A detailed description of the workshop program is available by clicking here. 

 

Highlights of this skills development workshop include:

 

• What intellectual property is

• 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

• IP ownership defects that impede commercialisation, and how to fix them

• 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: the implications of joint ownership of IP and rights of first refusal

• Strategies to find commercial partners and licensees

• Commercialisation Pathways: Licensing v Assignment

• Commercialisation Pathways: Licensing v Start Up company

• What you must know about License Agreements

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