IP & SOFTWARE – HOW TO MANAGE YOUR IP IN COLLABORATIONS
Collaborations can involve complexity in managing the interrelationships between confidentiality, use of existing Intellectual Property (IP), publication of information, commercialisation and decision making around IP rights. These complexities mean that it is important to consider IP management at the outset.
Organised by Intellera Consulting in collaboration with the European IP Helpdesk in the context of the DIH-World project, the webinar will provide Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs) with a better understanding of how to protect and leverage their intellectual assets, and how to negotiate and manage mutually beneficial collaborations.
| The European IP Helpdesk supports European SMEs and research teams involved in cross-border business and/or EU-funded research activities manage, disseminate and valorise their IP. Offering a broad range of informative material, a Helpline service for direct IP support as well as on-site and online training, our main goal is to support IP capacity building along the full scale of IP practices: from awareness to strategic use and successful exploitation. |
WHAT IS IN FOR YOU?
It will be an occasion to understand key Intellectual Property (IP) issues which need to be addressed in collaborations, particularly IP management, protection, and licensing. The focus will be on ICT and software technologies, which have their own unique challenges and opportunities with respect to IP Rights (IPR), exploitation and business models.
SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS – SPEAKERS:
Dr. Eugene Sweeney is a Senior Advisor for the European IP Helpdesk; and a Director of Iambic Innovation Ltd, a company he founded in 2000, which focusses on the exploitation of research and early-stage technology. He is also an active member of the International (ISO) & European (CEN) Standards Committees, which have recently developed the ISO 56000 series of guidance standards for IP Management and Innovation Management. He has over 40 years practical experience of IP management, research commercialisation and innovation in the ICT sector, having formed his first spin-out in 1978, while a researcher in computer modelling and simulation. He then worked for a major manufacturer in the early microcomputer and network industry, where he was responsible for sourcing, acquiring, and developing new technologies and software, and taking them to market. After that he spent 11 years managing an investment portfolio of early-stage ICT technologies; developing and commercially exploiting them through licensing, equity investments, start-ups, or JVs, as appropriate.
Dr. Michele Dubbini. With a B.A. in international law from the Catholic University of Milan, Italy and an M.A. in intellectual property law from the University of Alicante, Spain. Michele Dubbini is now Senior IP & Innovation Advisor and legal expert at Eurice GmbH. Since 2014, he has supported the European IP Helpdesk as a speaker for webinars and on-site training events on IP Rights throughout Europe. Thanks to his international legal background and IP expert knowledge, he contributes to the creation and revision of consortium agreements and grant contracts for multinational research consortia and speaks at training events and workshops Eurice is involved in.
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