IP Strategy Day on May 12: discover the topics and their experts
Are you an executive, director or manager of a team within a start-up or SME, a consultant in charge of business strategy? Do you have concrete questions about the IP strategy to adopt? Business leaders and experts will answer your questions during the IP Strategy Day on Friday May 12, organized by the INPI. You can attend a series of webinars, each addressing a specific theme to give you the keys to quickly deploy an IP strategy integrated into your business strategy.
Discover the themes and speakers of the four webinars:
Intellectual property titles: what if it made money?
IP is a profitable investment over the long term provided you use it well. What IP titles should I use? How can the communication of its innovation capabilities impact the results of a company? What tax advantages for its IP titles?
Karine Berthier, IP Manager of Nokia, Mohammed Errafi, Founding President of Gravipack, and Julie Zerbib, Head of the Partnership Actions Unit at the INPI, will bring their experience on the subject and answer your questions.
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- Head of IP at Nokia, Karine Berthier is also a member of the board of the French Association of Industrial Property Specialists (ASPI).
- Mohammed Errafi founded Gravipack in 2018, after seven years of R&D, several patent filings and fundraising. Gravipack was a finalist for the INPI Trophies in the "start-up" category in 2022.
- Julie Zerbib is Head of the Partnership Actions Department of the Economic Action Department of the INPI. Within the Ile-de-France delegation, she is at the heart of the support for companies and partnerships forged by the INPI in the Paris area.
Collaborative innovation: is a win-win agreement possible?
Innovations and inventions in the broad sense are often the result of collaborations between private companies and public research structures. What do companies expect from collaboration with public research? How is the innovation project built between the two players?
Franck Mouthon, President of France Biotech and Mandack Gueye, Research Valorization Manager at the CNRS, will discuss the subject and answer your questions.
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- Franck Mouthon is the President of France Biotech, an independent association that helps start-ups and SMEs in the health technology sector to become successful international companies. Franck Mouthon is also the Executive Chairman of Theranexus, a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the treatment of rare neurological diseases.
- With a doctorate in economics and a degree in economic intelligence and intellectual property, Mandack Gueye is responsible for promoting research at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). The CNRS is a multidisciplinary public research organization, whose objective is to carry out fundamental research in the service of society in all fields of knowledge.
Takeover of companies: what about IP portfolios, I sort, I keep, I sell?
Buying a company, in the form of a merger/acquisition or not, also means buying back its IP portfolio! But beware, if this is not managed effectively, it can be a source of irrelevant expenses. How to choose titles (patents, trademarks, designs)? Do they have a financial value and how to negotiate?
Cyril Amar, Founder of FrandAvenue, and Clément Drouet, Director of Industrial Property at Urgo, will provide you with all the answers to your questions about the future of IP portfolios during a business takeover.
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- Lawyer at the Paris Bar and partner at Amar Goussu Staub, Cyrille Amar specializes in intellectual property law, commercial law and competition law. With his partners, he created FrandAvenue in 2020, a unique platform on which it is possible to carry out, among other things, research on patents, manage patents or even negotiate licensing agreements.
- Clément Drouet is Director of Industrial Property at Urgo.
Increase the IP potential of your employees!
Intellectual property must be everyone's business within your structure! It is essential to explain to your collaborators what IP is and how it allows the company to achieve its business objectives. How can you make your employees aware of the importance of IP? How can you make them actors in your organization's innovation process?
Audrey Plantureux, Intellectual Property Manager of OVHcloud, and Christophe Juillet, Managing Director of HEMP it, will share their experience with you.
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- Audrey Plantureux is Head of Intellectual Property at OVHcloud. Founded in 1999, the company provides public and private cloud, shared hosting and dedicated server solutions in more than 140 countries. The company also offers domain name registration.
- Christophe Fevrier is the Managing Director of HEMP it, an agricultural cooperative specializing in the production and marketing of industrial hemp seeds. The cooperative has invested 10 million euros between 2019 and 2023 in its innovation process.
