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Dublin IP and R&D Summit - 22nd and 23rd of March 2022
The Dublin IP and R&D Summit has grown to become a 2 day Intellectual Property and R&D Conference and Expo. For the 2nd edition running, we are proud to be partnering with headline sponsor Enterprise Ireland, the government body responsible for innovation in the region, with a 3,500+ strong membership of IP owners including Start ups, SMEs and Corporates.
The summit was split into two parts, starting with a full day IP Commercialisation Workshop delivered by our strategic partners Mathys & Squire Consulting Ltd on the 22nd of March 2022. This workshop was aimed at In-House and IP Owners. This was followed by an interactive IP and R&D Conference on the 23rd of March, consisting of two streams of discussions looking at the most contemporary trends in the world of innovation. The conference was held in the heart of Dublin at the Convention Centre.
With over 150 participants across both days throughout the entire day, the chosen experts discussed various topics, including:
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From a Pawn to a King using IP! Why IP strategy is key in taking your business to the next level.
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A Sea of Thieves - Best practices in shielding your hard and soft IP
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Seizing opportunities in a time of turmoil - IP in a Post BREXIT Reality
For a full agenda please download a copy of the agenda.
2022 Sponsors
2022 Speakers
Joe Doyle (Chair)
IP Manager, Enterprise Ireland
Sean McNulty
Founder & Practitioner, Insight Innovate
Cian Farrell
Head of Legal, Huawei Ireland
David Goodfellow
Vice President, Chief IP Counsel, Aptiv
Emanuele Ragnoli
CTO and cofounder, QPQ Limited
Anita Shaw
Chartered UK Patent Attorney & European Patent Attorney, IBM EMEA
Adam Tindall
Partner, Appleyard Lees
Sandrine Guillermin
Global IP Counsel, Transitions Optical
Professor Andrew Atkins
Global Technical Lead & Senior Technologist, Ricardo Innovations
Eoin McManus
General Counsel, Klas
Leo Clancy
CEO, Enterprise Ireland
Brendan Guildea
Barrister at Law, The Bar of Ireland
Craig Thomson
Partner and Patent Attorney, HGF Limited
Matthew White
CCO, Frontier IP
Brian McElligot
Chief Intellectual Property Counsel, Altada Technology Solutions
Torsten Lindholm
Head of Customer Success, IP Screener
Peter MacLachlan
Director, Trade Mark Attorney, EU Trade Mark Attorney, MacLachlan & Donaldson
Adeline Fleming
Senior Managing Counsel, Mastercard
Shane Smyth
Partner, European Patent and Trade Mark Attorney, FRKelly
Justin Lawler
CTO, Qualflow Systems
Coreena Brinck
Partner, London and South, European and UK Patent Attorney (Regulated by IPReg), Zacco
Thomas McGuire
Director Patents Program, Fidelity Investments
Dr. Jennifer Roper
Head of IP, Novozymes
Saoirse Kennelly
Licensing Manager, Perry Ellis International
Barry Connolly
Senior Legal Counsel, Three Mobile
Ian McDevitt
Head of Business Development, Dolmein
Dublin IP and R&D Summit - 15th to 17th of October 2019
The first Dublin IP and R&D Summit was a 1 day interactive IP and R&D conference and expo focusing on discussions on the most contemporary trends in the worlds of Intellectual Property and Research and Development. We were proud to welcome Enterprise Ireland as a strategic partner, the government body supporting innovation and business development uniting over 3500 IP owners.
With over 100 participants throughout the entire day, the chosen experts discussed various topics, including:
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The importance of IP in fast-growing companies (where to start with patents, trademarks copyright and design; IP licensing for business development; Intangible Assets: value drivers for competitive advantage and economic development)
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IP in scaling strategies and rising investments (global vs local strategy in IP protection, how can SMEs protect their IP, market, timing and costs)
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IP valuation models and IP as an asset class (product sales vs licensing; investor economics; IP as revenue and investment generator)
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SMEs - what to patent, what not to patent? (patent strategy vs market strategy; trade-secrets and know&how as an alternative to patents; AI and Blockchain for future IP strategies)
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Cross-functional integration of R&D and IP strategy
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IP in Ireland, Europe and the rest of the world (the rise of the intangible economy; challenges and opportunities especially with Enterprise Ireland's IP Strategy, Irish Knowledge Development Box and others)

2019 Sponsors


















































2019 Speakers
Joe Doyle
Intellectual Property Manager, Enterprise Ireland
Patrick Breslin
CEO, Breslin Consulting LLC
Greg Chew
QPQ
Richard Gillespie
Founder, Inventorship
Donal O’Sullivan
CEO, Nutribio
Jari Pallari
Research and Development Director, Firefly Orthoses Ltd
Raja Sharif
Founder and CEO, FarmaTrust
Zeev Fisher
CEO, Pekama
Sandrine Guillermin
IP Counsel, Transitions Optical
Joe Hogan
Founder & CTO, Openet
Howard Read
Partner, Appleyard Lees IP LLP
Attorney, EMEA, Inventorship
Maheshwari Arun
David Townley
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Neurent Medical
Iulia Siedschlag
Associate Research Professor, Head of Research Area Competitiveness, Trade and FDI, Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin
Breda Moore
Technical Director, T.E. Laboratories
Margaret Hartnet
Director of Research, GBG plc
Naoise Gaffney
Head of Patent Development, Intellectual Ventures
Raymond Hegarty
Chief Intellectual Property Officer, Everseen
Shourjya Sanyal
CEO, Think Biosolution
Nathan Wajsman
Chief Economist, EUIPO
David Goodfellow
Chief Patent Counsel, EMEA, Aptiv
Peter Corcoran
CEO, Monaghan Biosciences Ltd
Patrick Byrnes
Research & Development, Croom Precision Medical
Yann Ménière
Chief Economist, European Patent Office
Rosemary Kuperberg
Assistant General Counsel and Data Protection Officer, Ellucian
Turid Buvik
Senior Advisor IPR Division, Entrepreneurs and startups, Innovation Norway
Paul Sweeney
EVP Product, Webio
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