Our objective is to create IP awareness by providing a basic understanding of the IP system, in order to enable academic researchers to use the IP system to protect their own IP, and to respect the IP of everybody else.
Even though the humanities are not a major source of patent applications, basic knowledge about Intellectual Property is a topic that cannot be ignored in any academic discipline.
Supporting creative minds and promoting innovation represents the core of the IPIs mission statement. This statement is not restricted to engineering and natural sciences, but includes the humanities. A basic understanding of the rules and possibilities of the IP system is a first step toward using it. The IPI offers to provide this information in order to create IP awareness among the researchers.
| When? | 08.02.2024 10:00 - 13:30 |
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| Where? | MIS 04 4112 - Jäggi Avenue de l'Europe 20, 1700 Fribourg |
| speaker | Houshang Pour, Kamran
Dr. Kamran Houshang Pour is patent expert and IP trainer at Swiss Institute of Intellectual Property (IPI) in Bern. After obtaining a PhD in physics at the EPF Lausanne he worked as product manager at Nortel Networks in Zurich, where he conducted yield improvement projects for the existing products, qualified new products and introduced them into the market. He later cofounded a consulting entity providing technical supports specially for young start-ups with the quality management as well as with the technical questions. After a master in statistics at the Université de Neuchâtel, he returned as Post Doc to EPFL (TRANSP-OR) conducting an externally financed project on modelling customer behaviour. Since 2008, he is working at IPI, where as patent expert he conducts different type of patent searches, such as validity or freedom-to-operate searches, and examines patent applications in his field of knowledge. As IP trainer, he gives lectures on divers intellectual property subjects at the universities and in the companies. Kamran also obtained his Master in IP Law and Management at CEIPI, Strasbourg in 2019. Moser Nikles, Christian Christian Moser is a patent expert in life sciences at the IPI since 2014. Besides his activity as a professional patent researcher and examiner, he is involved in IPI’s efforts to promote IP awareness at universities and in the private industry, and to inform start-ups on how to deal with IP. Christian Moser is a trained veterinarian with a PhD in molecular virology. After his education at the University of Bern and a postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania, he spent more than a decade in the Swiss vaccine industry in various scientific and management roles. https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-moser-99651728/?ppe=1 Ortuso, Roberto Roberto has a scientific background: he loves the practical part of intellect. He is convinced that IP is a dynamic field, which constantly evolves. He is the one of the latest IGE/IPI additions to the team that promotes IP awareness within today's Swiss society. He loves exchanging ideas with universities, industries, peers and professionals, no matter the expertise. That exchange; is intellect. Prior to discovering IP, Roberto dedicated himself to engineering, IT and more recently to scientific physical-chemistry research. He lived in many European countries, and finally settled down in Switzerland. |
| Contact | Knowledge and Technology Transfer Service and Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property barbara.drasler@unifr.ch |
| Registration | Registration is free, but mandatory (lunch will be served) |