Archiv für den Monat Mai 2018

Ove Granstrand to become Leverhulme Trust funded visiting professor at CTM @IIPMcambridge @IfMCambridge @Cambridge_Eng

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We are extremely pleased for having been selected to received funding from the @LeverhulmeTrust for a visiting professorship. Ove Granstrand, one of Europe’s leading interdisciplinary expert in IP research will be visiting the IIPM research group at CTM and the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering in the coming academic year.

http://www.ip-research.org/ove-granstrand-becomes-visiting-professor-at-university-of-cambridge/

Research seminar @crasshlive @IfMCambridge @synbioSRI: Public vs Private Perspectives on Open IP

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We had a great session today thanks to our participants and particularly the three speakers, including Jorge Contreras (University of Utah) who spoke about patent pledges, Sonia Cooper (Microsoft) who introduced the Azure programme and its IP features and Iain Thomas (Cambridge Enterprise) who gave his view on the university’s role in the innovation process and why patenting is (sometimes) necessary to attract investments so that innovations make it to the patients.

Impressions from today’s session plus some pictures of previous sessions are available here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/synbiosri/41580408664/in/album-72157669307146968/

 

Seminar announcement @crasshlive: Public vs Private Perspectives on Open IP

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23 May – Public vs Private Perspectives on Open IP
Public Versus Private Perspectives on Open IP
12:00-14:00, Wednesday 23 May
Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building

@ifmCambridge @iipmcambridge

The goals of the public, private and third sector in leveraging intellectual property often differ substantially, with significant implications for access to technology. The CRASSH Faculty Research Group on Open IP models for emerging technologies seeks to explore where approaches to making knowledge more freely available has implications for society. In this session, we will discuss Open IP from industry and University tech transfer perspectives, exploring the stated goals and real life practices of these important actors in the innovation ecosystem.

Dr Iain Thomas (Head of Life Sciences, Cambridge Enterprise)
Dr Thomas operates within the Technology Transfer team; the work of which includes invention disclosure management, patent strategy, proof of concept funding, research reagents transfer, intellectual property licensing and bespoke marketing. Iain works predominantly with technologies in the fields of biology and chemistry with products such as alemtuzumab (Sanofi), breast cancer markers (Brevagen) and mouse touch screen chambers (Campden Instruments).

Prof Jorge Contreras (University of Utah)
Prof Contreras teaches in the areas of intellectual property, law and science, and property law and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Utah Genome Project. He has previously served on the law faculties of American University Washington College of Law and Washington University in St. Louis, and was a partner at the international law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, where he practiced transactional and intellectual property law in Boston, London and Washington DC. His current research focuses, among other things, on the development of technical standards and the use and dissemination of data generated by large-scale scientific research projects.

Sonia Cooper (Microsoft):
Sonia Cooper is the Senior Patent Attorney within the IP Policy and Strategy Group at Microsoft. She is currently working with Microsoft Azure, a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services.

Hauschildt Innovation Symposium @IfMCambridge @Cambridge_Eng

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On Monday and Tuesday this week we welcomed a group of mostly German professors in Technology and Innovation Management from Darmstadt, Bonn, Hannover, Berlin, Münster and Kiel for the annual Hauschildt Innovation Symposium (also known as the Hauschildt Schüler Treffen).

I was very pleased to host this year’s symposium with Hermann Hauser as keynote speaker, who shared his rich experience with the group on the ICT, computer and software industry and the role of the Cambridge cluster. His talk was followed by a trip to the Bradfield Centre at the Cambridge Science Park, kindly hosted by Jeanette Walker, the Science Park’s director. The first day came to a close after a dinner with long lasting discussions at Christs‘ College. During the second day we visited the University’s Maxwell Centre, where Aga and Alexandra provided two excellent talks on the idea of the Maxwell Centre and its mission as well as the Impulse programme for Tech Innovators.

 

 

An exciting upcoming session of our Open IP research group on: Public Versus Private Perspectives on Open IP

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University of Cambridge
12:00-14:00, Wednesday 23 May
Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building
The goals of the public, private and third sector in leveraging intellectual property often differ substantially, with significant implications for access to technology. The CRASSH Faculty Research Group on Open IP models for emerging technologies seeks to explore where approaches to making knowledge more freely available has implications for society. In this session, we will discuss Open IP from industry and University tech transfer perspectives, exploring the stated goals and real life practices of these important actors in the innovation ecosystem.
Dr Iain Thomas (Head of Life Sciences, Cambridge Enterprise)

Dr Thomas operates within the Technology Transfer team; the work of which includes invention disclosure management, patent strategy, proof of concept funding, research reagents transfer, intellectual property licensing and bespoke marketing. Iain works predominantly with technologies in the fields of biology and chemistry with products such as alemtuzumab (Sanofi), breast cancer markers (Brevagen) and mouse touch screen chambers (Campden Instruments).

Prof Jorge Contreras (University of Utah)
Prof Contretas teaches in the areas of intellectual property, law and science, and property law and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Utah Genome Project. He has previously served on the law faculties of American University Washington College of Law and Washington University in St. Louis, and was a partner at the international law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, where he practiced transactional and intellectual property law in Boston, London and Washington DC. His current research focuses, among other things, on the development of technical standards and the use and dissemination of data generated by large-scale scientific research projects.
 
Sonia Cooper (Microsoft):
Sonia Cooper is the Senior Patent Attorney within the IP Policy and Strategy Group at Microsoft. She is currently working with Microsoft Azure, a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services.