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Ideas to Opportunities





THEME: SOFTWARE PATENTS AND LICENSING


Venue: The Haldane Room, Wilkins Building.
Date: Tuesday, 9th March 2010
Time: 9am-10.30am followed by the Licensing Masterclass from 10.30-11.30. 

Do you or your research team develop software in the course of your research?

Do you want to know more about:
 

  • Protecting your code or the algorithms contained within it,
  • Recommended licensing strategies,
  • Commercial opportunities for Open Source and GPL’d code,
  • How UCL Business’s new online licensing portal can promote your software
     

If so then don't miss the next ‘Ideas to Opportunities’ seminar organised by UCL Business. At the event, UCL Business staff together with a guest speaker from London patent attorneys Carpmaels & Ransford will be providing expert advice on software IP and commercialisation. Also specialist technology transfer solicitors Anderson & Co. will be running a masterclass on software licensing strategies with a particular focus on open source software. 

pROGRAMME DETAILS:

09.00          Coffee & Croissants
09.10          Welcome and Introduction
09.15          Software IP                                                          

  • Can software be patented?
  • Copyright protection – how, why, who?
  • Database rights
09.35          Licensing Basics 
09.45          ELUCID – UCLB’s Online Licensing Portal 
09.55          Case Studies from across UCL of successful software patenting and licensing 
10.10          Coffee Break 
10.30          Software Licensing Masterclass

 
  • Open Source and GPL Licenses
  • Commercial Licensing Issues
  • Licensing for Academic Usage
 11.15         Discussion and Closing Remarks
 
                       

TO REGISTER FOR THIS FREE EVENT please contact Emma Alam at UCL Business, on internal extension 09829 or email e.alam@uclb.com.