Course Program ASTP/Praxis Training Course
Fundamentals of Technology Transfer Tuesday 24th of January 18.30 – 20.00
Registration and welcome cocktail
Wednesday 25th of January Course Director: Antonio Parada 09.00 - 09.15
Course Introduction Antonio Parada, Technology Transfer Manager, Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, Portugal
09.15 - 10.15
Evaluating Technology Opportunities Moderator Penny Penny Attridge, Director of Intellectual Property Development, Quester, United Kingdom
10.15 – 10.45
COFFEE BREAK: Case Study Exercise - Evaluating technology opportunities
10.45 - 11.15
Case Study Feedback Moderator Penny Penny Attridge, Director of Intellectual Property Development, Quester, United Kingdom
11.15 - 12.00
Research Grants and Contracts - Our role in protecting foreground and background IP Moderator Penny Trish Monaghan, Contract Manager, UCL Business, United Kingdom
12.00 - 12.45
IP Primer Patents - Patents – patent law and process – when to seek patent protection, patent strength, patent agents and patent costs Moderator Antonio Mikkel Svolsgaard Gadsboll, Legal Advisor, Risø National Laboratory, Denmark
12.45 – 13.45
LUNCH
13.45 – 14.30
Non-Patent IP - Copyright, design rights, trademarks Moderator Antonio Mikkel Svolsgaard Gadsboll, Legal Advisor, Risø National Laboratory, Denmark
14.30 - 15.15
IP Primer: Contract Law - What you need to know to keep yourself out of trouble Moderator Antonio Christian Karhula Lauridsen, Attorney-at-Law, Law firm Plesner, Denmark
15.15 – 15.45
COFFEE BREAK
15.45 – 17.30
Engaging Industry (inc Panel Questions and Answers) - What they want and don’t want from us Moderator Jeff Mike Collis, Scientific Director Discovery Biology, Pfizer Ltd, United Kingdom
18.30
COURSE DINNER
Thursday 26th of January 09.00 – 10.30
Anatomy of a Licence Agreement - Its purpose structure and essential terms Penny Attridge, Director of Intellectual Property Development, Quester, United Kingdom
10.30 - 11.00
COFFEE BREAK
11.00 - 12.15
Case Study Exercise - Peter Rabbit Goes Licensing – illustrating the mistakes that the innocent can make when negotiating agreements Alison Campbell, Managing Director, KCL Enterprises Ltd, United Kingdom
12.15 – 13.15
LUNCH
13.15 – 14.15
What you can license and what you can’t – deals you shouldn’t do Jeff Skinner, Commercial Director, University College London, United Kingdom
14.15 – 14.45
Negotiation and Striking the deal Louis P. Berneman, Principal, Texelerate and former Managing Director, Center for Technology Transfer, University of Pennsylvania, USA
14.45 – 15.15
COFFEE BREAK
15.15 - 16.15
Negotiation and Striking the deal Louis P. Berneman, Principal, Texelerate and former Managing Director, Center for Technology Transfer, University of Pennsylvania, USA
16.15 – 17.15
Sealing the deal Dave Elledge, Director, Righthand Consulting, United Kingdom
Friday 27th of January 09.00 – 10.00
Marketing Technology - Finding and communicating with potential licensees Reto Hartmann, Technology Transfer Officer, Frontiers in Genetics, Switzerland
10.00 – 10.30
COFFEE BREAK
10.30 - 12.00
Case Study - The Photon counting detector Jeff Skinner, Commercial Director, University College London, United Kingdom
12.00 – 13.30
WORKING LUNCH Panel – Questions and Answers/ Clinic
13.30 COURSE ENDS