Knowing what to protect is just as important as building something worth protecting.
Our Impact Innovators Circle pro bono legal workshop series wrapped up last week with a final deep dive into Trade Secrets & Industrial Design. A fittingly rich note to end on.
This closing session, held in partnership with Ecoxyztem and AFFA Intellectual Property Rights, went beyond the legal basics. Delivered by Emirsyah Dinar, Managing Partner of AFFA Intellectual Property Rights, the conversation centered on something every impact enterprise grapples with: how to make smart, strategic decisions about your innovation. What to share, what to guard, how to present it to the market, and how to ensure your competitive edge is legally secured.
From knowing how to handle trade secrets with intention, to using industrial design registration as a market differentiator, participants walked away with frameworks at the intersection of legal protection and business strategy.
For impact enterprises, this matters deeply. Your innovation is also your mission: a product, a process, or a model built to generate environmental or social change. Protecting it isn’t just about ownership. It’s about ensuring that innovation can continue to do good, at scale, for the long term.
A sincere thank you to Ecoxyztem and AFFA Intellectual Property Rights for this partnership. It’s especially encouraging to hear that some startups from earlier sessions have already begun registering their intellectual property. That’s exactly the kind of momentum this series was built for. To everyone who joined us: thank you for showing up, asking hard questions, and building together.
🎥 Recordings from previous sessions are available now on xseed.ecoxyztem.com/kelas-legal. This session’s recording will be released shortly. Stay tuned!
