Intellectual Property Protection For Startups

In a world in which innovation and inventions drive progress, it is hard for young and innovative companies to be fast and innovative on the one hand, but at the same time still follow the rules of the "old" established business world. A few advices can be extremely helpful for startups in order to navigate their business through shallow and treacherous waters and protect the Intellectual Property which they create.

Teaching others how to overcome issues that could potentially harm their business, is just as important as innovation itself. Helping startups to evolve into successful companies pumps new blood in the world's economy and could potentially create numerous jobs and new avenues for progress.

That is why on 30 May 2017 the Indian Business Chamber of Luxembourg (IBCL) was host for an evening conference entitled "Intellectual Property for Startups" at the Casino Luxembourg - InfoLab. The event was moderated by Martin Guerin, CEO of Nyuko (a startup accelerator and community), and saw presentations held by Stéphane Speich and Olivier Lombardo, representing Dennemeyer & Associates (official sponsor of the event), Rohit Kumar, representing Research Wire, and Serge Quazzotti, representing the IPIL.

The theme of the conference was "IP for startups in practice: Panel discussion with startups" and among the people invited to attend were individuals and companies from Nyuko's network as well as from the network of the startup incubator Lux Future Lab.

Goals and objectives

As the name implies, a startup is a generally a newly launched company that doesn't have a lot of experience in how to run its business. That is why they need all possible...