Intellectual Property and Assessing its Financial Value

Benedikt Sas is Senior business developer (IOF) and has worked at Ghent University since May 2008. He is currently acting as the Chief Business Officer for Food2Know and as a professor in the field of Corporate & Innovation Management. Prior to his position at Ghent University, he was President of the Pharma Business Unit at Kemin Industries Inc. He has invented and been granted numerous patents, and is the author of multiple peer reviewed publications. Stanislas De Vocht started his career as a lawyer at Ghent Bar where he combined his internship with a ManaMa Intellectual Property Rights. In 2007 he started as an in-house legal counsel at UGent TechTransfer, and in May 2013 he became the IP & Technology Transfer manager at iMinds. Philippe Jacobs is an in-house European Patent Attorney of Tech Transfer UGent since May 2010 and is a lecturer at the University of Antwerp. Prior to joining UGent he was director within the IP firm ‘De Clercq & Partners’ and a patent attorney within the tech transfer team of the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, as well as a patent counsel in the intellectual property department of Innogenetics.

Overview: A description of the different forms of IP, methods for safeguarding IP; Patents: What are patents, How to file for a patent and costs related to patents; Trade secrets: What are trade secrets and how to protect them; Trademarks: What are trademarks; How to register a trademark; Protected geographical status and domain names; Copyright: Definition; Registration and software as copyright; Assessing the financial value of IP: Rule of thumbs; Industrial averages and discounted cash flow techniques.