The Licensing Executives Society (LES) is a non-profit making professional and educational association made up of individuals engaged in the profession of licensing and other aspects of transferring or profiting from intellectual property. Its membership includes business executives, scientists, engineers, government officials, academics, lawyers, patent and trademark attorneys and consultants.
The goal of LES is to create a network of legally and business educated licensing executives throughout the world to facilitate the transfer of technology, licensing of intellectual property and the use of intellectual property in business to high professional standards and under relevant rules and regulations.
To achieve this goal, the Society has set itself the following specific objectives:
To assist LES members in improving their knowledge, skills
and techniques, by:
creating opportunities for networking between members (inter)nationally;
facilitating the exchange of ideas related to all fields of licensing;
sponsoring and providing educational activities and materials;
publishing articles, reports, statistics and other materials; and
conducting special studies.
To inform and advise the business and academic communities and professional
and governing bodies of:
the significance and importance of licensing; and
the high professional standards and the value of using LES members.
To work actively in the formation of laws, regulations and procedures
that facilitate licensing.
When LES was founded in 1965 in the United States, its purpose was to establish licensing as a profession, enabling its members to meet, to learn from one another and to encourage high professional standards among the individuals engaged in licensing of intellectual property rights and the transfer of technology. Following its founding, the LES family has grown into a world-wide organisation and LES International now has 31 national or regional societies as Andean Countries, Arab Countries, Argentina, Australia and New Zealand, Austria, Benelux, Brazil, Britain and Ireland, China, Chinese Taipei, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Israel, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Scandinavia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain and Portugal, Switzerland and USA and Canada.
The Licensing Executives Society (LES) is a non-profit making professional and educational association made up of individuals engaged in the profession of licensing and other aspects of transferring or profiting from intellectual property. Its membership includes business executives, scientists, engineers, government officials, academics, lawyers, patent and trademark attorneys and consultants.