Business with ESA

This lecture will cover the patentability of machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques. We will discuss what can be protected and how, accompanied by examples and advice for those innovating in this area.

Myth: Software inventions cannot be patented.

Reality: There are complex rules over what and how software inventions can be patented but broadly software is patentable if it solves a “technical” problem.

This lecture aims to provide a guide for inventors and organisations looking to protect their quantum computing-based inventions, including what is patentable, what is not, and what you need to know. This lecture also studies patenting trends in quantum computing, and other quantum technologies, looking at how these emerging technologies are being protected and how this is changing.

This lecture will provide the second part of an introduction to patents. This will include discussing typical paths taken to patents, a review of prior art and how it can be used to benefit you and your business alongside some considerations of how to attract investment and a brief discussion of patent box. This will be a refresher for those that attended the 2022 lecture series.

This lecture will provide the first part of an introduction to patents. This will include how to read, understand and interpret a patent alongside how to read and understand the most important part of the patent: the claims. This will be a refresher for those that attended the 2022 lecture series.

Webinar aimed at Financial Managers and Project Controllers of industrial entities, especially Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, wanting to work with ESA.

A company participating in an ESA Invitation To Tender (ITT) is required to complete a financial proposal that includes the ESA Procedures, Specification and Standards Forms – known as PSS forms.

ESA PSS forms show cost data and are required under the General Conditions of Tender for ESA Contracts (ESA/REG/001, rev.5, Annex IV).

This course will take place at ESA/ESTEC (Noordwijk, The Netherlands) on 8 November 2023.

Download the presentations given during the SME+Midcap Days on 25+26 April 2023 here (day 1 and day 2 SME programme).

Watch the recording of the online information session for industry about ESA's new Profit Policy which took place on 12 April 2023.