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16th March BioWorkshop Licensing and Valuation Intensive
Tips and Traps for the Biotechnology ExecutiveEvent Description
| When: |
16th March, 2010 Registration 8.45am. Workshop 9am - 12.30pm. Followed by a light lunch |
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| Where: |
Davies Collison Cave Lvl 15, 1 Nicholson St Melbourne |
| Speakers: |
Mr Rodney DeBoos Dr Graham Mitchell |
| Price: |
$350 - members $800 - non-members |
| RSVP: | Thursday 11th March, 5pm |
About This Event
At what point in your product development strategy should your company decide to license? What makes a profitable and amicable licensing arrangement? What are the pitfalls of licensing? Has the number and value of licensing deals been affected by the GFC?
Mr Rodney De Boos (Partner Davies Collison Cave) and Dr Graham Mitchell (Foursight Associates) have extensive knowledge in this area. At the March BioWorkshop they will give expert advice, practical examples and share their experiences. The half –day workshop will focus on:
• why licensing makes business sense
• what constitutes the necessary homework for the offer of a licence
• what return should you expect from licensing
• And why lawyers agonise over all of those clauses
About the Speakers
Rodney DeBoos spent 13 years with the ICI Australian Group of Companies. He then ran his own commercial law practice for three years before merging his firm to form Davies Collison Cave Solicitors. Rodney's major area of practice is the commercial exploitation of intellectual property rights. His practice includes the negotiation and preparation of commercial agreements, covering the full spectrum of intellectual property rights and transactions and is active in the trade practices area. He provides advice and has acted for both companies and individuals in prosecutions and in applications to the ACCC. Rodney is only one of five Certified Licensing Professionals in Australia.
Graham Mitchell is a veterinary graduate and University gold medallist of the University of Sydney. At The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) he made discoveries in immunology and obtained a PhD in 1969. After post-doctoral experience in California, England and Switzerland, he returned to Australia in 1973 and established a new program on the immunology of parasitism at WEHI.
In 1990 Graham was appointed Director of the prestigious Royal Melbourne Zoological Gardens where he introduced a number of new initiatives in local and regional conservation. In 1993 he returned to biomedical research as Director of Research in the R&D Division of CSL Limited.
Graham is recognised as one of Australia’s leading biological scientists. He is an author of more than 350 publications, has received numerous awards for scientific achievements and, in 1993, was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia for services to science. He is a non-executive director of several companies and has been involved with the World Health Organisation for many years.
Graham is an advisor on innovation to the Victorian Government. In another government role the Principals of Foursight (Mitchell, Nossal, Stocker and Penington) jointly act as Chief Scientist for the Departments of Primary Industries (DPI) and Sustainability and Environment (DSE).
Event Location
Davies Collison Cave
Lvl 15, 1 Nicholson St
Melbourne
