IP decision-making in KTOs often involves choosing between different protection routes, including but not limited to patent filing. KTO professionals must choose the right protection approach for complex technologies, mixed IP assets, and uncertain pathways to impact, often under budget and timing pressure. This makes strategic IP decision-making a core KTO competency: not simply deciding whether something can be protected but deciding how protection can best support future impact.
This masterclass focuses on the strategic use of IP in KTO decision-making. The session assumes familiarity with patents and other IP rights and focuses instead on how they are used strategically to assess disclosures, select protection routes, and decide when to file, hold, decline, or use non-patent and layered protection strategies. It covers patenting decisions, trade secrets, copyright, know-how, and mixed or layered protection approaches. The session is practice-oriented and designed for professionals who want to strengthen their strategic judgment in making defensible, impact-led IP decisions.
This masterclass is designed for KTO professionals involved in IP evaluation, strategy, and protection decisions; IP managers and innovation officers in academic or public-sector institutions; and legal advisors working on IP policy or research-related agreements. Participants are assumed to have some familiarity with IP fundamentals. The session is strategic and practice-oriented, not a legal deep dive.
By the end of this masterclass, participants will have a clearer framework for:
I strongly recommend the course, even if you are not going to set-up an office but you are part of the team that wants to change or improve how technology transfer is done at your institution.
Ricardo Castro
Centre for research in agricultural Genomics, Spain
Starting or changing any procedure at a TTO/Institution is challenging and I could not think of anything better than learning with the best.
Ricardo Castro
Centre for research in agricultural Genomics, Spain
Recent studies on both sides of the Atlantic, directed by either ASTP or AUTM, demonstrate the tremendous economic and societal benefit and value technology transfer has brought us.
Koenraad Debackere
KU Leuven, Belgium
This was the right decision giving me the broadest overview, confidence, tools, network and support that is fundamental to feel right in my daily decision process and to keep on learning.
Ricardo Castro
Centre for research in agricultural Genomics, Spain
ASTP Annual conference is a unique opportunity to take time to exchange best practices among TT professionals and to network at an EU level.
Cécile Cavalade
ULB TTO, Belgium
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