Leiden University has legal counsels with different expertise areas, working in various departments: General Legal affairs (JZ) Privacy legal counsels and officers: privacy related matters, data protection HR: employment related matters Luris: research contracts, valorisation, intellectual property

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…

You can easily make your own Confidentiality Agreements (CDA), Material Transfer Agreements (MTA) and Consultancy  Agreements with the Luris Contract Tool. In addition to these standard intellectual property contracts, the Contract Tool can also be used to create work documents that are…

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…

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…