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ipVA is pleased to welcome Martin Howard to the ipVA team as an IP licensing strategy consultant with specialist experience in building international licensing businesses.

ipVA is pleased to welcome Martin Howard to the ipVA team as an IP licensing strategy consultant with specialist experience in building international licensing businesses. Martin comes to ipVA with many years experience in technology commercialisation, licensing and IP management, much of which was gained in senior management positions at BP. He held several board positions within BP and was heavily involved in global technology research and development, licensing, process definition, project management, and commissioning of facilities with capital costs up to $500 million.

Martin's full profile can be found on his team page on the ipVA website.

ipVA provides IP strategy services and products that help businesses and investors better understand and manage IP. For more, see the rest of our site and get in contact.

Andrew Watson of ipVA will be speaking at The Global IP Exchange™ on  how and why those in charge of IP at companies will need to be able to answer the tough questions on IP.

Andrew Watson, ipVA's co-founder and CEO, will be speaking in March 2010 at  The Global IP Exchange™ in Munich on the evolution of Intellectual Property and its growing relevance for investors, analysts and across all parts of businesses large and small. Andrew will be addressing how and why those in charge of IP at companies will need to be able to answer:

• What makes your business special?
• What makes your business sustainable in the future?
• How well does your business manage its IP and intangibles? and
• How does your IP and management compare, both to the standard for good IP behaviours, and to your competition? 

The Global IP Exchange has been designed to provide Europe’s Senior IP Counsel with a high-value and commercially focussed event on IP . Unlike typical conferences, the Exchange focuses on networking, strategic conference sessions and one-on-one meetings with service providers. The European Global IP Exchange event follows on from numerous successful versions of the conference in the United States, where it has been well received by IP counsel at many of the world's leading companies.

Speakers at the March event include Senior IP Counsel from KPN Royal, Tandberg TV, Ericsson, Pfizer, Nestle, Gemalto, Qualcomm, Coca Cola, eBay and UBS. The event takes place at the Westin Grand Munich on 14-16 March.

To request your complimentary invitation please contact: exchangeinfo@iqpc.com or call +44 (0) 207 368 9340 and mention ipVA.

ipVA provides IP strategy services and products that help businesses and investors better understand and manage IP. For more, see the rest of our site and get in contact.

Patentopolis, the leading provider of Intellectual Property training, has now been added as a partner to ipVA on our website.

Patentopolis, the leading provider of Intellectual Property training, has now been added as a partner to ipVA on our website. Patentopolis is based on the work of Dr Arnaud Gasnier, author of The Patenting Paradox, a European Patent Attorney and an Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology, and involves a fun and engaging game on the whole area of intellectual property. The Patentopolis game has been used by, among others, Dow Corning, Shell, and Deutsche Post to train staff in the strategic use of IP, for team building, and for IP strategy planning.

ipVA welcomes Patentopolis and looks forward to working with them to bring the best in IP tools and training to our clients.

ipVA provides IP strategy services and products that help businesses and investors better understand and manage IP. For more, see the rest of our site and get in contact.

Dr. Mike Barlow,  former Head of BP International’s Global Patents and Technology Law group and an ipVA consultant, was awarded on OBE for his services to intellectual property.

Dr. Mike Barlow,  former Head of BP International’s Global Patents and Technology Law group and an ipVA consultant, was awarded on OBE for his services to intellectual property.

Of Mike's many achievements, he led BP’s patenting activity and the IP due diligence and contract negotiations around all of its significant commercial transactions for over 13 years, including the mergers or acquisitions of Amoco, Arco, Burmah Castrol and Veba Oil and the divestiture of BP’s $8bn commodity petrochemicals business to Ineos.  He is a past President of the IP Federation (the UK’s principal Industry IP body) and is currently a Vice President and Chair of its Patents Committee.  Until recently he was Chair of the European Chemical Industry’s IP Task Force and a Council member of The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys in the UK.  Mike was a co-author of the 2003 Royal Society study on the effect of IP on science and continues to advise the UK government on patent policy both nationally and internationally. ipVA congratulates Mike on this significant achievement and wishes him the best in 2010.

Mike's works with ipVA as a consultant and specialises in IP strategy and IP due diliigence, primarily in the areas of chemical, clean energy, and oil and gas exploration, production, and refining industries.

ipVA provides IP strategy services and products that help businesses and investors better understand and manage IP. For more, see the rest of our site and get in contact.