Lou Ellman is appearing at SXSW today (3/17), participating in a Mentor Session from 3:30PM to 4:30PM in room 16A at the Austin Convention Center.  Stop by to discuss music licensing and royalties!

RoyaltyZone will be attending the TechConnect Summit 2009 on May 5th and 6th in Houston, TX.  Register here and use priority code VIP for a FREE EXPO ONLY PASS.

RoyaltyZone is hosting a workshop panel on license agreement compliance issues, and how to avoid them.   The session is part of the LES Winter Meeting taking place today and tomorrow in San Antonio, TX.

Lou Ellman, RoyaltyZone CEO, will be joined by Debbie Stewart of Invotex Group and Brian Cummings from The University of Utah.

RoyaltyZone will be at the AUTM 2009 Annual Meeting in Orlando next week.  Drop us a line to arrange a meeting!

AUTM is the Association of University Technology Managers.  RoyaltyZone works with a number of Tech Transfer offices to streamline and automate their license agreement compliance processes.

Join us at Conjuctured on November 18th at 6:30PM for DemoCamp III.  Lou Ellman and four other Austin entrepreneurs will be demoing their products.

1309 E. 7th Street Austin, TX 78702

Learn more about DemoCamp III here

Vote for RoyaltyZone’s proposed panel at SXSW Interactive 2009: “Making Money with Royalties and Revenue Share Agreements”

RoyaltyZone will be at booth 4567 next week at The Licensing Show at the Javits Center in New York.

Stop by and say hello!  Email us to arrange a personal demo. 

Just back from a productive and fun week in Chicago.  RoyaltyZone attended the Licensing Executives Society - LES 2008 Spring Meeting and had a booth at the Tech Expo.  Met lots of interesting and helpful folks!  LES is a great organization, and I encourage anyone involved in the licensing business to become a member.

Here are the top things I learned at the meeting:

1. You can fit an entire submarine in a building (and then use the area to serve cocktails and dessert).
2. No one ends up in jail when prosecuting patents.
3. 40% of the LES attendees were IP attorneys.
4. Our international licensing friends face many of the same challenges we do when it comes to enforcing license agreements.
5. Most companies are still using excel and/or manual processes to manage licensing and royalty revenue.
6. There are many great tasting Kentucky Bourbons and Whiskey’s that I’d never heard of.  Until Now.
7. Salad can be an entree?  Who knew?
8. In most cases, the team that negotiates the license agreement is not the same as the team responsible for enforcing the license agreement.
9. A single Patent can be both extremely valuable and worthless at the same time (learned that one during a midnight lobby bar debate).
10. Chicago is my kind of town.