Technology
This training course on Software Product Assurance will take place at ESA/ESTEC (Noordwijk, NL) on 7 March 2024 (09:30 - 18:00 CET).
Join the ESA webinar on 12 December 2023 and hear about the results of Agency's Lessons Learned survey.
The course will cover the practical relevance of Materials, Mechanical Parts and Processes (MMPP) Product Assurance from the Q-70 ECSS discipline; the associated processes, milestones, risks associated with the omission of requirements, and the benefits of an adequate and timely implementation of requirements in the project and mission context.
The webinar on Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) and the ESA TRL Calculator will take place on 23 November at 10:00-13:00 (CET).
This webinar covers the ECSS discipline Q-40 Safety.
This lecture will consider how a patent can be enforced and what to do in the instance that it is. This is the sharp end of a patent’s lifetime and can sometimes be unavoidable when third party actors are involved. We will also discuss the new Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court as recent developments to patents in Europe.
This lecture will review the strategy behind when and how to disclose your invention alongside approaches to encourage and gather investment for smaller businesses. This lecture will look in depth at matters such as confidentiality agreements and how and when to use NDAs. Trade secrets are a little known form of intellectual property and will also be discussed.
In space, no one can hear you infringing. This lecture will review how patents, a territorial right, interact with an extra-terrestrial world.
With new developments being produced every day in the aerospace industry, how can your patents be best directed towards capturing third parties that may be interested in using your technology? We will discuss the relevant legal frameworks at play alongside the approach taken by some large aerospace businesses.
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.