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
therory and practices
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Recommended or required readings
The documents are available on this platform
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( open-ended questions )
Written work / report
Additional information:
Written exam including open questions and a true or false quiz
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
The course will be given in french (slides in english)
Contacts
Fabienne Piron
f.piron@uliege.be
Association of one or more MOOCs
Items online
Introduction to Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property, copyright, trademarks and other distinctive signs, trade secret, patents, utility model, supplementary protection certificate.
patentability conditions, particulary patentability in life science.
different patent prosecutions: national, regional and international.
Selection of the adequate patent strategy, different steps in patent prosecution and time constraints, priority right.
importance of the lab book, management of results versus IP strategy, confidentiality management.
transactions involving IP: License/assignment: definition, types, return .
freedom to operate and infringement: definition, types, examples.