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Money Monopoly : IPMKTN Webinar Series
Tue 21st Oct 2008
Integrated Products Manufacturing KTN Webinar Series – 10:00am, Tuesday 21 October 2008
Title: Monopoly Money: How to Protect and Exploit Your Intellectual Property
Presented by: Dr Mark Lewney, The UK Intellectual Property Office, http://www.ipo.gov.uk/
Synopsis: Dr Lewney will explain what exactly the term Intellectual Property means and how to go about applying for a patent. Dr Lewney will also discuss how and why innovations need to be protected including what is excluded from patentability. There will also be a question and answer session at the end of the webinar for participants to ask Mark specific queries relating to patents and Intellectual Property.
Who Should Attend: This event will be of particular interest to anyone wanting to learn more about Intellectual Property and the patent process.
Bio: Dr Mark Lewney completed a PhD in acoustics at Cardiff University before becoming a Patent Examiner at the UK IPO in 2001. He has presented many public science shows and specialist IP talks and won the 2005 FameLab competition aimed at finding new science communicators.
Interested? If you are interested in participating in the webinar please email Kathryn Latham, k.l.latham@lboro.ac.uk. This is to get an indication of numbers attending the event.
Instructions for Set Up: If you have not participated in an Interwise online meeting before, you may like to join this event 10 or 15 minutes early to allow time for installing the software. You may also like to attend the drop-in session (see below). If your computer is protected by a corporate firewall, you may have difficulty connecting to the event; we recommend that you take advantage of the drop-in session (details below) to test your connection before the day of the seminar.
In order to participate fully in the session you will also need a headset (i.e. combining headphones and a microphone) or a PC equipped with loudspeakers and a microphone. If you prefer, you can just listen in to the presentation and discussion using headphones (or speakers) alone. The conference centre ID is: 765622
For instructions on how to download the Interwise software and access the conference centre please click the following link:
http://tinyurl.com/2zl29j
http://tinyurl.com/2zl29j
Please note, if you are having problems accessing the event from the conference centre, clicking the link below will take you directly to the live event. This way of entering the event will only be available on the day and up to 30 mins before the webinar:
http://fcf.interwise.com/fcf/meet/?ExEventID=765622
Date for Drop - in Session: An Interwise drop-in session will be held on Monday 20 October 2008 from 10:30am – 11:30am.The session will provide users with the opportunity to get comfortable using the conferencing software and solve any technical problems gaining access to Interwise meetings before the seminar itself. Please use link below to access the drop in session (only available up 30mins before the event)
http://fcf.interwise.com/fcf/meet/?ExEventID=607887