IP Seminar - Patent Essentials for University Researchers
Protecting intellectual property is a critical step in commercializing university research. However, converting research intended for academic publication into a commercially valuable patent can be challenging. Research decisions made well before drafting a patent application has even begun can impact the likelihood of commercialization as well as the scope, strength, and even the validity of the granted patented.
This seminar will cover the requirements and process for obtaining a patent and what university researchers can do to not only increase strength and scope of a patent, but also improve the likelihood of commercializing the patented invention.
Robert Jackson is the Director of Greater China and a Principal of Spruson & Ferguson (Hong Kong) Limited. His practice primarily involves the drafting and prosecution of patent applications, advising multinational companies, small and medium-sized enterprises, start-ups, and university clients with regards to patent validity and enforcement, patent strategy, including global filing strategy, and patent infringement advice, predominantly in the chemical arts with an emphasis in organic chemistry, pharmaceuticals, polymers, materials, and other chemical inventions.
Robert graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from San Jose State University with a specialization in chemistry and undertook his postgraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was awarded a Master of Science for research focused on the development of nickel-mediated asymmetric catalysis. Robert began his career as a medicinal chemist and later transitioned to the patent field.
Robert later went on to earn his Juris Doctorate at Suffolk University Law School and was admitted to the California Bar in 2009.
May Wong, ykwongmay@ust.hk