Overview:

The LES High Tech Sector has again sponsored an in-depth royalty rate and deal terms survey similar to the highly sought after 2011 survey.  Covering the period from 2011 to 2014 - 1855 surveys were sent out; 94 complete deals were submitted by 53 companies for an overall 5% response rate.  The presenters will give an overview of the results of the survey along with the methodology that was used and discuss any apparent trends in the data.  The complete survey report is slated to be released to LES members in Q1 2015 and will be available for purchase by non-LES members.

Takeways:

1. A better understanding of the types of license transactions that have occurred from 2011-2014
2. Extremely valuable data on deal types, royalty rates, payments, and technologies that comprised the reported deals
3. New to the 2014 survey was the addition of questions pertaining to NPE’s

Speakers Include:

• Bob Held
• Jack Lu
• Joe Daniele