Mr. Walter Willigan

See Walter Willigan, "Leveraging Your Intellectual Property: A Proved Path to Value Extraction", PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (December 1998).Mr. Willigan is the Director of PricewaterhouseCoopers' Intellectual Asset Management Practice.Prior to employment at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Mr. Willigan was Program Director of Licensing for the IBM Corporation.

The Irish Section Committee has not finalised its programme for the autumn but we plan to host an LES B&I Council Meeting in Dublin and we are hoping to welcome Walter Willigan, Director of Licensing at PricewaterhouseCoopers as a speaker at one of our events.Walter Willigan was a key note speaker at the Harrogate conference.
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Particular thanks go to Key-note Speaker, Walter Willigan, Director of Licensing at PricewaterhouseCoopers for sharing with us his experiences as Program Director at IBM and to Carol Tullo, Controller and Queen's printer, HMSO, who captured our attention with her insight into Crown Copyright Licensing and Valuation.
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Walter Willigan, Licensing Director of PricewaterhouseCoopers and formerly of IBM gave the delegates an inspired insight into how they should aim to get value from licensing in the new century by drawing on his years of experience at IBM.

Walter has watched computer technology change from a system using punch cards in the 1960s to a system relying heavily on the Internet today and in the process has seen successes and failures in the Industries approach to licensing.
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Whilst Carol recognised the approach to IP asset management, described by Walter Willigan, the organisation for which she works, UK plc, has additional responsibilities and tensions.

Crown copyright is defined by section 163 of the Copyright Patents and Designs Act 1988 as works made by officers or servants of the Crown in the course of their duties.

The Irish Section Committee has not finalised its programme for the autumn but we plan to host an LES B&I Council Meeting in Dublin and we are hoping to welcome Walter Willigan, Director of Licensing at PricewaterhouseCoopers as a speaker at one of our events.Walter Willigan was a key note speaker at the Harrogate conference.

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Particular thanks go to Key-note Speaker, Walter Willigan, Director of Licensing at PricewaterhouseCoopers for sharing with us his experiences as Program Director at IBM and to Carol Tullo, Controller and Queen's printer, HMSO, who captured our attention with her insight into Crown Copyright Licensing and Valuation.
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Walter Willigan, Licensing Director of PricewaterhouseCoopers and formerly of IBM gave the delegates an inspired insight into how they should aim to get value from licensing in the new century by drawing on his years of experience at IBM.

Walter has watched computer technology change from a system using punch cards in the 1960s to a system relying heavily on the Internet today and in the process has seen successes and failures in the Industries approach to licensing.

In the early years developing computer technology was not easy.One of the major problems was that competitors copied innovative designs.On the other hand having a large number of patents does not guarantee a large income, some PC companies started with only 2 or 3 patents.Whilst it is important to value Intellectual Property (IP), in order to make money, products must be got into the market place.Companies had to learn how to "pick the jewels" out of their patent portfolios and exploit them to the maximum.Licensing was clearly the way forward.
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Whilst Carol recognised the approach to IP asset management, described by Walter Willigan, the organisation for which she works, UK plc, has additional responsibilities and tensions.

Crown copyright is defined by section 163 of the Copyright Patents and Designs Act 1988 as works made by officers or servants of the Crown in the course of their duties.This incorporates a diverse mix of works created, commissioned and acquired by the Crown.Not all parts of government are Crown bodies and therefore within Crown copyright but we are broadly talking about official central government materials and information.Copyright is the means by which government protects the integrity and status of the material.

Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) is charged with driving forward the Government's commitment to widen access to and encourage the use of official information.The responsibility for copyright is derived directly from HM The Queen in Letters Patent.

Walter Willigan , PricewaterhouseCoopers

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