Friday, February 6 – Bancroft Hotel
8:15 – 8:45
Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:45 – 8:50
Introduction
Robert Barr: BCLT Executive Director
8:50 – 9:30
Background mp3
Robert Merges: Professor of Law, UC Berkeley pdf
Henry Chesbrough: UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business pdf
9:30 – 10:00
Valuation Methodologies Overview mp3
Vince O’Brien: OSKR LLP pdf
10:00 – 12:15
Valuation Practices ~ Buyers and Sellers
10:00 – 11:15
Aggregators and Brokers Panel mp3
Moderator – Glenn Westreich: Winston & Strawn LLP
Don Merino: Intellectual Ventures LLC
Ron Epstein: IPotential LLC
Dan McCurdy: Allied Security Trust
John Amster: RPX Corp. pdf
Ron Laurie: Inflexion Point Strategy LLC
11:15 – 11:45
Break
11:45 – 12:15
Comps-Data on Patent Sales mp3
Moderator – Robert Barr: BCLT Executive Director
Suzanne Harrison: Gathering2.0 pdf
Lewis Zaretzki: Thinkfire Inc. pdf
12:15 – 1:00
Lunch
1:00 – 2:30
Perspectives from Corporate Counsel mp3
Moderator – Michael Jacobs: Morrison and Foerster LLP
Bill Harmon: Microsoft Corp.
Pete Tennent: IBM Corp. pdf
Doug Luftman: Palm Inc.
Joe Siino: Fmr. Yahoo Inc.
Dan Lang: Cisco Systems, Inc
2:30 – 3:00
Break
3:00 – 4:00
Patent Quality Metrics and Their Relationship to Valuation mp3
Moderator – Fabio Marino: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Andy Gibbs: PatentCafe pdf pdf
Barry Brager: Perception Partners Inc. pdf
Brian Wright: UC Berkeley pdf
Anthony Breitzman: 1790 Analytics pdf
4:00 – 5:15
Portfolio Valuation mp3
Moderator – Bijal Vakil: White & Case LLP
Polk Wagner: University of Pennsylvania Law School pdf
Stuart Graham: Georgia Institute of Technology & BCLT Kauffman Fellow pdf
Robert Goldman: CRA International
Brian Kahin: Computer & Communications Industry Association pdf
Mike Lasinski: Ocean Tomo
5:15 – 7:00
Reception at Bancroft Hotel