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Jane Lambert speaking in London Jane Lambert I have been invited to speak at a half-day workshop on sustainable packaging and waste  which will take place at  Ty Menai, Parc Menai, near Bangor on Tuesday, 29 Jan 2019 between 09:00 and 13:00.  The event is organized by  Cywain  and Beacon Biorefining Centre of Excellence .  More information about the event, including a flyer,  can be obtained from Beacon's website  and places may be reserved using Cywain's online booking form . The keynote speaker will be Dr Rob Elias, Director of the Biocomposites Centre of Bangor University, He will be followed by speakers from WRAP Wales, Business Wales, the Pontio Centre's FabLab  and me.  I will be talking about intellectual property in relation to sustainable management and waste. Food packaging and waste disposal are increasingly important technologies but they concern other intellectual assets  such a...

Inaugural Conference of World Business Angel Association in Beijing 2009 Author JohnnyOnTheSpot  Licensed by the author Source Wikipedia Jane Lambert In IP's not just for Big Brands and High Tech Businesses  27 Aug 2016 I wrote: "In my career at the Bar, have known far more businesses that have failed from having too much IP than too little. Some of those failures had been caused by patents that cost many thousands of pounds to obtain but could never be worked. Others by disputes that were abandoned because the rights owner (who in many cases had a strong claim) simply ran out of money." In many instances, such patents and other IP rights were sought to attract, or to fulfil a condition for, investment. While it is understandable that an angel or private equity investor should desire the most extensive legal protection possible for his or her investment a patent for an invention that may never be worked or any IP right that the business cann...