| 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, trademark,confidentiality agreement.
- more specifically patentability of life science: medical applications, pharmaceutical products, gene therapy, 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: technical character, novelty, inventive step, industrial application, 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.
- EU patent package:Unitary Patent in Europe, and Unified Patent Court nearly in force?
- Licence/assignment: definition, types, royalties (return according Rule of 3 third) -
- freedom to operate and infringment: definition, types, examples, customs and border protection.
- methods of patent valuation
- IP uses (exclusivity, licensing, sales, croslinking, franchising...)
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