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| SDOC0003-1 | Technological management and intellectual property
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| Duration : | 15h Th |
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| Lecturer : | Nicole Antheunis |
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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 second semester |
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Course contents :
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| 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
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| -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. |
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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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| Exercices(cases studies) are organised during the course to better assimilate the teached IP notions and how to implement them. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| face-to-face |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| notes + referenses on e-campus |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| oral examination |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| Nicole Antheunis
E-mail: n.antheunis@ulg.ac.be |
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