The business side of software: Intellectual property, legal and tax insights
Mastering Software Innovation: Legal, IP and Tax Essentials
Whether software is your core business or supports the digitalization of your services, products, design, manufacturing or administration, it plays a crucial role across all aspects of your company.
But building and using software is more than just technical expertise. It's also about creating and maximizing business value.
This seminar will dive deep into the legal, intellectual property, and tax strategies that are crucial for the success of your software developments. Learn how to protect, manage, and financially boost your innovations to ensure they thrive in today’s competitive landscape.
You’ll gain insights from experts (Calysta, Osborne Clarke and BDO) on how to safeguard your software with patents, copyright, and trade secrets, understand the legal frameworks for exploitation models like licensing and open-source, and unlock the financial advantages of tax incentives for R&D. Whether you're a startup, SME, or large company, these strategies will help you capture and sustain the full value of your software.
For whom
CEOs, COOs, CTOs, project leaders, scientific leaders, software developers, and others involved in developing, exploiting, or acquiring software tools, products, and services.
Key takeaways
- How to protect software innovations with intellectual property rights
- Legal frameworks for software exploitation models (licensing, open-source, etc.)
- Tax incentives that boost financial benefits for software developments
Programme
| Time | Subject | Speaker |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Sandwich lunch | |
| 14:00 - 14:10 | Welcome | Sirris & POD |
| 14:10 - 15:00 | Capturing value by protecting your software developments We will explore how software can be patented, when it makes sense to do so, and how to safeguard your software using alternative protection methods such as tradesecrets and copyright. You’ll learn how to choose the right intellectual property strategy tailored to your business model and software application. | Johannes Wohlmuth & Bram Schoonjans | Calysta |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Break | |
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Capturing value by using the appropriate legal strategies for your software developments Get a clear understanding of how to handle legal aspects, whether you develop your own software or use external solutions. | Benjamin Docquir | Osborne Clarke |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Break | |
| 16:15 - 17:00 | Capturing value by using the tax incentives for software developments Learn how to make the most of tax incentives available in Belgium, from Innovation Income Deduction (IID) to tax credits for R&D investments and payroll tax exemptions. | Jeroen Sevens, Raphaël Devroye, Gaëlle Pirenne | BDO |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Networking drink |
This seminar is organized by Sirris and hosted by POD Brabant Wallon, with support from our partners: Calysta, Osborne Clarke, BDO, and FOD Economie
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Language
English