1. LESI Industry, University and Government Transactions Committee
2011 LESI Annual Meeting
London, the UK
June 3-5, 2011
Sun R. Kim

2. Committee Structure CHAIR: Sun R. Kim, Korea VICE CHAIRS:
Thomas Bereuter, Austria
Omer Hiziroglu, Turkey
Gordon Zong, USA/Canada

3. Special Projects in Special Edition les Nouvelles Initiated and organized a special edition of les Nouvelles commemorating the 30th Anniversary of Passage of the Bayh-Dole Act, December, New Initiatives: IP “Theme” Weekends Goal: providing forums for Industry, TLOs and National Research Institutes to facilitate identification and discussion on common issues in informal and interactive settings

4. Special les Nouvelles Issue Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of Passage of the Bayh-Dole Act
A reprint of the December, 2006 article by ex-Senator Birch Bayh: Don’t’ Turn Back the Clock, followed by fourteen(14) articles, three of which were from the US with the remainder from the rest of the world covering legislation inspired by the Act
Upon invitation of IUGT, AUTM (Ashley Stevens) AIPLA (David Kelly) and the Kauffman Foundation (Sandy Miller), contributed to this effort

5. New initiatives: “IP Theme Weekends” First series held in Asia in 2010 under the theme of “So You Have Your IP, Now What?”
“IP Ski Weekend” in Seoul , February 2010
“IP World Expo Weekend” in Shanghai October 2010
“IP Hot Springs Weekend” in Tokyo January 2011 (Rescheduled)

6. IP Ski Weekend Seoul, Korea, February, 2010
22 Participants
Two- Day Program
Program

7. IP World Expo Weekend Shanghai, PR China, October 23, 2010
Program:
Morning Program: Open Conference in Chinese, 90 Participants
Afternoon Session: invited only. “IP Weekend Forum” 70 Participants
Co-Sponsors: Chinese Academy of Sciences, SIBS (Shanghai Institute of Biological Sciences)

21. IP Hot Springs Weekend Tokyo, Japan, January 2011
Program
Sponsors: Tokyo University, UNITT, Okuyama & Sasajima(President of Japanese Patent Attorneys Association), Japanese National Institute of Genetics 

22. Workshops and Presentations
LESI 2010, Sandton : “Creative Financing in Difficult Economic Times”
LES USA-Canada 2010, Chicago: “Emerging Trends in Patent Enforcement: Implications for licensing executives”
Presentations
International Conference on Managing Intellectual Property in Universities, Istanbul, April 14-15, 2011, sponsored by Turkish Patent Office and Bogazici University
IUGT represented by Sun R. Kim and Omer Hiziroglu, Sun gave a presentation on licensing issues and Omer was a session moderator. Together with LES Turkey, IUGT offered LES 100 course, Sun and Omer as instructors

23. OUTLOOK FOR IP “Theme Weekend” Forum: To be extended to European venues 2. Outreach Program New Collaborative Projects with WIPO ICC

24. IP “Theme” Weekends Europe in Under the theme of “University-Industry Collaboration in Transferring Technology into the Marketplaces”
Istanbul , Turkey – “IP Water Ski Weekend” – August, 2011
Sponsors: Microsoft(soft commitment), Bogazici University
Collaboration with local universities and industries
Venue: Bogazici University Summer Retreat Resort
Munich, Germany – “IP Oktoberfest Weekend” – September, 2011
Sponsors: Max Planck Institute/Innovation, ASCENION, Noerr
Speakers from BoA of EPO, Max Planck Innovation, ASCENION
Venue: Max Planck Innovation/ASCENION
Zurich, Switzerland - “IP Ski Weekend” - February, 2012
Venue: ETH

25. Outreach Program: New Collaborative Projects with WIPO and ICC
IUGT – WIPO: “IP Program”: Joint Collaboration Project Innovation and Technology Transfer Section University Initiatives, WIPO
IUGT- ICC: “IP Winter Camp”: Joint Collaboration Project IP Commission, ICC

26. IUGT – WIPO “IP Program” Joint Collaboration Project Innovation and Technology Transfer Section University Initiatives, WIPO (Winter, 2011)
Joint collaboration project with Innovation and Technology Section of University Initiatives
Goal: To provide assistance to WIPO in collaborative efforts to the universities, especially in developing countries, for formulating best practices for commercialization and in developing tools for effective collaboration with industries and turn materials into publication
Launch: Q Full details will follow in due course.

27. IUGT - ICC “IP Spring Camp” Joint Collaboration Project IP Commission of ICC (Spring, 2012)
Joint collaboration project with IP Commission of ICC (Paris)
Goal: “IP Spring Camp ” is a two-day course that aims at providing a comparative practical overview of the IP- related aspects of the legal systems in Europe, Asia and the United States, focusing on the relationship between university and industry in technology transfer scheme. An annual event with ICC
Launch : TBD. Full details will follow in due course.

28. Planned Publications for 2011
Materials from the “IP Theme Weekends” Forum to be put into article form for publication in les Nouvelles in order to share output with LESI General Membership
Organization of special les Nouvelles edition on “IP and Clean Energy Technologies (CETs)”

29. Developing connections with complimentary organizations
Cooperative working relationships with the following Universities and Organizations to support past & future IP Weekends and other IUGT initiatives: - WIPO - ICC - AUTM - UNITT - ASCENION - Max Planck Innovation - Japanese National Institute of Genetics - Chinese Academy of Sciences - Bogazici University - Tokyo University - Cambridge University - Kauffman Foundation - AIPLA

30. LESI Industry, University and Government Transactions Committee
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