What are patents?   Patents protect an invention from being commercialised by others without the owner’s consent. A patent does not give a right for use, but rather prevents others from having the right to use your invention (without your permission). The responsibility for enforcing the right…

Any intellectual property that you may generate within employment of Leiden University of LUMC is owned by Leiden University or LUMC. Since 2010, Leiden University has issued official regulations on working for third parties which state the rules on several topics involved, like the sharing of net proceeds…

Ieder jaar wordt er tijdens de Meijerslezing een actueel juridisch wetenschappelijk onderwerp belicht. De lezing wordt gehouden sinds de oprichting in 1997 van het E.M. Meijers Instituut voor Rechtswetenschappelijk Onderzoek ter ere van de naamgever van het instituut, die tevens de grondlegger is van…

Where your research has led to interesting opportunities which could be further developed into new products or processes, Luris is here to assist with the identification of the potential strategy to follow. And of course to identify external partners to move these ideas forward. In some cases you may…

Het Instituut voor Anglo-Amerikaans Recht werd opgericht door professor Basil Markesinis en in 1988 geopend door H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.