About the Course:

This course provides a rare opportunity to listen to a senior executive at a Fortune 50 Company discuss his methodology for conducting patent triage. Listen to Dr. Wright discuss how he determines which of General Electric's some 18,000 patents should be used to assert against infringers.

The following are among the issues discussed during this informative webinar:

• What are some difficulties with detecting infringement?
• Under what circumstances is it easier to detect infringement?
• To what extent are algorithms preferable to human eyes when conducting patent triage?
• How can you identify the most appropriate subject matter expert to provide insight relative to the subject patent portfolio?
• To what extent should you use "knock-out" factors when reviewing large patent portfolios?
• Where in an infringer's value chain should assertion be directed?
• What costs--aside from paying Patent Offices maintenance fees--are associated with maintaining a patent portfolio?
• Which corporate division should be charged with patent maintenance costs?
• What are some common grading schemes to use in patent triage?
• Why is it important to develop technical maps?

Course Leader: Dr. John (Monty) Wright, Vice-President - IP Assets, General Electric

Dr. John (Monty) Wright is Vice President, IP Assets, in General Electric's Patent Licensing group within GE's Licensing business. In that role, he is responsible for the inception of new patent licensing programs, patent valuation and analytic support of assertion, technology transfer, and acquisition opportunities. The IP Assets team feeds patent intelligence organized by portfolios and target value chains into the early phases of the Patent Licensing Program Development Process, then supports those nascent programs as they mature in the hands of teams developing technical mapping and ultimately to legal teams for assertion program execution.

Prior to joining GE, Monty was the founding Manager of the Eastman Kodak Intellectual Property Strategy Office and then private practice as an IP consultant to Fortune 500 companies. Prior to his IAM assignment at Kodak, Monty held a variety of R&D and management roles, including managing research programs for the consumer imaging business. He has command and staff experience in the U.S. Army at echelons from company to corps. Monty holds a MS in Information Systems Management from USC and has a PhD in Computational Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin.

Course Length: Approx. 1.0 hours

$175.00 PER USER

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