Are you an inventor, designer, developer or author? If so, you can protect your work by claiming intellectual property rights, which means that others will be unable to use your work without your consent. But how do you claim your intellectual property? And should you do this for your idea too? In this online workshop, Mark Jolink, who is an experienced patent attorney at EP&C in the field of molecular biology, DNA technology and immunology, will explain in what situations you can and should (or should not) protect your idea and with which rights you can do this.

He will also cover a case about the extremely topical issue of patents that pharmaceutical companies have on the corona vaccines. ‘’Making a vaccine is not like baking bread’’. You need to invest a lot in research and development (R&D), among many other things, to ensure quality control and quality assurance. This requires significant know-how, but above all, involves enormous investment costs. Only when you are sure you are the only one benefiting from your work and know you can therefore easily return your investment, it is worth the shot. But shouldn’t challenges like a global pandemic be more important than a company’s rights to recoup its R&D costs?

Learn all about it during the third workshop in the “What you don’t see, does exist” series on the 9th of February!