BetaDen sponsors, Patent and Trade Mark Attorney firm Wynne-Jones IP, were delighted to partner with the tech accelerator and the Business & IP Centre Worcestershire for ‘AI & Innovation: How to Stay Protected’ as part of the Innovation Worcestershire TechFest.

The event, attended by 85 business guests, was hosted at Yamazaki Mazak Corporation, Worcester on Tuesday 4^th February 2025. 

Guests were welcomed by an AI avatar, BetaDen’s Automation Specialist, Beatrice Taden who, in the video, can be seen standing in BetaDen’s Malvern offices. It was a fitting start to an AI-focused afternoon and the avatar quality was a demonstration on how advanced AI capability has become over recent years.

Wynne-Jones IP friend and client, and BetaDen alumnus, Clive Summerfield of FARx Group Limited delivered the first keynote talk of the day. His presentation, ‘Why Having Patents is Like Having Nuclear Weapons’ considered offensive and defensive intellectual property strategy and shared his experience as an innovator and patent owner of 20 patents across 8 families.

PhD physicist, Wynne-Jones IP director and Patent Attorney Dr Elliott Davies then explored the rapidly shifting landscape of intellectual property law, namely within patents and copyright. He set out the key considerations that business owners should bear in mind when utilising AI in their inventions and answered crucial questions regarding copyright and licensing in the emerging AI age.

The third and final keynote was delivered by Detective Inspector Michelle Ohren, Director of the Cyber Resilience Centre for West Midlands who provided guests with food for thought about how AI might be being used by staff in their business, and provided stark statistics and insights into how at risk of cyber threats most UK business are.

The final session of the afternoon was an expert panel talk, seamlessly hosted by Business Doctor, Steve Ennis. Clive Summerfield, Dr Elliott Davies and Detective Inspector Ohren were joined by Adrian Fern of Prizsm Technologies Ltd and Tim Winstanley of Axiom TKC to talk cyber security, patent protection, Large Language Models and Cyber Essential accreditation.

Unfortunately, due to time constraints, we were unable to answer all the questions from the audience. The good news is, though, you don’t have to wait until our next event to get your IP AI questions answered, please do get in touch and we’ll be happy to help.