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Matt Asay is general manager of the Americas and vice president of business development at Alfresco, and has nearly a decade of operational experience with commercial open source and regularly speaks and publishes on open-source business strategy. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.
Until I followed your link, and found right at the top:
Who Should Attend
Attorneys and business executives involved with selling and acquiring intellectual property
Nuff said.
Of course, we leave Ray Beckerman (http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/) alone. He's cool. :)
Plus, obtaining funding for small entities is always difficult. If you won?t defend your patent rights, how can you use them then to obtain funding?
please see http://www.piausa.org/ for a different/opposing view on patent reform