LONDON -- Director of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Jon Dudas will serve as a keynote speaker at the inaugural Intellectual Property Business Congress (IPBC) to be held at The Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam on 25th and 26th June 2008.

The IPBC will be one of the major IP events of 2008 and quite probably the year's most important gathering of global IP business leaders. Organized by Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) magazine in conjunction with Ocean Tomo LLC, the Congress combines the first-ever Chief Intellectual Property Officer (CIPO) Summit and a live IP auction in which intangible assets worth many millions of euros will be up for sale.

An overview of the program can be accessed at www.ipbusinesscongress.com/Programme.pdf.

Consisting of two days of high-level, practical discussion and real-time IP monetisation in action, the IP Business Congress 2008 will be an event unlike any other in the IP calendar. Already over 300 delegate places have been filled.

Dudas joins an outstanding faculty of over 70 thought leaders in the field of IP within the corporate world, including:

    *          Sharon Bowles, MEP
            

    *          Roberto Dini, Founder, Sisvel Spa
           

    *          Marian Flattery, Head of IP, Syngenta Crop Protection AG

    *          Scott Frank, President, AT&T Intellectual Property

    *          Susannah Gray, Chief Financial Officer, Royalty Pharma
     

    *          Ton van Hoef, VP and Chief IP Counsel, ASML
           

    *          Bertram Huber, Head of Corporate IP, Robert Bosch GmbH
           

    *          David Kappos, Global Head of IP Law, IBM
     

    *          Ciarán McGinley, Controller, European Patent Office
     

    *          Ruud Peters, CEO, Philips IP & Standards
     

    *          Marshall Phelps, Corporate VP for IP Policy and Practices, Microsoft