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Description
Description
This course is designed to provide industry professionals with an in-depth understanding of patents. Participants will study the essential aspects of intellectual property, learn how to analyse and interpret patents in their field, put database search techniques into practice and discover how to integrate these skills into their company's strategy.
Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
Understand the essential aspects of intellectual property
Read and understand a patent
Perform advanced and strategic patent searches
Analyse patent search results in order to make decisions
Implement an intellectual property strategy tailored to their business
Programme
Day 1: Introduction, reading and basic search
On the first day, you will be introduced to the various intellectual property rights, such as trademarks, designs, copyright and patents. You will discover why patents are essential for innovative companies, what can and cannot be protected by patents, and different strategies for exploiting and defending rights.
You will learn to read and understand patent documents. You will also develop essential skills to navigate efficiently through the more than 150 million patent documents contained in databases.
Morning:
Introduction to intellectual property
Overview of rights (trade marks, designs, copyright and patents)
Objects and characteristics of these rights
Introduction to patents
Benefits for companies
Protection steps
Complementarity with other rights
Patentable inventions
Inventions, non-inventions and exclusions
Patentability criteria
The specific case of computer programs
Valuing and defending your rights
Valuation strategy (licences, cessions)
Proof of anteriority and ownership
Cancellation, opposition and litigation procedures
Afternoon:
Reading and understanding a patent
The different parts of a patent
The claims
Filing systems, patent families
Use of bibliographic data
Basic search method
Keywords
Classifications
Practical exercises and demonstrations
Exercice 1 on Espacenet
Exercice 2 on Patentscope
Day 2: Advanced search, analysis and strategy
You will deepen your search skills with advanced methods. You will discover how to formulate research objectives, and how to achieve them using examples from your own field.
You will learn how to conduct competitive and technological watch, exploit the results and use statistical tools to identify trends. You will then be able to implement measures within your organisation to efficiently exploit IP rights, and patents in particular.
Morning:
Patent search concepts
Formulating the search objectives
The phases
The fields
Table of concepts
Knowing the tool used
State of the art
Developing a search strategy
Practical examples on Espacenet and Patentscope
Analysing your results
Freedom to operate
The difference between patentable and operable
Legal statuses and territories
Analysis points
Afternoon:
Monitoring
Set up a competitive or technological watch
Examples on Espacenet and Patentscope
Analysing the results
Carry out a statistical analysis
Tools and methods
Interests and conclusions
Implementing IP in enterprises
Setting up a workflow
Identification of rights and holders
Protection strategy
Target audience
Industrie - Engineers
Researcher - Technical profiles
Conditions
Course Material
The training material will be handed out at the beginning of the course.
Certificate
At the end of the training, participants will receive a certificate of participation issued by the House of Training and the “Institut de la Propriété Intellectuelle Luxembourg”.
Location
L-1615 Luxembourg
Luxembourg