RMIT IP Seminar with Dr Michael Harvey

Intellectual property (IP) describes any product created through the exertion of your mind and knowledge. IP protection and the rules surrounding this are topics that can seem confusing, opaque, and arbitrary to many scientists. This seminar provides a high-level introduction to IP and discusses how IP is protected in Australia, with some mention of the global rules. Patents are particularly relevant to researchers and workers in deep tech fields like Physics.

This seminar will include:
– an overview of patents and the rules surrounding what is patentable and the criteria for patentability, the risks of prior disclosure
– the general structure of a patent and the most common patenting pathways at Australian universities
– why managing IP is important for startup founders.