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Service providers at the Global IP Exchange 2010 ™ are selected based on the requirements and interests of IP professionals. The following service provider categories are being sought for this Exchange for business meetings with our delegates

Service Provider Categories

Law Firms, Consultants, Technology Companies and Experts specialising in:

Patents Literature & Prior Art Search Patent Litigation Patent Portfolio Management Patent Prosecution and Applications Patent Renewal and Analytics IP Business Services Competitive Research and Analysis Document/Records Management IP Audit Services IP Expert Services IP Insurance Services IP Management Consultants and Services IP Contracts & Agreements Language Translation Services Legal Process Outsourcing Mergers and Acquisitions Advisors Staffing and Recruitment

IP Licensing Escrow Agents License Valuation Services Licensing and IP Transactions Transactional Counseling Trademarks Anti-counterfeiting & Antidiversion Systems Domain Name Registration and Protection Trademark Clearance and Registration Trademark Litigation Trademark Portfolio Management Trade Secrets Data Security and Privacy Employment Law Specialists

For more information on how you can participate as a Service Provider at the Global IP Exchange™, please call +44 207 368 9709

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Service Providers participating at the Global IP Exchange™ 2010 include:

Acumass
Website: www.acumass.com

Since 1981, Acumass assists IP law firms and industrial companies with the payment of patent annuities and trademark renewals all over the world. Thanks to a state of the art management system, Acumass also offers customized outsourcing solutions for clients who no longer wish to manage their own renewals. In addition, a full software suite called LOLA has been designed and developed for IP law firms to manage all aspects of Industrial Property rights.

The Biodroid Entertainment Group
Website: www.biodroid-entertainment.com

The Biodroid Entertainment Group is a Lisbon, Portugal based media entertainment group founded in 2007. Biodroid's main focus is to license and develop global intellectual property (IP) based products. Biodroid brings together a group of professionals with telecommunications, television, film animation and game development backgrounds as well as strong management and marketing skills.

We aim to maximize IP value through the adaptation of the key aspects that have made an IP successful across formats and platforms. We license global IP (films, TV series, comic books) and produce high content videogames. We are committed to adding value to global brands as well as understanding and entering emerging markets.

B Matanga
Website: www.brematip.com
Email: info@brenmatip.com

B Matanga IP Attorneys is a commercial practice situated in Harare, Zimbabwe's capital city. Strategically housed in close proximity to the headquarters of African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) and centrally located to all key institutions and government agencies. Our focus is to cater for clients with business interests in the African region, particularly in Southern Africa, who require having their commercial transactions taken care of, their intellectual property registered, managed, protected and enforced. We also provide the appropriate representation, advice and assistance in all matters legal and quasi legal. Our commitment is to ensure that all our client's needs are solved expertly, efficiently, and expediently. We are defined by our astuteness and professionalism.

Ours is an energetic team of competent and dynamic attorneys with strong academic backgrounds from the world's most prominent tertiary institutions and with a huge wealth of experience in the various specialist areas of the law.

Our clients include a number of starts up firms, prominent and listed manufacturing, financial and telecommunications companies, government institutions and non governmental organizations. We are a firm that has an international outlook so we seek to establish synergies with firms in various parts of the word in order to cater for our clients with a global presence thereby providing globally applicable solutions to our clients. Not only do we solve legal problems, we seek to develop effective strategies that enhance our clients' competitive edge on the market. We think of the future, build potential and strive for long lasting relationships.

Cambra La Duke & Co.
Website: www.cambraladuke.com

Cambra La Duke & Co is a Boutique Law Firm that presents itself as an alternative to the individual or company looking for personalized and professional service, but more importantly, in effective and quick Solutions to its legal problems.

Our 10 years in business and continuous expansion are clear result of our commitment to provide legal services of excellent quality, professionalism, competitive and honest professional fees.

One of our core philosophies is the open communication with our clients. We guarantee that all the communications via fax or e-mail will be answered within the same workday, but never after 24 hours.

It is notable to highlight that Cambra La Duke & CO. is a member of important international and local organizations such as the International Tax Planning Association (ITPA), International Bar Association (IBA), Asociación Europea de Abogados (AEA), AFFILICA, International Trademark Association (INTA) and the National Bar Association of Panama. In addition, the Firm has concluded affiliation and collaboration agreements with Law Firms and Service Providers in a multitude of jurisdictions, thus we have access to an enormous network of contacts that without is truly international.

In this sense, Cambra La Duke & Co. is in clear position to successfully assist its local and international clients in any of the areas of practice of the Firm.

DataCert Europe Ltd.
Website: www.datacerteurope.com

DataCert is the premier global provider of legal operations management solutions, including e-billing and legal spend and IP and matter management software and services. Our solutions include robust electronic invoicing workflow, industry-leading business intelligence, advanced collaboration, and an unmatched automated audit & compliance engine to enable corporate legal departments to strategically manage their case load and relationships with outside counsel. DataCert has the globalization expertise and tools needed to enable legal departments to achieve compliance with the tax and privacy requirements of diverse global jurisdictions. We provide our clients' law firms and vendors with extensive support during and after the onboarding process, ensuring they are not burdened with the task of supporting their vast vendor networks. Throughout the life of the project, DataCert provides strategic guidance, utilizing dozens of best practice templates, developed from experience with over 140 implementations in some of the most demanding and complex legal departments in the world, helping ensure the project's success. DataCert Europe is the only company of its kind wholly based and operated in the EU, giving our customers the local resources they need for a smooth implementation of a legal operations management system. We have staff and offices in London, Paris, Frankfurt, and Zurich. EU Headquarters in London: +44 207 849 3033

Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge
Website: www.eapdlaw.com

Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge is an international law firm with more than 500 lawyers across 13 offices in the United States and the United Kingdom, with an associated office in Hong Kong. We offer a full array of legal services to clients worldwide. Our mission is to create value by providing superior legal advice and business counsel that protects our clients' interests and advances their goals.

Our firm has aligned its core areas of practice to meet clients' legal and business objectives. Our attorneys practice in the following core departments: Business Law, Insurance & Reinsurance, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Private Client, Public Finance, Public Policy & Government Relations, Real Estate, Restructuring & Insolvency and Tax, Benefits & Compensation.

Harrison Goddard Foote
Website: www.hgf.com

HGF Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys and HGF Law together form one of the fastest growing, full-service IP firms in the UK. HGF was launched with a single attorney in 1995, but now boasts more than 50 qualified attorneys and solicitors, and a total staff in excess of 120 across 9 offices.

This makes HGF one of the top ten patent firms in the UK. This growth has been achieved through a combination of organic growth and the strategic recruitment of highly skilled private practice and in-house counsel.

The firm's professionals are distributed throughout its nine UK offices in Leeds, London, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, Rugby and York.

HGF provides the full range of services expected from a leading patent and trade mark firm, including the procurement of patent, trade mark and design protection, as well as due diligence, IP strategy, drafting agreements and licences and handling contentious IP matters.

HGF has a reputation for providing a proactive, responsive and friendly service to its clients. HGF prides itself in offering an exceptional level of service to its clients and on its dynamic and commercially focussed approach to IP together with the technical expertise and experience of its professional staff, has enabled the profile and reputation of the firm to grow. The firm is recommended by the independent legal directories Chambers UK and The Legal 500, year on year and has achieved listings in the MIP world reputations survey for 2010.

In order to ensure the clients are working with specialists the firm has established strategic business units which have become centres of excellence offering breadth and depth in the core technology areas of:

• Chemistry
• Electronics, Computing and Software
• Engineering
• Life Sciences
• Pharmaceuticals
• Nanotechnology
• Trade Marks

HLBB Shaw
Website: www.hlbbshaw.com

Overview
Uniquely organised IP Practice with corporate structure, culture and management. Managed change since 2006 delivered transformation from partnership model to broader outwardly-facing ethos. HLBBshaw's world class professional reputation, especially in contentious areas such as EPO Oppositions, is now combined with industry-leading service standards guaranteed by culture, structure and process.

Culture, Leadership and Mission
Leadership-based, corporate culture with formal line management of "global" teams across five sites. Strong values-driven leadership in a developing empower-and-entrust context. Formal business strategy founded on market intelligence, relationship power, innovation-based change, steadfast self-assurance in our vision.

People
80 people with near-unique 2:1 support:attorney ratio. Committed to people development, the workforce operates under continual personal development conditions including SMART objectives. Our professionals receive rounded business training and at junior level benefit from structured professional education delivered by an in-house dedicated IP trainer. People in support roles have access to training and education and generally excel.

Professional Service Groups
Patent attorneys populate five Professional Service Groups defined on technology lines; trade mark attorneys form separate Group. Each "PSG" managed by a lead attorney reporting to CEO. Long-standing association with landmark and high value cases plus vibrant SME practice. Internal CPD system almost twice as onerous as profession's mandatory system and predates it. Active recruitment policy maintained in 2009.

Client Feedback
Written references available. We actively seek client feedback via both open and confidential routes using approaches which minimise client time commitment. Our on-line feedback questionnaire based on professional research seeks an answer to a single question. Our average 2009/10 feedback score to date is 8.8 / 10.

Innography
Website: www.innography.com

Innography® delivers a Web-based, intellectual property business intelligence application that enables companies to better manage, protect and exploit their patent portfolios. By uniquely correlating patent data with financial, litigation and other key business information, Innography instantly generates visual insights so users can rapidly access and apply meaningful results when engaged in patent licensing, market analysis, competitive intelligence, invalidation, due diligence, freedom to operate and other IP-related activities. To learn more or to request a product discovery session, visit www.innography.com or call 1.512.306.8688.

Intellectual Ventures
Website: www.intellectualventures.com

Intellectual Ventures is a leader in the business of invention. We believe invention sparks progress and we're committed to creating and sustaining a market for invention. Our goal is to be the leading invention partner for the world's most innovative companies, by developing and supplying valuable inventions to them through a variety of licensing and partnering programs. Intellectual Ventures has more than $5B and 30,000 patents under management. We are headquartered in Bellevue, WA with offices around the world, including: Silicon Valley, Austin, Tokyo, Beijing, Singapore, Seoul, and Bangalore.

Ipendo
Website: www.ipendo.com

IPENDO is the number one provider of on-demand IP management solutions to companies of all sizes. The Ipendo Platform™ is built on the latest technology to bring out hidden values in your company's IP by allowing automation of administrative tasks and sharing of crucial information with relevant parties. A typical IPENDO client is able to cut down administrative portfolio costs by around 20-30% on an annual basis.

Being a fully web-based platform, Ipendo Platform™ utilizes the power of Internet connectivity. No other IP management solution on the market can compare to the collaboration power of the Ipendo Platform™. Thousands of users within IP departments, R&D, Legal and Management along with attorneys around the globe communicate IP through the Ipendo Platform™ on a daily basis. As a result of this, automating administrative tasks, placing orders and purchasing of services are by far the most streamlined and cost efficient processes you can find within the IP field. The Ipendo Platform™ main benefits are:

• Built-in functionality for handling of annuities/renewals/maintenance fees and filing of applications. This reduces your company's administrative costs and extremely high service fees and charges.
• Case Management and budgeting and forecasting of all IP rights
• Automated workflows involving different parties
• Real-time communication with your partners and suppliers

ipVA
Website: www.ipvalueadded.com

ipVA is an Intellectual Property strategy and advisory business that finds and builds value through intangibles. Our commercially-driven consultants bring deep financial awareness and operational leadership gained from experience of having "been there and done it". Many of our consultants board level experience at global companies and have backgrounds that include titles like "Head of IP" and experience at companies such as BP, Dow-Corning, Texas Instruments, IBM, and W.L. Gore & Associates. We are a business consultancy with an IP edge that can only be developed with years of technical experience in commercialising intellectual property.

ipVA offers services globally, and our consultants have experience throughout Europe, the United States, and Asia. We can help any company for whom intangibles make up the largest part of their balance sheet to understand and think strategically with their intangible assets. We specialise in technology-led sectors across all areas, from cleantech to mobile communications, semiconductor, and software and hardware, and act for early stage start ups all the way through to large organisations.

We make IP transparent and simple to understand for everyone, and through their understanding be sophisticated about the use of IP to build shareholder value.

JMB, Fa©tor & Co
Website: www.israel-patents.co.il

JMB, Fa©tor & Co. is Israel's 5th largest IP firm and is the result of a merger in 2008 between JMB & Co., established in 1995, and Fa©tor Patent Attorneys, a boutique IP firm founded in 2004.

JMB, Fa©tor & Co. offers a full range of intellectual property related services including consulting, prior art searches, drafting, filing and prosecution of patent applications, trademark and industrial design applications. JMB, Fa©tor & Co. also provides associated legal services including preparation of contracts and licensing agreements, filing and defending oppositions and infringement litigation

Counseling. We listen to your ideas so that we can advise you on the best way to develop and protect your intellectual property.
Information. Data services utilizing the world's leading databases.
Patent Drafting. We tailor creative and commercially valuable patent applications to the client's needs.
Filing and Prosecution. Patent, trademark and design applications in Israel and abroad.
Representation. Worldwide clientele ranges from start-ups to multinational corporations.
Contentious Issues. Oppositions and annulment proceedings..

McKool Smith
Website: www.mckoolsmith.com

McKool Smith is a national law firm with offices in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Marshall, New York and Washington, D.C. The firm’s experienced attorneys handle bankruptcy reorganizations and related litigation, commercial disputes, intellectual property claims, and white collar litigation in state and federal courtrooms and international jurisdictions. Firm clients include major airlines, technology companies, oil & gas concerns, and many others. In 2008, The National Law Journal recognized McKool Smith for winning more of the nation’s Top 100 Verdicts than any other law firm. McKool Smith’s community involvement includes an established pro bono program and years of support for worthwhile charities.

Powell Gilbert
Website: www.powellgilbert.com

This specialist intellectual property litigation and advisory practice is dedicated to serving knowledge, technology and brands-based industries. Comprehensive expertise is provided in patents, trade marks, copyright, design rights, confidential information, passing off and related areas.

Established in 2007, Powell Gilbert has grown rapidly and is recognised as one of the UK's leading IP law firms. Its lawyers include some of the leading practitioners in the field, most having technical backgrounds. Combined with their wealth of experience and practical know-how, they are able to grasp issues quickly, without wasting time, and provide practical, commercial solutions for clients.

The Powell Gilbert team has experience right across the spectrum of IP litigation, gained from acting in cases across a wide range of technologies and industries. This experience ranges from acting in the earliest biotechnology patent cases to advising on complex telecoms disputes to enforcing trade mark rights against counterfeit goods in the fashion and luxury goods sectors.

The firm has represented clients in the UK Patents Courts, Court of Appeal and the House of Lords (now the Supreme Court), and the European Court of Justice. Many of the cases with which the firm is involved have multi-jurisdictional aspects and Powell Gilbert is used to working in, and often co-ordinating, multinational teams. It has assisted in cases before many overseas courts, including in Europe, the US, Australia and Japan. Powell Gilbert is frequently involved in European Patent Office opposition proceedings and in representing clients before the UK and European trade mark registries.

The practice also offers counselling and advice on IP issues generally, including freedom to operate and IP due diligence, lifecycle management, anti-counterfeiting and parallel import strategies, as well as database rights and confidential information.

Powell Gilbert LLP is "ahead simply because every single person there is excellent" Legal 500

"It is strategically very sophisticated and wants its clients to win." Chambers and Partners

The Swedish Patent & Registration Office (PRV)
Website: www.prv.se/ip

PRV are a modern PCT-authority with a history started 1882. We have been a PCT searching (ISA) and examination authority (IPER) since the start of the PCT-system in 1978 and also a member of the EPC from the same date.

The Search & Advisory department PRV InterPat, has a strong tradition of supporting the industry as a contractor for Patent Search Services. For over 60 years PRV InterPat, has been a fast and cost-efficient provider of high quality patent searches. We have competence in all technical areas; from telecom, mechanical and automotive to biotech and chemical sequences.

Among our services you will find:

• Novelty search
• Novelty search including a Preliminary Patentability report
• Validity search
• FTO search
• Analyzes

Our 160 patent examiners all have a minimum education as master of science, and are multilingual in English, German and French as well as the Nordic languages. Our fast and reliable service in combination with a direct contact with the patent examiner him or herself, has given us a large number of satisfied customers.

Using the same sophisticated search tool as the European Patent Office, we access the most valuable and reliable patent databases in the world in addition to a various number of Non Patent Literature (NPL) databases. For chemical searches we also have access to STN.

Your need is our mission - let us help you stay ahead!

Raul César Ferreira
Website: www.raulcesarferreira.pt

Raul César Ferreira (Herd.), S.A., founded in 1929 is one of the leading companies in Portugal in the industrial property field.

The Patent Department have expertise in several technical areas (chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, mechanical engineering, etc) and knowledge of drafting, prosecution, enforcement and litigation.

The Trademark Department have also expertise in searches and search opinions, prosecution, enforcement and oppositions in National, Community and International trademarks, and litigation.

Correspondence with clients and colleagues all over the world is done in Portuguese, English, French, German, Spanish and Italian languages.

Countries covered by the firm: Portugal, Macao, Portuguese speaking African countries (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe) and East Timor.

Taylor Wessing
Website: www.taylorwessing.com

Taylor Wessing is a market leader in intellectual property and has consistently achieved top ranking in this field in independent reviews such as Legal 500, Chambers and Juve for many years. Our strength in depth and unrivalled experience means that we are able to offer clients a level of service second to none across a broad range of industry and commercial sectors.

As a full-service integrated firm, we also have IP specialists across the full range of our industry groups in order to deliver the sector-specific expertise that our clients need and expect of us.

For many companies doing business in Europe, the critical question is where they should protect, commercialise or defend their IP assets. In these circumstances, it is vital that their legal advisers have a pan-European perspective on the issues and the ability to manage multi-jurisdictional advice, strategy, licensing and litigation.

Taylor Wessing is ideally placed to provide such a service. We have one of the largest European Intellectual Property Groups, with over 125 specialist lawyers (many of them with science/technology degrees and industry experience) in Germany, France and in the UK, covering all areas of contentious and non-contentious intellectual property matters.

Agency Tria Robit
Website: www.triarobit.com

Agency TRIA ROBIT was founded in 1991 and has its head office in Riga, the capital of Latvia, one of the Baltic States of the European Union.

Agency TRIA ROBIT is the largest in the field of protection of intellectual property in the Baltic States and with the branch office in Moscow (Russia) works in all former USSR countries.

Since Latvia entered the European Union, we successfully represent our clients directly before OHIM and EPO.

The MIP Survey annually recognizes the stunning success of Agency as company No.1 in Latvia. The Legal 500 emphasizes that Agency TRIA ROBIT is amongst leading firms and has the largest team of IP experts in Latvia and neighboring countries, making it a favorite amongst global brand clients. This reflects the professionalism of our approach and ability to provide fast, clear and consistent advice and assistance at advantageous costs.

Uppdragshuset
Website: www.uppdragshuset.se

Uppdragshuset was founded in the year2000 with the vision to dseliver smart support in the innovation process, focusing on the IPR instruments. We are specialists in searching and evaluating technical information in order to provide practical business advices. All our IPR consultants have experience as examiners at a Patent Office, and thus extensive competence in interpretation of claiming and inventive step.

We perform database searches and patentability analysis according to the customer's specific needs. In addition to standard novelty searches, we are known worldwide for our performance in Freedom To Operate analysis, Validity searches and IP-mappings. With our experience we may assist the customers by providing relevant documentation and qualified analysis results.

Via our web based tool ArchiveOnline (www.archiveonline.se), we also support the customers in setting up work flows for monitoring. ArchiveOnline also supports the delivery of documents, interactive communication between users, setting up annotation fields and automatic trigger points for management of the company's in-house documentation.

Vereenigde
Website: www.vereenigde.com

Vereenigde, your European partner in intellectual property

Having offices in both The Hague and Munich, the patent capitals of Europe, Vereenigde is at the very heart of IP activity in Europe. Vereenigde, established in 1916, is the largest Dutch patent and trademark law firm and a major European firm.

The more than 60 professionals of the firm include European, Dutch, American and German patent attorneys, European and Benelux trademark and design attorneys, and attorneys-at-law.

Our network of seven fully staffed offices enables efficient handling of proceedings at the Dutch, German and European patent offices. The Hague office is located close to the court, where all Dutch patent litigation is centralized, as well as the Benelux Trademark Office. The Munich office of Vereenigde is located close to the German Patent and Trademark Office, the German Patent Court and two of 13 German district courts dealing with IP matters.

Vereenigde has committed itself to supporting green technology. Our Green Team helps clean tech developers rapidly develop a unique proprietary position in response to growing clean tech competition.