IP Pragmatics offers a range of IP training support services aimed at research scientists (both academic and commercial), technology transfer practitioners and other professionals for whom an understanding IP and its exploitation is important. These services cover one day training courses as well as ongoing mentoring support. The training courses can be designed to suit clients' needs or adapted from IP Pragmatics off the shelf course formats. The courses are designed to be a combination of lectures, Q&A and hands-on case studies in order to make the sessions an interactive learning experience.
As an example of such, IP Pragmatics is successfully running the following introductory course at Universities and other research establishments. Often the funding for these courses is provided to the academic organisation under the BBSRC's IP workshop scheme.
Background and Aims
Researchers at universities and institutions have an obligation to themselves and their employer to safeguard intellectual property. As a first step they must become familiar with the basics of what constitutes intellectual property and what arrangements exist within their host organisation for dealing with intellectual property matters. This introductory course aims to provide researchers who are at a career stage where they will want and be expected to take a more direct responsibility for the creation, protection and exploitation of intellectual property with relevant hands on knowledge of:
- the Institute's or University's policies with respect to intellectual property and the people responsible for implementing this.
- what constitutes intellectual property and how this can be protected.
- the role and impact of intellectual property in contracts, grants and material transfer agreements.
- how intellectual property can be exploited and the benefits/pitfalls for the researcher and the Institute or University of the different approaches that can be taken.
- how intellectual property matters can be safeguarded during interactions with industry.
- how researchers can best work with their technology transfer office to maximize the value and minimize the impact intellectual property can have on their research activities.
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