Come and test your knowledge at the DTW Quiz Night XL - 26 May

On 26th May, the fifth edition of Quiz Night XL will be held at the Klokgebouw, Strijp-S in Eindhoven. Not only is DeltaPatents one of the sponsors, but we will also be competing with 3 teams.
The questions deal all aspects of Science & Technology, so register your team now. Individuals can also register. It costs just 10 EUR per person, and there are a lot of prizes that can be won. But you can also just compete for fun - there is plenty of music and entertainment, and the venue is open until 01:30. They have made a teaser film.

The event is organised as part of Dutch Technology Week (DTW), which runs from 23-28 May in Eindhoven. Its goal is to promote enthusiasm and pride for technology and thereby strengthen the Dutch high-tech sector.

We have a booth at the HI-ZIE event in Delft on 22 March 2016

DeltaPatents has a booth at the HI-ZIE 2016. It is an event giving high-tech entrepreneurs, researchers, teachers and investors from South-Holland (and further away) the chance to meet. Angelique van de Ven, Pete Pollard & Romano Beitsma will be present, so drop by with your question about patents, industrial designs or trademarks. Romano is representing our office in Leiden.

Registratiion for HI-ZIE is free of charge.

Ask us about high-tech patents at the High-Tech Systems Event in Eindhoven (24 March 2016)

We will have a booth at the High-Tech Systems Conference & Exhibition in Eindhoven on 24 March 2016. The conference focusses on high-end system development for markets where smart engineering and technology make a difference. The programme aims at developers, technical managers and decision makers in the advanced mechanical engineering. At the exhibition floor you can meet people and companies that can help you with the development, production and marketing of complex systems. The location is the Van der Valk Hotel, Aalsterweg 22 close to the HTC (High-Tech Campus).

Angelique van de Ven, Pete Pollard & Guido Paola will be attending. If you have any questions about patent, industrial design or trademark protection, feel free to visit us at stand nr. 26.

Registration is free if you do it before 22 March. See you there!

TUSExpo 2016 - 2 to 4 of February in The Hague

Next week is the European Unmanned Systems trade show & conference in The Hague.

Pete Pollard and Alex Hogeweg will be visiting from DeltaPatents on Wednesday & Thursday.

Visiting the exhibition is free - you can register here

The Netherlands has the second-highest English proficiency in the world

The Education First (EF) language company has posted its latest English Proficiency Index (EPI), ranking non-native language proficiency. The Netherlands came second in Europe and the world this year, and has actually been among the top 5 countries in every EF EPI. More details on the performance in Europe is found here.

DeltaPatents gratefully makes use of these language skills, drafting patent applications almost exclusively in English.

The Netherlands is the 4th most innovative nation in the world

Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Sweden, the Netherlands and the United States of America are the world’s five most innovative nations, according to the Global Innovation Index 2015, while China, Malaysia, Viet Nam, India, Jordan, Kenya, and Uganda are among a group of countries outperforming their economic peers.

Using patents to share technology

The WIPO magazine of August 2015 has an interesting article from Kyoto University in Japan about how patents are used to ensure that other researchers have access to their induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell technology. By patenting the technology, they can stop others from controlling it and they can stimulate new discoveries in this field by offering reasonable non-exclusive licensing agreements.