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:
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Qatar Foundation, Qatar
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University of Vienna, Austria
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Inventtory, Germany
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Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
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KU Leuven, Belgium
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