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Intellectual Property Consultancy Day

Specific questions about intellectual property? During this IP Consultancy Day, you can discuss them with an expert. You will receive individual advice, without charge or obligation.

You have a startup or small business, or you are a developer, researcher or individual inventor, and you have specific questions, such as:

  • Is my invention patentable?
  • What are the costs?
  • Can I protect the name of my product or service?
  • Can I protect my specific software?
  • How can I licence my product?
  • Is my confidential information protected adequately?
  • What are the subsidy possibilities for IP?

Then this Intellectual Property Consultancy Day is made for you!

During the Consultancy Day each participant will have the opportunity to have one or more personal conversations with the relevant experts in the various domains of intellectual property, individually and without charge or obligation. These discussions are completely confidential. They will last 40 min and be conducted in a hybrid format (in Leuven or online).

Experts by domain

Expertise

Expert

  

Patents

 Nico Deconinck, Federal Public Service Economy, Intellectual Property Service

What is a patent? What requirements must an invention fulfil to be patented? What are the benefits of a patent? How high are the costs? What protection does a patent offer?  How to find out whether someone else has already patented an invention? Are there third-party patents that can block me?

Trademarks

 Guy Abrams, Benelux Intellectual Property Office

What is a trademark or model? Where is it registered and at what cost? What if I do not register my trademark? How to apply for a trademark? A trademark is already in use, is this a problem? What is an i-depot and how to request it?

Copyright

Jarn Baele, VLAIO [Flanders Innovation and Entrepreneurship]

What is protected by copyright? Is software also protected by copyright? Must copyright be applied for? Duration of copyright protection? Someone has copied existing texts: can they do this? 

Legal

Valentin de le Court and Margo Cornette, Osborne Clark

What contract should you conclude with partners? How to manage and exploit intellectual property? How to draft a licensing agreement? How do I keep information confidential? What is a confidentiality agreement? What is the difference between licensing/distribution/franchise contracts? What is the General Data Protection Regulation [GDPR]? What does the fiscal arrangement for income from copyright comprise?

Collaborations and subsidies for Intellectual Property

 

Elke De Rijck, VLAIO [Flanders Innovation and Entrepreneurship]

 

What subsidies are available for intellectual property? Am I eligible for the innovation deduction? What is an 'IP scan'? How can I set up a collaboration? Who can support me in this? I want to set up a startup, how do I go about this?

Technology

Bas Rottier and David Gay, Sirris

Available Sirris expertise for technology collaborations and product development

Registration

When registering, you can select the experts with whom you would like to have a 1-on-1 discussion and briefly describe your question. In this way we can guarantee the interactivity and efficiency of the conversations.

After registration, we will inform you of the exact time of your discussion.

Date

20 June 2023 09:00 - 17:00

Location

Sirris
Gaston Geenslaan 8
3001 Heverlee
Belgium

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Price

These sessions are fully booked

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Date

20 June 2023 09:00 - 17:00

Location

Sirris
Gaston Geenslaan 8
3001 Heverlee
Belgium

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Price

These sessions are fully booked