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A Better Way to Grow A Company’s IP Portfolio and Enhance Company Value: Attorney-Engineer Lisa Lepore to Conduct Workshop on Process Approach to IP Development at Ocean Tomo Fall Conference/IP Auction

Overland Park, KS (October 10, 2007) - A better way to acquire and develop a company’s intellectual property portfolio is through an effective process approach advocates attorney-engineer Lisa D. Lepore in the workshop she is presenting at the Fall Ocean Tomo Conference and IP Auction on Wednesday, October 24, 2007, in Chicago, Illinois.

Ocean Tomo, LLC, the leading Intellectual Capital Merchant Banc® firm that specializes in leveraging intellectual property assets, holds live auctions of intellectual property assets for the world’s largest companies and attracts key decision-makers in the intellectual property and financial communities to its U.S. and Europe events. Ms. Lepore is Director of Corporate Intellectual Property, Millennium Marketing Group (www.patentmovers.com), an international intellectual property brokerage firm based in Overland Park, Kansas.

“An effective process control approach applied to the IP generation process, including documenting the process, training the employees at many levels, auditing the process, and ultimately making improvements based on the outputs, results in a stronger more effective IP generation environment,” explains Ms. Lepore.

She holds degrees in engineering, law and a Masters in IP law, and has more than 15 years experience with major technology companies as a process control engineer, third party auditor, and corporate quality manager.  “As highly competitive companies worldwide have found so successfully in their operations, proven process control techniques can be applied to Intellectual Property to enhance a company’s value.”

Lisa Lepore can be reached at (913) 317-9114; e-mail: llepore@patentmovers.com