This practical and intense IP (intellectual property) and commercialisation course encompasses internal and external considerations of using IP within business strategy. It takes you through strategies to manage your IP portfolio while focussing on achieving the best results for your business.
The first part focuses on aspects of creating and maintaining an IP portfolio: IP management. The second part considers external aspects of working with IP in your ecosystem: Commercialisation with IP.
Part 1 - IP management: covers invention harvesting (identification, capture and assessment), procedures in applying for patents, looking after trade secrets, managing your IP portfolio, budgeting for IP and ownership of IP. To start the course, we will confirm our knowledge on IP rights.
Part 2 - IP commercialisation: introduces strategies for working with others in the innovation ecosystem. Topics will include confidentiality agreements, handling IP matters in contracts. Looking at techniques on identifying applications and potential markets for your innovation, and considering competitor issues along the supply chain.
Throughout this course the expert trainer will give you insights into how to manage your portfolio and get the best results for your organisation. There will also be plenty of time for delegates to ask questions and gain valuable feedback.
Benefits of attending
By attending this course, you will:
- Learn to create an IP policy for your business
- Understand what IP is registerable and what isn’t
- Get to grips with different IP rights
- Gain insights into evaluating your inventions
- Enhance your IP management skills
- Identify your potential customers and partners
- Develop your skills to negotiate NDAs
Certifications:
- CPD: 12 hours for your records
- Certificate of completion
Course Content
Part 1: IP management
- Introduction
- An IP (intellectual property) policy for your business
- IP: Registrable and unregistrable
- IPRs:
- Patents
- Designs
- Trademarks
- Utility Models
- Trade secrets
- Software
- IP management
- Information management
- Inventions harvesting, disclosure
- Evaluating inventions for your business
- Inventions and ownership
- Assignments of IPRs
- Freedom To Operate
- Practical exercise: Recognising inventions and deciding how to manage them
- IP budgeting
Part 2: IP commercialisation
- IP strategy: external aspects of IP
- Valuing your IP
- Valuation methods
- IP and the supply chain:
- Competitors
- Customers
- Suppliers
- Partners
- Licensees
- Confidentiality agreements
- NDAs (non-disclosure agreements)
- MTAs (material transfer agreements)
- IP and contracts
- Licensing your IP
- Finding customers, partners
- Practical exercise: Negotiating NDAs and IP clauses in contracts
- IP audit
- Summary and resources
Course Provider
Ms Jane List,
Consultant ,
Extract Information LimitedJane List has run her own business, Extract Information Limited, providing consultancy, search services, and training, all with a focus on commercial uses of patent information, since January 2013. Prior to this Jane worked on both sides of the information business – commercial information provider side, in content development, product management, commercial strategy and training roles, and in industry in technology consultancy, and science focused organisations where she was responsible for IP matters, scientific, technical and market information. She teaches on commercial searching including patent landscaping and state of the art searching and reporting in the UK and The Netherlands. She has a BSc, MRSC in Chemistry; MSc in Information Science and Cert. in Intellectual Property Law. She has published papers and spoken at global conferences on patent information matters, and is an active member of PATMG, PIUG and BPIP, professional patent information user groups. In July 2014 she became co-Editor in Chief of World Patent Information Journal.
Who Should Attend
This course has been specially designed for:
- In-house IP managers
- Technology transfer officers
- Private practice patent attorneys
- IP lawyers and legal advisers
- R&D managers
As well as all professionals responsible for managing an IP portfolio.
