IP Valuation for Licensing

 

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IP Valuation for Licensing 27th November 2023, 11:00GMT Licensing is crucial to intellectual property commercialization and effective licensing programs can underpin corporate success. IP valuation is an essential tool for developing effective licensing strategies, providing an empirical basis from which decision-makers can chart the right course. In this panel, we discuss how IP valuation can be best tailored to, and utilized in, licensing strategies. Our excellent panel share decades of experience and bridge industry, law, and economics to bring a unique and invaluable perspective to this discussion.

 

About the Speakers

 

Mitsuaki Matsumura, Head of IP Licensing, APAC and EMEA at IBM Mitsuaki Matsumura is Head of IP Licensing for APAC & EMEA at IBM. He leads the team of professionals that handle all IBM’s patent licensing and assignment opportunities in APAC and EMEA. Prior to joining IBM, Dr. Matsumura worked as a Senior Counsel at NTT DOCOMO, where he was in charge of SEP licensing, technology alliances, and cross border M&As. He holds a PhD (Kyoto University) in law and an LL.M. in Law, Science, and Technology from Stanford University.

 

Greg Novak, Partner at Novak Druce Caroll LLP Greg Novak is a partner at Novak Druce Carroll, where he counsels a number of publicly traded global corporations on intellectual property matters. Greg has acted as lead counsel for both plaintiffs and defendants in more than 60 intellectual property cases, and has advised in more than 300 post-grant proceedings. Greg obtained his MBA from the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, where he also co-founded the Centre for Professional Service Firms.

 

Anri Nakamoto, Senior Associate, Orrick Anri Nakamoto is a senior associate at Orrick, based in the Tokyo office. Anri’s practice focusses on representing clients in patent litigation, trade secret litigation and other intellectual property disputes as well as licensing matters. Prior to joining Orrick, Anri worked for more than a decade at Hitachi Ltd., Panasonic Corporation and IP Bridge, Inc.

 

Dr. Roya Ghafele, Managing Director at OxFirst Dr. Roya Ghafele is the founder and Managing Director of OxFirst, an award-winning law and economics consultancy. Much of its work is with tech companies as well as advising on public policymaking in the area of technology transfer. Dr. Ghafele is a visiting Professor at Brunel University, London as well as being an accredited expert witness to courts in England and Wales. Prior to founding OxFirst, Dr. Ghafele held an Assistant Professorship with the University of Edinburgh, a Departmental Lectureship with Oxford University and a Research Fellowship with the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley. She also worked for the OECD and WIPO as an economist. IP Valuation for Licensing - OxFirst