SIG: IP - London Cleantech ClusterLondon Cleantech Cluster

IP Special Interest Group

This SIG has come to an end. Details of the events that were held are set out below.

When is the Right Time to File a Patent Application?

5.30 pm to 8pm

14 South Square, Gray’s Inn, London, WC1R 5JJ

J A Kemp hosted the 12th and last London Cleantech Cluster IP Special Interest Group at its offices in Holborn.

At the event J A Kemp’s intellectual property experts will answer a range of questions, including:

At what point in my R&D programme should I file?
What do I need? Experimental data? A prototype?
Should I do a search first?
Do I need to file before speaking to customers and partners?
How early do I need to file to impress investors?
How long can I delay?

The seminar is free to attend and you will have the opportunity to ask specific questions about your own IP situation. Refreshments will be provided and there will be plenty of time for networking.

Timings

5.30 – 6.00pm – Arrival and networking

6.00 – 7.30pm – Talks

7.30 – 8.00pm – Questions and networking

This event is open to cleantech companies throughout the UK and Ireland and is FREE.

This is a golden opportunity for any cleantech business to receive direction from one of the leading firms of patent attorneys active in this space.

Special Interest Group

Managing IP in Cleantech R & D with External Funders and Partners

8 March 2017

5.30 pm to 8pm

14 South Square, Gray’s Inn, London, WC1R 5JJ

J A Kemp is hosting the 11th London Cleantech Cluster IP Special Interest Group at its offices in Holborn.

Investors look at IP from their own unique perspective and attach great importance to IP protection to reduce the risks associated with the investment. This seminar will examine case studies involving clean technologies, look at the implications of various types of funding and collaboration on IP ownership and highlight potential pitfalls.

Attendees will have the opportunity to ask specific questions about their own IP situation and learn about the fundamental concepts involved in protecting their intellectual property. There will also be refreshments and plenty of time for networking.

This event is open to cleantech companies throughout the UK and Ireland and is FREE.

This is a golden opportunity for any cleantech business to receive direction from one of the leading firms of patent attorneys active in this space.

Special Interest Group

Enforcing IP on a Budget

What to Do When Someone Is Infringing Your IP

23 November 2016

5.30 pm to 8pm

14 South Square, Gray’s Inn, London, WC1R 5JJ

This seminar will explain strategies for enforcing your IP without breaking the bank and how disputes can often be settled well before they reach Court, even if you are an SME and the infringer a multinational.

There will also be an interactive case study to illustrate the points made.

Attendees will have the opportunity to ask specific questions about their own IP situation. There will also be plenty of time for relaxed networking.

This event is open to cleantech companies throughout the UK and Ireland and is FREE.

This is a golden opportunity for any cleantech business to receive direction from one of the leading firms of patent attorneys active in this space.

Special Interest Group

IP Snakes & Ladders

19 April 2016

5.30 pm to 9pm

14 South Square, Gray’s Inn, London, WC1R 5JJ

J A Kemp is hosting this ninth London Cleantech Cluster IP Special Interest Group.

On Tuesday 19 April, J A Kemp partner Tom Albertini will be leading an informal and helpful seminar where he will discuss what startup businesses need to know regarding branding, trade marks, designs and copyright.

Compared to big businesses, startups face more acute pressures in terms of money, time and staying on the cutting edge. This means that having the right IP protection at the right time is crucial to support your business plan.

The session is aimed specifically at startups and entrepreneurs. It will cover aspects of trade marks, designs, copyright and confidential information. Questions Tom will be answering during this seminar include:

• If ideas per se cannot be protected, what can be protected?
• How do I ensure my chosen brand is available to use and protect, free from objection from third parties?
• How do I protect a brand name/logo?
• What is copyright and when does it subsist (focussing in particular on copyright issues surrounding logos)?
• How do I prove ownership?
• What should I do to ensure I own the rights if I employ a designer?
• What are design rights and how can I protect them?
• What are patents and what do they protect?
• I need to disclose my ideas and my IP rights; how do I make sure my position is protected?
• How can I exploit my IP rights to generate revenue for my business?

Attendees will have the opportunity to ask specific questions about their own IP situation, as well as learn about the fundamental concepts involved in protecting their intellectual property in the clean technology context. There will also be refreshments and plenty of time for networking. This event is open to all cleantech businesses and is free to attend.

In addition to all this, J A Kemp will be giving away two CleanSpace™ Tags, worth £75 each at the event. The Tag, the world’s first FREEVOLT powered consumer electronic device, is a portable air pollution sensor that enables you to track your personal pollution exposure so you can see what you are actually breathing in, in real-time. The Tag connects to your phone via Bluetooth and sends carbon monoxide levels to the CleanSpace app. The air pollution data is then anonymised, aggregated and combined with data from all the other Tags across the UK. The Tag features FREEVOLT™ technology which harvests ambient RF energy to charge this low energy device. CleanSpace and FREEVOLT are the brainchild of J A Kemp’s cleantech client Lord Paul Drayson and his team at Drayson Technologies Limited. To find out more about CleanSpace: https://store.clean.space/. To find out more about FREEVOLT: getfreevolt.com.

Protecting Your IP when Crowdfunding

Wednesday 11 November 2015

5.30 pm to 9pm

14 South Square, Gray’s Inn, London, WC1R 5JJ

J A Kemp is hosting this eighth London Cleantech Cluster IP Special Interest Group shortly.

Crowdfunding, unlike some other forms of raising finance, involves dealing with the general public and so any statements made during the funding process will be made openly in the public domain. This has implications for IP, both from a business integrity perspective and from an IP protection viewpoint. Does IP strengthen your proposal? What can you disclose without undermining any future IP? Do potential investors need to know how your innovation works?

Attendees will have the opportunity to ask specific questions about their own IP situation, as well as learn about the fundamental concepts involved in protecting their intellectual property in the clean technology context. There will also be a case study on Den Automation, a cleantech client of J A Kemp’s which has completed two successful rounds of funding on Seedrs after protecting its intellectual property rights. There will also be refreshments and plenty of time for networking. This event is open to all cleantech businesses and is free to attend.

IP: What Investors Are Looking For – And Avoiding The Many Pitfalls

Monday 13 July 2015

5.30 pm to 9pm

14 South Square, Gray’s Inn, London, WC1R 5JJ

J A Kemp is hosting this seventh London Cleantech Cluster IP Special Interest Group.

Investors have a certain way of looking at IP and invariably require it to be protected to reduce the risks associated with the investment. This seminar will assess the importance of IP protection from the viewpoint of investors and look at some specific case studies involving clean technologies, analysing the strategies that were followed to protect the commercial value embedded in the technology.

Attendees will have the opportunity to ask specific questions about their own IP situation, as well as learn about the fundamental concepts involved in protecting their intellectual property in the clean technology context. There will also be refreshments and plenty of time for networking. This event is open to all cleantech businesses and is free to attend.

J A Kemp is a leading UK and European Patent and Trade Mark Attorney firm that combines independent thinking with collective excellence. As a Diamond Member of the London Cleantech Cluster, J A Kemp is hosting this London Cleantech Cluster IP Special Interest Group. This is open to all cleantech businesses and is a FREE event.

What to do when someone is infringing your IP – Yes, SMEs can afford to enforce their IP

Wednesday 18 March

5.30 – 9.00pm

14 South Square, Gray’s Inn, London, WC1R 5JJ

J A Kemp is a leading UK and European Patent and Trade Mark Attorney firm that combines independent thinking with collective excellence. As a Diamond Member of the London Cleantech Cluster, J A Kemp is hosting this sixth London Cleantech Cluster IP Special Interest Group. This is open to all cleantech businesses and is a FREE event.

This seminar will explain strategies for enforcing your IP and how disputes can often be settled well before they reach Court, even if you are an SME and the infringer a multinational.

There will also be an interactive case study to illustrate the points made.

Attendees will have the opportunity to ask specific questions about their own IP situation. There will also be plenty of time for relaxed networking.

This event is open to cleantech companies throughout the UK and Ireland and is FREE.

This is a golden opportunity for any cleantech business to receive direction from one of the leading firms of patent attorneys active in this space.

What Investors are Looking for and avoiding the Pitfalls

Webinar 12.30-13.30 Tuesday 2 December with

J A Kemp is hosting a free webinar on the subject of ‘What investors are looking for and avoiding the pitfalls’for all businesses.

This webinar will highlight the points that investors typically consider in their due diligence and the steps you can take to minimise problems that often arise so you are in a better position to answer questions that are raised.

Time: 12.30pm – 1.30pm

Date: Tuesday 2 December 2014

IP Strategies for Cleantech Companies

9 October 2014

5.30 pm to 9pm

14 South Square, Gray’s Inn, London, WC1R 5JJ

J A Kemp is a leading UK and European Patent and Trade Mark Attorney firm that combines independent thinking with collective excellence. As a Diamond Member of the London Cleantech Cluster, they are hosting the fifth London Cleantech Cluster Special Interest Group on the subject of ‘IP Strategies for Cleantech Companies’ on 9 October 2014. This is open to all cleantech businesses and is a free event.

Protecting IP can be any combination of cost-effective or expensive and ineffectual or efficient. Sometimes it is right to protect the IP through a registered patent, other times its efficacy is open to question and occasionally it can be the wrong thing to do.

With new markets, open source IP can be the way forward, in which case IP protection can be unhelpful! In major global markets, a readily re-engineered product may need a significant amount of protection, but that may also require the will to contest IP in foreign jurisdictions.

J A Kemp will use clean technology case studies to analyse the strategies followed to protect the commercial value embedded in the technology. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask specific questions about their own IP situation, as well as learn about the fundamental concepts involved in protecting their intellectual property in the clean technology context. There will also be plenty of time for networking.

IP for Entrepreneurs

Wednesday 9 July 2014

5.30 pm to 9pm

14 South Square, Gray’s Inn, London, WC1R 5JJ

J A Kemp is a leading UK and European Patent and Trade Mark Attorney firm that combines independent thinking with collective excellence. As a Diamond Member of the London Cleantech Cluster, they are hosting the fourth London Cleantech Cluster Special Interest Group on the subject of ‘IP for Entrepreneurs’ on 9 July 2014. This is open to all cleantech businesses and is a free event.

Entrepreneurs approach us with a variety of business strategies and we will provide a short presentation looking at the different forms of IP that may apply. This will be followed by some interactive case studies covering some typical cleantech business ideas:

● An app based business using big data
● A new spin on an old idea
● An entirely new product in an existing market
● A new technology creating an ongoing consumables market

More Bang For Your Buck From Your IP

Wednesday 26 March 2014

5.30 pm to 9pm

14 South Square, Gray’s Inn, London, WC1R 5JJ

At this third meeting, the SIG will look at quite a range of different things, but all linked by the idea of getting the most out of your IP. As usual, the format of the evening will be a presentation followed by a case study, with plenty of time for questions and networking as well. In particular, the sesion will look at how to:

• Get the right IP in place

• Put your IP to work

• Communicate effectively with your IP advisers

• Communicate effectively with the outside world

• Make the most of relevant tax breaks: the patent box and R&D tax credits

IP: What Investors Are Looking For – And Avoiding The Many Pitfalls

Tuesday 1 October 2013

5.30 pm to 9pm

14 South Square, Gray’s Inn, London, WC1R 5JJ

At this second meeting, the SIG will assess the importance of IP protection from the viewpoint of investors and look at some specific case studies involving clean technologies and analyse the strategies that were followed to protect the commercial value embedded in the technology. Investors have a certain way of looking at IP and invariably require it to be protected in the way they know best.

As well as the strong J A Kemp team, attendees will have the added benefit of Colin McCall from Taylor Wessing LLP covering the legal agreement side of things.

Special Interest Group: Green IP

Wednesday 19 June 2013

5.30 pm to 9pm

14 South Square, Gray’s Inn, London, WC1R 5JJ

At this first meeting, the SIG will look at some specific case studies involving clean technologies and analyse the strategies that were followed to protect the commercial value embedded in the technology.

Attendees will have the opportunity to ask the team of patent attorneys from the firm specific questions about their own IP situation, as well as learn about the fundamental concepts involved in protecting their intellectual property in the clean technology context. This is a golden opportunity for any cleantech business to receive direction from one of the leading firms of patent attorneys active in this space.