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This webinar provides an outline of how to develop an intellectual property portfolio and strategy to drive business success and valuation.

Overview:

• Learn how to identify your “Crown Jewel” intellectual properties
• Learn how to develop an intellectual property strategy that leverages the “Crown jewels” and adds value to the business
• Learn how to build a patent portfolio that protects the “Crown Jewels”
• Learn how to describe and expand inventions such that your patent attorney can write broad patent coverage

This newsletter reflects an eclectic collection of stories and analyses dealing with issues and developments within the energy industry that have potentially significant implications for executives operating oilfield service companies.

Articles include:

• Gas Shales Face Conflicting Future Based on Recent Events
• Rig Count Climbs; Rig Orders Up; Overbuilding Coming?
• Housing and Autos Still Key Growth - 1Q11 GDP Not Good
• Is the China Energy Growth Machine Slowing Down?
• The Promise of Green Jobs is More Elusive Than Advertised
• Will My Visibility Be Compromised by Wind Turbines?

This newsletter reflects an eclectic collection of stories and analyses dealing with issues and developments within the energy industry that have potentially significant implications for executives operating oilfield service companies.

Articles include:

• Natural Gas is So 2010; Now It's All About Liquids-rich Shale
• Never Fear, Your Government is Here to Protect You!
• Ever Wonder Why Wind Power Needs to be Offshore?
• Water Concerns Trump Climate Change - Gallup Poll

Goldman Saches has extended their “Top 280 projects to change the world" to “Top 330 projects to change the world" with a detailed 268pg report. The Top 330 Projects now represent 565 bnboe of oil and gas reserves and almost half the total planned capex for the Majors over the next four years. The “Winners? of the last seven editions of this report have outperformed peers by 6% on an annualized basis. In this edition we identify five investment themes and 25 global companies among the NOCs, Majors, E&Ps and Services to generate alpha with Top 330.

This newsletter reflects an eclectic collection of stories and analyses dealing with issues and developments within the energy industry that have potentially significant implications for executives operating oilfield service companies.

Articles include:

• Are Prospects for Natural Gas Shifting to the Plus Column?
• Chesapeake Energy and Natural Gas in the News
• Rising Energy Prices Hit U.S. Consumers and Economy
• Scotland Wind Power Report Challenges Proponent Claims
• Using Food for Fuel Creating Unintended Consequences
• Updated 2011 Hurricane Forecast Still Calls for Active Year

This newsletter reflects an eclectic collection of stories and analyses dealing with issues and developments within the energy industry that have potentially significant implications for executives operating oilfield service companies.

Articles include:

• Are the Shale resource Estimates Realistic or Fantasy?
• U.S. GDP Up, But Economic Recovery Continues to Struggle
• BP Spill Study Says BOP Needs Further Work
• China Planning to Go Green on Energy?
• Can Katrina Offer Any Guide for Japan's Energy Outlook?
• Are Houston Drivers Spending Less Time Stuck in Traffic?
• Your Tax Dollars at Work in World of Green Energy
• Wind Energy Continues to Find More Problems

John Westwood's presentation at Energy Ventures' cocktail party in Aberdeen on March 23, 2011.

Unfolding events continue to create upside risks to forecasts. Estimates are there is a $10/bbl risk premium embedded in oil prices. However, with the coalition airstrikes on Libya, damaged nuclear reactors in Japan, and continued risk of political contagion in the Middle East and North Africa, the risks to forecasts are still to the upside.

This newsletter reflects an eclectic collection of stories and analyses dealing with issues and developments within the energy industry that have potentially significant implications for executives operating oilfield service companies.

Articles include:

• Will Japan Become 2011's Energy Black Swan?
• Does Lack of Sunspots Signal New Little Ice Age Start?
• Environmentalist Victory in Eastern Canada Gas Shale Play
• Gasoline Pump Prices Creating Political Problems
• The Undoing of Mubarak in Egypt: Problems for Others?
• Does Daylight Savings Time Actually Save Energy?
• Buffett and New England Look to Change Energy Use
• Zizagging: ConocoPhillips Cuts Gas Drilling in Canada
• Electric Vehicles Struggle to Gain Ground on Battery Cost