About Startup Academy:

The Dreamstake Academy has been launched with the mission to provide teaching and guidance of the highest academic level to startup leaders on a range of relevant topics. It is designed to complement the capabilities of startup teams by providing expert knowledge.

Course Overview&Benefits:

This course will provide a background to intellectual property (IP) issues for start-ups.

The course will explain how founders can develop and protect their IP to obtain growth, investment, and trade sale of their business. The course will include examples of businesses that have used IP to maximise their acquisition value.

Course Leaders:

Gerard Chandrahasen, Chartered Patent Attorney, from SC Patents

Course structure:

Scheduled teaching session will include a lecture and an interactive workshop covering a case study. In addition there are designated coaching sessions for groups to review their particular development issues and challenges.

Course Plan:

1. A lecture covering:

• What is intellectual property?

• Making your intellectual property "investment-ready"

• Creating and protecting your brand

• How to protect new ideas

• How to patent software

2. A workshop covering a case study in intellectual property

Download Materials:

To follow

Videos:

Please see the video from previous DS event

Links:

www.scpatents.com