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In this Issue

	LES NewsXchange
	Britain's Best known Inventor - Wallace - helps to crack the IP Knowledge Gap
	President's Diary
	Just Reward
	Business Development After The Dust Settles...
	LES Membership- one of the essentials for IP professionals in today's competitive economy!
	News from the Regions
	LES B&I Conference, Leeds
	Event Diary 2009

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LES NewsXchange

The Newsletter of the Licensing Executives Society  Britain and Ireland

Issue 126 May 2009

Britain's Best known Inventor - Wallace - helps to crack the IP Knowledge Gap

One of the best sights in the IP world in recent years was the opening of the new IPO-sponsored Wallace and Gromit "World of Cracking Ideas" exhibition at the Science Museum on 26 March.

Elizabeth McNabb, Highbury Ltd (with the help of the IPO)      

Photograph by Justin Sutcliffe                    

President's Diary

My recent reports have focused on reporting the activities, past and future, of your society. This month I intend to adopt a different approach...

Nigel Jones, LES B & I President

Just Reward

In an unprecedented move, two employee inventors who helped invent patents that were used in a highly successful radioactive imaging agent have been awarded £1.5m under section 40 of the Patents Act 1977 (the "Act"). Kelly Chiu v GE Healthcare Ltd.

Alice Proby, Charles Russell

Business Development After The Dust Settles...

During the last decade business growth across all sectors has been unprecedented. After the 2001 tech crash (the "Dot Bomb"), confidence resumed and appetite for leveraged debt fulled tremendous growth in consumer spending, the housing market explosion and the companies that served them in consumer electronics, retail, finance and automotive industries to name but a few. As we endure recession following the "Debt Bomb", it is clear these excesses were built on less than solid commercial foundations.

 Jon Calvert, ClearViewIP Ltd

LES Membership- one of the essentials for IP professionals in today's competitive economy!

The benefits of LES membership

It could be argued that ignoring the current and future value of a Licensing Executives Society membership and tossing your membership to the wind would be short-sighted just as the world economy was wrestling with falling profits, collapsing banks, rising unemployment and the fical conundrum that is quantitative easing.

Stephen Robertson, LES Scotland Committee Member                              Metis Partners Ltd

News from the Regions

LES B&I Scotland Branch- Burns' Supper 2009 Meeting Report.

Caroline Sincock, Chair- LES Scottish Branch

LES B&I Conference, Leeds

24th & 25th June 2009                               Weetwood Hall, Otley Road                        Leeds, LS16 5PS

In these uncertain times it is essential that our members maximise the potential of IP, retain and increase their negotiating skills and their ability to manage risk whilst maximising the return.

Event Diary 2009

Forthcoming LES events in 2009.