Duration
20h Th
Number of credits
| Master in biomedicine (120 ECTS) | 2 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
- General introduction to intellectual property
- General information about patents
- Conditions of patentability
- Procedure for obtaining a patent
- Freedom to operate
- IP in life sciences
- Use of patent databases
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Theoretical knowledge
- The various intellectual property rights
- Right to the invention
- License, assignment of rights
- Duration of the patent
- Territorial coverage of the patent
- The various parts of the patent
- Determination of the scope of the patent
- Obligation to disclose the invention
- Exceptions to the "right to exclude"
- Difference between "right to exclude" and freedom to operate
- Conditions of patentability and exceptions
- Procedure for obtaining a patent (priority, choice of territories, publication, examination of the patent application, grant)
- Freedom to operate: how to check if an invention is covered by a patent?
- Know how to check if an invention is protected by a patent, on the basis of said patent and of a description of the invention
- Know how to check if an invention is new compared to a document of the state of the art
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Videoconference
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Distance
Organisational adjustments related to the current health context
All lectures will be in distance-learning, except one that will be given at the interface ULiège-cies.
In case of a yellow code, the exam will be at the univerisity, in case of orange code, it will be online.
Recommended or required readings
The documents will be sent by email to the students
Assessment methods and criteria
Below you will find information on the evaluation methods planned for in-person and remote exams as well as those planned for hybrid sessions. Depending on how the health crisis evolves, the chosen method will be communicated to you no later than one month before the start of the exam session.
Written exam including open questions (between 40 and 60% of the marks) and a true or false quiz (between 40 and 60% of the marks)
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
The course can be given in French and / or in English
Contacts
Evelyne Gridelet : 0470 99 50 63