Your patent portfolio was never meant to protect everything.
Every deep tech company runs on know-how that never makes it into a filing: the tuning parameters, the failed experiments, the supplier relationships, the manufacturing tricks that make the product actually work. None of that shows up in a patent. If nobody is deliberately protecting it, it's sitting out in the open.
Ola Wassvik, CCO and co-founder of Lightbringer, is running a live 30-minute session on how to identify that know-how, lock it down, and make it work alongside your patents instead of leaking around them. Ola has spent 15+ years as a tech entrepreneur and CTO, managed over 300 patent families, and raised more than €84M for deep tech ventures.Live on 29 July 2026, 15:00 CET / 9:00 AM ET. Limited seats, register to hold yours.
Sound familiar?
- Engineers, support, and sales talk shop across Slack, shared drives, and demos, and nobody's flagged what's actually sensitive
- You'd struggle to say, right now, exactly which information counts as a trade secret and who's allowed to see it
- People have left the company and taken know-how with them, because nobody restated what they couldn't share on the way out
- Your NDAs, employment contracts, and supplier terms weren't written with your actual secrets in mind
- Everything valuable lives in one big shared folder, which means it's one careless click away from being not-so-secret
Trade secrets don't protect themselves. They survive only if a company identifies them, restricts who can reach them, documents the trail, and enforces the boundary. Most founders never build that discipline, because nobody hands it to them until it's too late.
About the Host
Ola Wassvik is CCO and co-founder of Lightbringer, an M.Sc. in Engineering Physics, and a business, sci-fi, and fantasy author. Before Lightbringer, he spent 20+ years as a tech entrepreneur, including as CTO and co-founder of Flatfrog. Across 15+ years managing patent portfolios, he's seen where trade secrets get lost: through ordinary daily work, through employee exits, and through paperwork nobody checked until due diligence forced the issue. This session is built from that experience, not theory.
This is for you if you are a:
- A founder, CEO, or CTO at a deep tech company in biotech, robotics, hardware, or industrial tech
- Holding process knowledge, datasets, or scale-up know-how that's never been formally identified or protected
- Not sure your contracts, exit routines, and access controls would actually hold up if tested
- Heading into a funding round and want investors to see a complete IP story, not just a patent count
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Date: September 1, 2026
Time: 15:00 CET / 9:00 AM ET
Format: Live webinar, 30 minutes + Q&A
Cost: Free
Can't make it live? Register anyway and we'll send you the recording.
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