Round table discussion "Intellectual Property at Universities: Creating Innovations, Distribution of Rights, and Interaction with Industry Partners", Irkutsk

Evgeny Alexandrov, Ph.D., Senior Partner, Russian Trademark & Design Attorney, Eurasian Design Attorney, Head of Legal, Trademark & Design Practice, Denis Kudryavtsev, Lawyer (both - Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow), Natalia Nikolaeva, Partner, Russian Trademark Attorney, Regional Director (Gorodissky & Partners, Novosibirsk), Irina Zhigalova, Partner, Russian Trademark Attorney, Regional Director (Gorodissky & Partners, Nizhny Novgorod) and Demberel Sodnomsambuu, President of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Oleg Gribunov, Rector of Baikal State University, Mikhail Kornyakov, Rector of Irkutsk National Research Technical University and Denis Aksyonov-Gribanov, Vice-Rector for Scientific Work and International Activities at Irkutsk State University hosted a round table discussion "Intellectual Property at Universities: Creating Innovations, Distribution of Rights, and Interaction with Industry Partners".

The event took place within the framework of the Baikal International Demographic Forum at Baikal State University.

Key Topics of the Round Table:

• What results are created at universities and who owns the rights to developments by faculty members, researchers, students, and research teams?
• Employment-related intellectual property results: how to formalize relations with authors and distribute rights between the authors and the university?
• How to establish management of intellectual property rights at a university: internal regulations, areas of responsibility, and decision-making procedures?
• The university as an industry technology partner: how to shift from finding applications for ready-made developments to conducting research based on a specific request from an industrial partner?
• How to allocate rights in projects with industrial partners: contributions from parties, pre-existing developments, and new outcomes?
• Patent or trade secret (know-how): how to choose a method for protecting a development and account for risks associated with publishing research results?