FLC Webinar: CLP and CLP-A Informational Webinar

Enhance your career growth by registering and learning if the Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) certification and CLP-Associate (CLP-A) are for you! This webinar is targeted for all T2 skill levels.

Join CLP Board members, Julie Watson and Kirsten Leute, for an introduction and review of the CLP and CLP-Associate programs. Joining the community of CLP credential holders sets you apart and provides a defined path for professional development.  

Today, the CLP certification is held by nearly 700 professionals representing 30 different countries in a variety of industries. 

The CLP-Associate (CLP-A), launched in 2022, is designed for the early career professional interested in demonstrating a committment to the licensing, intellectual property and technology transer field. This credential is also offered to those entering the field after a career change.

During the session you will:  

• Learn how CLP and CLP-A certification helps you meet your personal and professional goals.  

• Understand what content is covered on the exam and the requirements to earn the CLP-A.  

• Review practice questions to become familiar with the exam format. 

This webinar satisfies the Career Pathways Intellectual Property Management - Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, Software. For more information, visit the FLC Learning Center.

Kristen Leute is Partner, University Relations at Osage University Partners (OUP), a venture capital firm that invests in deep science start ups out of academic research institutions. In leading University Relations for OUP, Kirsten is responsible for the relationships with approximately 100 academic institutions that are partnered with the fund, engaging potential new partner institutions, and creating and delivering value-add programs for the partnered academic institutions and their entrepreneurs.

She is an experienced technology transfer professional, having spent 19 years in technology transfer at Stanford University and the German Cancer Research Center. Prior to joining OUP, she was Associate Director at Stanford's Office of Technology Licensing. Over her career at Standford, she managed portfolios of inventions in most technology areas, but concentrated in biotechnology.

Kirsten continues to be actively involved in technology transfer and university startups outside of her daily work. She leads OUP's efforts in working on Equalize, a virtual mento program and ptich competition designed to take national action around the disparity of women academic inventors forming university start ups, that was started by Washington University in St. Louis.

She is currently on advisory boards for the University of Michigan, University of Arizona, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Brown University technology commercialization offices, is an Adcom member for America's Seed Fund (SBIR/STTR out of NSF), is a former board member of Women in Bio, and a former two-time board member for AUTM.

Julie M. Watson is a patent attorney and member of the transacations practice group at Marshall Gerstein & Borun, LLP,  a Chicago-based intellectual property law firm. A licensing professional with deep experience in structuring and negotiating deals to deliver strategic solutions, Julie concentrates her practice on intellectual property transactions with a particular emphasis in technology startups and university technology transfer. Her prior work includes managing nonprofit intellectual property licensing programs including the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and the American Medical Association. Julie received her law degree from Wake Forest Univeristy Law School and is admitted to practice law in Illinois, North Carolina and before the USPTO, and holds a master's degree from Johns Hopkins University and is a Certified Licensing Professional. Julie is a long time Licensing Executive and AUTM member and frequent speaker and educator on intellectual property and transaction issues.