Startup Lab: IP – Protecting and Exploiting Your HealthTech Inventions

While innovation drives progress in healthtech, it's intellectual property that protects it. Understanding how to safeguard and strategically use your IP can mean the difference between a great idea and a viable business. From patents to partnerships, knowing your rights helps ensure your invention benefits patients — and your organisation.

In our September Startup Lab at Hale House, Jamie Foster, Partner at Hill Dickinson LLP, will unpack the essentials of IP in healthcare, drawing on real-world examples and legal expertise to help you navigate this critical topic with confidence.

What you'll learn:

• The importance of understanding IP when operating in the healthcare sector
• What are intellectual property rights and how do they arise in inventions?
• Ways to protect your IP, including when collaborating with third parties
• What to consider when licensing or commercialising your IP
• How the NHS approaches IP and what that means for startups

We’ll close with a Q&A and open discussion so bring your questions, challenges, and stories from the field. This is your chance to get expert input and learn from peers in the industry!

Hill Dickinson LLP is a leading international commercial law firm employing over 1000 people, including more than 200 partners and legal directors.

Hill Dickinson delivers advice and strategic guidance spanning the full legal spectrum, acting as a trusted adviser to businesses, organisations and individuals across the globe and from a wide range of market sectors, advising on non-contentious advisory and transactional work through to all forms of commercial litigation and arbitration.

Jamie is a commercial lawyer specialising in the health and life sciences sectors. His clients include life sciences businesses, NHS organisations, private hospitals and clinics, academic and research institutions, charities and social enterprises, and start-ups.

Jamie advises clients on contracting arrangements, joint ventures and collaborations, transactions, public procurement, intellectual property and regulatory matters. He is a member of Tech London Advocates and frequently presents on life sciences and health topics, including recently to networks with the independent health and social care sectors.

Host or Publisher Hale House