In the month of March, ERA Talents Anusha Sekar and Tomáš Tesař attended two webinars on intellectual property rights and a training on industrial project management, as a part of their secondment at Treibacher Industrie AG.

The first webinar was devoted to understanding the process of applying for intellectual rights protection, such as patents, utility models, designs, and trademarks. This helps the Talents to orient themselves in the world of industrial research, the benefits of protection of one’s intellectual property, and the specifics of the administrative process.

The second webinar was focused on the ability to research patents and understand their contents, especially the core object and/or process, which is protected, and also the regional and temporal applicability of the protection. This knowledge is essential from an entrepreneurial perspective in order to determine the freedom of operation within the market. Both Anusha and Tomáš are now well-equipped to disseminate this expertise and train their fellow colleagues at their home institutions, as the IP protection rules and procedures are relatively similar among European countries.

The project management training given by Dr. Richard Trache provided ERA Talents with insight into the company’s planning and decision-making process that is designed to assess the initial business idea and eventually deliver a commercially successful product or service. In this development process, IP rights research and analysis are the basis for any commercial application and secure the leadership of the innovators along the way.