IP / Head of Legal, Instituto Pedro Nunes
José Ricardo Aguilar is part of the Knowledge and Valorisation Department of Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN), a private non-profit association for the promotion of applied research, entrepreneurship and incubation of tech-based start-up companies headquartered in Coimbra, Portugal.
His daily job since 2002 is to promote the use of the IP system by the IPN´s innovation ecosystem, namely assisting researchers and entrepreneurs on the fundamentals of IP an tech transfer. Within this context, IPN is also an EPO PATLIB Center, providing relevant information on patent information to the aforementioned publics.
On top of this work, since 2011 José is also invited lecturer on Universidade de Coimbra School of Pharmacy, teaching IP to graduates and master students, also with regular intervention as trainer and lecturer, in specific training programs, graduate and post-graduate studies.
Since 2018, member of the EPO – European Patent Office Standing Advisory Committee on Patent Information and Documentation.
Since 2019, member of the EUIPO – European Intellectual Property Office Observatory SME Expert Group.
Since 2019, member of the EARTO – European Association of Research and Technology Organizations Legal Experts Working Group.
He´s also responsible for the legal support to ESA Space Solutions Portugal hosted by IPN and researcher on SPARC – Space Law Research Center at Universidade Nova de Lisboa.