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SUMMARY:Five things an Engineer should know about Intellectual Property - 
 Simon Goodman\, Reddie and Grose LLP
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CONTACT:Tim Wilkinson
DESCRIPTION:Simon Goodman is a patent attorney who has worked at Reddie & 
 Grose LLP in Cambridge since 1996.  Based on this experience he will discu
 ss factors that inventors and their employers should consider in protectin
 g their intellectual property\, including issues that he often sees leadin
 g to difficulty when a company wants to licence or sell a technology.  Sho
 uld a patent application be filed\, or some other form of IP?  How much in
 formation is needed in a patent?  What risks are there in making an invent
 ion public?  What should be kept secret?  Who owns the invention and why d
 oes it matter?  Are you free to sell the product?  Does all this depend on
  the technology involved?  And from this last question\, are software and 
 business methods patentable and what can engineers do to help the Patent O
 ffice raise the quality of such patents?  He will also touch on the use of
  patent filing statistics as a measure of economic success - how is UK plc
  faring?\n\nSimon is a Partner in Reddie and Grose LLP and has over 20 yea
 rs experience advising clients in patent\, trade mark and design matters. 
 His clients include a wide range of companies and universities from around
  the world\, but primarily those based in Cambridge and East Anglia. He wo
 rks in fields such as engineering\, materials\, electronics\, software\, m
 edical devices\, telecommunications\, television\, semiconductor fabricati
 on and cryptography. 
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 0\, University of Cambridge Engineering Departmen
 t\, Trumpington Street\, Cambridge
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