A pioneer in the world of university tech transfer to share his insights in a free webinar

IP Finance has been informed of an exciting free webinar that will take place next Wednesday, November 15, at 3:00 PM- 4:00 pm British Standard

Time. The topic of the program, under the auspices of OxFirst, will be "Academic Entrepreneurship & IP Management in Universities" and the speaker will be the distinguished Professor Graham Richards. Prof Richards was a founding member of Oxford University’s tech transfer office and a successful inventor, whose IP formed the foundation of a multi-million publicly traded company. He will talk about the core elements of turning science into business.

About the Speaker

Professor Graham Richards is a pioneer of British technology transfer. The university spin out that he established -- Oxford Molecular Group, was the first university spin out after the UK introduced a regulatory change that attributed the IPR generated in a university context to the university itself. Under the leadership of Professor Richards, Oxford Molecular Plc grew from a £350,000 start-up to a £450 million public company. He is also a founding member of the Technology Transfer Office of the University of Oxford and he was a director there for over 20 years. Another flagship project is the publicly traded company IP Group Plc. Originally created out of the necessity to attract further funding for the chemistry department of the University of Oxford, it is nowadays one of the most important investors in technology generated by universities. IP Group Plc is a FTSE 250 company with a market cap of £1 billion.

How to Join

Please sign up here with your professional email account. The program organizers will not accept a registration from a personal email address.

New OxFirst webinar to share wisdom on IP valuation

IP Finance friend OxFirst Ltd is putting on another of its excellent webinar programs, this time on the topic--"Embracing the IP Valuation Universe”. CDP- Accredited, the Webinar will take place on October 4, 2017 - 15.00 BST = 16.00 CET - 09:00 CDT. The speaker will be Dominika Boehm, Senior IP Counsel Siemens AG. She will address that most basic yet analytically elusive of IP topics-- IP valuation, providing fresh insights into how it impacts at the core of the sale of IP rights, licensing transactions and litigation.

Dominika Boehm works in the Licensing and Transactions department at Siemens AG, where she is responsible for conducting monetary valuations of intellectual property and counseling and consulting internals stakeholders on various IP valuation topics. She is currently coordinating a task force on IP valuation and monetization at the International Chamber of Commerce. She also coordinated a group of professionals with respect to the sub-section “Valuation and Monetization of intellectual property assets” for the newly prepared edition of the ICC 2017 IP Roadmap.

OxFirst advises that to join this module, one will need to please purchase a £10 pass from the link below.Upon receipt of payment, OxFirst we will send you the necessary login information via email.

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Webinar on "The Economic Contribution of IP Rights"

OxFirst has announced a free webinar, entitled “The Economic Contribution of IP Rights”, to take place on December 8, 2016, at 14:00 GMT (being 15:00 CET and 9:00 am Eastern Standard Time). The speaker will be Dr. Nathan Wajsman, Chief Economist of EUIPO.

The webinar will build on prior work carried out by Dr. Wajsman. The first phase of the IP Contribution study was published in September 2013 and shows which industries are IPR-intensive and measures their contribution to GDP, employment, international trade and wages in 2008-2010 at EU, as well as country, level. (A similar study was published for the US by the USPTO in 2012.) In October 2016, an update of the EU study was published, considering the period between 2011-2013. The IP rights considered in the most recent study include patents, trademarks, registered designs, copyright, geographical indications and plant variety rights.

In addition to the industry-level study, the EUIPO has also conducted research to estimate the contribution of IP rights at the individual firm level. This study was published in June 2015 and the IP rights included in this study are trademarks, patents and designs, both European and national (in 12 EU Member States covering about 80% of EU’s economy). In the study, the economic performance of firms that are owners of IPRs is compared with those that do not own any of the three IPRs. The study is based on a statistical analysis of more than 2 million firms and an econometric model based on data for 130,000 firms.

In the webinar, Dr. Wajsman will present the results of the two studies and discuss possible future research on the relationship between IP and economic performance.

For registration and more information, please consult the attached link.