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The Financial Services Section provides a forum for members to discuss global financial issues relating to banking and other areas of finance; capital markets; private equity and venture capital; as well as best practices and new investment products and services available to information professionals working in the sector.

Curious to connect with the section’s colleagues? Find a list of members through the Membership Directory! Log into the directory and select the “DBF – Financial Services section” option towards the end of the “Is a Member of” drop-down menu. There’s no need to enter any other information.

2012 Financial Services Section Breakfast

Gerard J. Pannekoek, President and CEO of the Intellectual Property Exchange International(r) (IPXI), will be the featured speaker for the SLA Business & Finance Financial Services Section breakfast during the upcoming annual conference in Chicago.

The IPXI, the world’s first financial exchange focusing on intellectual property rights, plans to begin issuing the first unit license rights contracts in 2012. The Chicago-based exchange will allow intellectual property to be licensed more efficiency and with more transparency.

Unit License Rights (r) (ULR) contracts allow patent owners to license select technology in a non-discriminatory manner via standard form licenses on publicly disclosed terms. Each ULR contract purchased will give the buyer the right to use an agreed unit of intellectual property, for example the right to make and/or sell up to an established quantity of products covered by the patents.
Initial investors and founding members of the new exchange include the Chicago Board of Options Exchange Holdings (CBOE); Ocean Tomo, LLC, a Chicago-based intellectual capital merchant banc firm; Royal Philips Electronic, the Dutch technology group; Com Pac International, an Illinois-based packaging corporation; and Northwestern University, Rutgers University and the University of Utah.

To learn more about the IPXI, please check out their website, as well as a December 2011 video by Gerard Pannekoek announcing the exchange.

The breakfast of the Financial Services Section of the SLA Business & Finance Division will be Tuesday, July 17, at 8 AM. Mr. Pannekoek is interested in addressing questions that SLA members have about the new exchange. Please send your questions to Rita Ormsby, rjormsby@verizon.net, who is organizing the breakfast with Alex Ilg, of the SLA Business & Finance Financial Services Section.

To register for the conference and this breakfast, please go to the SLA 2012 Annual Conference Registration page.