional experience, including 5 years of in-house work for Raytheon Company. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Brandeis University and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law.

David P. Bernstein, President & CEO, Trexel, Inc.
David Bernstein has been President & CEO of Trexel since late 1995, where he has led the development and global commercialization of the MuCell Microcellular Foam Process within the worldwide plastics industry. Prior to that he was a Vice President of Teradyne, Inc., the world's leading semiconductor test equipment company and a Vice President of Thermedics Detection, a supplier of trace level inspection systems to the international bottling industry. Mr. Bernstein specializes in the marketing and implementation of new industrial technologies. He holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School, and is a lifelong resident of Boston, MA.

TCI Members and Guests: complimentary

Sponsored by Hale and Dorr LLP and Deloitte & Touche LLP