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1st Cambridge Information & Intellectual Property Meeting

13th July 2016

Homerton College Conference Centre Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PH PROGRAMME SPEAKERS

Jaideep Prabhu, Judge Business School

Frugal innovation: How to do more (and better) with less Over 4 billion people around the world, most of them in developing countries, live outside the formal economy and face significant unmet needs in core areas such as 1:30pm Registration, tea/coffee – Exhibition health, education, energy, food, and financial services. For years this large population was either the target of aid or was left to the mercy of governments. More recently, 2 pm Introduction and Welcome however, private sector firms, both large and small, have begun to see the bottom of the Stuart Newbold (Chair) pyramid as a market opportunity and have begun to design market-based solutions to meet unmet needs. 2:05pm Frugal innovation: How to do more (and better) with less Meanwhile in the developed world, declining real incomes and government spending, accompanied by Jaideep Prabhu, Judge Business School greater concerns about the environment, are making consumers both value and values conscious. Further, more and more people in the West are empowered to do with limited resources what only large 2:35pm IP for technology startups firms could do in the past. Ubiquitous tools and technologies such as smart phones, cloud computing, Stuart Raynor, J A Kemp 3D printers, crowdfunding, and social media, have given rise to grassroots innovation and entrepreneurship exemplified by the maker movement and the sharing economy. 3pm Keeping the commercialisation window open This talk will discuss how the phenomenon of frugal innovation—the creation of faster, better and Jane List, Extract Information cheaper solutions that employ minimal resources—which was once the preserve of the developing world is now taking off in the West as well. It will argue that frugal innovation holds the key to driving 3:25pm Patent Box uncovered global growth by employing more people creatively and solving some of the big problems of poverty and Rachel Hodge, HMRC, Leicester Incentives & Reliefs Unit inequality that stalk the planet. He will highlight examples of such innovation by entrepreneurs, emerging market firms and multinationals, and will end with implications of frugal innovation for large 3:50pm Tea/coffee – Exhibition and small firms alike. 4:20pm Welcome back Jaideep Prabhu is Professor of Marketing, Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise, Jane List (Chair) and Director of the Centre for India & Global Business at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. 4:25pm Establishing Freedom to Operate He has a BTech degree from IIT Delhi and a PhD from the University of Southern California, and has held positions at Cambridge, Imperial College London, Tilburg University (the Netherlands), and UCLA. Stuart Newbold, PSIM His research interests are in marketing, innovation, strategy and international business. In particular, he 4:45pm Common misconceptions of interpreting patent data studies various cross-national issues concerning the antecedents and consequences of radical innovation in high-technology contexts. His current research is mainly on how multinationals are using emerging Peter Evans, Intellectual Property Office markets in Asia, Latin America and Africa as a lab to do affordable and sustainable innovation for global 5:10pm Collaboration Dos and Don’ts from the perspective of MRC Technology application. Jaideep has published in, and is on the editorial board of, leading international journals such as the Pauline Stasiak, MRC Technology Journal of Marketing and the International Journal of Research in Marketing. He has appeared on BBC 5:35pm IP Analytics: Prepare for collaborative opportunities News24, BBC Radio 4 and Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and his work has been profiled in BusinessWeek, BBC World Service, The Economic Times, The Economist, The Financial Times, Le Monde, MIT Sloan Nigel Swycher, Aistemos Management Review, The New York Times, The Sunday Times and The Times. He has consulted with, 5:55pm Closing remarks taught executives from or made keynote speeches at ABN Amro, Bertelsmann AG, Barclays, BP, BRAC, BT, the UK Government, EDS, Egg, GE, IBM, ING Bank, Laird, Marks and Spencer, the NHS, Nokia, Pearson, Jane List/Stuart Newbold (Chair) Philips, Renault-Nissan, Roche, Shell, Siemens, Unilever, Vodafone and Xerox, among others. 6pm Drinks, canapes – Exhibition He is the co-author of Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth, described by The Economist as “the most comprehensive book yet” on the subject of frugal innovation. His most recent book is Frugal Innovation: How to do More with Less. PROGRAMME SPEAKERS

Jaideep Prabhu, Judge Business School

Frugal innovation: How to do more (and better) with less Over 4 billion people around the world, most of them in developing countries, live outside the formal economy and face significant unmet needs in core areas such as 1:30pm Registration, tea/coffee – Exhibition health, education, energy, food, and financial services. For years this large population was either the target of aid or was left to the mercy of governments. More recently, 2 pm Introduction and Welcome however, private sector firms, both large and small, have begun to see the bottom of the Stuart Newbold (Chair) pyramid as a market opportunity and have begun to design market-based solutions to meet unmet needs. 2:05pm Frugal innovation: How to do more (and better) with less Meanwhile in the developed world, declining real incomes and government spending, accompanied by Jaideep Prabhu, Judge Business School greater concerns about the environment, are making consumers both value and values conscious. Further, more and more people in the West are empowered to do with limited resources what only large 2:35pm IP for technology startups firms could do in the past. Ubiquitous tools and technologies such as smart phones, cloud computing, Stuart Raynor, J A Kemp 3D printers, crowdfunding, and social media, have given rise to grassroots innovation and entrepreneurship exemplified by the maker movement and the sharing economy. 3pm Keeping the commercialisation window open This talk will discuss how the phenomenon of frugal innovation—the creation of faster, better and Jane List, Extract Information cheaper solutions that employ minimal resources—which was once the preserve of the developing world is now taking off in the West as well. It will argue that frugal innovation holds the key to driving 3:25pm Patent Box uncovered global growth by employing more people creatively and solving some of the big problems of poverty and Rachel Hodge, HMRC, Leicester Incentives & Reliefs Unit inequality that stalk the planet. He will highlight examples of such innovation by entrepreneurs, emerging market firms and multinationals, and will end with implications of frugal innovation for large 3:50pm Tea/coffee – Exhibition and small firms alike. 4:20pm Welcome back Jaideep Prabhu is Professor of Marketing, Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise, Jane List (Chair) and Director of the Centre for India & Global Business at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. 4:25pm Establishing Freedom to Operate He has a BTech degree from IIT Delhi and a PhD from the University of Southern California, and has held positions at Cambridge, Imperial College London, Tilburg University (the Netherlands), and UCLA. Stuart Newbold, PSIM His research interests are in marketing, innovation, strategy and international business. In particular, he 4:45pm Common misconceptions of interpreting patent data studies various cross-national issues concerning the antecedents and consequences of radical innovation in high-technology contexts. His current research is mainly on how multinationals are using emerging Peter Evans, Intellectual Property Office markets in Asia, Latin America and Africa as a lab to do affordable and sustainable innovation for global 5:10pm Collaboration Dos and Don’ts from the perspective of MRC Technology application. Jaideep has published in, and is on the editorial board of, leading international journals such as the Pauline Stasiak, MRC Technology Journal of Marketing and the International Journal of Research in Marketing. He has appeared on BBC 5:35pm IP Analytics: Prepare for collaborative opportunities News24, BBC Radio 4 and Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and his work has been profiled in BusinessWeek, BBC World Service, The Economic Times, The Economist, The Financial Times, Le Monde, MIT Sloan Nigel Swycher, Aistemos Management Review, The New York Times, The Sunday Times and The Times. He has consulted with, 5:55pm Closing remarks taught executives from or made keynote speeches at ABN Amro, Bertelsmann AG, Barclays, BP, BRAC, BT, the UK Government, EDS, Egg, GE, IBM, ING Bank, Laird, Marks and Spencer, the NHS, Nokia, Pearson, Jane List/Stuart Newbold (Chair) Philips, Renault-Nissan, Roche, Shell, Siemens, Unilever, Vodafone and Xerox, among others. 6pm Drinks, canapes – Exhibition He is the co-author of Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth, described by The Economist as “the most comprehensive book yet” on the subject of frugal innovation. His most recent book is Frugal Innovation: How to do More with Less. SPEAKERS SPEAKERS

Stuart Raynor, J A Kemp Stuart Newbold, PSIM

IP for technology startups Establishing Freedom to Operate Technology startups face different challenges compared to more established businesses in terms of The research and development process is often complex, time-consuming and costly. It is the pressures of money, time and delivering products to market. The talk will discuss the different vital to determine whether devices, products or processes can be commercialised without types of intellectual property and will focus on how to make the most of the options available. In infringing third-party IP rights, allowing potential problems and legal disputes to be particular, a range of intellectual property options can be utilised to maximise the protection for identified early and avoided. The method used to assess these risks is a Freedom to your innovations. Some worked examples will also be provided to show the factors which need to Operate (FTO) analysis, which identifies and makes a detailed assessment of any IP rights or be considered to ensure that your intellectual property best supports your business plan. applications at risk of being infringed. Without it, organisations put themselves at great financial and strategic risk. Stuart Raynor is a patent attorney and partner at J A Kemp. He has over 15 years' professional Because FTO analysis searches are designed to identify potential infringements, search strategies are experience and handles work across a wide variety of chemical subject matter. He works for a wide range often only written with a focus on the claims of granted patents, patent applications or utility models, in of clients including academic institutions, startup companies and multinational conglomerates. A jurisdictions of interest. Yet claims at later prosecution stages and in multiple granted documents from significant proportion of his work involves the prosecution of cases before the European Patent Office the same first-filing (equivalents) often change substantially from those originally found in the first-filed (EPO). Stuart has extensive experience of EPO opposition and appeal proceedings and attends numerous applications. Potential dangers include detailed indexing (in even the highest-quality patent databases) hearings each year. He is also head of the search department at J A Kemp. Stuart has a Masters Degree in which still only reflect the claims scope in the very first published application. Experienced FTO Natural Sciences and a PhD in Organometallic Chemistry both from the University of Cambridge. practitioners will understand these issues and use approaches which consider the breadth of the description as well as the claims, and also databases with multiple equivalents. FTO practitioners will also detail the legal status of identified third party IP including checks for supplementary legal protection Jane List, Extract Information certificates where applicable, and results will be presented in a well-structured search report for even further evaluation by a qualified patent attorney. Keeping the commercialisation window open This talk will provide a clear overview of the area and illustrate both potential pitfalls and successful Information flow can be an important factor in understanding how long the commercialisation approaches to FTO analysis and how the searcher, attorney, and client can together establish a clear view window can be left open for technologists. In this talk Jane will call upon experience gained of freedom to operate. working with companies bringing innovative technologies into the marketplace to help review handling your own information flow; when to seek external information, the type of information Stuart Newbold has worked for over 25 years in the information industry and is currently Principal of needed: patent, IP, financial, market, company, technical, and how this can help with decision Patent Search and Information Management Limited. Stuart developed searching skills working on patent making. and scientific literature databases at Thomson-Reuters and the Royal Society of Chemistry, before taking on a role as Head of Information at Astex Therapeutics from 2003-2013. Over 25 years, Stuart has Jane List founded Extract Information in 2013, after 20 years in the information industry, and performed hundreds of FTO analyses using high-quality commercial online databases, with a high level of technology consulting. She continues to work on commercial and intellectual property (IP) aspects of new experience of information retrieval, reporting and analysis in the areas of life sciences, chemistry and technology development for high technology, life sciences, media, governmental and public sector clients. polymers. Stuart is recognised in the industry as an expert in Markush chemical structure searching. In Using her experience, and searching of distributed sources of information to find her clients the answers addition to a BSc Polymer Chemistry, London Metropolitan University Stuart has a Masters Degree in they need, and provides synthetic and contextual reports for decision making. Jane has qualifications in Business Administration (MBA), from the Open University Business School. intellectual property law, information science and chemistry. In 2014 Jane became co-editor in chief of World Patent Information journal. Peter Evans, Intellectual Property Office

Common misconceptions of interpreting patent data Rachel Hodge, HMRC, Leicester Incentives & Reliefs Unit This presentation considers how to analyse patent data and interpret patent statistics; highlighting some of the topics discussed within The Patent Guide. Patent Box uncovered An introduction to the UK Patent Box regime outlining which companies can benefit from the Peter Evans has been a data manager, analyst and economist at the Intellectual Property regime, the basic principles on which the regime is based and how the scheme works to Office since 2010. He works within the Informatics team to provide management benefit UK companies. Followed by a brief update on the amended regime which commenced information and business intelligence for internal and public audiences. He is responsible on 1 July 2016 and the transitional arrangements in place until 2021. for the IPO open data and produced The Patent Guide, a handbook for analysing and interpreting patent data. Rachel Hodge has worked for HMRC since 2013. In 2009 she joined the Leicester Incentives & Reliefs Unit and since that time has been a specialist on the R&D and Patent Box regimes, working collaboratively with companies and their agents to get their claims correct and raising awareness and knowledge about the schemes. SPEAKERS SPEAKERS

Stuart Raynor, J A Kemp Stuart Newbold, PSIM

IP for technology startups Establishing Freedom to Operate Technology startups face different challenges compared to more established businesses in terms of The research and development process is often complex, time-consuming and costly. It is the pressures of money, time and delivering products to market. The talk will discuss the different vital to determine whether devices, products or processes can be commercialised without types of intellectual property and will focus on how to make the most of the options available. In infringing third-party IP rights, allowing potential problems and legal disputes to be particular, a range of intellectual property options can be utilised to maximise the protection for identified early and avoided. The method used to assess these risks is a Freedom to your innovations. Some worked examples will also be provided to show the factors which need to Operate (FTO) analysis, which identifies and makes a detailed assessment of any IP rights or be considered to ensure that your intellectual property best supports your business plan. applications at risk of being infringed. Without it, organisations put themselves at great financial and strategic risk. Stuart Raynor is a patent attorney and partner at J A Kemp. He has over 15 years' professional Because FTO analysis searches are designed to identify potential infringements, search strategies are experience and handles work across a wide variety of chemical subject matter. He works for a wide range often only written with a focus on the claims of granted patents, patent applications or utility models, in of clients including academic institutions, startup companies and multinational conglomerates. A jurisdictions of interest. Yet claims at later prosecution stages and in multiple granted documents from significant proportion of his work involves the prosecution of cases before the European Patent Office the same first-filing (equivalents) often change substantially from those originally found in the first-filed (EPO). Stuart has extensive experience of EPO opposition and appeal proceedings and attends numerous applications. Potential dangers include detailed indexing (in even the highest-quality patent databases) hearings each year. He is also head of the search department at J A Kemp. Stuart has a Masters Degree in which still only reflect the claims scope in the very first published application. Experienced FTO Natural Sciences and a PhD in Organometallic Chemistry both from the University of Cambridge. practitioners will understand these issues and use approaches which consider the breadth of the description as well as the claims, and also databases with multiple equivalents. FTO practitioners will also detail the legal status of identified third party IP including checks for supplementary legal protection Jane List, Extract Information certificates where applicable, and results will be presented in a well-structured search report for even further evaluation by a qualified patent attorney. Keeping the commercialisation window open This talk will provide a clear overview of the area and illustrate both potential pitfalls and successful Information flow can be an important factor in understanding how long the commercialisation approaches to FTO analysis and how the searcher, attorney, and client can together establish a clear view window can be left open for technologists. In this talk Jane will call upon experience gained of freedom to operate. working with companies bringing innovative technologies into the marketplace to help review handling your own information flow; when to seek external information, the type of information Stuart Newbold has worked for over 25 years in the information industry and is currently Principal of needed: patent, IP, financial, market, company, technical, and how this can help with decision Patent Search and Information Management Limited. Stuart developed searching skills working on patent making. and scientific literature databases at Thomson-Reuters and the Royal Society of Chemistry, before taking on a role as Head of Information at Astex Therapeutics from 2003-2013. Over 25 years, Stuart has Jane List founded Extract Information in 2013, after 20 years in the information industry, and performed hundreds of FTO analyses using high-quality commercial online databases, with a high level of technology consulting. She continues to work on commercial and intellectual property (IP) aspects of new experience of information retrieval, reporting and analysis in the areas of life sciences, chemistry and technology development for high technology, life sciences, media, governmental and public sector clients. polymers. Stuart is recognised in the industry as an expert in Markush chemical structure searching. In Using her experience, and searching of distributed sources of information to find her clients the answers addition to a BSc Polymer Chemistry, London Metropolitan University Stuart has a Masters Degree in they need, and provides synthetic and contextual reports for decision making. Jane has qualifications in Business Administration (MBA), from the Open University Business School. intellectual property law, information science and chemistry. In 2014 Jane became co-editor in chief of World Patent Information journal. Peter Evans, Intellectual Property Office

Common misconceptions of interpreting patent data Rachel Hodge, HMRC, Leicester Incentives & Reliefs Unit This presentation considers how to analyse patent data and interpret patent statistics; highlighting some of the topics discussed within The Patent Guide. Patent Box uncovered An introduction to the UK Patent Box regime outlining which companies can benefit from the Peter Evans has been a data manager, analyst and economist at the Intellectual Property regime, the basic principles on which the regime is based and how the scheme works to Office since 2010. He works within the Informatics team to provide management benefit UK companies. Followed by a brief update on the amended regime which commenced information and business intelligence for internal and public audiences. He is responsible on 1 July 2016 and the transitional arrangements in place until 2021. for the IPO open data and produced The Patent Guide, a handbook for analysing and interpreting patent data. Rachel Hodge has worked for HMRC since 2013. In 2009 she joined the Leicester Incentives & Reliefs Unit and since that time has been a specialist on the R&D and Patent Box regimes, working collaboratively with companies and their agents to get their claims correct and raising awareness and knowledge about the schemes. SPEAKERS SPONSORS

Aistemos revolutionises how intellectual property is understood and exploited. Aistemos has brought together the best of Intellectual Property and Data Science to develop world-class analytics. www.aistemos.com

Pauline Stasiak, MRC Technology

Collaboration: Dos and Don’ts from the perspective of MRC Technology Minesoft develops international searchable databases and web-based products for Intellectual Property research. We This talk will discuss how MRC Technology approaches collaborations with different types of parties, specialise in Patent Information, IP document retrieval, Patent Analytics, Patent Archiving and Competitive Intelligence Systems. Our solutions, developed by a strong in-house team, help organisations to harness the power of patent information both academic and industry, what makes for a good collaboration and where there might be pitfalls, throughout the innovation process, providing insights into technology trends and competition. Flagship product PatBase is a giving some examples of lessons learned from our experience. global patent database with built-in Analytics software. www.minesoft.com

Pauline Stasiak is a technology transfer professional with over 22 years’ experience in managing technology transfer for the charity sector. She has a degree in microbiology from University College London (UCL), and obtained her PhD in molecular and cell biology from the University of London, which was undertaken at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund under Birgit Lane and Professor Avrion Mitchison CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, is dedicated to the ACS vision of improving people's lives through the at UCL. This was followed by post-doctoral positions at Stanford University and British Bio-tech. transforming power of chemistry. The CAS team of highly trained scientists finds, collects and organises all publicly disclosed substance information, creating the world's most valuable collection of content that is vital to innovation worldwide. Scientific Her technology transfer experience was gained whilst working for the Ludwig Institute for Cancer researchers, patent professionals and business leaders around the world rely on a suite of research solutions from CAS that Research and for the last 10 years at MRCT where she leads a team of Senior Business Managers who enable discovery and facilitate workflows to fuel tomorrow’s innovation. www.cas.org identify MRC intellectual property in the life sciences and facilitate its translation and development to market, as well as a Charity Business Manager who manages MRCT’s IP management service to the charity sector. The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is the official UK government body responsible for intellectual property (IP) rights Whilst at MRCT she recommended and drove forward the implementation of changes to MRC’s IP Policy including patents, designs, trade marks and copyright. and sits on MRCT’s internal panel reviewing MRC projects for translational (gap) funding as well the panel Successful businesses understand the importance of protecting their Intellectual Property for brand names, new inventions, new designs and creative work. reviewing MRCT’s drug discovery projects. She developed and led MRCT’s relationship with their first IP will account for a large part of the value of most businesses. We can help you understand how your business will benefit external charity client, Worldwide Cancer Research (formerly the Association for International Cancer from identifying and valuing your IP. Research). www.gov.uk/government/organisations/intellectual-property-office Pauline has an MSc in the management of intellectual property from Queen Mary College London and is a member of the BioIndustry Association’s Intellectual Property Advisory Committee and the MS Society’s Intellectual Property Advisory Group. For several years she was on the Patent Board of Telethon, Italy, advising Telethon on intellectual property management and commercialisation strategy. She has been a judge for the Young Entrepreneurs Scheme run by the BBSRC and the University of Nottingham since 2011 J A Kemp is one of the largest UK and European patent and trade mark attorney firms, with offices in London, Oxford, and is a member of Cancer Research Technology’s Reagents Forum. Cambridge and Munich. J A Kemp’s patent attorneys draft, file and prosecute patent and trade mark applications in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world. The firm works for a huge variety of clients, from startups, spinouts and SMEs through to some of the largest corporate clients and most prestigious academic institutions in the world. The majority of the firm’s patent work is in the areas of biotechnology and life sciences, chemistry and pharmaceuticals, and engineering and IT. Nigel Swycher, Aistemos www.jakemp.co.uk

IP Analytics: Prepare for collaborative opportunities Who’s doing what is at the heart of all Competitive Intelligence projects, an essential prerequisite to identifying and distinguishing competitors and collaborators. Projects of this sort are at the heart of Birketts is a full service top 100 UK law firm with offices in Cambridge, Chelmsford, Ipswich and Norwich. More particularly, many business and IP strategy decisions. In a world where there are millions of patent, litigations Birketts has a strong IP & Technology team, which offers expert advice and assistance to our clients from small start-ups to and licenses, IP analytics now present new opportunities to make better decisions by providing fast large organisations. and accurate visualisations capable of being understood by the broader commercial team. Areas we work with clients on: ?Structuring - we have vast experience of establishing tax efficient, and robust corporate structures for early stage and developing technology businesses. Nigel Swycher is the founder and CEO of AISTEMOS, an IP strategy, analytics and risk management ?Funding - we regularly advise on angel and venture capital funding for both investors and investees. company with headquarters in London. AISTEMOS is involved in a range of initiatives aimed at ?Intellectual Property - our lawyers assist technology businesses on securing, protecting and exploiting their intellectual improving the quality of patent data is a director of ORoPO (the Open Register of Patent Ownership). property. Once safeguarded, IP rights can be bought and sold like any other asset, or they can be licensed to provide an Mr Swycher’s career includes the development of the IP, IT, e-commerce and outsourcing practices at ongoing revenue stream. We offer comprehensive legal services for all aspects of the commercial exploitation of IP. ?Commercialisation - we assist our technology clients grow and exploit their businesses through licensing agreements, leading law firm Slaughter and May in London (1985-2004). He subsequently led the technology practice manufacturing agreements, research and development projects, joint ventures, cloud computing, e-commerce solutions, at Olswang LLP. Mr Swycher has advised extensively on the monetisation of patents and IP risk while ensuring their meet their statutory and regulatory obligations. management solutions. ?Disputes - enforcing intellectual property (IP) rights and advising on contractual and commercial disputes. Nigel was born in Sheffield. He was awarded first-class honours in law from Durham University and is a ?Acquisitions and Exits - assisting our technology clients grow through acquisitions to their businesses, and ultimately on exits, usually by trade sales. member of the Magic Circle. He is recognised by IAM Strategy 300 as a leader in the field. ?Searches and filing services to register your trade marks and designs at the UK, EU and international registries including handling oppositions and cancellation proceedings at the registries. www.birketts.co.uk SPEAKERS SPONSORS

Aistemos revolutionises how intellectual property is understood and exploited. Aistemos has brought together the best of Intellectual Property and Data Science to develop world-class analytics. www.aistemos.com

Pauline Stasiak, MRC Technology

Collaboration: Dos and Don’ts from the perspective of MRC Technology Minesoft develops international searchable databases and web-based products for Intellectual Property research. We This talk will discuss how MRC Technology approaches collaborations with different types of parties, specialise in Patent Information, IP document retrieval, Patent Analytics, Patent Archiving and Competitive Intelligence Systems. Our solutions, developed by a strong in-house team, help organisations to harness the power of patent information both academic and industry, what makes for a good collaboration and where there might be pitfalls, throughout the innovation process, providing insights into technology trends and competition. Flagship product PatBase is a giving some examples of lessons learned from our experience. global patent database with built-in Analytics software. www.minesoft.com

Pauline Stasiak is a technology transfer professional with over 22 years’ experience in managing technology transfer for the charity sector. She has a degree in microbiology from University College London (UCL), and obtained her PhD in molecular and cell biology from the University of London, which was undertaken at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund under Birgit Lane and Professor Avrion Mitchison CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, is dedicated to the ACS vision of improving people's lives through the at UCL. This was followed by post-doctoral positions at Stanford University and British Bio-tech. transforming power of chemistry. The CAS team of highly trained scientists finds, collects and organises all publicly disclosed substance information, creating the world's most valuable collection of content that is vital to innovation worldwide. Scientific Her technology transfer experience was gained whilst working for the Ludwig Institute for Cancer researchers, patent professionals and business leaders around the world rely on a suite of research solutions from CAS that Research and for the last 10 years at MRCT where she leads a team of Senior Business Managers who enable discovery and facilitate workflows to fuel tomorrow’s innovation. www.cas.org identify MRC intellectual property in the life sciences and facilitate its translation and development to market, as well as a Charity Business Manager who manages MRCT’s IP management service to the charity sector. The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is the official UK government body responsible for intellectual property (IP) rights Whilst at MRCT she recommended and drove forward the implementation of changes to MRC’s IP Policy including patents, designs, trade marks and copyright. and sits on MRCT’s internal panel reviewing MRC projects for translational (gap) funding as well the panel Successful businesses understand the importance of protecting their Intellectual Property for brand names, new inventions, new designs and creative work. reviewing MRCT’s drug discovery projects. She developed and led MRCT’s relationship with their first IP will account for a large part of the value of most businesses. We can help you understand how your business will benefit external charity client, Worldwide Cancer Research (formerly the Association for International Cancer from identifying and valuing your IP. Research). www.gov.uk/government/organisations/intellectual-property-office Pauline has an MSc in the management of intellectual property from Queen Mary College London and is a member of the BioIndustry Association’s Intellectual Property Advisory Committee and the MS Society’s Intellectual Property Advisory Group. For several years she was on the Patent Board of Telethon, Italy, advising Telethon on intellectual property management and commercialisation strategy. She has been a judge for the Young Entrepreneurs Scheme run by the BBSRC and the University of Nottingham since 2011 J A Kemp is one of the largest UK and European patent and trade mark attorney firms, with offices in London, Oxford, and is a member of Cancer Research Technology’s Reagents Forum. Cambridge and Munich. J A Kemp’s patent attorneys draft, file and prosecute patent and trade mark applications in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world. The firm works for a huge variety of clients, from startups, spinouts and SMEs through to some of the largest corporate clients and most prestigious academic institutions in the world. The majority of the firm’s patent work is in the areas of biotechnology and life sciences, chemistry and pharmaceuticals, and engineering and IT. Nigel Swycher, Aistemos www.jakemp.co.uk

IP Analytics: Prepare for collaborative opportunities Who’s doing what is at the heart of all Competitive Intelligence projects, an essential prerequisite to identifying and distinguishing competitors and collaborators. Projects of this sort are at the heart of Birketts is a full service top 100 UK law firm with offices in Cambridge, Chelmsford, Ipswich and Norwich. More particularly, many business and IP strategy decisions. In a world where there are millions of patent, litigations Birketts has a strong IP & Technology team, which offers expert advice and assistance to our clients from small start-ups to and licenses, IP analytics now present new opportunities to make better decisions by providing fast large organisations. and accurate visualisations capable of being understood by the broader commercial team. Areas we work with clients on: ?Structuring - we have vast experience of establishing tax efficient, and robust corporate structures for early stage and developing technology businesses. Nigel Swycher is the founder and CEO of AISTEMOS, an IP strategy, analytics and risk management ?Funding - we regularly advise on angel and venture capital funding for both investors and investees. company with headquarters in London. AISTEMOS is involved in a range of initiatives aimed at ?Intellectual Property - our lawyers assist technology businesses on securing, protecting and exploiting their intellectual improving the quality of patent data is a director of ORoPO (the Open Register of Patent Ownership). property. Once safeguarded, IP rights can be bought and sold like any other asset, or they can be licensed to provide an Mr Swycher’s career includes the development of the IP, IT, e-commerce and outsourcing practices at ongoing revenue stream. We offer comprehensive legal services for all aspects of the commercial exploitation of IP. ?Commercialisation - we assist our technology clients grow and exploit their businesses through licensing agreements, leading law firm Slaughter and May in London (1985-2004). He subsequently led the technology practice manufacturing agreements, research and development projects, joint ventures, cloud computing, e-commerce solutions, at Olswang LLP. Mr Swycher has advised extensively on the monetisation of patents and IP risk while ensuring their meet their statutory and regulatory obligations. management solutions. ?Disputes - enforcing intellectual property (IP) rights and advising on contractual and commercial disputes. Nigel was born in Sheffield. He was awarded first-class honours in law from Durham University and is a ?Acquisitions and Exits - assisting our technology clients grow through acquisitions to their businesses, and ultimately on exits, usually by trade sales. member of the Magic Circle. He is recognised by IAM Strategy 300 as a leader in the field. ?Searches and filing services to register your trade marks and designs at the UK, EU and international registries including handling oppositions and cancellation proceedings at the registries. www.birketts.co.uk ORGANISERS

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Extract Information Extract Information works with high technology and information industry companies, with a core base in the Cambridge area. Extract Information uses its knowledge of patents and the patent information industry, with technology commercialisation expertise to assist its clients by providing patent search, IP portfolio management, market and technology assessments. www.extractinfo.info

Patent Search & Information Management Ltd Based in Cambridge, PSIM provides professional patent, literature and competitive intelligence searching, patent formalities management, and information management advice. PSIM has extensive knowledge of patents and patent searching in the areas of life sciences, chemistry and polymers, with PSIM principal Stuart being recognised in the industry as an expert in Markush chemical structure searching. www.psandim.com