Patents Week 2023 will be held in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria from Monday, 2 October to Friday, 6 October. PONS IP will participate together with other innovative companies, universities, and leaders in the sector to analyse innovation, research and patents based on the experiences offered by experts at the event. This will be the fourth edition of a forum that has already become a national benchmark event in terms of intellectual property protection as an economic driver.

Over the course of five days, leading experts will give talks, present technical sessions and participate in debates in an event that seeks to expand knowledge about industrial property among younger audiences, as well as show them the importance of necessary protection in research. Furthermore, it focuses on promoting the exchange of opinions and experiences between research staff and companies, encouraging the transfer of research results in order to maximise social and economic development. Lastly, it seeks to reinforce knowledge valorisation towards the productive and business framework so that it contributes to the technological advancement and development, modernisation, competitiveness and innovation of companies.

On day 4, from 9:00 a,m. to 12:00 p.mRocío Peris, Marketing Director at PONS IP, and Laura de Vergas, Intellectual Property Consultant at PONS IP, will lead the workshop “Protect your intellectual property or going beyond Innovation: What can intellectual property do for innovation?” within the framework of the Marine-Maritime High Technology Incubator (IAT), in the Sala Lanzarote room.

That same day, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.,Amaya Mallea, Director of Legal Advice in R&D&I and Valuation of Intangible Assets at PONS IP, and Violeta Arnaiz, Director of the TMT, Intellectual Property and Software Area at PONS IP, will participate in a technical seminar in the Gran Canaria room. They will focus on two topics. The first is titled “The challenge of protection and transfer in Social Sciences and Humanities”, and afterwards, they will continue with “Interpretation of real cases at Knowledge Transfer Offices”.