Webinar: The Protection Playbook for AI and Data Startups

Are you protecting the right parts of your AI business?

This session helps AI and data-driven startups identify where their real competitive advantage sits: in data and databases, source code, model development, proprietary know-how, workflows, or product logic.

Kamran Houshang Pour, from Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property explains how IP system like patent protection and copyright in software and structured content could apply in this field while Thomas Kuster, from LEXR gives hands-on insights over how  different protection strategies can apply depending on the company’s “moat”, including other alternative strategies like contract-based control over access and usage to maintain trade secrets and confidentiality.

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Details:

• Date: 02.06.2026
• Time: 12:00-13:00
• Location: Online-Zoom
• Meet our speakers:
  Kamran Houshang Pour, IP Expert and Senior IP Trainer at Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property
  Thomas Kuster, Attorney at law & Notary at LEXR

Session Main-Takeaways:

• How the IP system works and what it can realistically protect
• What alternatives exist beyond classical IP rights, including trade secrets and contractual control
• How to design tailored protection strategies for AI and data-driven start-ups based on their specific competitive moat

Join this session to ensure your start-up protects the assets that truly drive its long-term value.

About Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property
The Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IPI) is responsible for examining, granting and administering industrial property rights (patents, trade marks and designs). It works together with governmental agencies, trade associations and businesses to enforce Swiss indications of source within Switzerland and internationally. The IPI also supervises the collective rights management organisations for copyright and provides information on intellectual property rights to individuals and companies in a variety of ways.