Workshop Plants & Patents
Venue: Room C.101, Atlas Building, Wageningen Campus
Target group: All plant Researchers
Registration deadline: 20 October 2019
Contact: Vera Veltkamp
Have you ever had questions about
1. How patenting works
2. How you can protect intellectual property
3. Or the formalities needed for material transfer between Labs/Institutions?
Genesprout Initiative together with Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland and Wageningen University & Research present to you a workshop on the world of Intellectual property rights. This workshop will also address very important topics for today’s agricultural scenario like breeders rights and CRISPR-Cas products.
Interested? Please register here.
Participation in this workshop (including drinks afterwards) is free, but requires registration. Please fill in the registration form before 20 October 2019. Registration will close as soon as the maximum number of participants has been reached.
The program:
12:30-14:00 Introduction and Q&A:
- The basics of IP rights (patents, plant breeders right, licensing contracts)
- The patentability of plant related inventions
14:00-15:30 Workshop and case study:
- Use of Material Transfer Agreements (MTA) and Invention Disclosures (IDF)
- Use of IP databases
15:30-15:45 coffee/tea
15:45-16:15 Introduction and Q&A:
- CRISPR/Cas, plants and IP
16:15-1700 Introduction and Q&A:
- IP rights in your project: possibilities at the WUR
17:00 drinks
Monday, October 21, 2019
12:30 - 17:00
Atlas Building 104 – WUR
Droevendaalsesteeg 4, Wageningen