Boardwave Partner Workshop with Marks & Clerk - Maximising the value of your intellectual property

Boardwave Partner Workshop with Marks and Clerk

Maximise the value of your intellectual property!

In a race to get products to market and in the hands of their customers, many software Founders & CEOs neglect a core business asset, their Intellectual Property. But, if protected and leveraged correctly, your IP can have immense value.

Attendees of this workshop will gain valuable insights, as well as practical advice, on how to protect their IP, how best to develop a strategic view of their portfolio and ultimately create plans to maximise its value.

Marks & Clerk are a leading international intellectual property law firm, and Boardave sponsorhip. With a specialism in software IP this  workshop is hosted by  some of the UKs leading authorities in IP law.

About Marks & Clerk

Marks & Clerk set up its first office in the UK in 1887. Today, we’re a leading global intellectual property firm, working in partnership with businesses of all shapes and sizes all over the world. Providing them with people whose legal, technical and commercial expertise exactly meets their needs. Shaping our services around them. Protecting, enforcing and maximising the value of their intellectual property to support them in achieving their business ambitions.

Over the years, we have worked with numerous tech start-ups and spin-outs, as well as with entrepreneurs – helping them identify, protect, enforce and maximise the value of their intellectual property. Many have secured investment or succeeded with other commercial aims as a result of our work. We work closely with our clients to consider the steps that need to be taken to manage growth and avoid IP assets slipping through the net.

About their team

Lara Sibley, Partner

Lara is a partner in the patent team at Marks and Clerk. A large part of Lara’s practice relates to protecting inventions in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) field, and she has particular experience with applications in areas such as natural language processing, medical imaging and home automation. She advises clients across the world on patenting AI innovations and has given numerous presentations in Japan on the European approach to AI patent eligibility.

Dafydd Bevan, Partner

Dafydd advises clients on the enforcement and commercialisation of intellectual property. He advises on all areas of IP but has particular experience of strategic advice on the litigation and licensing of TMT, electronics and software patents, regularly advising clients on such cases in the High Court and Court of Appeal. He has a broad range of experience, which, in the technology sector, includes advising on patents in fields such as software, broadcasting, graphical user interfaces, mobile telephony, network communications and internet applications. 

Rhian Granleese, Partner

Rhian is a qualified patent attorney whose considerable practice has grown to encompass most topics that fall under the general headings of electronics and physics. She has particular experience in the fields of semiconductors, quantum effect devices, memory architecture, medical devices, magnetic devices, optics, telecommunication networks, fabrication techniques; and mathematical modelling. 

Simon Portman, Of Counsel

Simon specialises as a commercial contract lawyer for technology companies. He works for clients in the electronics, bioscience, defence, software, nanotech and creative industries, advising companies ranging from small start-ups to big multinationals as well as individuals, public bodies and charities. He advises on a wide range of contracts, including licenses, R&D collaborations, manufacturing agreements and procurement documentation.