ASTP: Successful Seminar on "Mobilizing Partners in Technology Transfer"

Recently concluded Association of European Science and Technology Transfer Professionals conference "Mobilizing Partners in Technology Transfer" attracts attendees from most of the 35 nations represented by the association's 500 members.

The big names in the conference included Prof. Karen Hersey, Visiting Professor at Pierce Law, and former Counsel for Intellectual Property at MIT, and Morag McDonald, partner at Bird & Bird in the United Kingdom. Who opened the conference with the "General Principles," setting the framework for the two-day course and articulating the general principles of licensing, as well as the overall structures of a license.  They followed that session with "Moving Research to Commercialization through Industry Collaboration," "Pitfalls in Licensing," and "Good Management through Enforceable Royalty Obligations."

The details of the "Mobilizing Partners in Technology Transfer" Annual Seminar 2008 are available here.