| The objectif of the course is to initiate to the rules of Intellectueal Property(IP) and their importance, particularly the rights conferred . It is also to sensibilize the Scientist to the actions to be taken to protect its scientific results in view of their valorisation and licence. Exercices are organised during the course to better assimilate the IP notions teached and how to implement them.
More specificaly the course comprises:
- Intellectual Property, copyright, trademarks, patents, Invention, patentability conditions, confidentiality agreement.
- more specifically patentability of life science: medical applications, pharmaceutical products, plants, microorganisms and the Budapest Treaty...
- management technology: lab book and its legal environment, management of results versus IP strategy, confidentiality management..
- Three types of patent prosecution: national, regional and international. Different strategy, steps in patent prosecution and time constraints, priority right and Paris Convention .
- Licence/assignment: definition, types, return (Rule of 3 third) -
- freedom to operate and infringment: definition, types, examples
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