Business Development Academy to Run Unique Course on Identifying and Profiting from New Markets for Intangible Assets.

Course to Discuss Intellectual Securitizations, Intellectual Property Auctions, and Intellectual Property Contingency Cases

PRINCETON, N.J. -- We are delighted to run a truly exceptional seminar on Identifying and Profiting from New Markets for Intangible Assets. This course discusses the evolution of a global intellectual property market. It also identifies trends and tactics in managing the changes caused by this new paradigm and outlines opportunities and strategies for monetizing intangible assets via secondary markets. This seminar is designed for product managers, business unit directors, business development, corporate development, competitive intelligence, finance and corporate strategy professionals.

Among the issues to be discussed are:

* IP Contingency Cases - Assess the merits of litigation as a means to achieve IP clarity, market competitiveness and industry stability.

* IP Funds - Identify opportunities to partner for profitability whether in early, growth or mature ventures with specialty financial sources.

* IP Systems - Evaluate your ability to harness technology to promote technology.

* IP Auctions - Discover the emergence of IP auctions as a strategy to achieve liquidity for assets or to promote alternate investment options.

* IP Insurance - Review the use of insurance to secure IP rights in financing arrangements and against third party claims.

* IP Securitizations - Discover the value of securing intangible assets through structured transactions.

* IP Brokerages - Determine the value of IP brokerages in the marketing, licensing and selling of intellectual property assets, whether for direct use, through joint ventures or via indirect investments.

About The Business Development Academy:

The Business Development Academy is dedicated to providing unparalleled educational opportunities to the business community. Our mission is to formulate the curriculum and recruit the instructors that will best serve our members in developing the critical thinking skills necessary to grow their businesses. We strive to present lectures that provide our members with key insights into core business development competencies as well as furnish speakers that discuss breaking business trends. We are driven to arm our members with courses, seminars, and lectures that provide both strategic and tactical advantages to our members.

The Business Development Academy website is located at www.bdacademy.com.

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About the Instructor:

Richard C. Bulman, Jr., is a founder and managing director of beyond r+d, a Fort Lauderdale, Florida based consulting firm specializing in product commercialization, venture development and IP monetization. He has counseled start-up, growth and Fortune 500 companies with global operations within the computer, electronic commerce, financial services, life sciences, information and media technology, specialty manufacturing and telecommunications industries serving in executive and legal positions with such organizations as Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, IVAX Corporation, American Lawyer Media, LLC, Akerman Senterfitt, Diversified Communications Industries Ltd., Empire of America FSB and the State of New York. Mr. Bulman earned his B.A. from the Rockefeller School of Public Affairs at SUNY Albany and a J.D. from the Faculty of Law and Jurisprudence at SUNY Buffalo.