SDOC0003-1 : Technological management and intellectual property

Study Programmes 2015-2016

SDOC0003-1

Technological management and intellectual property

Duration :

15h Th, 10h Mon. WS

Number of credits :

Doctoral training in sciences (BBMC)		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

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

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 the following teachings:

Intellectual Property and exclusive right: copyright, trademarks, patent, trademark, trade secret.
Research Exemption
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..
patentability conditions: 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, compulsory licensing...)

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.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

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