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Saturday
January 12, 2008
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"You’re
an Engineer So What is Your Intellect Worth?" |
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DON DRINKWATER
Mr. Drinkwater has contributed to the Consumer, Computer and
Networking industry for over twenty years. He has held principal
engineering and senior management level positions including
group manager of Digital Equipment Corporation's and Compaq
Computer Corporation's Corporate Licensing Office. Don worked
with clients to improve intellectual asset utilization while
at Standard and Poors and PricewaterhouseCoopers and served
as director of licensing for 3Com Corporation.
Mr. Drinkwater has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell,
a Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, and a Master of Business Administration
from Clark University. Don is a member of Eta Kappa Nu (the
honor society of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical
Engineers ("IEEE") and won the Haskell Memorial Award for distinguished
teaching at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. Mr. Drinkwater
holds seven patents.
Mr. Drinkwater has published articles in les Nouvelles (the
Journal of the Licensing Executive Society, "LES") and IEEE
publications. He is a member of the IEEE, LES, and spent fifteen
years serving as an adjunct faculty member at the University
of Massachusetts at Lowell. |
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"Commercializing Intellectual Property"
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Joseph
J Cote, Jr. DBA
Cote Associates c/o Product Genesis
Suite 1125
One Canal Park
Cambridge, MA 02141
(Office) 617 335 5310
(Cell) 978 807 9280
(Home) 617 337 5005
cotejoe@comcast.net
Joe has been working in the area of Intellectual Property strategy
and commercialization for 20 years. He ran licensing operations
for GTE Laboratories in Waltham, MA and Rockwell Scientific
in Thousand Oaks, CA. For both of the organizations, Joe took
over failing licensing activities and succeeded in turning them
into profitable operations. His specialty has been to quickly
identify and develop the Intellectual Property strategy of an
organization and bring it into alignment with the overall Business
Strategy of the company. In this capacity Joe has developed
skills in identifying valuable IP, developing a preferred commercialization
strategy for that technology (licensing, spinout, joint venture,
outright sale or startup), executing the agreed upon strategy
and monitoring the technologies product development and introduction.
In addition to running licensing operations for R&D centers,
Joe was one of the founders of IPValue Management Inc., an IP
commercialization consulting firm. He also worked for Arthur
D. Little Enterprises, as the Vice President of IP Commercialization
and Marketing. Prior to entering the field of IP, Joe held various
financial, management and consulting positions for companies
such as KPMG, Siemens and AETNA Telecommunications Laboratories.
Joe's educational background includes a SM in Management Science
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BS from
the US Naval Academy. He is a frequent speaker on Intellectual
Property strategy and commercialization, Corporate Venturing
and Orphan Technologies. |
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"What is IP Licensing and Why is it Relevant to Engineers?"
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Don
Jarrell
Don Jarrelis the founder and President of Austin-based Digital
Thinking Inc. which he started in 1996. With over 25 years of
experience in a variety of technical, marketing, and management
positions, Don consults on a variety of topics in licensing
and "full spectrum" IP management, product management, and business-technology
strategy.
Don defined and led major business changes at Alcatel, Nortel,
The Equitable, Qwest Communications, and others. His past work
includes monetizing software lines of business, improving license-based
relationships, optimizing business process infrastructure for
emerging, growing and transitioning companies, and creating
software and service business models.
He is currently Chair of the High Technology Sector of the Licensing
Executive Society, where he has been organizing programming
on Open Source issues and patent issues for several years, and
an member of IEEE-CS, and the Austin Technology Council. |
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