Workshop: develop, validate and protect, how to make smart use of Intellectual Property
Are you working on new technologies? And are you overflowing with new ideas? Nice! You probably want to know how you validate and protect those technologies and ideas in a better way. You will learn this all and more during this workshop on Wednesday, October 23. Register quickly because the number of participants is limited.
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Intellectual Property advisors Twan Uijttewaal and Katja Apelt from the Netherlands Patent Center will provide you with tools during the workshop. Therefore you learn which intellectual property rights you use to protect innovations.
Afterward, Toine Ketelaars, Director of Intellectual Property at Vanderlande, explains identifying new ideas. How do you decide whether to protect this with IP rights? You will learn step by step how to gain inspiration from literature concerning patents, and how to use this literature to validate your invention.
About the guest speaker
Vanderlande is a global supplier of material handling solutions for airports, express parcel and warehousing. Over the last 2 decades the company has grown to one of the leading companies in this area. Toine Ketelaars, Director Intellectual Property, will explain how he has set up the patent strategy for the company, the important drivers for seeking patent protection (or not) and how intellectual property is embedded in the workflow related to R&D. As a Qualified Patent Information Professional (QPIP) with many years of R&D experience in several companies, both small and large, Toine has an extensive background in all aspects of IP related to R&D.
Programma
Wednesday 23 October
- 10:00 - 11:00 (CET)Gain insight into which IP rights may apply to your technology. Recognizing protection options through IP rights. Speaker: Katja Apelt from the Netherlands Patent Office.
- 11:15 - 12:00 (CET)How do patents work in practice: patents@Vanderlande. Speaker: Toine Ketelaars, Director Intellectual Property, VanderLande.
- 12:00 - 13:00 (CET)Lunch
- 13:00 - 15:00 (CET)Innovating technology: how patent information provides support and tools to find relevant patents. Speaker: Twan Uijttewaal of the Netherlands Patent Office
Registration
Are you interested in attending the workshop? Please register via the online registration form.
- Ministry of Economic Affairs
- Netherlands Enterprise Agency