Webinar: Focus On Creating: Inventorship, Ownership and Patentability

Overview

Join us for an informative live webinar focused on the essential aspects of inventorship, ownership, and patentability. This 60-minute session will cover key topics such as the right to apply for patents, determining inventorship, and the implications of joint ownership and employee inventions.

Learn about the structure of a patent, the patentability process, and the legal nuances of licensing, assignment, and the ownership of improvements. Whether you're an inventor, entrepreneur, or IP professional, this webinar will provide valuable insights into managing intellectual property and securing your innovations.

Speakers

John Hull, partner at Beck Greener LLP

John has a degree in chemistry from the Queen’s College, Oxford, graduating in 1998.

After a series of jobs including working on a cattle station and selling wine, John worked for Johnson Matthey on research for diesel car catalytic converters.

In 2001, John left research to begin a career in Intellectual Property at Beck Greener. 24 years on, he is still there and now a partner in the firm.

John works with a broad variety of chemical firms, from start-ups to big international corporations. He has experience of the full patent life-cycle from the initial idea stage, through drafting the application, prosecution, obtaining granted patents and even patent litigation.

John has worked with several of his clients to provide workshops to help improve in-house knowledge of the patent process and invention identification, as well as issues involving inventorship and in-licensing of technological processes and products.

In his spare time, John plays a large variety of sports. Although he has now finally hung up his rugby boots, his cricket kit still gets a regular airing throughout the summer.

James Stones, partner at Beck Greener LLP

James read chemistry at Imperial College London, graduating in 1992. He stayed on at Imperial to conduct research into tethered Diels-Alder reactions for his doctorate, awarded in 1996. After discovering that he was all thumbs in the lab, James left the bench to join the patent profession and qualified as a European Patent Attorney in 2004 and as a Chartered Patent Attorney the following year. In 2010, he became a partner at Beck Greener LLP and now heads up the Chemistry team.

James has a broad client base across the chemistry, pharmaceutical and chemical engineering sectors. He has worked as external counsel for Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. for over 25 years on many different projects involving, eg, cryogenic air distillation, gas purification, carbon capture, and more recently hydrogen production.

James not only drafts and prosecutes patent applications, but also defends his clients’ patents from attack during post-grant proceedings and preserves his clients’ freedom to operate by challenging patents of their competitors.

James is a visiting lecturer in IP at UCL School of Pharmacy and has also delivered IP lectures to post-graduate students in biosciences at University of Exeter and in chemical engineering at Imperial College.

This event is one of an entire series of webinars by Beck Greener, find out more.

The material presented in this webinar has not been peer-reviewed. Any opinions are the presenter's own and do not necessarily represent those of IChemE. The information is given in good faith but without any liability on the part of IChemE.

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