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Study programmes 2012-2013Last update : 18/06/2013
SDOC0003-1  Technological management and intellectual property

Duration :  15h Th
Number of credits :  
Doctoral training in sciences (Biochimie, biochimie moléculaire et cellulaire, bioinformatique et modélisation)3
Doctoral training in sciences (Biologie des organismes et écologie)3
Doctoral training in sciences (Chimie)3
Doctoral training in sciences (Géographie)3
Doctoral training in sciences (Géologie)3
Doctoral training in sciences (Mathématiques)3
Doctoral training in sciences (Océanographie)3
Doctoral training in sciences (Physique)3
Doctoral training in sciences (Sciences et gestion de l'environnement)3
Doctoral training in sciences (Sciences spatiales)3
Doctoral training in sciences (Didactique des sciences)3
Lecturer :  Nicole Antheunis
Language(s) of instruction :  
French language
Organisation and examination :  
Teaching in the second semester
Course contents :  
The course intends to initiate the Scientist to the rules of Intellectual Property and how to implement them to its scientific results.
More specificaly the course comprises:
  • Intellectual Property, copyright, trademarks, patent, Invention, confidentiality agreement.
  • more specifically patentability of life science: medical applications, pharmaceutical products, plants, microorganisms and the Budapest Treaty...
  • more specifically patentability of computer-based invention.
  • management technology: lab book and its legal environment, management of results versus IP strategy, confidentiality management..
  • conditions of patentability: novelty, inventive step, sufficiency of disclosure
  • 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.
  • patent valuation
Learning outcomes of the course :  
-to understand what is Intellectual Property. -to be aware of the actions to be taken to protect scientific results in view of their valorisation and license. -to be able to read and analyse patents. -to be able to detect what is patentable.
Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :  
none
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :  
Exercices(cases studies) are organised during the course to better assimilate the teached IP notions and how to implement them.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :  
face-to-face
Recommended or required readings :  
notes + referenses on e-campus
Assessment methods and criteria :  
oral examination
Work placement(s) :  
Organizational remarks :  
Contacts :  
Nicole Antheunis

E-mail: n.antheunis@ulg.ac.be

Items online :  
material available on e-campus
references


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