The hosts write:
With eight presentations, and six exhibitors we were busy. Few of us made it out with our Prosecco at the end of the afternoon due to the intense conversations inside. Buoyed by our success, we are already thinking about the 2017 meeting, and hope to see even more people next year.
Our headline speaker Jaideep Prabhu from the Judge Business School got us off to a thought-provoking start, looking at frugal innovation which is well established in India , and how this method of using existing techniques to bring about nonetheless ground breaking changes to improve people's lives can also have a place in industry to improve creativity, engagement and productivity.
Following on, we toured the innovation lifecycle, looking at IP practicalities and using information to make wise commercial decisions for early stage businesses. Rachel Hodge from HMRC gave a very useful update on the Patent Box scheme, and how it can bring benefits for those who license and productise directly their patented technologies. Pauline Stasiak from MRCT gave insights into working collaboratively. An overview of search techniques to establish freedom to operate was ably presented by Stuart Newbold. There was much interest also in our exhibitors from Aistemos to the IPO, with J A Kemp and Birketts representing the legal sector.
Our final speaker, Nigel Swycher from Aistemos, was also very well received with his demonstration of Cipher, the IP analytics for business tool, which his company is creating. Interest in understanding IP outside of the legal and IP departments is increasingly important, as investment decisions are made on the basis of IP assets within a company. It's in everyone’s interest if the business community can get to grips with patents, and patent information as technical, legal, and commercial knowledge is held within. Peter Evans from the UK IPO economics unit, working on big data analysis, presented some of the misconceptions, and things to be wary of when interpreting patent data.
Extract Information and PSIM are now planning to organise follow on training courses and workshops, which we hope to also host at Homerton Conference Centre in 2017 under the CIIPM initiative.
Look out for the 2nd Cambridge Information and Intellectual Property Meeting will take place in July 2017 If you would like to get involved, please contact jane@extractinfo.info.
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