A comprehensive description of the program is available by clicking here. 

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Program topics:

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• What you must know about Confidentiality Agreements 

• What you must know about Material Transfer Agreements

• What you must know about Research Agreements

• Traps for the Unwary - Implications of joint ownership of IP and rights of first refusal

• Strategies to find commercial partners

• Commercialisation pathways: Assignment v Licensing v Start Up companies

• What you must know about licensing IP.

• The Patent Process

• Choosing Whether to Protect IP by patenting or by trade secret

• The Commercialisation window

• Achieving both the academic publication objective as well as the IP protection and commercialisation objective

• Evaluating Technology for Commercialisation

• Practical exercise: Assessing the commercialisation prospects of a hypothetical parcel of IP

• IP ownership defects and how to fix them. 

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