8:45 – 9:15 | Registration | |
9:15 – 9:20 | Welcome & Introduction | Patents Office to facilitate |
9:20 – 10:20 | What Intellectual Property should mean to your business? - Brief overview of patents, trade marks, designs and copyright
- The importance of IP rights for your business
- The benefits of protecting IP – examples(case studies) of good practice
- To protect or not to protect (risks)?
- Role of a patent-trade mark agent?
| Paul Keane FRKelly European & Irish Patent Attorney |
Applying for IP Rights and the importance of looking before you leap - IP Protection just in Ireland or abroad – considering your markets, how and where to apply
- Where to get more detailed information on IP
- Why you should research existing IP in your area of business or technology.
- Where to look e.g.– ESPACENET (Interested in a workshop after lunch?)
| David Hyde Patents Office |
10:20 – 11.10 | Commercialisation - IP strategy as a part of Business strategy
- IP and the Innovation cycle
- State supports for innovative business – EI innovation, R&D commercialisation
| Joe Doyle EnterpriseIreland |
Building a business – a practical guide - Business context overview, Markets, Technologies, Risk, Evaluation and Due Diligence (Research)
- Proof of Concept – “Is my idea any good and how do I prove it?”
- Strategies for developing and exploiting IP – tools & process - manufacture/license
| Colin PopeEnterprise Ireland |
11:10 – 11:30 | Tea/coffee | |
11:30 – 11:50 | EnterpriseEurope Network How to make the most of the European marketplace - Advice / mentoring
- Enterprise Europe Network in Ireland
- Overview of available Services
- Step by Step support for Technology Partnering
| Jan Gerritsen, EnterpriseEurope Network |
11:50 - 12:15 | Tom Crean Business Centre IP and business supports through Technology Transfer |
External Services Institute of TechnologyTralee |
12:15 - 12.40 | Local EnterpriseOffice, Kerry - How LEOs supports new ideas and businesses.
| Tomás Hayes, Head of Local Enterprise Office, Kerry. |
- 12.40:- 14:00
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14:00 – 15:00 | Didn’t get a chance to ask a question! Avail of One on One sessions with the following : - EnterpriseEurope Network
- Tom Crean Business Centre, IT Tralee
- Patents Office
- Patent /Trade Mark Attorney
- Local Enterprise Office, Kerry
- EnterpriseIreland
ESPACENET workshop – a demonstration from the Patents Office on how to search a free online technology database with access to 80 million patent documents | |
