Licensing Executives Society Events

The International Association (LESI) and the South African Society (LES) found its roots in the original national society founded in the United States of America in 1965.

Since that time national and regional societies have emerged on all continents. Today LESI is the foremost organization in the field of technology licensing. There are today 29 national and regional societies embracing some 10,000 members from 62 different countries. LESI International has been consulted by and is in ongoing contact regarding technology transfer with the United Nations, in particular, regarding the United Nations development programme; the World Intellectual Property organization (WIPO); the European Union; the Organisation for Economic and Commercial Development; the International Chamber of Commerce; and many national Intellectual Property Registries.

The South African Society (LES) is one of many national and regional societies which make up the international association or family of LES Societies constituting the Licensing Executives Society International (LESI). The individual societies are associations of members having common interest in transferring technology in the broadest sense of that term. These, like the South African Society, are thus composed of persons who are business men; managers; scientists; engineers; academics; government officials and lawyers, in particular, intellectual property lawyers and patent attorneys and agents.