Sponsors & Exhibitors

LES 2016 Annual Meeting Sponsors

The Licensing Executives Society (U.S.A. and Canada), Inc. would like to thank the following sponsors for their generous support of the 2016 LES (U.S.A. and Canada) Annual Meeting.

LES is still accepting sponsors for the Annual Meeting. If your organization is interested in reaching an engaged group of cross-industry IP, licensing, and business development professionals, please contact us at sponsors@les.org.

To view the Sponsorship Prospectus, click HERE.

Hogan Lovells is a global legal practice that helps corporations, financial institutions, and governmental entities across the spectrum of their critical business and legal issues globally and locally. We have over 2,500 lawyers operating out of more than 45 offices in the United States, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Australia.

Intellectual property is changing as IP has become central to business decisions across companies large and small, influencing Product, Marketing, M&A, in addition to Legal strategies. Innography, a CPA Global company, provides IP professionals quick access to insights to questions from across organizations. Innography’s industry-leading quality of cleansed and correlated data and proprietary analytics are the foundation for intuitive, interactive visualizations. Our offerings and client-centric support has led to fast growth and 97% satisfaction rating from our client base of leaders in various categories.

Merck has a strong history of success in translating cutting-edge research into life-saving medical breakthroughs. We’re pursuing some of the most innovative areas in biomedical research emerging today in order to drive great science forward without regard to therapeutic area or modality. Merck has hundreds of successful collaborations. Let’s talk. Learn more at merck.com/licensing.

Finnegan is one of the largest IP law firms in the world. From offices in Atlanta, Boston, London, Palo Alto, Reston, Seoul, Shanghai, Taipei, Tokyo, and Washington, DC, the firm practices all aspects of patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret law, including counseling, prosecution, licensing, and litigation. Finnegan also represents clients on IP issues related to European patents and trademarks, international trade, portfolio management, the Internet, e-commerce, government contracts, antitrust, and unfair competition. For additional information on the firm, please visit www.finnegan.com.

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Microsoft is the leading platform and productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft is a top investor in innovation worldwide. Our patents, copyrights, and trademarks result from our investments in developing innovative software, devices and services that help over a billion people and businesses fulfill their potential. Microsoft’s portfolio of nearly 60,000 patents is consistently rated at the top of the industry.