UK and European Prize and Experts
UK and European Prize
With UK Prizes valued at over £40,000, which includes patent protection (Scott & York, details below) Marketing, Business support and the overall Galileo Master will receive €20,000 with potential assistance by T-Systems, DHL, ITRI (Taiwan), The Galileo Supervisory Authority (GSA) and ESA alongside this there are Special Topic Awards.
€20,000 for Galileo Master
IP and Trademark Search for UK Finalists
IP for trademark and Copyright for UK Winner
Opportunity to work and partner with T-Systems and DHL Innovation Centre
Special Award - ITRI (Taiwan) Games Development at Taiwan Research Centre Plus an award of €20,000
UK Winner: Presentation at Award Ceremony to over 400 international delegates
UK Winner: Presentation & Exhibition at ICT Trade Fair (October 2008)
Marketing and Literature support for UK Winner
Access to UK's network of international partners
Business support from UK partners (Resource, finance and business planning)
Marketing exposure and access to finance programme
UK Finalist to present ideas to UK Judges
Galileo Masters 2008 Participants Brochure PDF Download
Scott & York Intellectual Property is pleased once again to support the UK SatNav Challenge. In previous years, Scott & York has assisted finalists and the UK winner in identifying and capturing potential Intellectual Property Rights associated with their competition entries.
The area of Intellectual Property law is very complicated and the right guidance is essential to protect you and your invention against exploitation. This year Scott & York Intellectual Property will be providing advice and carrying out research to an overall estimated value of £10,000 - £15,000 across both the UK finalists and the UK winner.
The UK SatNav Challenge winner will be provided with first class advice on the capture of IP assets for their competition entry. This advice will be founded on Scott & York’s many years of experience in both the field of satellite navigation and in assisting start-up ventures. The entry will undergo a detailed Intellectual Property analysis which, if appropriate, will culminate in the collaborative preparation of a full patent specification which will be filed at the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office.
The finalists will gain the benefit of a professional search to identify whether there is existing previous work in the same technical field as their entry. This will help put the entry in context in order to isolate protectable elements.
Protecting your Intellectual Property is an essential factor in the process from innovation to intention and to this end, Scott & York Intellectual Property is looking forward to aiding the successful entrants.
The Experts for the 2008 Competition are as follows:
BNSC: - UK Pan-Governmental Experts - Richard Mackie
Richard Mackie has worked for the British National Space Centre since October 2002. He is on loan from the Department for Transport and deals with policy and technical development issues on international and national satellite telecommunications, and global navigation positioning and timing, particularly the joint European Union and European Space Agency Galileo programme.
Richard works closely with other Government Departments particularly the Department for Transport, which leads for the UK Government on Galileo, developing policy and representing UK interests in European and international fora. His involvement in satellite navigation began while he worked in the Department for Transport on air traffic management policy. He has worked in various transport and environment posts within the Department for Transport and the former Department of Environment.
EADS Astrium: - Industry Experts - Richard Peckham
Richard holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering and a master’s degree in Business Management, and is a Chartered Engineer and member of the (UK) Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Royal Institute of Navigation. Richard specialised in navigation and air traffic management at senior management level, and moved into the space sector via SBAS and GBAS systems for aircraft navigation and precision approach.
Richard is Head of Business Development for EADS Astrium Navigation, that operates from Munich Germany, Portsmouth UK and Toulouse France. In this position, Richard leads business strategy, sales and marketing activities and government liaison relating to satellite navigation in general and specifically the European Galileo and EGNOS programmes.
Clive is a Technology Translator consultant for the Location and Timing KTN whose role is to facilitate innovation and knowledge transfer in the Location and Timing (LT) markets. This involves working across industry and academia, and throughout the complex value chain from ‘chips’ to ‘location based services’.
Clive has been in the GNSS industry since 1985, where he undertook a PhD at Nottingham University, on surveying aspects of GNSS. Since then he has worked predominately for GNSS product companies, and been involved in the sales of GNSS products, chipsets and Intellectual Property and telecoms network synchronisation systems. Since 2004 he has been running his own company ‘integrated Navigation Systems Ltd’ which provides consultancy services to GNSS manufacturers, and designs and supplies combined GNSS/ GPRS tracking systems.
Mike has chaired the MDA since 1998, leading the Association as Chairman / spokesperson on Regulatory matters.
Appointed Director of Cellnet in 1989, then In 1993 the focus moved to establishing Cellnet’s GSM service and Roaming Agreements, followed by 3G and products / services business assignments. Appointed VP Technology for O2 in 2000 and a Visiting Professor at Surrey University in October 2002-2005.
Mike’s focus today is on Third Generation cellular, Mobile TV, R&D and assessing new technologies for O2 Group.
Nottingham University - Research and Academic Experts - Prof Terry Moore
Prof Moore's experience covers many areas of satellite navigation and positioning. He has led the development of the use of GPS receivers on marine and river buoys to measure the precise heights of sea level and river levels.
Another area of expertise is the determination of precise orbits of satellites, or indeed the precise trajectory of an aircraft. Prof Moore has led the development of a package to allow the fully autonomous determination of the precise orbits of Earth observation satellites, using GPS measurements as the only tracking system
Prof Moore has considerable expertise in geodetic coordinate reference systems and the transformations between them. He was one of the principal authors of the DATUM software package developed for EUROCONTROL
Thales: - Industry Experts - Tim Just
Tim currently works for the Thales Galileo Program office, coordinating Thales GNSS activity within the UK and working within the Galileo Merged Consortium toward the Galileo Concession. His work has been focussed on the commercial exploitation of Galileo and the concession process and he currently acts as the revenue working group coordinator for the Merged Consortium.
Thales has been pioneering in satellite navigation technology and is the only European company with end-to-end satellite navigation capability, from signals to products, to systems and services delivery. Thales is a partner in the Merged Consortium that plan to operate the Galileo concession and is also a major equity partner in GaIn, Europe’s satellite-based navigation leader.
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