Workshop: develop, validate and protect, how to make smart use of Intellectual Property
Are you working on new technologies? And are you bursting with new ideas? Great! Then you probably want to understand how you can validate and protect those technologies and ideas even better. During the workshop "Developing, Validating, and Protecting, How to Make Smart Use of Intellectual Property," you will gain knowledge to implement this in your idea validation process. The workshop is provided by the Netherlands Patent Office and will take place on Thursday, 26 February at Mikrocentrum in Veldhoven.
Venue
Mikrocentrum
VenueDe Run 1115
5503 LB Veldhoven
NL
Attendee information
Attendee information- The workshop will be in English
- Free of charge
Organiser
Organiser- Netherlands Patents Office
During the workshop, Intellectual Property Advisors Rienk Rienksma and Sander Goossens from the Netherlands Patent Office will give you tips on how to obtain and use intellectual property rights to protect new developments. Subsequently, Toine Ketelaars, Director of Intellectual Property at Vanderlande, explains how new ideas are identified and whether to protect them with IP rights. Lastly, you will learn step by step how you can gain inspiration from patent documents, and how you can use these documents to validate your own invention.
Programme
Thursday 26 February
- 10:00 - 11:00 (CET)Understand which IP rights may apply to your technology. Recognizing IP rights protection options. Speaker: Rienk Rienksma
- 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: Sander Goossens
About the guest speaker
Vanderlande is a global supplier of material handling solutions for airports, express parcel and warehousing. Over the last 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.
Register
Please register via the online webform.
Register soon, as the number of participant spots is limited. Participation is free of charge.
