ben dempster m.a. (cambridge university) metallurgy and materials science chartered patent attorney...
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Ben Dempster
M.A. (Cambridge University) Metallurgy and Materials Science
Chartered Patent AttorneyEuropean Patent Attorney
Partner, Withers & Rogers LLP
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The Materials Entrepreneur
Intellectual Property
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Types of Intellectual Property
IPIP
PatentsUtility
Models
Registered Designs
Design Right
Plant varieties
Copyright
Know How
Common Law Trade
Marks
Registered Trade Marks
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Patents
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Patents
• Protect inventions.
• Monopoly right awarded by the state to encourage innovation.
• Not a right to do anything - a right to stop others.
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Invention Must Be New• An invention is new if it has not been
made available to the public by written or oral description, by use or in any other way.– third party disclosures– you - must keep secret
• USA is exception - one year grace period for disclosures by the inventor.
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International Convention• International (Paris) Convention - Priority
period: one year - patents
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Patents for the Same Invention• First to file
• First to invent - USA
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Patent?
• Patent it
• Keep it secret
• Decide to publish - open innovation
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Your patent attorney needs...
• the concept• why it is better than what has gone
before/what problem has been solved.• an example of how to do it• how might others, especially competitors,
do it• meeting to discuss, preferably notes
beforehand.
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Strategy - Business Objective
• Manufacturing and growth
• Sell the business
• License your technology
• Joint venture/cross licence
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Case Studies
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Manufacturing
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Dragon Plastics
• Based in Wales• Plastic screw caps and closures• Searches to identify technology gap• Invented one piece child resistant cap and
patented it• New market opened up, premium pricing• Used as springboard to expand into other
premium markets e.g. closures for cosmetics containers.
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Peter Savage Ltd
• Manhole covers and gully gratings
• New market sector• Searches• Design around• Protect and launch
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Sell the Business
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Europackaging
• Started in 1960's supplying Birmingham grocers with paper bags
• Sold in 2007 for £200m• A key ingredient for
success = protection around
plastic carrier bag dispensers
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Profile Therapeutics• Make nebulisers for administering
drugs for asthma • Invented and patented new faster
system to administer wider range of drugs
• Floated on LSE to raise the money to invest to bring to market
• Now acquired by major US corporation
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License Your Technology
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IBM - $3 billion in patent licence revenue each year
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ARM
• Founded 1985 to design RISC processors
• First licence granted in 1990 to VLSI
• Floated on LSE in 1998
• 10 billionth processor shipped in 2008
• Revenue of £260m
• Market value £1.15bn
• And they don't even manufacture!
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Dynamic Cassette International Ltd
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Maurice Goymer
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Maurice Goymer
• Royalty per container
• Lump sum and smaller royalty
• Lump sum only
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Sandvik Osprey Ltd and Sapa Heat Transfer AB
• Sandvik Osprey - powders and spray forming
• Sapa - brazing material
• Patented in over 50 countries worldwide
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Patents are commercial tools which can be used by the
materials entrepreneur to add value and make money
How will you use your patents?
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Thank you
Ben Dempster