Licensing professionals establish group

The Licensing Executives Society (United States and Canada) Inc. has launched a Nevada chapter spearheaded by Reno-area entrepreneurs.

The organization's worldwide membership includes attorneys who specialize in intellectual property, inventors, academics, consultants and others involved in the transfer and development of intellectual property.

Lee "Ky" Good, founder and chairman of the group, said the Nevada chapter expects to extend its reach into southern Nevada by the end of this year.

Organizers hope to grow membership, which currently stands at about 10, to approximately 50 during 2009.

Spearheading the Nevada chapter's development along with Good are Lexi Fox of the commercial real estate firm Metzker Johnson Group, Tim Casey of the intellectual property firm SilverSky Group LLC and Lawrence Udell, who is the managing director and co-founder of the Silicon Valley chapter of the Licensing Executives Society.

Also among the early supporters of the new chapter is the law firm of Holland & Hart LLP.