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"Supercharging Licensing with Structured AI"

“What happens when marketing cannot deliver your invention summary in time? What if AI could help you generate high-quality licensing materials in hours instead of weeks?

This interactive workshop demonstrates how to implement AI in real tech transfer workflows using structured prompting, CustomGPTs, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). Rather than focusing on theory, the session walks through a realistic scenario in which a TTO must rapidly produce a marketing document from technical source material. Participants will see how AI tools can be used step by step to move from patent or disclosure to polished marketing content.

The workshop introduces a repeatable prompting framework that separates four components: request, layout, restrictions, and content. Attendees will learn how this structure improves output quality and consistency. Live-style demonstrations will show how to:

• Analyze patents and extract commercially relevant insights
• Convert technical disclosures into persuasive marketing summaries
• Identify target industries and market segments
• Use persona-based prompting to refine value propositions
• Build and deploy CustomGPTs for recurring tech transfer tasks
• Apply RAG to ground outputs in curated knowledge sources
• The session also emphasizes human oversight and iterative refinement to improve reliability and reduce risk.

Participants will leave with practical workflows, prompt templates, and implementation strategies that can be immediately applied within their own tech transfer offices to accelerate commercialization efforts.

"Keeping It Classy with Derivatives: Navigating Digital Outputs, AI, and Evolving IP Boundaries"

This workshop is designed to be a practice-oriented conversation among academic licensors, corporate and IP counsel, and capacity builders. Speakers will explore when digital work outputs should be treated a derivative works, including research results involving software code, original/combined data, and models – generally excluding media and entertainment. Polling, role-play, and individual table discussions will involve: how far do traditional derivative work doctrines reach across intellectual property classes; whether and when AI-assisted outputs should themselves be characterized as derivative works; are derivative work doctrines changing or could change in the era of human instructed, arranged, and/or modified outputs; examples of business terms that embrace/avoid derivative work classifications for both the model (including architecture plus learned weights/parameters) and model outputs; present and probe on the most relevant case law and policy developments for licensing factors/decisions; key differences of interest among US and non-US jurisdictions; and surface any patterns and considerations to future-proof your agreements current and upcoming.

"IP Valuation Year in Review: IP Transactions, M&A, Startup, and More"

This workshop provides an update on IP valuation in various areas during the past year, including IP transactions, court- or jury-awarded damages, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), startup funding, and other IP-intensive or IP-oriented transactions such as litigation financing, distress assets investments, and private equity investments. The expert speakers on this workshop, including economists, litigators, financial analysts, and an AI technologist, are from the areas of IP portfolio management, IP valuation, IP transactions, IP damages and AI technology.

The speakers will present the market transaction data from the relevant market segments, demonstrate the trends in IP valuation, usage of AI in IP valuation and patent transactions and presents their forecasts based on the market dynamics revealed by the data. Some of the key issues that the workshop will address include:

• IP valuation metrics and trends in the past year.
• Market transaction dynamics: IP-backed funding and M&A deals
• What’s hot: technology industry trends to watch
• How is AI helping to identify and expedite IP transactions.
• Some insights and tips in IP valuation and pricing for IP professionals.

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