KEY NOTE SPEAKER 2009:

Marshall Phelps took IBM from a few million dollars in IP-related annual revenues to over a billion dollars in a little over a decade. Phelps put Intellectual Property on the corporate map. He forced senior management to regard IP not as a legal overhead,but as a profit center. Marshall Phelps was one of the first elected to "the IP Hall of Fame!

"Finally, at the urging of Bill Gates, he came out of retirement to head Microsoft's IP strategy and help establish the company as an emerging patent leader, and to expand upon its copyright and trademark successes.

Marshall C. Phelps at PATSOFT®2009!