The birthplace of innovation, Boston, is the site for the 2018 Licensing Executives Society meeting.

The opening session, “Advancing Innovation Through a Renewal of Trust,” will feature Andrei Iancu, USPTO Director, Bill Elkington, Senior Director – IP Management, Rockwell Collins and Walter Copan, National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) Director and Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology.

Other sessions include:

• Funding Startups – The Boston Perspective
• Increasing ROI for Government-Funded Research
• Advanced Telecommunications Licensing, 4G, 5G and LTE for Automobiles
• US or Them – Who is Going to Set Standards for Licensing
• Patenting Machine Learning
• 2018 Tax Consequences: Coordination of IP Monetization and Tax Planning
• Life Sciences Partnering Performance and Reputation Survey Results
• Maximizing IP Value and Minimizing Risk in M&A Transactions

For the full 2018 LES annual meeting agenda, go here. For the speaker biographies, please visit http://www.lesmeetings.org/am18/speakers/

To register, go here.

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