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| BIOL0016-1 | Introduction to intellectual property and quality inssurance
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| Duration : | 25h Th |
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| Lecturer : | Nicole Antheunis, Jacques Dommes |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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Course contents :
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| The course comprises two parts:
1.introduction to Intellectual Property (teacher:N.Antheunis)
to initiate the Student to the rules of Intellectueal Property(IP), their importance, and how to implement them.
2.the quality insurance (teacher :J.Dommes)
More specificaly the course comprises:
- Intellectual Property, copyright, trademarks and other distinctive signs, designs, trade secret, patents, Invention, patentability conditions.
- patentability in life science.
- different patent prosecutions: national, regional and international. Different strategies, steps in patent prosecution and time constraints, priority right.
- Importance of the lab book, management of results versus IP strategy, confidentiality management.
- transactions involving IP: License/assignment: definition, types, return .
- freedom to operate and infringement: definition, types, examples.
The part of the course dealing with Quality management will include :
- Introduction : why a quality-based management in the laboratory ?
- Good laboratory practices
- ISO 9001:2000
- Other standards
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| Regarding "introduction to Intellectual Property:
-to understand what is Intellectual Property and its importance.
-to know what is patentable in life science and to be able to detect a new potentially patentable invention.
-to use patent information in research project
-to manage security rules when involve in a research project.
- to describe how to protect an Invention and to select the best strategy.
For the part of the course dealing with quality insurance :
- to be aware of quality management in laboratory work
- to understand what is a quality standard and a laboratory certification. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| None |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Practical exercises by case analysis at each course for the Introduction to Intellectual Property
Presentation widely illustrated by exemples that will be the subject of discussions. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| face to face |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Oral examination including questions on theory as well as exercices. To pass, a mark of at least 8/20 is needed in each part of the course and a mean of at least 10/20. |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| n.antheunis@ulg.ac.be
j.dommes@ulg.ac.be |
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| Items online : |
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| Materials available on eCampus |
| PowerPoint presentations of prof. J. Dommes, as well as various documents concerning laboratory quality management. |
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