01/04/2021 – R&D Agreements and Classic Disputes Resulting therefrom

The ciopora academy 2021
Webinar Series 1, Webinar 3:
R&D Agreements and Classic Disputes Resulting therefrom.
Date & Sessions
Average session duration: ca. 75 min
Session 1: April 1, 2021 - 9 am CEST
Recommended for participants from Europe, Middle-East, Asia, Australia, New Zealand
8 am London
9 am CEST/Europe (Speaker)
3 pm Beijing, CN
6 pm Sydney, AUS
8 pm Wellington, NZ
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Session 2: April 1, 2021 - 6 pm CEST
Recommended for participants from Europe and the Americas.
9 am US Pacific
11 am US Central
12 pm US Eastern
6 pm CEST/Europe (Speaker)
April 2:
5 am Wellington, NZ
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What will I learn?
R&D collaborations are becoming increasingly important in the field of plant innovation, making modern breeding technologies available to a broad variety of breeding companies and providing opportunities to take a company’s breeding program to a higher level.
Drafting R&D agreements may be challenging in practice. During this course, the structure and key provisions of R&D agreements will be discussed on the basis of practical examples, with a focus on the IP arrangements (ownership and access rights during and after the collaboration) and other legal aspects that need to be taken into account, such as EU competition and state aid regulations.
Various types of R&D collaborations will be touched upon, including (cross sector) multi party collaborations, research institutes and subsidized projects. The participants will learn about the particularities of the types of collaborations and the pitfalls that need to be taken into account when drafting these agreements.
Both members of R&D departments and the legal team are invited to participate and share their experience.
MEET THE SPEAKERS

Fleur Tuinzing-Westerhuis
Fleur Tuinzing-Westerhuis
Counsel at Houthoff
Fleur Tuinzing-Westerhuis is a Counsel at Houtfoff (The Netherlands) and specializes in technology-related Intellectual Property matters, with focus on Patents and Plant Variety Rights. In her daily practice, Fleur represents a wide variety of domestic and international companies that are active in technology-intensive business sectors, such as agrifood and biotech. Fleur is an experienced patent litigator and is one of a handful of lawyers in the Netherlands with extensive experience in litigation relating to national and Community Plant Variety Rights. Over the past seventeen years, Fleur has litigated in various cases before the Dutch courts, the Dutch Board of Plant Varieties and the CPVO. Furthermore, Fleur has broad experience in advising on commercial contracts, including R&D agreements, license and technology transfer agreements.
Registration
The CIOPORA Acadamy maintains the reduced webinar rates in 2021!
We at the CIOPORA Academy are committed to providing continued education opportunities to the green sector. In view of the operational and financial constraints businesses and individuals around the globe are facing currently, we have reduced our webinar rates from EUR 149,00 to EUR 99,00 (Member) and EUR 299,00 to EUR 199,00 (Guest). Additional 15% savings are provided in the Webinar Package.
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Join the Webinar 3 in the CIOPORA Academy Webinar Series 1/2021 by opting for our flexible single webinar registration at the following CIOPORA Member/Guest rates:
- CIOPORA Member: EUR 99,00
- Guest: EUR 199,00
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- Webinar savings package 1/2021 - Available until March 18
Save 15% and join all three webinars in the CIOPORA Academy Webinar Series 1/2021, including:
- March 18 – How to prevent exhaustion of PVRs on plants and harvested material? Learn more
- March 25 – Webinar 2: Incentivizing Innovation: Employee Remuneration, Reward Schemes and Ownership across Jurisdictions. Learn more
- April 1 – Webinar 3: R&D agreements and classic disputes resulting therefrom.
Webinar savings package:
- CIOPORA Member: 249,00 EUR
- Guest: 499,00 EUR
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