IP for your PhD

Description:

Worried about IP in your PhD? This workshop cuts through the complexity of IP management through interactive scenarios and real-world examples. We'll explore the essential IP questions that every research student needs to understand, including:

• Background IP: what happens to IP you bring into your PhD

• Public disclosure: when to discuss with your supervisor and how it affects IP protection

• Copyright considerations: understanding what can be copyrighted and open-source licensing

• Confidentiality agreements: when you might need to sign one and what it means

• IP ownership: when the university might request IP assignment

• Third-party IP: managing materials transfer agreements and licensing

By the end of this workshop, you will:

• Understand your IP rights as a PhD student.

• Know when and how to protect your IP.

• Be confident managing different types of IP in your research.

• Understand how IP considerations might affect your thesis.

• Have strategies for navigating IP challenges.
  

Skills tags: Managing IP and copyright; risk management; data management; acting with ethics and integrity

If you have any questions about this event please contact the facilitator: Lindsay.Hogan@anu.edu.au

Facilitator: Dr. Lindsay Hogan

Having progressed from PhD student, to postdoc, to commercial development manager to learning advisor, Lindsay has experienced the challenges of post-PhD career transitions firsthand. She combines her 17 years of higher education experience with insights from commercial development and academia to help researchers develop their career plan. Her workshops draw from personal experience and research to help you avoid common pitfalls and uncover opportunities in your own career journey.

Connect with Lindsay: www.linkedin.com/in/lindsayhogan1