EoI: Intellectual Property for Open Science – Workshop at TU Wien, 21 October 2025

Speaker: Nigel Clarke

Date and time: October 21, 2025, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm CEST

Location: TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

Language: English 

Open for members of EULiST universities (sign up using your university email address)

Why you should join:

This session is about open science (OS) and intellectual property (IP). Many people might think that OS and IP are in conflict, (isn´t IP secret?) but we´ll see that they have a lot in common.

OS is a movement to provide transparency and access to research results to support innovation. Access to research results should be FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable). However, OS does not ignore commercial interests so OS is as “open as possible, but as closed as necessary”. But we’ll see that as transparent open science is, it doesn´t mean that you can ignore IP.

IP is a legal system to reward innovators, protect their creativity and to support innovation. We´ll see that IP information – today we´ll concentrate on patents – is also FAIR. And “as open as possible, as closed as necessary” is actually built in to IP from the start. IP has been around for a very long time, and you could consider IP as the original “open science”.

Join us to deep dive into OS and IP principles and how to combine both systems.

About the speaker

After a career in academia and R&D in the UK, Nigel Clarke became a patent examiner at the European Patent Office in The Hague. He moved to Vienna and started work in the patent information division. Nowadays he acts as a consultant and a visiting fellow at Cambridge University.

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