Women in Licensing Upcoming Event

The inaugural Women in Licensing ("WiL") Reception held in May was a huge success with more than 70 attendees. Due to the positive response to that event, the WiL Committee of the Licensing Executives Society ("LES") has put together another reception, this time in San Francisco especially for those who missed the first reception. Come and take advantage of the opportunity to network with other women and men who are involved in every aspect of technology transfer and from all disciplines - R&D, legal, licensing, consulting and business development, and learn more about WiL's goals in education, mentoring and networking. If you attended the May event and liked it, please let your colleagues know about this upcoming event. This reception will feature two more keynote speakers who will share their experiences of how they became involved in licensing:

Hear from two keynote speakers who will share their experiences of how they became involved in licensing:

Beth Roemer
VP & General Counsel, Magma Design Automation
Beth Roemer has served as the Vice President and General Counsel of Magma Design Automation, Inc. ("Magma") since July 1999. Magma is a publicly held company engaged in developing and distributing software used to design computer chips. From January 1998 to July 1999, Ms. Roemer was Vice President and General Counsel at SmartForce, a public company engaged in developing and distributing interactive educational software. From 1984 to January 1998, Ms. Roemer held various legal positions at Pacific Telesis Group (PacTel), most recently as Senior Counsel and Assistant Secretary to the Board. Prior to 1984, Ms. Roemer was an associate at Shartsis, Friese & Ginsburg in San Francisco. Ms. Roemer received a bachelor's degree from Indiana University, a masters' degree from Princeton University, and a juris doctorate from Stanford University.

Katharine Ku Director
Stanford Office of Technology Licensing
Katharine Ku is Director of the Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) at Stanford University. In fiscal year 2002-2003, OTL received $45 Million from the licensing of over 440 different technologies. Prior to 1991, Ku was Vice President, Business Development at Protein Design Labs, Inc. Prior to PDL, Ku spent 12 years at Stanford in various positions and was a researcher at Monsanto and Sigma Chemical. Ku has been active in the Licensing Executive Society (LES), serving as Vice President, Western Region and Trustee of LES and various committee chairs. She also has served as President of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) from 1988-90 and received the AUTM 2001 Bayh-Dole Award for her efforts in university licensing. Kathy has a B.S. in Chem. Eng. from Cornell University, an M.S. in Chem. Eng. from Washington University and is a registered patent agent.

Sponsored by:
Townsend and Townsend and Crew

Date/Time:
July 22, 2004 (Thursday)
5:00 - 7:00 pm

Location:
Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP
Two Embarcadero Center
Eighth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111-3834
(415) 576-0200

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There is no cost to attend this event. Because space is limited, please RSVP early (by July 15) as this event was sold out last time. We look forward to seeing you!

Note: If you cannot attend but would like to be notified of future events of Women in Licensing in Northern California, please contact Wendy Lim at wlim@townsend.com or Mona Sabet at msabet@cadence.com.