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    11 January 2010
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  • Table of contents:

    1. Intellectual Property (IP) workshop
    2. i-Teams Taster
    3. 2010 Microsoft Imagine Cup
    4. Enterprise Tuesday

  • 1. Intellectual Property (IP) workshop

    CUTEC Intellectual Property (IP) workshop - “Leveraging IP in a Globalised World”


    Date: Thursday, 28 January 2010
    Time: 6.30 pm - 9.00 pm
    Venue: Judge Business School, Cambridge, UK

    Due to globalisation, effective Intellectual Property management is becoming increasingly important for businesses around the world. The “patent thicket” strategy adopted by multinational companies is often costly and difficult to enforce, hence not necessarily viable for start-ups. Yet, young companies must leverage their IP portfolio as a competitive advantage, especially in this post-recessionary world. What creative and pragmatic approaches can they take?

    * Brand protection through trademark and design rights
    * New forms of IP such as patent pooling, creative commons, open innovation
    * Harmonised patent protection
    * Managing patents as an asset class


    Event sponsored by Keltie Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys
    http://www.keltie.com/

    Download event poster at:
    CUTEC IP2010 Poster


    Please REGISTER for FREE here:
    http://cutec-ip2010.eventbrite.com/

  • 2. i-Teams Taster

    Taste new business skills! - apply by January 21st

    Following on from the success of the i-Teams programme, we have introduced a 2 week taster programme, to allow more students to participate, and more technologies to gain real market feedback.

    Students will have the opportunity to work with real Cambridge University INVENTIONS, getting a taste of BRAINSTORMING, identifying the real-world benefits of new TECHNOLOGIES, contacting potential CUSTOMERS, and presenting their findings. Our guest speaker will be Billy Boyle, co-founder of Owlstone, the Cambridge-based developer of chemical sensing technology.

    The i-Teams taster will run over 2 weeks, with three workshop sessions on Friday January 29th 2pm-5pm, Monday February 8th 6pm-9pm, and Friday February 12th 2pm-5pm. Students are also guided through independent team work by experienced business mentors.

    The projects are:
    * Carbon Capture via mineralisation, Professor Derek Fray, Materials Science
    * A low-cost computer for the developing world, Jack Lang
    * Label-free detection and simultaneous analysis of biochemical interactions, Chemistry

    See www.iteamsonline.org for details

    APPLICATIONS due by January 21st to Amy Mokady at am678@cam.ac.uk.

    i-Teams is organised in conjunction with the Cambridge University Technology & Enterprise Club (CUTEC) - www.cutec.org

  • 3. 2010 Microsoft Imagine Cup

    2010 Imagine Cup - The World's Premier Student Technology Competition


    The Microsoft Imagine Cup Microsoft Imagine Cup is a competition open to students around the world which encourages participants to apply their imagination, their passion and their creativity to technology innovations that can make a difference in the world - today.

    The Imagine Cup continues to encourage students around the world to imagine a better world in which people are empowered by technology. This year, Imagine Cup is calling on programers, designers, and technologists to rise to this challenge and use the UN Development Goals as their inspiration.


    For every student that registers for the UK competition, Microsoft will donate one pound to their charity partners.

    See http://bit.ly/ICR0016 to learn more about the UK Imagine Cup competitions that are running:

    • Embedded Development
    • Game Design
    • Digital Media
    • IT Challenge



    Microsoft is a Cambridge University Technology & Enterprise Club (CUTEC) 2009/2010 sponsor.

  • 4. Enterprise Tuesday

    Enterprise Tuesday resumes 19th January


    Come listen to Dr Greg Winter, FRS (Co-Founder of Cambridge Antibody Technology and Deputy Director of the MRC's Centre for Protein Engineering) and Dr Kevin Johnson (CEO PanGenetics BV Former Cambridge Antibody Technology Executive and General Partner at Ash Biotech Consulting) speak about a real business opportunity.

    Enterprise Tuesday is a series of FREE evening lectures and networking sessions managed and delivered by the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning since 1999. The programme aims to introduce participants to the world of business and to encourage individuals to pursue their entrepreneurial ambition.

    See more at http://www.cfel.jbs.cam.ac.uk/programmes/enterprise/index.html

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