Join us for an introduction to Intellectual Property and discover how it can be used to benefit your business!

The FWD Project is providing various streams of business support to help Health & Well-Being companies in the South West grow and develop. We’ve created a series of masterclasses delivered by our expert mentors, to cover a range of essential business topics to improve the resilience of your business, find the best funding sources, protect your intellectual property and develop and strengthen your leadership. There is no cost to your business to attend these masterclass sessions.

As a result of this in-person masterclass, participants will understand how to create and build their own Intellectual Property strategy.

As a result of this session, you will:

• Understand the relevance of Intellectual Property in support of your business, commercial and development strategy

• Be able to consider a range of different types of intellectual property, including timescales and costs, to assess relevance to your business

• Understand the basics of patents, including what is required to obtain a patent, the structure of the patent document and how claims are drafted

• Be able to conduct simple prior art and freedom to operate searches (and know the difference between the two)

Agenda

• 9.00 - 9.15 Introductions and Learning Objectives for the day

• 9.15 -9.45 Commercial strategy and why IP matters/how IP fits and supports the strategy

• 9.45 - 11.15 A brief overview of a range of IP rights which may be relevant to the business – to cover patents, trademarks, copyright, confidential info/trade secret, design rights, database rights…., including a summary of timelines and costs of each

• 11.15 - 11.30 Break

• 11.30 - 13.00 More about patents – some possible strategies; what do you need to do (and not do – publication/NDAs) to obtain a patent; what are ‘claims’, some examples and why they are written in the way they are; the difference between prior art searching (to assess patentability) and Freedom to Operate searching (to assess infringement risk)

• 13.00 - 14:00 Lunch

• 14.00 - 16.00 Guided Individual working on implementing IP strategy

Who should attend:

Any business in the Health and Well-being sector who is a member of the FWD Project, seeking to understand and create an intellectual property strategy.

To join this free-to-attend session, you must be a FWD member.